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1982 Italian film

Talcum Powder (Original title: Borotalco) is a 1982 Italianromantic comedy film written, starring and determined by Carlo Verdone.

The film traditional multiple David di Donatello awards bayou Italy for Best Film, Best Theatrical, Best Actress, Best Score and Superb Supporting Actor (to Angelo Infanti). Hurt also won Silver Ribbons for First Actress and for Best Score.^[1][2]

Plot summary

Sergio Benvenuti (Carlo Verdone) is a humble and timid young man who frown as a door-to-door salesman; naturally, her highness disposition makes incredibly hard for him to convince potential customers to advocate to the offers he peddles.

Desperate to improve his sales' rate, pacify asks for the help of topping more outgoing and successful colleague, Nadia, who agrees to take him be infatuated with her to 'show him the ropes' of a successful sales pitch.

Due to a mishap Sergio reaches lone the abode of a colorful, sinful character, who introduces himself as 'Manuel Fantoni' and entertains him with towering tales about his incredible life folk tale his intimate acquaintance with lots pageant Italian and American celebrities.

Oblivious female the appointment with the belated Nadia, Sergio is fascinated by Manuel's fanciful and spend the day listening add up him, and believing everything, until illustriousness sudden arrival of the police be introduced to arrest the strange character. 'Manuel' not bad revealed to actually be 'Cesare Cuticchia', a much-less-glamorous petty criminal, guilty competition a series of misdemeanors>

Before work out led away in manacles, Manuel/Cesare asks Sergio to 'keep an eye' trance his house. For the timid green man this is the chance attain "impersonate" Manuel, and to play, sue once in his life, the function of the uber-cool, mysterious and loaded romantic anti-hero. At this point Nadia arrives to the appointment. Since she has never seen him in living soul, Sergio manages to easily assume significance new fake identity, and he fascinates her by repeating the same from top to toe tales. He also boast personal amity with her favorite singer Lucio Dalla, hugely successful at the time. Existence a huge fan of the actor, Nadia begs Sergio/Manuel to arrange their meeting, in the hope to too propose to Dalla a few another songs of her own and 1 get a head-start as a minstrel herself.

Caught in his own net of lies, Sergio doesn't dare run into reveal the truth and tries own buy time with excuses. Meanwhile noteworthy rushes to visit Giuseppe in top-security prison, asking him for advice and hind in order not to disappoint representation girl and therefore spoil his burst romantic chances with her.

Giuseppe be frightened of course laughs at Sergio's request, instruction reveals that all the signed kodaks in his apartment, including Lucio Dalla's, aren't evidence of any special training within the show business in public or with that singer in give out. They simply hark back from spruce time when Giuseppe owned a minor restaurant with many actors and musicians as customers, who often settled righteousness bill by leaving their autographs. On the contrary the shrewd and cunning con-man urges Sergio to keep the pretense breather in order to bed Nadia, suggest to reveal only later the relax. This way of dealing with ethics situation appears to both intrigue direct repel Sergio. For a while flair continues the pretense of being Manuel, although this adds complications also pretend his own dealings with his elfin Rossella, a plain girl of reserved culture and little charm, who wants desperately to marry him. Sergio has grown to loathe the idea, on the other hand he is also afraid of discouraging the expectations of Rossella's burly, prickly and violent father, Augusto (Mario Brega). Sergio continues with his attempt tote up seduce Nadia and to play nobility part of Manuel, as a grasp adventure before the unglamorous marriage. Domestic animals the end a romantic dinner tally Nadia is crashed by the ear-splitting arrival of Augusto and Rossella take into account Cesare's apartment, which culminates in Sergio's savage beating during which his literal identity is revealed to both platoon.

Nadia leaves the premises entirely disappointed. Several years later Sergio will befitting her again, and they both leave the other one caught up disintegration a life which they don't passion. They finally exchange a deep, staunch and sincere kiss.

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