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Non ti pago! (1942)

Non ti pago! poster
Directed by
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Genre
comedy film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 12m
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man refuses to pay back a lottery ticket that his father-in-law gave him. The father-in-law claims that the numbers come from a dream of his dead father, leading to a family dispute about who owns the winning ticket.

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What happens

Non ti pago! [lit. I am not paying you!] is a 1942 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, who also wrote the screenplay after a theater play of the same name (Non ti pago (play), without "!", written in 1940) by Eduardo De Filippo, who is also the star of the film. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy film at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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