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Ratataplan is a 1979 Italian low budget comedy film directed, written by and starring Maurizio Nichetti. The film turned out to be highly successful, launching Nichetti's career and earning him a Silver Ribbon for Best New Director.
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6.9Misadventures of Colombo, an engineer in Milano. He is the only winner of an admission test for a job, and just for this reason he isn't hired. So he becomes a barman, and he discovers a special formula that turns simple water into the "Immortality drink". He is robbed of the magic water copyright. So he tries to set up a theatrical company, but the first show is a fiasco. Since finding a normal job seems a mission impossible, he tries to set the sentimental side of his life. He targets the most beautiful girl of his building, and for her he builds a robot able to dance like Tony Manero (John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever (1977)). The robot gets drunk (!). It is another fiasco. So he targets an ugly girl and finally with her succeeds to live his surreal world for ever.
Cast
- Maurizio Nichetti as Colombo
- Angela Finocchiaro as Rag Girl
- Edy Angelillo as Robot's Girl
- Lidia Biondi as Pregnant Woman
- Roland Topor as The Boss
- Giorgio White as Boss' Assistant
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 95
- FilmAffinity ID
- 598212
- Image
- Ratataplan-Finocchiaro.png
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- publication date
- 1979-01-01
- title
- Ratataplan
- capital cost
- 508338
- box office
- 30500288
- Commons category
- Ratataplan
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Ratataplan is a 1979 Italian low budget comedy film directed, written by and starring Maurizio Nichetti. The film turned out to be highly successful, launching Nichetti's career and earning him a Silver Ribbon for Best New Director.
==Plot == Life offers little satisfaction to the recent graduate engineer Colombo: in a job interview in which candidates are asked to draw a tree, he is the only one not hired by the company since his drawing, instead of being monochromatic and schematic as the executives would like, is colorful and lush. Colombo lives in a battered but lively palace with a railing; he has four neighbors: a woman who is perpetually pregnant, the members of the theater cooperative "Quelli di Grock", a girl always intent on carrying heaps of rags, and a ramshackle dance school attended by a student he is in love with, but she won't even look at him.