Raffaele, a Neapolitan student, get the news that his beloved grandmother Sabella is dying. He immediately goes to Pollena to be beside her.
Acting
Tina Pica's deathbed scene is comedic mastery
Direction
Risi balances cruelty and warmth with surgical precision
Writing
Every inheritance hunter gets their perfect humiliation
Director
Dino Risi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures post-war Italy's obsession with sudden wealth and the 'economic miracle's' moral compromises.
Tina Pica was 76 and actually terrified of death scenes; Risi had to trick her into thinking they were rehearsals.
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