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A Thousand Lire a Month (Italian: Mille lire al mese) is a 1939 Italian comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Alida Valli, Umberto Melnati and Osvaldo Valenti.[1] It is a remake of the 1936 Hungarian film Havi 200 fix. The plot concerns an electronic engineer who goes to Budapest, accompanied by his girlfriend, to work on experiments for a new television system leading to countless mix-ups.

A Thousand Lire a Month
Directed by	Max Neufeld
Written by	Oreste Biancoli Gherardo Gherardi Luigi Zampa
Based on	Screenplay Havi 200 fix (1936) by László Vadnay
Produced by	Ettore Rosboch
Starring	Alida Valli Umberto Melnati Osvaldo Valenti
Cinematography	Ernst Mühlrad
Edited by	Giorgio Simonelli
Music by	Carlo Innocenzi
Production company	Italcine
Distributed by	Industrie Cinematografiche Italiane
Release date	January 1939
Running time	83 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

It was shot at the Safa Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti.

Cast

• Alida Valli as Magda
• Umberto Melnati as Matteo
• Osvaldo Valenti as Gabriele Corodi
• Renato Cialente as Il direttore generale della Radio di Budapest
• Niní Gordini Cervi as Lilli
• Giuseppe Pierozzi as Axel, il capo del personale
• Anna Doré as Lia Loletta
• Amina Pirani Maggi as La madre di Magda
• Maria Polese as La zia di Magda
• Fausto Guerzoni as Leopoldo Almos
• Vasco Creti as Il padrone della farmacia
• Armando Arzalesi
• Aristide Baghetti as Il padrino con il monocolo
• Luigi Erminio D'Olivo as L'ingegnere in attesa di diventare padre
• Carlo Lombardi as Il ministro
• Renato Malavasi as Un tecnico televisivo
• Livia Minelli as Francesca, la cameriera
• Lina Tartara Minora as La padrona della pensione di Almos
• Sergio Pastorini as Il tenore
• Cesare Polacco as Carletto, l'altro padrino
• Adriano Rimoldi as Un impiegato della radio
• Dina Romano as La donna con il mal di denti
• Felice Romano as Un altro tecnico televisivo
• Gennaro Sabatano
• Elettra Terzolo as Caterina, la cameriera

References

Bibliography

• Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey & Hay, James & Volpi, Gianni. The Companion to Italian Cinema. Cassell, 1996.

External links

• A Thousand Lire a Month at IMDb

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