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Tourist Train (1933)

Tourist Train poster
Original title
Treno Popolare
Directed by
Raffaello Matarazzo
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 03m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A group of travelers have comedic adventures on a summer train trip between Florence and Rome. The film follows their mishaps and interactions during the journey.

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What happens

Tourist Train (Italian: Treno popolare) is a 1933 Italian comedy film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Marcello Spada, Lina Gennari and Carlo Petrangeli. The film portrays the comic adventures of a group of summertime travellers. It was shot on the Florence-Rome railway and in Orvieto. It was one of a number of films made during the 1930s whose realism pointed in the direction of the later development of Italian neorealism. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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