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La chiave di casa

1956

A gentle, talky farce of mistaken identity that unfolds like a staged comedy of manners, amusing rather than hilarious.

Directed by
Eduardo De Filippo
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Eduardo De Filippo, Peppino De Martino, Dolores Palumbo
Overview
On his way home, Don Simone meets his friend Ciccillo, who asks him for a favor: to entertain the husband of a woman, his lover, until they find the keys to her house. Simone accepts the task and his friend points out a man sitting in a pizzeria as the lover's husband. After a series of mishaps, however, poor Simone discovers that the man had nothing to do with it and that the person Ciccillo wanted to entertain was actually him.

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Directed by
Eduardo De Filippo
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Eduardo De Filippo, Peppino De Martino, Dolores Palumbo
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • deception
  • friendship
  • identity
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour7
Realism6
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity4
Emotional weight3

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Genres
comedy
Directed by
Eduardo De Filippo
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Eduardo De Filippo
Starring
Eduardo De Filippo, Peppino De Martino, Dolores Palumbo
Country
Italy

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