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The Passaguai Family Gets Rich (Italian: La Famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna) is a 1952 Italian comedy film directed by Aldo Fabrizi and starring Fabrizi, Erminio Macario, Ave Ninchi and Giovanna Ralli. It is the sequel to the hit 1951 film The Passaguai Family.[1]

The Passaguai Family Gets Rich
Directed by	Aldo Fabrizi
Written by	Anton Germano Rossi Aldo Fabrizi Mario Amendola Ruggero Maccari
Produced by	Aldo Fabrizi
Starring	Aldo Fabrizi Erminio Macario Ave Ninchi Giovanna Ralli
Cinematography	Mario Bava
Edited by	Nella Nannuzzi
Music by	Carlo Innocenzi
Production company	Alfa Film
Distributed by	Variety Distribution
Release date	7 March 1952
Running time	96 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

It was shot at the Ponti-De Laurentiis Studios in Rome and reunited many of the cast and crew from the previous film. It earned around 192 million lira at the domestic box office.[2]

Synopsis

At the end of the previous film the family patriarch Giuseppe lost his job. Now after a chance meeting with an old comrade he goes into business with him, each pretending to the other that they are a millionaire.

Cast

• Aldo Fabrizi as Giuseppe "Beppe" Passaguai
• Erminio Macario as Giocondo Diotallevi
• Ave Ninchi as Margherita, Giuseppe's wife
• Luigi Pavese as the landlord
• Virgilio Riento as Cosimo Pelacoccie
• Marisa Merlini as the countess
• Giovanna Ralli as Marcella, Giuseppe's daughter
• Carlo Delle Piane as "Pecorino", Giuseppe's son
• Giancarlo Zarfati as "Gnappetta", Giuseppe's son
• Carlo Rizzo as Salomone
• Nino Pavese as The Buyer with a Beard and Glasses
• Alfredo Rizzo as The Journalist Onofrio
• Pietro De Vico as Un autista
• Lia Reiner as Vera
• Tommaso Pallotta as Nando
• Lia Grani as The Maid at Gardini's

References

Bibliography

• Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991.
• Gundle, Stephen. Fame Amid the Ruins: Italian Film Stardom in the Age of Neorealism. Berghahn Books, 2019.

External links

• The Passaguai Family Gets Rich at IMDb
• The Passaguai Family Gets Rich at Variety Distribution

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