The Marquis of Grillo (1981)
Original title: Il marchese del Grillo
The Marquis of Grillo is a 1981 Italian-language comedy movie directed by Mario Monicelli, with a running time of 2h 19m. It stars Alberto Sordi, Paolo Stoppa and Caroline Berg.
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.
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Cast
- Alberto Sordi as Onofrio Del Grillo
- Paolo Stoppa as Papa Pio VII
- Caroline Berg as Olimpia
- Riccardo Billi as Aronne Piperno
- Flavio Bucci as Don Bastiano
- Camillo Milli as Segretario del Papa
- Cochi Ponzoni as Conte Rambaldo
- Marc Porel as Capitano Blanchard
- Pietro Tordi as Monsignor Terenzio Del Grillo
- Leopoldo Trieste as Padre Sabino
- Giorgio Gobbi as Ricciotto
- Isabelle Linnartz as Genuflessa