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Toto in Color (1952)

Toto in Color poster
Original title
Totò a colori
Directed by
Steno
Genre
comedy film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 44m
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 88 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a comedy film featuring the popular Italian comic actor Totò. It was the first Italian movie shot in color using the Ferraniacolor system.

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What happens

Toto in Color (Italian: Totò a colori) is a 1952 Italian comedy film, the first Italian color film shot with the Ferraniacolor system. It was directed by Steno and starred the comic actor Totò. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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