
This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.
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Agostina Belli as Marcella Valmarin alias Alba Doris

Cochi Ponzoni as Roberto Trevisan

Maurizio Arena as Luciani

William Berger as Franz

Lino Toffolo as Gondrano Rossi

Vittorio Gassman as Franco Denza

Ugo Tognazzi as Adelmo

Paolo Baroni as segretario di Marcella

Renato Pozzetto as Bruno

Alvaro Vitali as Mario

Nora Orlandi as

Franca Stoppi as la partigiana

Carla Terlizzi as

Dino Baldazzi as Benito Mussolini

Eleonora Morana as madre di Marcella

Marcello Fusco as

Laura Trotter as Loretta Mari

Enrico Marciani as Bisanti

Giovanni Brusadori as Il partigiano occhialuto

Edoardo Florio as Scandiani

Monica Fiorentini as La cameriera amica di Marcella

Toni Maestri as il padre di Marcella

Renate Schmidt as

Giacomo Assandri as

West Buchanan as

Attilio Dottesio as il partigiano con la barba bianca

Carla Mancini as Le prostitute in divisa da marinaio

Alberto Postorino as il padre di Mario

Vittorio Zarfati as

Milla Johansson as Party guest (uncredited)
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