Questo e Quello

1983 film

Bernardino Zapponi
Nino Manfredi
Renato Pozzetto^[1]

Story by

Bernardino Zapponi
Nino Manfredi
Renato Pozzetto^[1]

Starring

Bernardino Zapponi
Nino Manfredi

CinematographyAlessandro D'Eva^[1]Edited byAmedeo Salfa^[1]Music by

Luciano Rossi
Gaio Chiocchio^[1]

Production
company

Faso Film^[1]

Distributed byC.I.D.I.F.^[2]

Release date

1983 (1983)

Running time

102 minutes^[1]CountryItaly^[1]

Questo e Quello (lit. 'This and That') is a 1983 Italian comedy film directed by Sergio Corbucci.^[1]^[3]

Plot

First segment: the life of a comic book artist in a creative crisis is revolutionised by the casual encounter with a beautiful stranger.

Second segment: a writer in his sixties goes in the spas of Montecatini in search of inspiration. The daughter of an old friend, a 20-year-old girl, will awake his senses.

Cast

"This Impossible Love"

Renato Pozzetto as Giulio Scacchi
Janet Agren as Lucy / Lucilla
Gianni Agus as the Editor
Nino Manfredi: as the Doctor
Michela Miti as Fianceè of Giulio

"In The Red Beret"

Nino Manfredi as Sandro
Desirée Becker as Daniela
Sylva Koscina as Mother of Daniela
Renato Pozzetto as Gregory
Paolo Panelli as Doctor
Nanda Primavera as Grandmother of Daniela
Franco Scandurra as Prince

Release

The film was released in 1983.^[1] The film was a box office hit in Italy on its release.^[3]

Reception

In a retrospective review of the film, Roberto Curti found that Corbucci's direction was "sloppy and careless" and that the film was "basically an excuse for Pozzetto and Manfredi to do their comedy routine"^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Curti 2016, p. 175.
^ "Questo e quello (1983)". Archviodelcinemaitaliano.it (in Italian). Retrieved November 9, 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c Curti 2016, p. 176.

References

Curti, Roberto (2016). Diabolika: Supercriminals, Superheroes and the Comic Book Universe in Italian Cinema. Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1-936168-60-6.