A Thousand Lire a Month
1939 film
- January 1939 (1939-01)
Running time
A Thousand Lire a Month (Italian: Mille lire al mese) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Alida Valli, Umberto Melnati and Osvaldo Valenti.[1] It is a remake of the 1936 Hungarian film Havi 200 fix. The plot concerns an electronic engineer who goes to Budapest, accompanied by his girlfriend, to work on experiments for a new television system leading to countless mix-ups.
It was shot at the Safa Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti.
Cast
- Alida Valli as Magda
- Umberto Melnati as Matteo
- Osvaldo Valenti as Gabriele Corodi
- Renato Cialente as Il direttore generale della Radio di Budapest
- Niní Gordini Cervi as Lilli
- Giuseppe Pierozzi as Axel, il capo del personale
- Anna Doré as Lia Loletta
- Amina Pirani Maggi as La madre di Magda
- Maria Polese as La zia di Magda
- Fausto Guerzoni as Leopoldo Almos
- Vasco Creti as Il padrone della farmacia
- Armando Arzalesi
- Aristide Baghetti as Il padrino con il monocolo
- Luigi Erminio D'Olivo as L'ingegnere in attesa di diventare padre
- Carlo Lombardi as Il ministro
- Renato Malavasi as Un tecnico televisivo
- Livia Minelli as Francesca, la cameriera
- Lina Tartara Minora as La padrona della pensione di Almos
- Sergio Pastorini as Il tenore
- Cesare Polacco as Carletto, l'altro padrino
- Adriano Rimoldi as Un impiegato della radio
- Dina Romano as La donna con il mal di denti
- Felice Romano as Un altro tecnico televisivo
- Gennaro Sabatano
- Elettra Terzolo as Caterina, la cameriera
References
- ^ Nowell-Smith p.119
Bibliography
- Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey & Hay, James & Volpi, Gianni. The Companion to Italian Cinema. Cassell, 1996.
External links
- A Thousand Lire a Month at IMDb
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Films directed by Max Neufeld
- Doctor Ruhland (1920)
- Let the Little Ones Come to Me (1920)
- The Woman in White (1921)
- The Films of Princess Fantoche (1921)
- Light of His Life (1921)
- The Dead Wedding Guest (1922)
- The Iron King (1923)
- The Tales of Hoffmann (1923)
- A Waltz by Strauss (1925)
- The Arsonists of Europe (1926)
- The Family without Morals (1927)
- Archduke John (1929)
- The White Paradise (1929)
- A Night at the Grand Hotel (1931)
- The Opera Ball (1931)
- Sehnsucht 202 (1932)
- Overnight Sensation (1932)
- A Precocious Girl (1934)
- A Star Fell from Heaven (1934)
- The Song of the Sun (1934)
- Temptation (1934)
- Her Highness Dances the Waltz (1935)
- Antonia (1935, with Jean Boyer)
- The House of Shame (1938)
- Unjustified Absence (1939)
- A Thousand Lire a Month (1939)
- A Wife in Danger (1939)
- The Castle Ball (1939)
- Red Tavern (1940)
- The First Woman Who Passes (1940)
- The Tyrant of Padua (1946)
- Un uomo ritorna (also known as Revenge, 1946)
- Anni (1948)
- Abracadabra (1952)
- Der schönste Tag meines Lebens (1957)
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