A Thousand Lire a Month

A Thousand Lire a Month
Directed byMax Neufeld
Written byOreste Biancoli
Gherardo Gherardi
Luigi Zampa
Based onScreenplay Havi 200 fix (1936) by László Vadnay
Produced byEttore Rosboch
StarringAlida Valli
Umberto Melnati
Osvaldo Valenti
CinematographyErnst Mühlrad
Edited byGiorgio Simonelli
Music byCarlo Innocenzi
Production
company
Italcine
Distributed byIndustrie Cinematografiche Italiane
Release date
  • January 1939 (1939-01)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

A Thousand Lire a Month (Italian: Mille lire al mese) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Alida Valli, Umberto Melnati and Osvaldo Valenti.[1] It is a remake of the 1936 Hungarian film Havi 200 fix. The plot concerns an electronic engineer who goes to Budapest, accompanied by his girlfriend, to work on experiments for a new television system leading to countless mix-ups.

It was shot at the Safa Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Nowell-Smith p.119

Bibliography

  • Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey & Hay, James & Volpi, Gianni. The Companion to Italian Cinema. Cassell, 1996.


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