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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