Il volpone

1988Movie⏱️ 1h 55m

Comedy

⭐ 6.5

IMDB Rating

251 votes

Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in o...

Director

Maurizio Ponzi

Writers

Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Ottavio Jemma

Stars

Enrico Montesano, Paolo Villaggio, Enrico Maria Salerno

Release Date

February 25, 1988

Language

Italian

Country

Italy

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🎭 Top Cast

Enrico Montesano

as Bartolomeo Mosca

Paolo Villaggio

as Ugo Maria Volpone

Enrico Maria Salerno

as Ciro Corvino

Renzo Montagnani

as Raffaele Voltore

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Athina Cenci

as Marta Corbaccio

Alessandro Haber

as Ernesto Corbaccio

Mariangela Giordano

as Eliana Voltore

Sabrina Ferilli

as Rosalba

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Giancarlo Palermo

as Notaio Coletti

Maurizio Donadoni

as Aldo Marignano

🎬 Technical Specs

Color

Filming Location

Santa Margherita Ligure, Genoa, Liguria, Italy

Production

Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica, Maura International Films, Rai 1

🏷️ Keywords

jokeinheritancehumiliationextortionfemale to male footsie playing

🎯 Categories

ItalianComedy

💡 Did You Know?

Loosely based on Volpone (1616), a comedy play by Ben Johnson. The same play was adapted also in other two movies: Volpone (1941) and Masquerade (1967). While the original play is set in 17th century Venice, this movie is set in late 1980s Italian Riviera (mainly in Santa Margherita Ligure).

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📖 Synopsis

Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in o...