An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.
Acting
Nino Manfredi's weary, stubborn everyman carries the whole creaking train.
Direction
Nanni Loy squeezes a whole society into cramped sleeping compartments.
Production
Genuine 1980 Italian night train — no set could replicate this exhaustion.
Director
Nanni Loy
Nino Manfredi
Michele Abbagnano
Adolfo Celi
Chief Inspector Ramacci Pisanelli
Vittorio Mezzogiorno
Diodato Amitrano
Luigi Basagaluppi
Ticket Inspector Salvatore Vigorito
Silvio Spaccesi
Train Conductor Giuseppe Sanguigno
Gerardo Scala
Ticket Inspector Nicola Scognamiglio
Clara Colosimo
Entrepreneur
Maurizio Micheli
Accountant
Tano Cimarosa
Polfer Marshal Panepino
Italo Celoro
Injured Worker
Leo Gullotta
Vincenzo Imbastaro
Nino Vingelli
Gennarino O' Mbruglione
Ester Carloni
Catholic Old Woman
Nino Terzo
Stationmaster Zappacosta
Gigi Reder
Antonio Cammarota
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This belongs to the commedia all'italiana tradition that mocked institutions while quietly mourning them — less slapstick, more weary resignation.
Nino Manfredi insisted on doing his own stunts in the moving train sequences, having spent years riding these exact lines as a struggling actor.
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