''Roma Bene'' is a 1971 Italian

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film starring

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, Nino Manfredi,

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and

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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

* Nino Manfredi: Commissario Quintilio Tartamella *

Philippe Leroy Philippe Marie Paul Leroy-Beaulieu (15 October 1930 – 1 June 2024) was a French actor. He appeared in over 150 films between 1960 and 2019, and worked extensively in Italian cinema, as well as in his native country. After an early career as ...

: Giorgio Santi *

: Duchessa Silvia Santi * Mario Feliciani: Teo Teopulos *

: Elena Teopulos *

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: La madre di Elena *

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: Principe Rubio Marescalli *

: Principessa Dedé Marescalli * Franco Fabrizi: Nino Rappi *

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: Wilma Rappi * Vittorio Caprioli: Barone Maurizio De Vittis * Gastone Moschin: Il Monsignore * Vittorio Sanipoli: Il Questore * Annabella Incontrera: La lesbica * Enzo Cannavale: Agente Tognon * Peter Baldwin: Michele Vismara * George Wang: Che-Fang *

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: Vitozzi * Minnie Minoprio: Minnie * Ely Galleani: Vivi Santi

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* 1971 films 1971 black comedy films 1971 comedy-drama films 1970s satirical films Italian comedy-drama films Italian satirical films Commedia all'italiana Films about miscarriage of justice Films directed by Carlo Lizzani Films scored by Luis Bacalov Italian black comedy films Films set in Rome Films set on ships Films set in the Mediterranean Sea 1970s Italian-language films 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Italy-comedy-film-stub