Be Sick… It's Free
Oct 24 1968
•2h 34m
•Comedy
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Cast
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Alberto Sordi
Guido Tersilli
Ida Galli
Anna Maria
Bice Valori
Amelia
Sara Franchetti
Teresa
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The Widower
Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.
Il presidente del Borgorosso Football Club
Benito Fornaciari, a pale, devoutly Catholic, Upper Middleclass Italian inherits a minor-league football club from a long-lost uncle. He decides to visit the club to sell it, but the local population has other ideas: through an almost-armed uprising they "force" him not to sell the club but lead it to other glories on the football field.
The Miser
Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy.