A Thousand Lire a Month

A Thousand Lire a Month (Italian: Mille lire al mese) is a 1939 Italian comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Alida Valli, Umberto Melnati and Osvaldo Valenti.[1] It is a remake of the 1936 Hungarian film Havi 200 fix. The plot concerns an electronic engineer who goes to Budapest, accompanied by his girlfriend, to work on experiments for a new television system leading to countless mix-ups.

A Thousand Lire a Month
Directed byMax Neufeld
Produced byEttore Rosboch
Written byOreste Biancoli
Gherardo Gherardi
Luigi Zampa
Based onScreenplay Havi 200 fix (1936) by László Vadnay
StarringAlida Valli
Umberto Melnati
Osvaldo Valenti
Music byCarlo Innocenzi
CinematographyErnst Mühlrad
Edited byGiorgio Simonelli
Production
company
Italcine
Distributed byIndustrie Cinematografiche Italiane
Release date
January 1939
Running time
83 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

It was shot at the Safa Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti.

Cast
  • Alida Valli as Magda
  • Umberto Melnati as Matteo
  • Osvaldo Valenti as Gabriele Corodi
  • Renato Cialente as Il direttore generale della Radio di Budapest
  • Niní Gordini Cervi as Lilli
  • Giuseppe Pierozzi as Axel, il capo del personale
  • Anna Doré as Lia Loletta
  • Amina Pirani Maggi as La madre di Magda
  • Maria Polese as La zia di Magda
  • Fausto Guerzoni as Leopoldo Almos
  • Vasco Creti as Il padrone della farmacia
  • Armando Arzalesi
  • Aristide Baghetti as Il padrino con il monocolo
  • Luigi Erminio D'Olivo as L'ingegnere in attesa di diventare padre
  • Carlo Lombardi as Il ministro
  • Renato Malavasi as Un tecnico televisivo
  • Livia Minelli as Francesca, la cameriera
  • Lina Tartara Minora as La padrona della pensione di Almos
  • Sergio Pastorini as Il tenore
  • Cesare Polacco as Carletto, l'altro padrino
  • Adriano Rimoldi as Un impiegato della radio
  • Dina Romano as La donna con il mal di denti
  • Felice Romano as Un altro tecnico televisivo
  • Gennaro Sabatano
  • Elettra Terzolo as Caterina, la cameriera

References
  1. Nowell-Smith p.119

Bibliography
  • Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey & Hay, James & Volpi, Gianni. The Companion to Italian Cinema. Cassell, 1996.


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