First Love (1978 film)

Primo amore, internationally released as First Love, is a 1978 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Dino Risi.[2][3][4] For her performance Ornella Muti won a Grolla d'oro for Best Actress.[5]

First Love
Directed byDino Risi
Written byRuggero Maccari
Dino Risi
Produced byPio Angeletti
Adriano De Micheli
StarringUgo Tognazzi
Ornella Muti
CinematographyTonino Delli Colli
Edited byAlberto Gallitti
Music byRiz Ortolani
Production
company
Dean Film[1]
Distributed byUnited Artists Europa[1]
Release date
  • 1978 (1978)
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Plot

At a retirement home for entertainers, a former variety artist named Picchio arrives and finds many old friends. He also finds a beautiful young servant named Renata, who responds to his sympathetic approaches. When he receives a large cheque, she agrees to run away with him to Rome, where he promises to launch her into show business.

He takes her to the bridal suite of a luxurious hotel and in the morning goes with her to an agent, who explains that the world of live variety is dead. She spends the next night in a disco with a young man who picked her up in the hotel. With Picchio unable to find work, they move to a cheap hotel used by prostitutes and the two go to lunch with Picchio's son, an inarticulate would-be painter living with a woman who openly despises him.

Looking for a job, Picchio takes Renata to a TV station where an old colleague works. The man says he can do nothing for Picchio and takes Renata away for an interview. When she does not return, Picchio goes in search and finds the pair having sex in a wardrobe room. Dragging her out and beating her in the street, he is hit in return by a bystander and collapses unconscious. After some time in hospital, he is released with partial amnesia. Outside the TV studios he sees Renata, who is now working there, and she slips him some money. All hope of love and fame gone, he takes a train back to the retirement home.

Cast

See also

References
  1. "Primo amore (1978)". Archivio del Cinema Italiano (in Italian). Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  2. Enrico Giacovelli (1995). La commedia all'italiana. Gremese Editore, 1995. ISBN 8876058737.
  3. Ernesto Baldo (Feb 23, 1978). "Love Story di Dino Risi fra pensionato e servetta". La Stampa.
  4. "Il vecchio guitto e la servetta". La Stampa. Sep 9, 1978.
  5. r.c.d. (8 June 1979). "Gemma, la Muti e Olmi vincono le Grolle d'oro". La Stampa. p. 9.


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