A dream wins the lottery. The boss says 'nah.' Chaos ensues in 68 perfect minutes.
The owner of a lottery store refuses to pay a large sum won by one of his workers that he hates, because that man received the winning numbers in a dream.
Acting
The De Filippo siblings—pure theatrical royalty chewing every scene.
Writing
Eduardo's Neapolitan wordplay that barely translates but absolutely slaps.
Direction
Bragaglia's camera knows when to sit back and let the chaos breathe.
Director
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Eduardo De Filippo
Don Ferdinando Quagliolo
Titina De Filippo
Concetta Quagliolo
Peppino De Filippo
Procopio Bertolini
Vanna Vanni
Stella Quagliolo
Paolo Stoppa
L'avvocato Lorenzo Strumillo
Vasco Creti
Don Raffaele, il parroco
Lina Marengo
Una impiegata del banco del lotto
Dolores Palumbo
Carmela
Rosita Pisano
Una giocatrice al lotto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is peak 'teatro stabile' energy—Eduardo De Filippo founded Naples' most important theater company, and this film preserves a performance style that influenced everything from Fellini to Sorrentino.
The 'cabala' number-interpretation scene was largely improvised; De Rege was an actual local numbers expert, not a professional actor, cast for authenticity.
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