Roma Bene Explained

Roma Bene
Director:Carlo Lizzani
Producer:Nino Crisman
Starring:Nino Manfredi
Virna Lisi
Senta Berger
Michèle Mercier
Irene Papas
Music:Luis Enriquez Bacalov
Cinematography:Giuseppe Ruzzolini
Distributor:Compagnia Edizioni Internazionali
Runtime:100 minutes
Country:Italy
Language:Italian

Roma Bene is a 1971 Italian comedy-drama film starring Virna Lisi, Nino Manfredi, Irene Papas and Senta Berger.

Plot

The classic scene of the upper middle-class in Rome: a duchess, the industrial husband and the many apparently respectable characters. It is actually a parade of dingy types: the Baron is a jewel thief, among the others there are social climbers, unscrupulous nobles who staged fake kidnappings and extortion attempts, and even a wife who comes to commission the murder of the ship-owner husband. The fate of these people will be the same: death at sea, but their misdeeds instead will remain unaddressed and an overzealous police commissioner will be promoted and transferred.

Cast

Commissario Quintilio Tartamella

Giorgio Santi

Duchessa Silvia Santi

Teo Teopulos

Elena Teopulos

La madre di Elena

Principe Rubio Marescalli

Principessa Dedé Marescalli

Nino Rappi

Wilma Rappi

Barone Maurizio De Vittis

Il Monsignore

Il Questore

La lesbica

Agente Tognon

Michele Vismara

Che-Fang

Vitozzi

Minnie

Vivi Santi