Three old gluttons refuse to die hungry in this forgotten Italian gem.
Momi Tamberlan, Bortolo Cioci and Piero Scavezza are the last three old survivors of a club founded at the time of their student life by their partner Giuseppe Bardonazzi. The rules of the Club establish that who cannot be a member of the Club he has no reputation as a pleasure-loving, gluttonous.
Acting
Three leads devour scenery like their last meal.
Production
Lavish sets for a film about eating yourself to death.
Director
Mario Almirante
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Mario Almirante was a prolific silent-era filmmaker whose work vanished for decades; this restoration resurfaced in the 1990s.
The film satirizes Italian 'bella vita' masculinity right before Mussolini's moralizing cinema codes crushed such decadence on screen.
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