Il marchese Onofrio Del Grillo
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Il Marchese del Grillo (The Marquess del Grillo, internationally released as The Marquis of Grillo) is a 1981 Italian comedic motion picture directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Alberto Sordi as the title character. The film depicts early nineteenth-century episodes in the life of a nobleman in Rome.
Dec 23, 1981 · Il marchese del Grillo: Directed by Mario Monicelli. With Alberto Sordi, Paolo Stoppa, Caroline Berg, Riccardo Billi. A mischievous nobleman and his poor doppelganger get into serious troubles when a practical joke endangers the Pope.
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- Comedy, History
- Mario Monicelli
- 1981-12-23
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In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.
The Marquis of Grillo. Rome, Year of our Lord 1809. The Pope Pius VII with his cardinals and ministers manages both temporal and spiritual power of the Papal States in Italy. The Marquis Onofrio del Grillo is one of his favorites, but even the worst of all the nobility.
The nobleman Onofrio Del Grillo is a brilliant Marquis who spends his days pranking both common people and noblemen alike, seeking for fun away from a disfunctional family in a Papist Rome worried about the growth in power of Napoleon Bonaparte and the threat of the French.
The marquess of Grillo is a good-natured, clever and women-loving man who is always inventing stories and cracking all types of jokes.
