Comedy · Italy · 1991 · 1h 55m

Johnny Stecchino

Johnny Stecchino poster
Director
Roberto Benigni
Cast
Roberto Benigni as Dante Ceccarini / Johnny Stecchino Nicoletta Braschi as Maria Paolo Bonacelli as D'Agata Franco Volpi as Ministro Ivano Marescotti as Dr. Randazzo Turi Scalia as Giudice
Crew
Giuseppe Lanci — Director of Photography Nino Baragli — Editor Evan Lurie — Original Music Composer Roberto Benigni — Screenplay Vincenzo Cerami — Screenplay Vincenzo Cerami — Story
Tagline

Sometimes a banana is just a banana!

Synopsis

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.

Trailer Johnny Stecchino — Official Trailer
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Mood & Themes
sicily, italygangsterbus driverfoolfemme fatalemafiafalling in lovesicilian mafiadoppelgänger
Key Collaborators
Roberto Benigni Director Giuseppe Lanci Director of Photography Nino Baragli Editor Evan Lurie Original Music Composer Roberto Benigni Screenplay Vincenzo Cerami Screenplay Vincenzo Cerami Story Roberto Benigni Story Mario Cecchi Gori Producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori Producer Paolo Biagetti Production Design Gianna Gissi Costume Design
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