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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