Saint John, the Beheaded
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Duration Country Italy | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Language Italian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Amleto Palermi
Giorgio Bianchi Writer Nino Martoglio , Aldo Vergano , Cesare Zavattini Release date 12 December 1940 Directors Amleto Palermi, Giorgio Bianchi Cast Totò (Mastro Agostino Miciacio), Titina De Filippo (Concetta Miciacio), Silvana Jachino (Serafina Miciacio), Augusto Di Giovanni (Don Peppino Esposito), Eduardo Passarelli (Orazio, the lamp-lighter), Osvaldo Genazzani (Giorgio Maria Santapola)Similar movies Toto appears in Saint John - the Beheaded and Hands Off Me! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Saint John, the Beheaded (Italian:San Giovanni decollato) is a 1940 Italian comedy film directed by Amleto Palermi and Giorgio Bianchi and starring Totò, Titina De Filippo and Silvana Jachino. It was based on a play by Nino Martoglio. The film was made at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome.
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Plot
In a town, near Naples, in 1900, the cobbler Agostino Miciacio is accused by tenants of his apartment building to be crazy. In fact Augostino is a lively man, mocked by everyone because he is messy. He is very devoted to St. John beheaded, so Agostino lights a candle every night in a small chapel in the courtyard. But some of the oil in the wax necessary for the luminary, disappears every night. It is a fact that Augostino does not tolerate theft, but he does not know that behind these thefts continue, there is a gang of thugs. Meanwhile, Agostino, in addition to following the case of oil stolen, must fight against the daughter Serafina who has fallen in love with a poor young lamplighter. But he also has to fight against his wife Concetta, authoritative and cruel woman, so he hopes that St. John makes a grace for him, taking away her voice.
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