A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.
Acting
Villaggio's physical comedy is surgical precision in clown shoes.
Direction
Salce turns office drudgery into operatic humiliation.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes Italian bureaucracy against itself.
Director
Luciano Salce
Paolo Villaggio
Ugo Fantozzi
Anna Mazzamauro
Signorina Silvani
Gigi Reder
Filini
Giuseppe Anatrelli
Luciano Calboni
Umberto D'Orsi
Count Diego Catellani
Liù Bosisio
Pina Fantozzi
Dino Emanuelli
Megaditta Employee
Plinio Fernando
Mariangela Fantozzi
Paolo Paoloni
Duke Count Maria Rita Vittorio Balabam
Pietro Zardini
Fonelli
Artemio Antonini
Rude Guy #2
Mirko Baiocchi
Canello
Luciano Bonanni
Japanese Restaurant Client
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Villaggio created Fantozzi in 1968 for television, basing the character on a factory worker he knew who smiled through constant abuse.
The film spawned eight sequels over three decades; 'Fantozzi' became shorthand in Italy for any exploited office worker, entering common vocabulary.
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