Directed by:
Francesco RosiScreenplay:
Suso Cecchi D'AmicoCinematography:
Gianni Di VenanzoComposer:
Piero PiccioniCast:
Alberto Sordi, Renato Salvatori, Belinda Lee, Josef Dahmen, Else Knott, Aldo Giuffrè, Nino Vingelli, Aldo Bufi Landi, Antonio La RainaPlots(1)
When Italian guest worker Mario is taken under the wing of his countryman Totonno, little does he realise that he has fallen into the hands of a gang of crooks, and that Totonno himself is a con man. But there are other criminals in St. Pauli who have already staked their claims and now Germans, Poles and Italians are all battling for a piece of the action. Things get awkward for Mario when he falls in love with Paula, the wife of a carpet dealer named Meyer. "We are presented with Hamburg without the nautical romance: bleak, polluted, rain-drenched and with rough north German undertones. This realistic portrayal of the dockyard milieu lends a strange fascination to an inherently sentimental love story." (Ernst Bohlius, Film-Echo, 1.7.1961) (Berlinale)
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Alberto Sordi
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Renato Salvatori
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Josef Dahmen
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Else Knott
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Aldo Giuffrè
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Nino Vingelli
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Aldo Bufi Landi
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Antonio La Raina
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