''Romanzo popolare'' (internationally released as ''Come Home and Meet My Wife'') is a
1974 Italian
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comedy drama film
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directed by
Mario Monicelli. The film won the
David di Donatello for
Best Script.
Cast
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Ugo Tognazzi
Ugo Tognazzi (23 March 1922 – 27 October 1990) was an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter.
Early life
Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a travelling clerk fo ...
: Giulio Basletti
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Ornella Muti
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Early life
Muti was born in Rome to a Neapolitan journalist father and ...
: Vincenzina Rotunno
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Michele Placido
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: Giovanni Pizzullo
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Pippo Starnazza
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Born Luigi Redaelli in Milan
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: Salvatore
*Nicolina Papetti: Salvatore's wife
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Vincenzo Crocitti: Maronati
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Alvaro Vitali: The Car Driver
References
External links
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1973 films
Commedia all'italiana
Films directed by Mario Monicelli
Italian comedy-drama films
Films set in Milan
Adultery in films
Social realism in film
Films with screenplays by Age & Scarpelli
1970s Italian-language films
1970s Italian films
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