Rome-Paris-Rome

1951 film

Rome-Paris-Rome

Directed by| Luigi Zampa
Written by| Vitaliano Brancati
Agenore Incrocci
Ruggero Maccari
Furio Scarpelli
Luigi Zampa
Produced by| Domenico Forges Davanzati
Pierre Gurgo-Salice
Starring| Aldo Fabrizi
Sophie Desmarets
Peppino De Filippo
Cinematography| Carlo Montuori
Edited by| Eraldo Da Roma
Music by| Renzo Rossellini

Production
companies

Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France
DFD

Distributed by| Lux Film

Release date

* 18 October 1951 (1951-10-18)

Running time

| 100 minutes
Countries| France
Italy
Language| Italian

Rome-Paris-Rome (Italian: Signori, in carrozza!) is a 1951 French-Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Aldo Fabrizi, Sophie Desmarets and Peppino De Filippo.[1] It was shot at the Farnesina Studios in Rome and on location in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Enrico Ciampi.

## Plot

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Vicenzo works as an attendant on the sleeping cars between Rome and Paris. For several years he has had two families, a wife and scrounging Neapolitan brother-in-law in Rome and an attractive widow with a young daughter in Paris whose existence he has managed to keep secret from the other. When he is offered the chance to work permanently at one location he chooses Paris, but complications ensue when his brother-in-law follows him to the French capital.

## Cast

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* Aldo Fabrizi as Vincenzo Nardi
* Sophie Desmarets as Ginette
* Vera Nandi as Signora Nardi
* Peppino De Filippo as Gennaro
* Barbara Florian as Mirella
* Noël Roquevert as Robert
* Maso Lotti as Enrico Nardi
* Nando Bruno as Riccardo
* Geraldina Parrinello as Michélle
* Luigi Almirante as Professor Busi Migliavacca
* Anna Vita as Impiegata bionda alla Stazione Termini
* Marisa Merlini as signora nel vagone letto
* Pietro De Vico as Sposino nel vagone letto
* Julien Carette as Direttore parigino dei vagoni letto
* Checco Durante as Meccanico
* Ada Colangeli as Assunta, la portinaia
* Paolo Ferrara as direttore romano dei vagoni letto
* Janine Marsay as Praline
* Monica Clay as Liliana
* Laure Paillette as Paillette

## Criticism

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Gian Piero Brunetta highlights, with regard to this period, the "progressive integration of writers in cinema", so in Signori, in carrozza! we find, among the screenwriters, the name of Brancati as Alberto Moravia had found in Perdizione, and, by listing, writers such as Palazzeschi, Calvino, Pratolini and others engaged in the new role of screenwriters. Brunetta himself sees this commitment, however, simply as a "recruitment of intellectual workforce for the manufacture of products destined for popular markets".[2]

It has also been noted that Gentlemen, in a carriage! "Is considered a bit of a Cinderella between the films of Zampa and Brancati, overshadowed by the fame of works such as difficult years, easy years, the art of getting by.[3]

Alberto Moravia said: "In this film there is only one really vital reason: the comparison between the scrounger and the scrounger, between the conductor of the sleeping cars and his impudent and insatiable brother-in-law".[4]

## References

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1. ^ Hal Erickson (2009). "New York Times: Rome-Paris-Rome". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 26 August 2009. Retrieved 9 August 2008.
2. ^ Delzell, Charles F. (1906–1970). "Storia Politica della Grande Guerra, 1915–1918. By Piero Melograni. [Storia c Società.] (Bari: Editori Laterza. 1969. Pp. vii, 579. L. 5,000.)". The American Historical Review. 75 (5): 1485–1486\. doi:10.1086/ahr/75.5.1485. ISSN 1937-5239.
3. ^ Martínez-Pinna, Jorge (1 April 2019). "Vincenzo Bellelli – Enrico Benelli, "Gli Etruschi. La scrittura, la lingua, la società", Roma, Carocci editore, 2018, 239 pp. [ISBN 978-8-430-9309-0]". Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua. 37 (1): 201–202\. doi:10.5209/geri.63874. ISSN 1988-3080.
4. ^ Cognasso, Luigi; Moravia, Alberto (1951). "L'amore coniugale e altri racconti". Books Abroad. 25 (3): 277. doi:10.2307/40090297. ISSN 0006-7431. JSTOR 40090297.

## Bibliography

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* Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991.

## External links

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* Rome-Paris-Rome at IMDb

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Films directed by Luigi Zampa

* The Actor Who Disappeared (1940)
* C'è sempre un ma! (1942)
* The Adventures of Fra Diavolo (1942)
* Signorinette (1942)
* L'abito nero da sposa (1945)
* A Yank in Rome (1946)
* To Live in Peace (1947)
* Angelina (1947)
* Difficult Years (1948)
* Alarm Bells (1949)
* Children of Chance (1949)
* The White Line (1950)
* His Last Twelve Hours (1950)
* Rome-Paris-Rome (1951)
* The City Stands Trial (1952)
* We, the Women (1953)
* Easy Years (1953)
* Of Life and Love (1954)
* Woman of Rome (1954)
* The Art of Getting Along (1955)
* Girls of Today (1955)
* Ladro lui, ladra lei (1958)
* The Love Specialist (1958)
* The Magistrate (1959)
* The Traffic Policeman (1960)
* Roaring Years (1962)
* Shivers in Summer (1963)
* A Question of Honour (1965)
* I nostri mariti (1966)
* Be Sick... It's Free (1968)
* Anyone Can Play (1968)
* Let's Have a Riot (1970)
* A Girl in Australia (1971)
* Hospitals: The White Mafia (1973)
* The Flower in His Mouth (1975)
* Il mostro (1977)
* Tigers in Lipstick (1979)

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