Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)

Original title

Signore e signori, buonanotte

Directed by

Piero De Bernardi, Ruggero Maccari, Leonardo Benvenuti, Agenore Incrocci

Genre

comedy film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 58m

Rated

T

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 93 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Italian-French film is a comedy made up of twelve short episodes. Each episode satirizes corruption in a different Italian institution. The segments are presented as a fictional day of TV programming with a journalist interviewing various characters.

satiricalcomedicepisodiccausticabsurdtopicalmockumentary-likefast-paced

What happens

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (Italian: Signore e signori, buonanotte, French: Mesdames et messieurs bonsoir) is a 1976 French-Italian satirical comedy anthology film. It comprises twelve episodes on themes of corruption in various Italian institutions, each by a different writer and director collectively credited as "Cooperativa 15 Maggio". The episodes are a satire of a typical programming day of an Italian public broadcaster, with a fictional TG3 journalist (Marcello Mastroianni) interviewing a number of the other characters. The film stars Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Nino Manfredi, Paolo Villaggio, Marcello Mastroianni, Senta Berger, Adolfo Celi, and Felice Andreasi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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