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Release year: 1977

Storyline

Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life. Amedeo starts to court the young Wanda and Ofelia seduces the priest Don Pezzolla. In the meantime police is looking for the cat killer...

Top credits

Directors

Luigi Comencini

Writers

Cast

Ugo Tognazzi — Amedeo Pecoraro
Mariangela Melato — Ofelia Pecoraro
Michel Galabru — Police Commissioner Francisci
Dalila Di Lazzaro — Wanda Yukovich

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Did you know

• Halfway through the film Dalila Di Lazzaro stopped shooting because she didn't want to shoot a scene in the shower without her panties on. "There was a reason", Di Lazzaro explains, "but it was personal and I didn't want to tell anyone about it: I had shaved my pubes because of a bet I had lost with my partner. Everyone was curious and Comencini had the production company call my agent: while waiting for them to come to an agreement, I was stuck in a bathrobe in the small bathroom where we were to shoot the scene. While Ugo Tognazzi was on a break, my refusal reached his ears and, curious as he was, he came to the set with the excuse of convincing me, but in reality to find out the reason for my rejection. And the more I kept silent, the more he put me under pressure: 'Are you a man? What are you hiding there?' he asked in his unmistakable tone of voice. He was nice, but I stubbornly didn't tell him my secret. 'Are you part of a religious sect?' he insisted. He thought, by making me laugh, that he could solve the riddle. But I held firm. In the end we came to a compromise: I would have shot the scene in the shower showing the camera my back, but I had to take off my briefs. Tognazzi sent the seamstress to spy on me, so my secret was revealed. In the evening he knocked on my room: 'Who is that asshole who makes you shave yourself? There is nothing more beautiful than a woman with her pubic hair,' he said. 'Hair has its charm. I guess you haven't met a real man yet.' 'I lost a bet," I replied. 'Yes, good, tell it to someone else. Too bad you're not one of the hens in my henhouse!' and walked away," Di Lazzaro recalls.

• Italian censorship visa # 71291 delivered on 15-12-1977.