Lo scaldaletto (2002)
Directed by Bruno Napolitano
Cast
Felice Sciosciammocca……….Massimo De Lisio
Amalia, sua moglie……….Manuela Di Nola
Michele, servitore di Felice……….Nick Cappa
Rosella, serva di Felice……….Nicoletta Ciampini
Antonio, avvocato……….Rocco Loiacono
Don Anselmo, avvocato……….Bruno Napolitano
Don Gaetano……….Luciano Pinto
Dorotea, moglie di D. Gaetano……….Michelle de Souza
Emma, ballerina……….Pina Zingales
Direttore del Teatro……….Carlo Picchetti
Pasquale, aiutante……….Ilario Colli
Raffaele, Presidente……….Rino Pellone
Giacomino, usciere……….Elio Raspa
Gennarino, cafettiere……….Umberto Pantanella
Nannina, ballerina……….Liz Lester
Ernestina, ballerina……….Rosa Tizzano
Cancelliere……….Peppino Tizzano
Giudice……….Bill Vocisano
Comparse……….Carlo Pennone, Steve de Souza
Commento musicale di Giorgio Manfredi
Felice and Amalia are newlyweds going through a rough patch. Michele, their servant, is doing his best to pit husband against wife by playing various tricks on them. He wants to go back to the fun times he and Felice enjoyed before Amalia came on the scene. Their quarrelling escalates until Felice and Amalia call in their respective lawyers to start proceedings for a legal separation. The plot takes various twists and turns with the arrival on the scene of sundry characters: an eccentric old dandy shadowed by his hectoring wife, an ambitious chorus girl protected by the old dandy, and ridiculous figures from the legal and judicial walks of life. The resulting scenario is as confusing as it is hilarious, especially in the final act, situated in a courtroom, where the newly weds battle against insurmountable odds to have their individual cases heard. However, the mischievous servant eventually owns up to the mayhem he has caused, but the mandatory sentence in the farce we call “life” can only be …a happy ending!