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Il Sorpasso(Movie, 1962)

Original title: "Il sorpasso" (Italian/IT)
1h 45min | Genres: Drama, Comedy
Il SorpassoRating: 4.1/5 (with 309309 votes)
Il sorpasso (lit. '"the overtaking"'), also titled The Easy Life in English, is a 1962 Italian comedy film co-written and directed by Dino Risi and starring Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Catherine Spaak. It is considered Risi's masterpiece and one of the best examples of the commedia all'italiana film genre. In 2008, the film was included in the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." ()
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About Il Sorpasso

Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.

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Additional Information

Production country: Italy
Plays in: Italy
Original language: Italian (IT)
Spoken languages: German (DE), Italian (IT), Latin (LA)
Translated into 22 languages: Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 12/05/1962
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Изпреварването"
"Verliebt in scharfe Kurven"
"Jeg - en playboy"
"La escapada"
"Le fanfaron"
"Ο φανφαρόνος"
"Το πέρασμα"
"Előzés"
"سبقت‌گیری"
"おいこしやろう"
"이지 라이프"
"La vida fácil"
"Обгон"
"The Easy Life"
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:19046, Added: 02/22/2018, Last updated: 03/14/2024