7 chili in 7 giorni

7 chili in 7 giorni
Italian theatrical release poster
Directed byLuca Verdone [it]
Written byLeonardo Benvenuti
Piero De Bernardi
Luca Verdone
Produced byMario Cecchi Gori
Vittorio Cecchi Gori
StarringCarlo Verdone
Renato Pozzetto
CinematographyDanilo Desideri
Edited byAntonio Siciliano
Music byPino Donaggio
Production
company
C. G. Silver Film[1]
Distributed byColumbia Pictures[1]
Release date
  • 1986 (1986)
Running time
107 min
133 min (director's cut)
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
Box office2.4 million admissions (Italy)[2]

7 chili in 7 giorni (7 kilos in 7 days) is a 1986 Italian comedy film directed by Luca Verdone [it].[3][4]

Plot

Silvano and Alfio are mediocre students who manage to snatch away a degree at the university where they both studied medicine with abysmal results. After a few years Silvano (now a peddler of beauty products who on the side sells pornographic material and sex toys) meets Alfio again, now running a beauty parlor fueled with the money of his neurotic wife. After a comic mishap with a customer left too long in a sauna machine who has apparently suffered a stroke Silvano, seeing the large country villa where Alfio lives with his family, proposes him to turn it into a dieting-farm where rich customers will pay hefty sums to get rid of excess fat. The operation is run haphazardly with several incidents; in the end Alfio suffers a nervous breakdown and goes catatonic. An English professor of Aesthetics (with which Alfio shares the room in the clinic he's recuperating at) convinces the duo that true beauty lies in generous proportions, as in the works of Tiziano, Giorgione and other famous artists. Alfio and Silvano then convert the villa in a trattoria where the best patrons are the same people who originally visited it for dieting purposes.

Cast

Reception

The film had 2.4 million admissions in Italy during 1987, the tenth most popular film of the year.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "7 chili in 7 giorni (1986)". Archivio del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Market profile: Italy". Screen International. 7 May 1988. p. 302.
  3. ^ Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 2000. ISBN 887742429X.
  4. ^ Marco Giusti (1999). Dizionario dei film italiani stracult. Sperling & Kupfer. ISBN 8820029197.


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