An American in Rome (1954) on Netflix
Nando Moriconi, a Roman, dresses, talks and eats like an American. He wants to go to the United States, but Elvira, his girlfriend, loves him as he is.
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Plot summary
In Rome in the early 1950s, Nando Moriconi is devoted to everything that comes from the States. He copies what he finds in movies from the States: a white t-shirt, jeans, a cowboy belt, a baseball cap, a studded leather wristband, and a bedroom arranged like a Hollywood set. He calls his girlfriend Elvira Elvy and his parents papi and mami, and he lives ordinary days as if they were scenes from an American film with himself in the leading part. He eats cornflakes with ketchup. Elvira loves him, and his mother and father are desperate. His aim is a life in the United States, but he is well known as a boy crazy for America, and the trouble he has caused does not help him.
Cast
- Ilse Petersonas Molly (as Ilse Petersen)
- Giulio Calìas Padre di Nando
- Rocco D'Assuntaas Commissario
- Caterine Alcajdeas Ballerina dell'avanspettacolo
- Archibald L. Lyallas L'ambasciatore (as Arcibaldo Layall)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about An American in Rome (1954)
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- Alberto Sordi was granted honorary citizenship of Kansas City in 1955 because his character Nando Mericoni kept talking about it — even though Nando actually meant the state of Kansas, not the city, and pictured Kansas City as a kind of highway police force.
- In 2008 Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage placed the film on its list of 100 Italian films to be saved, honoured as one of the titles that changed the country's collective memory between 1942 and 1978.
