Steno, the artistic name of Stefano Vanzina (19 January 1917 – 13 March 1988), was an Italian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Two of his films, Un giorno in pretura (1954) and Febbre da cavallo (1976), were shown in a retrospective section on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
Total trailers found: 139
01 November 1948
Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.
10 January 1940
In 1830 Pierre Courier, a rich and elderly shipowner, awaits the return of his son Stefano, who has just returned from a long trip to Trinidad in the ship in which he is captain.
22 August 1958
A psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignanelli and Cavalier Peppino Caprioli, so they must retrieve some memories of family life in order to understand their mental illness.
02 September 1972
To gain fame quickly - three actors - Mino, Giacinto and Mirella, stage a fake murder (Mirella is the "victim"), then plan to find the "body" at the most opportune moment.
07 March 1968
Dorellik, an Italian contract killer that lives on the French Riviera, accepts a job to kill everyone with the surname Dupont that lives in France for a rich customer which supposedly would allow him to obtain a large inheritance.
20 December 1947
Leo Bianchetti has just finished his military service but then is again called to arms; after 10 years on various fronts, he finds himself again in Italy to guard a bridge destroyes by the Germans that he doesn't want to leave.
21 February 1952
A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death.
08 April 1965
Four episodes: a traveler is enticed by train per bet; a professional wants to be alone with a woman he likes; a lawyer becomes the lover of an adversary; a man discovers his wife's infidelity after ten years.
21 September 1946
An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher.
15 October 1952
Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards.
15 December 1940
Italy, early 1940s. A rich and noble man, returning from America, has the unpleasant surprise of being dirt poor.
07 April 1962
The marquis Galeazzo di Torre Alta is murdered by a mysterious killer who calls himself Diabolicus. His heirs are his three brothers and a sister, but all of them, with the exception of Monsignor Antonino di Torre Alta, are killed by Diabolicus.
16 September 1948
Felice Manetti is a poor tramp in Turin who, due to his ingenuity, often finds himself in trouble.
01 October 1950
The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is saved by local co-operation.
11 December 1963
Two stage robbers impersonate the heirs to a gold mine but end up defending the families they intended to rip-off.
08 December 1951
Two two-bit singers become thieves to make ends meet. One day during a theft in the house of a music impresario they hear Marco an electrician gifted with a beautiful voice and give him some money to help for his debut as a singer.
23 December 1977
Detective Baldassarre spends his forced exile sorting criminal records. He gets a chance to return to the line of fire when two people, an aristocrat and a worker are struck by lightning inside a fancy mansion.
25 November 1982
At carnival, a girl disguised as a devil seduces the parish priest of a village. She becomes pregnant, but the priest can not support his intention to abort and drag her to court.
26 March 1981
A woman takes advantage of the fact that her husband allowed himself to be praised for divorce to demand immediate separation.
22 December 1955
Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a Roman girl whose advice will create a series of tangled and comic situations.
02 February 1980
Undercover cop Fabio Testi infiltrates the world of motocross racing.
13 April 1968
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
27 October 1983
Andrea, a forty-year old engineer, suddenly becomes unemployed while his wife France gets a promotion.
13 April 1976
Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land.
06 February 1959
When the swindler La Spada and his accomplice José come out of jail in Madrid, they decide to pull a really great swindle: nothing less than to discover and sell a third picture of the famous Goya's Maya.
11 May 1950
While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double.
01 April 1982
Patricia, a journalist, is fed up with all the stupid chores and being ridiculed by her colleagues. To show her talent, she challenges her director Eugenio to test her.
14 November 1986
The Film centers around an American-style fast food restaurant in Milan, the employees who work there and the clients that frequent the place.
25 October 1957
The Russian women's basketball team faces to the American team for the championship of the world, in Rome.
07 March 1963
The day of Chief Constable Saracino begins badly when his new car is stolen. Then, in his office, he meets Alfredo Fiori who believes that his wife and her lover, a veterinary, are trying to murder him.
23 February 1962
Three pirates are saved from a shipwreck and seize a galleon bound for Maracaibo, where they will save the governor from a conspiracy.
07 September 1951
A naive clerk finds himself involved in the theft of a ring containing a dangerous liquid.
30 December 1948
A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant.
16 April 1949
In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.
10 January 1952
A woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's estranged husband does also.
03 December 1953
While filming in the Roman countryside, some of the workers damage the garden of Caterina. Going to ask for compensation, she meets the director Marcello, who propose her to star working in movies.
02 July 1969
Furio Bertuccia, a corruptible lawyer who defends lost causes, is hired by the glamorous model Gloria Bianchi to defend her from the alleged murder of her lover.
15 March 1945
A young man falls in love with a girl from whom he hides the fact that he is already engaged to a mature upper-class lady.
13 August 1973
Don Salvatore Anastasia, a priest in a seminary in Tropea, Calabria (Italy), gets a ticket to visit his brother in New York.
12 July 1941
Alberto Serrani, a mining engineer, meets doctor's daughter Marina, sweet and simple, and the notorious and frivolous Clara who falls for him immediately.
20 December 1975
Social/sexual farce focusing on a boss and his workers in a faucet factory.
03 November 1962
For three days at the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, amorous cross-fertilizations are intertwined with petty tricks against the backdrop of the famous carnival festivities.
24 March 1982
Island farmer Banana Joe helps the local community by trading his bananas for goods. When gangsters arrive with plans to construct a banana processing plant, Joe kicks them out, but the mob boss discovers that Joe is operating without a license.
02 September 1950
Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he closed one in an orphanage), the one goalkeeper of Juventus and the other employee at the state lottery.
24 October 1974
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.
05 November 1961
A fashion designer rents his villa to a woman before leaving to go abroad. The daughter of the woman is forced to pretend to be handicapped in a dark conspiracy aimed to prevent the man from leaving.
13 September 1951
Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.
15 November 1977
Don Cimbolano - a priest in a small town. Oscar - a offender escaped from prison. Philip - attorney loser.
26 November 1947
In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count.
