Ecce bombo

Ecce bombo
Directed by	Nanni Moretti
Produced by	Mario Gallo Enzo Giulioli
Written by	Nanni Moretti
Starring	Nanni Moretti Fabio Traversa Luisa Rossi
Music by	Franco Piersanti
Cinematography	Giuseppe Pinori
Edited by	Enzo Meniconi
Release dates	8 March 1978
Running time	103 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Ecce Bombo is a 1978 Italian comedy film, written, starring and directed by Nanni Moretti. It was filmed in 16 mm but released in 35 mm. It was Moretti's first commercial success.

Plot

Michele Apicella, Goffredo, Mirko and Vito are four friends who have participated in the battles of the student in Sixties. Now in the Seventies, the four friends don't know what to do, though young and with so many possibilities to find a job in life. Intellectuals marginalized and misunderstood, the four friends find themselves when they can in a restaurant to discuss their outlandish theories. A girl named Olga disrupts their life, but Michele is his favorite, although he does not know what to do with the girls.

Cast

• Nanni Moretti - Michele Apicella
• Luisa Rossi - Michele's mother
• Lina Sastri - Olga
• Piero Galletti - Goffredo
• Susanna Javicoli - Silvia
• Cristina Manni - Cristina
• Lorenza Ralli - Michele's sister Valentina
• Maurizio Romoli - Flaminia's husband Cesare
• Carola Stagnaro - Flaminia
• Fabio Traversa - Mirko
• Giorgio Viterbo - Reporter for 'Telecalifornia'
• Paolo Zaccagnini - Vito
• Sandro Conte - Student
• Maurizio Di Taddeo - Student
• Mauro Fabretti - Student

Awards

• Nastro d'Argento: Best Story
• Nominated for the Golden Palm at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival^[1]

References

1. "Festival de Cannes: Ecce bombo". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-12.

External links

• Ecce Bombo at the Internet Movie Database