Il secondo tragico Fantozzi
| Il secondo tragico Fantozzi | |
|---|---|
 Italian theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Luciano Salce |
| Produced by | Giovanni Bertolucci |
| Written by |
Leonardo Benvenuti Piero De Bernardi Luciano Salce Paolo Villaggio |
| Starring |
Paolo Villaggio Liù Bosisio Gigi Reder Anna Mazzamauro |
| Music by |
Franco Bixio Fabio Frizzi Vince Tempera |
| Cinematography | Erico Menczer |
| Edited by | Antonio Siciliano |
| Distributed by | Cineriz |
Release date | 1976 |
Running time | 110 min. |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Il secondo tragico Fantozzi (The Second Tragic Fantozzi) is an Italian comedy film released in 1976. It is the second film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio.[1]
Plot
Fantozzi is working overtime to protect the "Clamorous Mega-Director Duke-Count Enginner" Semenzara (a CEO) cheating his wife. Missing security guards shooting (that mistake him as a rogue), he's even "phisically" forced to return work in normal daylight turn by his colleagues.
Casino
CEO Semenzara is a very superstitious gambler and Poker player. Fantozzi is chosen to accompany him in Monte Carlo where is forced to touch his bum, being stomped and drink gallons of water just for superstitious reason. Unfortunately for Fantozzi, the Duke-Count will lose all his money blaming him and forcing to return home badly clinging under a train: Fantozzi comes back home totally immobilized, and is "cured" by Mrs. Pina with scalding cloths at a terrible temperature, causing him "mystic allucinations" of st. Michael announcing his imminent pregnancy.
Hunting Party
Filini and Fantozzi enjoys some hunting time, unfortunately the space reserved for hunters is very tiny: on extreme competition and almost total absence of games, begins manhunt skirmishes quickly escalating to heavy machinery guns and tanks. Fantozzi and Filini falls "just" captured as safari preys.
Launching ship
Philanthropic Countess Serbelloni Mazzanti Viendalmare is selected to launch a new and massive cruise ship, but always miss target throwing all bottles of champagne, hitting two times Fantozzi, the Mayor, a minister and a centenarian baron; then it's decided to cut a wire metal cord as substitution, but a misaim cuts archbishop's pinkie towith a hatchet, resulting in the man cursing and chasing the countess swearing to kill her. That same evening, noblelords organizes a dinner with politicians and also workers and clerks: included Fantozzi and Filini, being under clutches of the giant ferocius watchdog "Ivan the Terrible" 32th. On dinner the two accountants, without any social skill of sorts, botch almost anything embarrassing their directory: cruel jokes with a German ambassador, troubles with baked mockingbird and burning tomatoes. Eventually threatened again by Ivan the Terrible, Fantozzi suddenly flees on a fast Maserati, but the dog chase and siege him in the car for one week (counted by his CEOs as holidays).
American circus
As reaction for already "spended" holidays, Fantozzi pretend to be sick and go to see the spectacle of a circus with free tickets, but unfortunately there will find its director who recognized him immediately. Hided in a cannon, Fantozzi is fired and blown up in Sicily where, again under "mystical allucinations", is informed by archangel Gabriel of his 9-months pregnancy.
Cineforum
The powerful Professor Riccardelli is a CEO that 20 years ago upgraded Fantozzi (asking anomalous question about silent films) from a "sponge for stamps" assignment to his actual clerk position. As an avant-garde cinema enthusiast, periodically forces his underlings to watch boring and long foreign silent films like Day of Wrath, Man of Aran and Battleship Potemkin, mobbing a bored Fantozzi in debate sessions after screenings while his servile and hypocritical colleagues faking enjoy the films. One of this screenings force Megacompany clerks to miss real-time broadcast of an important world championship soccer match. In after-movie debate, Fantozzi rides disgruntled employees, openly denouncing the movie as "a crazy crap" (which results in a 92 minutes-long standing ovations) and takes hostage CEO Riccardelli, watching B movies and destroying reels of his beloved films. Eventually the police sedates the rebellion and clerks are forced to reenact key scenes of Battleship Potemkin every Saturday as punishment.
Night Club
Unexpectedly home alone, Fantozzi calls Calboni and Filini organizing an evening with prostitutes. They finally spend the night in a hot club, ingenually buying everything is possible: they got so far and the accounts will be so salty (over 3000 £, $3200) that them will not find even money to pay for the taxi drivers, lynching Filini. As the only one with a girl, Calboni betrays his wife.
Honeymoon
It's the opportunity Fantozzi awaited so long and this time he finally succeeds. The two lovers land to Capri for a honeymoon, but it will be studded with tragic situations (a crash on a giant stack, dives in an empty pool and by altitudes) and misunderstandings that result in reconciliation of Silvani and Calboni; a struggled Fantozzi, attempting suicide, is caught by a fishing boat and sold as "sea product". There is bought by his wife Pina to be able to return home safe and sound and in order to celebrate Christmas. Fantozzi is positive, and an evening call by Galactic Mega-Director offer him his old job, from which was fired before honeymoon. The unfortunate accountant resume work in his company, but this time as a lightning rod.
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