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 'Peppe' Passaguai
Peppino De Filippo
Ragionier Mazza
Ave Ninchi
Margherita
Luigi Pavese
The Man with the Watermelon
Nyta Dover
Marisa
Enrico Luzi
The Botherer
Tino Scotti
Commendator Villetti
Giovanni Grasso
The Watermelon Seller
Giovanna Ralli
Marcella Passaguai
Pietro De Vico
Il ragazzo di Marcella
Carlo Delle Piane
Gino Passaguai aka Pecorino
Anton Germano Rossi
Writer
Mario Amendola
Writer
Ruggero Maccari
Writer
Enrico Simeone
Composer
Giancarlo Zarfati
Gnappetta, figlio di Giuseppe
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 20, 1951
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 31m
Filming LocationsRome, Italy
Genres
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."