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    • Source: Count Max (1957 film)
    • Count Max (Italian:Il conte Max) is a 1957 Italian-Spanish comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica and Anne Vernon. It is a remake of the 1937 film Il signor Max in which De Sica had played the title role. This film was itself remade in 1991.
      A newspaper vendor masquerades as a count, falling in with a baroness and her wealthy, aristocratic friends. He believes he is love with her, but comes to realize he has more in common with her maid.
      The film's art direction was by Flavio Mogherini.


      Plot


      Alberto Boccetti, Roman newsagent in Via Veneto, is mistaken for Count Max Orsini Varaldo, a penniless nobleman and scrounger, while on vacation in Cortina (where he went instead of going on vacation to the village of Capracotta as desired by his uncle).
      Here he meets Baroness Elena di Villombrosa, who invites him to join the company of nobles, headed to Seville, but also meets their housekeeper Lauretta. In Seville, after contracting debts to give orchids to the baroness, he is repatriated to Italy. Some time later, in Rome, while working in the newsstand, he meets Lauretta who is very surprised by the similarity between Alberto and Count Max. A series of transformations, in which Alberto wears the clothes of the count, who courts the baroness, and those of the newsagent, who make Lauretta suspicious, lead him to have to choose between living a rich life but not his own and another more normal one that belongs to him. The decision comes when he discovers the arrogant and humiliating way in which the nobles treat the beautiful and sweet Lauretta.


      Cast


      Alberto Sordi as Alberto Boccetti
      Vittorio De Sica as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
      Anne Vernon as Baroness Elena di Villombrosa
      Susana Canales as Lauretta Campo
      Tina Pica as La zia
      Juan Calvo as Lo zio Giovanni
      Jacinto San Emeterio as Don Juan de Figueroa
      Diletta D'Andrea as Pucci - sorella di Elena
      Mino Doro as Maj. Guido Amadori
      Piero Stucchi as Giovanni Sampieri - 'Meme'
      Antonella Florio as Patrizia
      Alberto Craig as Stefano
      Edy Biagetti as Gianluca
      Nani Colombo as Nené
      Edith Jost as La contessa
      Luigi Mondello
      Julio Riscal as Paolino
      Marco Tulli as Il sarto


      References




      Bibliography


      Rémi Fournier Lanzoni.Comedy Italian style: the golden age of Italian film comedies. Continuum, 2008.


      External links


      Count Max at IMDb

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