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My Son Professor
Plot
The janitor of a Roman school seeks social redemption by allowing his son, on the point of sacrifice, to study until he becomes a teacher, precisely in the school where he himself works.
Curiosity
The writer Mario Soldati plays the anti-fascist professor.
Production
Produced by Riccardo Gualino, the was shot in the Scalere Film factories in via della Circovallanzione Appia in Rome. The film takes place in the historic Liceo Ginnasio E.Q. Visconti in Piazza del Collegio Romano.
Criticism
For the Merghetti Dictionary, the film tackles neo-reactionary themes with a smile, anticipating the poetics of Castellani's future films, sometimes slips into the grotesque but contains some memorable comedies.
For the Morandini Dictionary it is a film full of rhythm with a skilful study of the environment and an appreciable joy of telling quickly in a skilful mixture of comic and pathetic, with Aldo Fabrizi funny and very convicent.
Country: Italy
Year: 1965
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Director: Renato Castellani
Subject: Renato Castellani
Screenplay: Aldo de Benedetti, Aldo Fabrizi, Suso Cecchi D'amico
Producer: Carlo Ponti
Production Company: Lux Film
Photograph: Carlo Montuori
Editing by Maro Serandei
Music: Nino Rota
Set design: Gastone Medin
Costume design: Maria de Matteis
Performers and characters
Aldo Fabrizi as Orazio Belli
Giorgio De Lullo: Orazio Belli Son
Mario Pisu as Ettore Giraldi
Pinuccia Nava as Miss Maggi/Pinuccia
Nando Bruno as Angeloni
Diego Calcagno: Teacher
Gabriele Baldini: Teacher
Hercules Patti: Teacher
Mario Soldati as Professor Cardelli
Ennio Flaiano: Teachers
Vincenzo Talirico: Teacher
Paolo Monelli: 1st Minister