| Il ragazzo di campagna | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Franco Castellano Giuseppe Moccia |
| Written by | Franco Castellano Giuseppe Moccia |
| Produced by | Luciano Luna Achille Manzotti |
| Starring | Renato Pozzetto Massimo Boldi |
| Cinematography | Danilo Desideri |
| Edited by | Antonio Siciliano |
| Music by | Detto Mariano |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Il ragazzo di campagna ("The country boy") is a 1984 Italian comedy film directed by Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.[1]
Il ragazzo di campagna has a cult status in Italian culture[2] in its satyrical representation of the contradictions of the hectic life in Milan in the mid-1980s, the years of the sorpasso (e.g., when Artemio resolves to take a taxi cab to cross the street in the impossibly trafficked Piazza San Babila). The inadequateness of Pozzetto-"country boy" in relating to Milan is reminiscent of that of Totò in another extremely popular film, Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy.
- ^ "Italian Comedy - The State of Things". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 1 August 2010. Retrieved 1 August 2010.
- ^ Renato Pozzetto, un ragazzo d'oro