i due misantropi (1937)
Original title: i due misantropi
Production: Italy|76 min| black and white|
Comedy, Comic, Equivocations
the two bertelet cousins ??have sworn hatred to the world and live holed up in their home: one obsessed by order and clocks, the other unkempt and apathetic, following a burning sentimental disappointment. but their tranquility is compromised due to the arrival in the house of a lively girl who wants to escape the constraints of a tyrant guardian who does not look favorably on the girl's passion for variety theater. add to this the girlfriend of one of the two misanthropes, with the shrewish mother who, seeing the girl at home from a window, demand explanations about this presence. confusion, scuffles, misunderstandings and a hypothetical infectious disease create accidents and tangle the situation. finally things turn out better, with a double marriage and the radical change of the two surly individuals.
Direction
Amleto Palermi: regista
Umberto Scarpelli: aiuto regista
Ubaldo Magnaghi: aiuto regista
Production and Screenplay
Amleto Palermi: sceneggiatore
Francesco Pasinetti: sceneggiatore
Cariddi Oreste Barbieri: produttore
Ubaldo Magnaghi: sceneggiatore
Characters and Interpreters
Damiano Bertelet
Nino Besozzi(età:36)
Marcello, parrucchiere
Enrico Viarisio(età:40)
Cosimo Bertelet
Sergio Tofano(età:51)
Betty
Maria Denis(età:21)
Maria Grazia
Nella Maria Bonora(età:33)
don Pedro de Alcazar, tutore
Camillo Pilotto(età:49)
don Ramiro Mayoz
Marcello Giorda(età:47)
Giuseppina
Nini Gordini cervi(età:30)
signora Argia
Olga Vittoria Gentilli(età:49)
Nicola, domestico
Nicola Maldacea(età:67)
giulio alfieri
ernesto torrini
...
Giulio Alfieri(età:13)
Technical staff
Alessandro Cicognini: musiche
Fernando Tropea: montatore
Anchise Brizzi: direttore della fotografia
Ferruccio Biancini: direttore di produzione
Ovidio Delgrande: fonico
Ettore Montanaro: musiche
Giorgio Pinzauti: scenografo
Gino Carlo sensani: costumista