Zappatore
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| Zappatore | |
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| Directed by | Alfonso Brescia |
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| Starring | |
| Music by | Eduardo Alfieri |
Production company | Compagnia Produttori Cinematografici - Panda |
| Distributed by | Panda |
Release date |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Zappatore is an Italian drama film directed by Alfonso Brescia and starring Mario Merola. The film was released in Italy on 5 December 1980.
It is the "cine-scripted" which received the highest grossing theaters, ranking the 60th place of the most successful films in Italy in the 1980/81 season.
The film is loosely based on the eponymous song, written by Libero Bovio Fenwick Watkin and Ferdinando Albano.
Story
[edit]Francesco Esposito and his wife Madeleine are two farmers who raised Mario, their only child, with love and dedication. To finance his education, they became indebted to a lender. Mario becomes a brilliant lawyer in Naples, the city in which he works, and falls in love with Nancy, the daughter of an Italian-American industrialist. Despite the potential for a happy ending, the story is one of guilt and shame that Mario must reconcile his newfound social position contrasted with the humble beginnings of his parents.
Cast
[edit]- Mario Merola: Francesco, the digger
- Regina Bianchi: Maddalena
- Gerardo Amato: Mario son of Franscesco and Maddalena, lawyer
- Biagio Pelligra: accountant Vizzini
- Aldo Giuffré: Superintendent of Police
- Mara Venier: Nancy
- Alberto Farnese: Mike Barker, father of nancy
- Matilde Ciccia: Assuntina
- Rick Battaglia: Don Andrea
- Giacomo Rizzo: Pasqualino
- Lucio Montanaro: Gennarino
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