Il cilindro (1978)
Overview
The comedy, centered on five characters (Rita, Rodolfo, Agostino, Bettina, and Don Attilio - "o viecchio pazzo"-), has as background the Italy of the 60s between the economic boom and the perennial unemployment crisis. The cylinder, well explained by "Agostino-Eduardo" in the comedy, is a representation of power, designed to intimidate the ignorant for its only evocative "power". It can also be seen as a sort of "Pirandellian mask", where the character of Augustine wears it to defend himself and represent something that he is not.
Cast
Eduardo De Filippo
Agostino Muscariello
Monica Vitti
Rita
Luca De Filippo
Rodolfo
Pupella Maggio
Bettina
Vincenzo Salemme
Linda Moretti
Marzio Honorato
Recommendations
Ci hai rotto papà
Bagnomaria
The Widower
Jim Jefferies: Intolerant
Ricky Gervais: Mortality
Totòtruffa '62
Driver's Ed
Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill
Talcum Powder
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years
He's Worse than Me
Fun with Dick and Jane
Jack Whitehall: At Large
Eddie Murphy Raw
Love Happy
Much Ado About Nothing
Toto the Sheik
Thus Spoke Bellavista
The Wedding Year