A Thousand Lire a Month | |
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Directed by | Max Neufeld |
Written by | Oreste Biancoli Gherardo Gherardi Luigi Zampa |
Based on | Screenplay Havi 200 fix (1936) by László Vadnay |
Produced by | Ettore Rosboch |
Starring | Alida Valli Umberto Melnati Osvaldo Valenti |
Cinematography | Ernst Mühlrad |
Edited by | Giorgio Simonelli |
Music by | Carlo Innocenzi |
Production company | Italcine |
Distributed by | Industrie Cinematografiche Italiane |
Release date |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
A Thousand Lire a Month (Italian: Mille lire al mese) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Alida Valli, Umberto Melnati and Osvaldo Valenti.[1] It is a remake of the 1936 Hungarian film Havi 200 fix. The plot concerns an electronic engineer who goes to Budapest, accompanied by his girlfriend, to work on experiments for a new television system leading to countless mix-ups.
It was shot at the Safa Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti.