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
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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