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The Devil Goes to Boarding School (Italian: Il diavolo va in collegio) is a 1944 Italian comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Lilia Silvi, Leonardo Cortese and Greta Gonda. The plot is based on the libretto of the operetta Mam'zelle Nitouche by Henri Meilhac and Albert Millaud. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys.




Synopsis


Graziella, a high-spirited young heiress, it sent to boarding school in order to try and curb her mischievous behaviour. While at first she pretends to be docile, this is just a cover for her to play more tricks on her teachers. In particular she becomes a thorn in the side of one of a young male professor and sets out to sabotage a revue he is staging starring his dancer girlfriend.




Cast


Lilia Silvi as Graziella
Leonardo Cortese as Rodolfo Poggi / Marcello Mari
Greta Gonda as Nora Nori
Guglielmo Barnabò as Il giudice Testones
Giacinto Molteni as Bortolo
Vittorina Benvenuti as Signorina Polipini nº1
Anna Capodaglio as Signorina Polipini nº2
Olinto Cristina as Il direttore del teatro
Liana Del Balzo as Signora Testones
Giannina Gobbi as Professoressa Bellona
Lea Migliorini as Una collegiale




References






Bibliography


Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Reich, Jacqueline Beth. Fascism, Film, and Female Subjectivity: The Case of Italian Cinema 1936-1943. University of California, Berkeley, 1994.




External links


The Devil Goes to Boarding School at IMDb

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• The Devil Goes to Boarding School
• Jean Boyer (director)
• Leonardo Cortese
• Handsome Devil (film)
• The Boarding School: Las Cumbres
• Carlo Veneziani
• Liana Del Balzo
• Robert Gys
• Jacques Desagneaux
• Greta Gonda