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Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.Read moreLess
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
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Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
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Roberto BenigniDante Ceccarini / Johnny Stecchino
Nicoletta BraschiMaria
Paolo BonacelliD'Agata
Franco VolpiMinistro
Turi ScaliaGiudice
Loredana RomitoGianna
Sal BorgeseIgnazio
Giulio DonniniCardinale
Domenico MinutoliQuestore di PalermoExplore the crew
- Director
- Roberto Benigni
- Screenplay
- Roberto Benigni
- Screenplay
- Vincenzo Cerami
- Producer
- Mario Cecchi Gori
- Producer
- Vittorio Cecchi Gori
- Director of Photography
- Giuseppe Lanci
- Editor
- Nino Baragli
- Original Music Composer
- Evan Lurie