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Teresa Venerdì is a 1941 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It is a remake of the Hungarian film Rézi Friday .
Teresa Venerdì è un film del 1941 diretto da Vittorio De Sica, ispirato a un romanzo dello scrittore ungherese Rezső Török .
After his creditors threaten to sell his belongings, he takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay his debts and ends up engaged to wealthy Lilli, daughter of a mattress tycoon, and chased after by the orphan Teresa Venerdí, while trying to keep his life in order.
After his creditors threaten to sell his belongings, he takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay his debts and ends up engaged to wealthy Lilli, daughter of a mattress tycoon, and chased after by the orphan Teresa Venerdí, while trying to keep his life in order.
Teresa, a young orphan, falls in love with Pietro, a health inspector. She will try to bring order to his reckless life full of debts and lies.
A marvelous little joke establishes the hearty-droll tenor, the first scene finds the rakish doctor (Vittorio De Sica) in the middle of the surgery of the day, plucking a hair from Anna Magnani's eyebrow. Strapped for money and besieged by a trio of creditors (Mussolini's buffoons, who believe believe that "unity is strength" while scuffling for the comfiest chair in the room), he has no choice but to take up his impresario father's offer and become a health inspector. The orphanage he's ...
The story was based on a Hungarian novel, written by Rezsö Török, a winning tale of a young orphan girl, Teresa, and the characters populating the school for deprived little girls: with the wise headmistress, the sociable blond schoolmistress, the frivolous, chubby lady professor, the slick and cruel watchwoman, the kindly nurse and, among ...
