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Johnny Stecchino

Johnny Stecchino

Sometimes a banana is just a banana!

19917.31h 55m

Overview

Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.

Directed by Roberto Benigni
Written by Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami
Produced by Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori
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Top Cast

Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni

Dante Ceccarini / Johnny Stecchino

Nicoletta Braschi

Nicoletta Braschi

Maria

Paolo Bonacelli

Paolo Bonacelli

D'Agata

Franco Volpi

Franco Volpi

Ministro

Ivano Marescotti

Ivano Marescotti

Dr. Randazzo

Turi Scalia

Turi Scalia

Giudice

Loredana Romito

Loredana Romito

Gianna

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Alessandro De Santis

Lillo

Sal Borgese

Sal Borgese

Ignazio

G

Gaetano Campisi

Picciotto in auto

Themes & Keywords

sicily, italygangsterbus driverfoolfemme fatalemafiafalling in lovesicilian mafiadoppelgänger

About Johnny Stecchino

Johnny Stecchino is a comedy film released in 1991 exploring themes of sicily, italy, gangster, bus driver, fool, femme fatale, mafia. Directed by Roberto Benigni, it stars Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Paolo Bonacelli. Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.

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