| Il Marchese del Grillo | |
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| Directed by | Mario Monicelli |
| Written by | Bernardino Zapponi, Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Mario Monicelli, Alberto Sordi, Tullio Pinelli |
| Produced by | Luciano De Feo (Opera Film Produzione) |
| Starring | Alberto Sordi, Paolo Stoppa, Flavio Bucci, Camillo Milli, Riccardo Billi |
| Cinematography | Sergio D'Offizi |
| Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni |
| Music by | Nicola Piovani |
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Running time | 139 minutes 127 minutes ca. (cut edition) |
| Countries | Italy France |
| Language | Italian |
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. Loosely based on folkloric accounts of the real Onofrio del Grillo (who lived in the eighteenth century), this character plays a number of pranks, one even involving Pope Pius VII. The famous line Io sò io, e voi non siete un cazzo (literally "I am who I am, and you are fucking nobody"), is appropriated from Belli's 1831 sonnet, "The Sovrans of the Old World".