Johnny Stecchino

7.3
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 115 min
  • Premiere: 1991. October 24.

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.

Discover

Roberto Benigni

Dante Ceccarini / Johnny Stecchino

Franco Volpi

Ministro

Ivano Marescotti

Dr. Randazzo

Turi Scalia

Giudice

Sal Borgese

Ignazio

Gaetano Campisi

Picciotto in auto

Giulio Donnini

Cardinale

Domenico Minutoli

Questore di Palermo

Georgia O'Brien

Moglie del ministro

Tony Sperandeo

Picciotto in auto

Giorgio Trestini

Portiere Hotel

Vito Zappalà

Maresciallo

Art

Paolo Biagetti

Production Design

Massimo Tavazzi

Set Decoration

Maria Luigia Battani

Assistant Production Design

Camera

Giuseppe Lanci

Director of Photography

Franco Bruni

Camera Operator

Fabrizio Vicari

Assistant Camera

Mario Tursi

Still Photographer

Andrea Collepiccolo

Assistant Camera

Costume & Make-Up

Gianna Gissi

Costume Design

Francesca Sartori

Assistant Costume Designer

Giusy Bovino

Hair Department Head

Antonio Maltempo

Makeup Artist

Fabrizio Sforza

Makeup Department Head

Directing

Gianni Arduini

First Assistant Director

Giorgia Onofri

Script Supervisor

Michela Giorelli

Second Assistant Director

Enrico Marrari

Second Assistant Director

Editing

Alessandra Rocchi

Assistant Editor

Patrizia Ceresani

Assistant Editor

Antonio Baragli

Assistant Editor

Lighting

Production

Benedetta Von Normann

Production Secretary

Lynn Kamern

Unit Manager

Gianluigi Braschi

Production Secretary

Franco Ballati

Production Manager

Nicola Mastrorilli

Unit Manager

Lorenzo Errico

Unit Manager

Alessandro von Norman

Line Producer

Sound

Romano Checcacci

Sound Mixer

Corrado Volpicelli

Boom Operator

Evan Lurie

Original Music Composer

Writing

Roberto Benigni

Screenplay

Vincenzo Cerami

Screenplay