The Marquis of Grillo

1981

2h 19m

7.8(480 votes)

Comedy

Overview

In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.

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34 members

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Alberto Sordi

Onofrio Del Grillo

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Paolo Stoppa

Papa Pio VII

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Caroline Berg

Olimpia

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Riccardo Billi

Aronne Piperno

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Flavio Bucci

Don Bastiano

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Camillo Milli

Segretario del Papa

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Cochi Ponzoni

Conte Rambaldo

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Marc Porel

Capitano Blanchard

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Pietro Tordi

Monsignor Terenzio Del Grillo

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Leopoldo Trieste

Padre Sabino

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Giorgio Gobbi

Ricciotto

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Isabelle Linnartz

Genuflessa

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Tommaso Bianco

Amministratore

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Marina Confalone

Camilla

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Elena Fiore

Anita

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Elena Daskowa Valenzano

Marchesa del Grillo

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Andrea Bevilacqua

Polpeo

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Angela Campanella

Faustina

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Isabella De Bernardi

Figlia di Gasperino

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Gianni Di Pinto

Maruccio

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Ettore Geri

High priest who presides over the execution

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Ivan De Paola

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Nicola Di Marzio

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Jacques Herlin

Rabet

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Salvatore Iacono

Bargello

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Elisa Mainardi

Moglie di Gasperino

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Renzo Rinaldi

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Salvatore Biondo

Monk (uncredited)

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Sal Borgese

giocatore di carte

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Mimmo Poli

Oste

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Arnaldo Caivano

Cardinal (uncredited)

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Fernando Arcangeli

Prince Marcello di Valmontone (uncredited)

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Vezio Natili

Cardinal (uncredited)

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Salvatore Francofonte

Lawyer (uncredited)

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