An Average Little Man

An Average Little Man
(Un borghese piccolo piccolo)
Italian film poster
Directed byMario Monicelli
Written byVincenzo Cerami
Sergio Amidei
Mario Monicelli
Based onUn borghese piccolo piccolo
by Vincenzo Cerami
Produced byAurelio De Laurentiis
Luigi De Laurentiis
StarringAlberto Sordi
Shelley Winters
Romolo Valli
Vincenzo Crocitti
CinematographyMario Vulpiani
Edited byRuggero Mastroianni
Music byGiancarlo Chiaramello
Distributed byCineriz
Release date
  • 17 March 1977 (1977-03-17)
Running time
118 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

An Average Little Man (Italian: Un borghese piccolo piccolo, literally meaning a petty petty bourgeois, also known in English as A Very Little Man) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mario Monicelli. It is based on the novel of the same name written by Vincenzo Cerami. The movie mixes "Italian-Style Comedy" (commedia all'italiana) with psychological drama tragedy. The film was an entrant in the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.[1] In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[2]

  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: An Average Little Man". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
  2. ^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 2021-03-11.