Underplayed Gems

Professor Kranz tedesco di Germania (1978)

Professor Kranz tedesco di Germania poster
Directed by
Luciano Salce
Genre
comedy film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 53m
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A hapless German professor acts in a clumsy and timid way rather than the stern persona his name suggests. He stumbles through a series of comic situations in Italy.

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What happens

Professor Kranz tedesco di Germania is a 1978 Italian comedy film directed by Luciano Salce and starring Paolo Villaggio. Despite the title the character played by Villaggio bears little resemblance from the one he played on Italian television shows under the same moniker. Instead of a sadistic/overbearing personality Kranz is here shown with a bumbling and meek demeanor more similar to that of the other 'loser' characters in Villaggio's repertoire (Fantozzi and Fracchia). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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