La famiglia Passaguai (1951)
December 20, 1951Release Date
La famiglia Passaguai (1951)
December 20, 1951Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Aldo Fabrizi
Giuseppe Passaguai / Screenplay / Director
Peppino De Filippo
Cavalier Massa
Ave Ninchi
Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
Luigi Pavese
Alberto
Nyta Dover
Marisa
Enrico Luzi
Il seccatore
Tino Scotti
Commendator Billetti
Carlo Delle Piane
Pecorino, figlio di Giuseppe
Giovanna Ralli
Marcella, figlia di Giuseppe
Pietro De Vico
Il ragazzo di Marcella
Giovanni Grasso
venditore di cocomeri
Giancarlo Zarfati
Gnappetta, figlio di Giuseppe
Enrico Simeone
Original Music Composer
Ruggero Maccari
Screenplay
Corrado Bartoloni
Camera Operator
Anton Germano Rossi
Novel
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 20, 1951
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 31m
Filming LocationsRome, Italy
Genres
Last updated:
Wiki.
The Passaguai Family (Italian: La Famiglia Passaguai) is a 1951 Italian comedy film written, starring and directed by Aldo Fabrizi. It also featured Peppino De Filippo, Ave Ninchi and Giovanna Ralli. It was followed by a sequel The Passaguai Family Gets Rich in 1952. It follows the misadventures of a lower middle-class family and their friends from Rome when they take a day's outing at the seaside.
It was shot at the Ponti-De Laurentiis Studios in Rome and on location around the city and at the resort of Fiumicino at the mouth of the River Tiber near Ostia. Distributed by the Italian branch of the Rank Organisation it was a major hit, taking domestic box office earnings of 378 million lira.In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."