The Career of a Chambermaid (1976)

Name: The Career of a Chambermaid
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Released: 1976-02-06
Duration: 111 min
Cast: Agostina Belli, Cochi Ponzoni, Maurizio Arena, William Berger, Lino Toffolo

Italian comedy

This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.

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Released 1976-02-06 · 111 min · Comedy, Romance, Drama

Directed by Dino Risi

Cast

Agostina Belli as Marcella Valmarin alias Alba Doris
Cochi Ponzoni as Roberto Trevisan
Maurizio Arena as Luciani
William Berger as Franz
Lino Toffolo as Gondrano Rossi
Vittorio Gassman as Franco Denza
Ugo Tognazzi as Adelmo
Paolo Baroni as segretario di Marcella
Renato Pozzetto as Bruno
Alvaro Vitali as Mario
Nora Orlandi
Franca Stoppi as la partigiana
Carla Terlizzi
Dino Baldazzi as Benito Mussolini
Eleonora Morana as madre di Marcella