A former inspector of the SIAE, focusing everything on his cunning and stubbornness, tries to grab (even in fraudulent ways) all the televisions or private radios that come to hand; all to please a mysterious woman named Gilda.
Acting
Sordi's face alone tells the whole tragic joke.
Direction
Sordi directs himself with zero vanity, maximum cringe.
Writing
Dialogue that makes bureaucracy feel like poetry.
Director
Alberto Sordi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
SIAE (the real Italian copyright agency) was notoriously corrupt in the '90s—Sordi wasn't exaggerating much.
Sordi's final directorial role; critics called it self-indulgent, but that's kind of the point—Emilio IS Sordi's id.
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