You're on Your Own

1959 Italian film

1959 (1959)

Running time

105 minCountryItalyLanguageItalian

Arrangiatevi!, internationally released as You're on Your Own, is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Mauro Bolognini.^[1]^[2]

In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."^[3]

Plot summary

Peppino and his family move into a "brothel", i.e. an apartment inhabited by a group of prostitutes in the ancient streets of Rome. One of the girls mysteriously died, and so the house was bought by the family just in time for Peppino, who is forced to share with another family. Because of the gossips of the city and the neighborhood, in a short time Peppino's family falls into disgrace. Peppino, not knowing what to do as a father, comes to discover that his daughter has serious problems with her boyfriend.

Cast

Peppino De Filippo: Peppino Armentano
Totò: Grandpa Illuminato
Laura Adani: Maria Armentano
Cristina Gaioni: Maria Berta Armentano
Cathia Caro: Bianca Armentano
Vittorio Caprioli Pino Calamai
Franca Valeri: Marisa
Adriana Asti: la ragazza di Felice
Giorgio Ardisson: Romano
Marcello Paolini: Nicola Armentano
Enrico Olivieri: Salvatore Armentano
Achille Majeroni: il nonno istriano
Giusi Raspani Dandolo: la madre istriana
Luigi De Filippo: Neri
Giuliano Gemma: un pugile al peso

References

^ Massimo Bertarelli. Il cinema italiano in 100 film: i 100 film da salvare. Gremese Editore, 2004. pp. 66–68.
^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano - I film. Gremese Editore, 1991. p. 43.
^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 2021-03-11.