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# 69 • OCTOBER 5 , 2015
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ITALIAN CINEMA:
FANTOZZI
By livingadamis.it
Today we celebrate a wonderful 40 years anniversary: in fact, it was October 1975 when the Italian
cinemas saw for the first
time a movie that would
soon have become an
absolute cult: "Fantozzi",
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directed by Luciano Salce and starring the comedian Paolo Villaggio, creator of the character which,
before landing on the big
screen, had been used in
television shows and for a
series of books. Fantozzi
is an absolutely average
employee (namely, an accountant), victim of continuing abuse, injustice and
cowardice, targeted by
the deepest misfortune,
not only in the workplace
but also in everyday life,