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Alvaro Vitali, character between dramas and laughter

Alvaro Vitali

District: Latium
Province: Rome (RM)
Locations: Rome (RM)
Date: 2018-01-18

Alvaro Vitali, character between dramas and laughter

Alvaro Vitali, better known as Pierino, will be the protagonist of 'Deliriumpsike', directed by Luigi Pastore. Just him, comedian, will dress the role of a psychopath in a clinic in the Rome of the fifties.

A life of laughter

If you have spent your life making people laugh, you risk provoking the same effect even if the news is serious. Alvaro Vitali will be the protagonist of Deliriumpsike, a thriller directed by the director Luigi Pastore, the role is that of a psychopath called "Face of cardboard". Hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic directed by a primary with obscure past in the pay of the Fascio. So a few years before that the film will be set in the Rome of the fifties. First clapperboard during this year.

Many films with Fellini

At 67, the actor who has long since disappeared from the scene returns to the set. Many TV hosts, most of the time to complain about the lack of interest in it by Italian cinema. Yet in his resume there are four films with Fellini, the master was crazy about him, that strange face, that funny little man who was blinking his eyes, with a shrill voice and a ready joke.

Italian sexy comedy

After Fellini Satyricon, I clowns, Rome and Amarcord Vitali became one of the protagonists of the season of Italian sexy comedy. With the likes of Lino Banfi, Renzo Montagnani, Mario Carotenuto, alongside girls like Edwige Fenech, Gloria Guida, Michela Miti, Barbara Bouchet. He cut out for himself the role of the one who looks at the beautiful girl taking a shower from the keyhole, the compimario a bit 'dumb but not stupid.

The great success

The real bang comes with Pierino against all in 1981 (stratospheric collections, about ten billion lire), Pierino strikes again (1982). Both directed by Marino Girolami, and Pierino Medico della Saub (1981), then the success continues with Gian Burrasca, Giggi the bully and Paulo Roberto Cotechiño breakaway striker.

The return

Now, here is the return on the scene in the role of "Face of cardboard", a character so called because it is not expressed by word but entrusts its emotions to a mask that changes appearance on command.

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