Overview
Francesco Improta is an honest fruit and vegetable peddler who lives with his elderly mother Assunta and daughter Fiorella. His wife Lucia left home two years earlier, as, in order to help the family, she did not hesitate to give herself to the boss Peppino Ascalone, with whom she is now forced to live together.
Fun facts
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Setting
Set in Naples
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Music
Music by Eduardo Alfieri
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Piero RegnoliStory
- Alfonso BresciaScreenplay
- Franco CalabreseScreenplay
- Original title
- Carcerato
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 15, 1981
- Original language
- Italian
- Countries
- Italy
Production
Cast
Mario MerolaFrancesco Improta
Regina BianchiDonna Assunta
Biagio PelligraNicola Esposito
Erika BlancLucia
Antonio AlloccaPasqualino
Sergio CastellittoScapricciatiello
Lucio MontanaroCiccio
John BenedyClaudio Scaraffone- Pamela ParisMaria
Nino Vingelliprofessore
Alessandro Partexanodetenuto- Salvatore Puccinellibrigadiere
Lucio Rosatobrigadiere
Roberto Caporali
Luigi Uzzogiardiniere di villa Ascalone
George Ardissoncommissario di polizia- Michele EspositoGennarino
Marta ZoffoliFiorella Improta
Aldo GiuffrèPeppino Ascalone
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