7 chili in 7 giorni

7 chili in 7 giorni (7 kilos in 7 days) is a 1986 Italian comedy film directed by Luca Verdone.[1][2]

7 chili in 7 giorni
Italian theatrical release poster
Directed byLuca Verdone
Produced byMario & Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Written byLeonardo Benvenuti
Piero De Bernardi
Luca Verdone
StarringCarlo Verdone
Renato Pozzetto
Music byPino Donaggio
CinematographyDanilo Desideri
Edited byAntonio Siciliano
Release date
1986
Running time
107 min
133 min (director's cut)
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Plot

Silvano and Alfio are mediocre students who manage to snatch away a degree at the university where they both studied medicine with abysmal results. After a few years Silvano (now a peddler of beauty products who on the side sells pornographic material and sex toys) meets Alfio again, now running a beauty parlor fueled with the money of his neurotic wife. After a comic mishap with a customer left too long in a sauna machine who has apparently suffered a stroke Silvano, seeing the large country villa where Alfio lives with his family, proposes him to turn it into a dieting-farm where rich customers will pay hefty sums to get rid of excess fat. The operation is run haphazardly with several incidents; in the end Alfio suffers a nervous breakdown and goes catatonic. An English professor of Aesthetics (with which Alfio shares the room in the clinic he's recuperating at) convinces the duo that true beauty lies in generous proportions, as in the works of Tiziano, Giorgione and other famous artists. Alfio and Silvano then convert the villa in a trattoria where the best patrons are the same people who originally visited it for dieting purposes.

Cast

References
  1. Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 2000. ISBN 887742429X.
  2. Marco Giusti (1999). Dizionario dei film italiani stracult. Sperling & Kupfer. ISBN 8820029197.


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