Le comiche

Le comiche is a 1990 Italian comedy film written and directed by Neri Parenti and starring Renato Pozzetto and Paolo Villaggio.^[1][2] It had two sequels, Le comiche 2 (1991) and Le nuove comiche (1994).^[3]

Le comiche
Directed by	Neri Parenti
Written by	Alessandro Bencivenni Leonardo Benvenuti Piero De Bernardi Neri Parenti Domenico Saverni
Produced by	Mario Cecchi Gori Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Starring	Renato Pozzetto Paolo Villaggio
Cinematography	Sandro Tamborra Roberto Gerardi
Music by	Bruno Zambrini
Release date	1990 (1990)
Language	Italian

Plot

Neri Parenti creates some comic episodes, inserting various gags taken from films of the past: Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. In the silent black and white prologue two railroad workers, Paolo and Renato, are trying to outrun a steam train and jump out of the screen into a movie theatre; in the first episode they are bungling painters who ruin a wedding; in the second the two friends destroy a gas station; in the third episode they are forced to work in the mountain chalet, ruining the holiday for all customers; in the last the two friends are the perfect double of two fierce mafia, who plan to use the "twins" for a suicide mission; in the epilogue Paolo and Renato are chased by characters of all the episodes back into the silent film.

Cast

• Renato Pozzetto as Renato
• Paolo Villaggio as Paolo
• Fabio Traversa as Mario
• Alessandra Casella as Domitilla
• Gian as Amilcare
• Tiziana Pini as Amilcare's wife
• Enzo Cannavale as the priest
• Sal Borgese as the gas station attendant
• Renato D'Amore as the innkeeper
• Giovanni Cianfriglia as the trucker
• Ennio Antonelli as the pizza chef
• Andrea Belfiore as the stripper at the nightclub
• Pierfrancesco Villaggio as the bodyguard
• Franca Scagnetti as a guest at the wedding

See also

• List of Italian films of 1990
• https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Le_comiche