The Scientific Cardplayer (1972)

Original title

Lo scopone scientifico

Directed by

Luigi Comencini

Genre

comedy film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 155 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy elderly woman hires a poor family to play a card game with her every year. The game becomes a long running ritual full of tricks and tension between the classes.

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What happens

The Scientific Cardplayer, also known as The Scopone Game (Italian: Lo scopone scientifico), is a 1972 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Luigi Comencini. The screenplay was written by Rodolfo Sonego. 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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