Il Marchese del Grillo (1981)
- Original title
- Il marchese del Grillo
- Directed by
- Mario Monicelli
- Genre
- comedy film, historical film
- Country
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 2h 15m
- Rated
- U
- Rating
- 7.8 of 10 from 501 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A nobleman in 19th century Rome plays a series of pranks on people around him. One of his tricks involves the Pope.
lightheartedhumoroushistoricalplayfullivelywhimsicalsatiricalfast-paced
What happens
Il Marchese del Grillo (The Marquess del Grillo, internationally released as The Marquis of Grillo) is a 1981 Italian comedic motion picture directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Alberto Sordi as the title character. The film depicts early nineteenth-century episodes in the life of a nobleman in Rome. Loosely based on folkloric accounts of the real Onofrio del Grillo (who lived in the eighteenth century), this character plays a number of pranks, one even involving Pope Pius VII. The famous line Io sò io, e voi non siete un cazzo ("I am who I am, and you are fucking nobody"), is appropriated from Belli's 1831 sonnet, "The Sovrans of the Old World". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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