Department Store (1939 film)

Not to be confused with Grandi magazzini.

Department Store
Directed by	Mario Camerini
Written by	Mario Camerini Renato Castellani Mario Pannunzio Ivo Perilli
Produced by	Giuseppe Amato
Cinematography	Anchise Brizzi
Edited by	Giovanna Del Bosco Mario Camerini
Music by	Alessandro Cicognini Giovanni D'Anzi Cesare A. Bixio
Production companies	Amato Film Era Film
Distributed by	Generalcine
Release date	10 August 1939 (1939-08-10)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Department Store (Italian:I grandi magazzini) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Camerini.^[1]

It was made at the Cinecittà studios in Rome. The film entered the competition at the 7th Venice International Film Festival.^[2]

Cast

• Vittorio De Sica as Bruno Zacchi
• Assia Noris as Lauretta Corelli
• Enrico Glori as Bertini, the chief of staff
• Luisella Beghi as Emilia
• Virgilio Riento as Gaetano
• Milena Penovich as Anna
• Andrea Checchi as Maurizio
• Mattia Giancola as Pietro, Anna's brother
• Renato Alberini
• Aldo Capacci as the young man in the lift
• Nino Crisman as the warehouse inspector
• Dhia Cristiani as the furniture department's salesperson
• Dino De Laurentiis as the errand boy
• Peppino De Martino as the timecard clerk
• Giovanni Ferrari
• Alba Ferrarotti as a saleswoman
• Diana Floriani as a saleswoman
• Nora Lenner as a saleswoman
• Loredana as a saleswoman
• Mirto Lusso
• Nino Marchetti as the enquiry inspector
• Bebi Nucci as a saleswoman
• Amalia Pellegrini as lady asking for raincoats
• Alfredo Petroni as department store director
• Amina Pirani Maggi as the lady in the woolen cap
• Giuseppe Rinaldi as a skier
• Umberto Sacripante as Pietro
• Carlo Simoneschi
• Dida Spaida as Lucia
• Liliana Vismara as Rina
• Liliana Zanardi as director's secretary
• Nietta Zocchi as ugly saleswoman

References

1. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
2. Enrico Lancia (1998). I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 8877422211.

External links

• Department Store at IMDb