A dying millionaire plays dead to watch his greedy friends dance like puppets. Chaos ensues.
Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?
Acting
Villaggio's theatrical death-bed melodrama is *chef's kiss*.
Costume
1980s Italian excess meets Renaissance cosplay.
Writing
Mosca's schemes spiral deliciously out of control.
Director
Maurizio Ponzi
Enrico Montesano
Bartolomeo Mosca
Paolo Villaggio
Ugo Maria Volpone
Enrico Maria Salerno
Ciro Corvino
Renzo Montagnani
Raffaele Voltore
Athina Cenci
Marta Corbaccio
Alessandro Haber
Ernesto Corbaccio
Mariangela Giordano
Eliana Voltore
Eleonora Giorgi
Francesca Corvino
Maurizio Donadoni
Aldo Marignano
Sabrina Ferilli
Rosalba Marignano
Vittorio Amandola
Serse Tessari
Aldo Ralli
il sacerdote
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Ben Jonson's 1606 play Volpone, relocated to modern Venice with 1980s yuppie aesthetics.
Paolo Villaggio was famous as Fantozzi—the everyman loser—so casting him as a manipulative elite was delicious subversion.
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