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Count Max (1957)

Count Max poster
Original title
Il conte Max
Directed by
Giorgio Bianchi
Genre
comedy film
Country
Italy, Spain
Runtime
1h 37m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 72 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A newspaper vendor pretends to be a count to impress a baroness. He starts spending time with her wealthy friends but eventually realizes he connects better with her maid.

lightheartedwhimsicalamusingeasygoingromanticplayfulslightly farcicalgentle

What happens

Count Max (Italian:Il conte Max) is a 1957 Italian-Spanish comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica and Anne Vernon. It is a remake of the 1937 film Il signor Max in which De Sica had played the title role. This film was itself remade in 1991. A newspaper vendor masquerades as a count, falling in with a baroness and her wealthy, aristocratic friends. He believes he is love with her, but comes to realize he has more in common with her maid. The film's art direction was by Flavio Mogherini. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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