Poppy | |
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Directed by |
Vittorio Metz Marcello Marchesi |
Written by | Marcello Marchesi Vittorio Metz |
Produced by | Mario Silvestri |
Starring |
Walter Chiari Anna Maria Ferrero Carlo Campanini |
Cinematography | Riccardo Pallottini |
Edited by | Franco Fraticelli |
Music by | Vittorio Mascheroni |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Minerva Film |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Poppy (Italian: Lo sai che i papaveri) is a 1952 Italian comedy film by Vittorio Metz and Marcello Marchesi and starring Walter Chiari, Anna Maria Ferrero and Carlo Campanini. [1] It was sot at the Ponti-De Laurentis Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alberto Boccianti.
Unknowingly, respectable schoolteacher Gualtiero leads a double life as Walter who frequents nightclubs every night. Whereas Gualtiero is engaged to a fellow teacher Anna, Walter is a carousing womaniser. Pierina, one of his students who has a crush on him, discovers about his nocturnal visits and seeks him out. They enjoy a romance, but by day he remembers nothing about it. Eventually when confronted, he visits a psychiatrist who reveals he has a duel personality with strong contrasting traits inherited from each of his parents.