Meo Patacca (1972)

Director
Marcello Ciorciolini

Main cast
Gigi Proietti; Mario Scaccia; Nanda Primavera; Francesco Mulé; Marco Tulli

Genres
Adventure, Comedy

Description
Adapted from the mock-heroic poem in Roman dialect, tells the misadventures of the young trasteverino Bartolomeo Patacca that, because of the ambition of his woman, is having to train a group of beggars to go fight in defense of Christianity in Vienna, besieged by the Turks.


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