Teresa Venerdì (1941)
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 92 minuten
Alternative titles: Il Gallo della Checca / Do You Like Women / Doctor Beware
Country:
Italy
Directed by: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Adriana Benetti and Anna Magnani
IMDb score:
6,6 (610)
Releasedate: 24 November 1941
Teresa Venerdì plot
Teresa Venerdì is eighteen years young and an orphan. She falls for the doctor who regularly makes his rounds at the orphanage. After all sorts of complications, they meet. But do they live happily ever after? The Doctor is a playboy with creditors. A king of excuses. A womanizer who can't keep his hands off maids. Touched by Teresa's innocence, he digs up his own unspoiled ego. She solves all his problems and she doesn't do it gently.
Actors and actresses
Dott. Pietro Vignali
Teresa Venerdì
Maddalena/Loletta
Lilli Passalacqua
Antonio Perticone
Agostino Passalacqua
Rosa Passalacqua
La direttrice dell'orfanotrofio
Istitutrice Anna
Umberto Vignali
Reviews & comments
BBarbie
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Early De Sica before he made his name and fame as a director of neorealism films. Structurally, it is a classic comedy of errors. Not a top film, but the scenes with Anna Magnani, a monument of Italian cinema, are finger-licking good.
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Dievegge
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It's surprising that this was possible in Italy in 1941. It's certainly not a white telephone comedy, because the telephones are black. Vittorio De Sica shows his comic side, although there is also a social aspect to it with the contrast between the strict boarding school for orphan girls and the more well-to-do citizens. It is a comedy of misunderstandings with lies and knots to unravel. It makes fun of an old doctor who prescribed castor oil for every ailment.
With her piercing gaze, Adriana Benetti is reminiscent of Paulette Goddard. Teresa looks innocent, but manages to devise her plans. She borrows a passage from a play to arouse pity. A contrast to this is Loletta (Anna Magnani), who uses large, theatrical gestures both on and off stage. This was enjoyable escapism in a difficult time.
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Movsin
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- 8286 messages
- 8442 votes
Vittoria De Sica, before his most famous appearance as a flamboyant, gray-haired fifty-something, but already responsible for the script and in the director's chair in this romantic comedy (love is central) in which he plays alongside a strong Adriani Benetti, plays the leading role.
As usual, De Sica mixes humor and drama and now a social aspect has been added and that is also the contrast between rich and poor.
But it is a comedy, based on misunderstandings, like the best French vaudeville, that provides an hour and a half of simple movie fun.
Anna Magnani, previously in a supporting role, seems like "a special guest" here, but still underlines her personality and class.
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