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I picari is a italien film of genre Comedy directed by Mario Monicelli with Giancarlo Giannini
I picari (1987)
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Add to a movie listI picari, internationally released as The Rogues, is a 1987 Italian comedy film written and directed by Mario Monicelli. It is freely inspired by the Spanish novels Lazarillo de Tormes and Guzman de Alfarache.
The film was co-produced with Spain, where it was released as Los alegres pícaros.
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The film is directed by Monicelli the last to be set in renaissance and medieval eras such as L'armata Brancaleone. The genus, as in other previous film, is constituted by a tilting of society and the environment of the ways to make the characters in which takes place the film, making the genus parodistic and goliardic.Actors
Giancarlo Giannini
(Guzmán de Alfarache)
Enrico Montesano
(Lazarillo de Tormes)
Vittorio Gassman
(Marquis Felipe de Aragona)
Nino Manfredi
(The blind wanderer)
Giuliana De Sio
(Rosario, the prostitute)
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