Synopsis

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a black dignitary of an embassy by a CIA agent and then into his own killing by another colleague. In a television film, the police are befooled by a fake bomb and put a real one in order not to be derided by the public. In a film inquisition show, the bishop of Naples speaks highly of the importance of the family, but a child who lives a miserable family life kills himself. In the debate that follows it is proposed that they should eat the children, as Swift had said. In the next episode, a general who is in the toilet is called for the NATO parade, but the flasher breaks and in his effort to fix it, he dirts allover and kills himself. In a children’s show an inspector finds excuses and delays the arrest of a powerful man…
Ettore Scola, Ignazio Dolce, Mario Monicelli, Luigi Magni, Rita Agostini, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy, Francesco Laudadio, Massimo Patrizi, Luisa Alessandri, Rinaldo Ricci, Ilde Muscio
Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Adolfo Celi, Senta Berger, Ugo Tognazzi, Paolo Villaggio, Nino Manfredi, Alberto Postorino, Lucretia Love, Monica Guerritore, Felice Andreasi, Andréa Ferréol, Sergio Graziani, Mario Scaccia, Franco Scandurra, Carlo Croccolo, Eros Pagni, Gianfranco Barra, Renzo Marignano, Franco Diogene, Angelo Pellegrino, Camillo Milli, Luca Sportelli, Rocco Loschiavo, Giovannella Grifeo, Maria Tedeschi, Carlo Bagno, Gabriella Farinon, Luigi Uzzo, Maria D’Incoronato, Mario Pascucci, Lamberto Solfa, Giacomo Rizzo
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