Roaring Years is a 1962

1962 in film

The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May - The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government....

 Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Luigi Zampa

Luigi Zampa

Luigi Zampa was an Italian film-maker.- Biography :Son of a worker, Zampa studied film making from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome....

 set in the 1930s during the Fascist period of Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....

. It stars Nino Manfredi

Nino Manfredi

Nino Manfredi was an Italian actor, one of the most prominent in the commedia all'italiana genre....

 and Gino Cervi

Gino Cervi

Gino Cervi was an Italian actor of international fame.Cervi was born in Bologna. His father was the theatre critic Antonio Cervi.In 1928, he married Nini Gordini and they had a son, Tonino Cervi...

.

The film won Best Feature at the 1962 Locarno International Film Festival

Locarno International Film Festival

The Film Festival Locarno is an international film festival held annually in the city of Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. After Cannes and Venice and together with Karlovy Vary, Locarno is the Film Festival with the longest history...

.

Plot summary

An insurance broker, Omero Battifiori (Nino Manfredi

Nino Manfredi

Nino Manfredi was an Italian actor, one of the most prominent in the commedia all'italiana genre....

), looks for work in a new small town in Italy. The authorities, awaiting a close inspection from the Fascist Party of the capital, suspect him to be to be a spy and inspector and a prominent member of the Party. The misunderstanding leads to many difficulties until Battifiori is able to clear his name.

Cast

• Nino Manfredi
  Nino Manfredi
  Nino Manfredi was an Italian actor, one of the most prominent in the commedia all'italiana genre....
  
   as Omero Battifiori
• Gino Cervi
  Gino Cervi
  Gino Cervi was an Italian actor of international fame.Cervi was born in Bologna. His father was the theatre critic Antonio Cervi.In 1928, he married Nini Gordini and they had a son, Tonino Cervi...
  
   as Salvatore Acquamano
• Michèle Mercier
  Michèle Mercier
  Michèle Mercier, is a French actress. In the course of her career she has worked with leading directors like François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Deray, Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli, Mario Bava, Peter Collinson and Ken Annakin...
  
   as Elvira
• Gastone Moschin
  Gastone Moschin
  Gastone Moschin is an Italian actor.Born in San Giovanni Lupatoto , he began his career in the 1950s as theatre actor, first with the Stable Theater in Genoa and then with the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. In the same period Moschin also began to play in feature films, such as La rivale and L'audace...
  
   as Carmine Passante
• Salvo Randone
  Salvo Randone
  Salvatore "Salvo" Randone was an Italian theatrical and film actor. He appeared in 45 films between 1943 and 1977.He was married to the actress Neda Naldi-Selected filmography:...
  
   as Il medico antifascista
• Angela Luce
  Angela Luce
  Angela Luce is an Italian film actress and singer of Neapolitan song. She has appeared in 80 films since 1958.She was born in Naples, Italy.-Selected filmography:* La seconda notte di nozze * L'amore molesto...
  
   as Rosa De Bellis
• Rosalia Maggio as Donna Nunzia
• Linda Sini
  Linda Sini
  Linda Sini is an Italian film actress.She made 75 appearances between 1950 and 1979 and several appearances after this, mostly in film....
  
  
• Carla Calò
• Annetta Esposito
• Gino Brillante
• Giuseppe Ianigro as Nicola De Bellis
• Gaetano Morino
• Enzo Petito
  Enzo Petito
  Enzo Petito , born Vincenzo Squatriti, was a Spanish film actor of Italian descent who has appeared in film in the 1960s...
  
  
• Mara Maiello
• Ruggero Pignotti
• Massimo Marchetti
• Lino Crispo
• Mario Passante
• Nunzia Fumo
• Totò Ponti
• Giulio Marchetti
• Livia Grazioli
• Fanfulla
• Alfredo Rizzo