San Giovanni decollato (1940)
1h 21m
Running Time
December 12, 1940Release Date
San Giovanni decollato (1940)
1h 21m
Running Time
December 12, 1940Release Date
Plot.
Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boy friend and he does not want him to marry her.
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Cast & Crew.
Totò
Mastro Agostino Miciacio
Titina De Filippo
Concetta Miciacio
Bella Starace Sainati
Donna Provvidenza, farmer's wife
Silvana Jachino
Serafina Miciacio
Franco Coop
Don Raffaele, the barber
Osvaldo Genazzani
Giorgio Maria Santapola
Augusto Di Giovanni
Don Peppino Esposito
Mario Siletti
Teodoro Cupis
Tommaso Marcellini
Don Benedetto, the farmer
Eduardo Passarelli
Orazio, the lamp-lighter
Giacomo Almirante
The Judge
Edmondo Starace
A Clerk
Peppino Spadaro
Vincenzo, shoemaker
Dina Romano
The Fortune Teller
Grazia Spadaro
Rosalia, housekeeper
Emilio Petacci
Prosecutor Lanzetti
Alexandre Derevitsky
Composer
Renato Chiantoni
The Defense Attorney
Luigi Almirante
Renato
Raffaele Balsamo
A Tenant
Oreste Bilancia
A Witness
Liliana De Curtis
Silvana
Mario Ersanilli
Agostino's Friend with Derby and Fuzzy White Hair
Vincenzo Fummo
A Tenant
Gorella Gori
A Witness
Peppino Villani
A Tenant
Amleto Palermi
Director / Screenplay
Nino Martoglio
Theatre Play
Cesare Zavattini
Screenplay
Aldo Vergano
Screenplay
Fernando Risi
Director of Photography
Giovanni Bianchi
Sound
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Saint John, the Beheaded (Italian: San Giovanni decollato) is a 1940 Italian comedy film directed by Amleto Palermi and Giorgio Bianchi and starring Totò, Titina De Filippo and Silvana Jachino. It was based on a play by Nino Martoglio. The film was made at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome.
San Giovanni decollato or Saint John the Baptist's head on a platter, was a common religious motif from the Middle Ages on, parodied in the film's poster.
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