Three years before "London Calling" by The Clash, Silvio Amadio and
Claudia, the character played by Gloria Guida, anticipate the times and
start the war.
The blonde innocent here is a little innocent; she is very bad or
mostly vindictive. In London, she wants to go to London and nothing and
nobody can stop her.
Interesting basic idea. Good also the interpreters. But something in
the script doesn't work, because there are a number of not sense things
that undermine the structure. The story is set after school final
exams, in the middle of summer, but at the University there are lessons
as the beginning of the academic year. In addition, the news often
speaks about the fog in the Val Padana.
It should be added that after an interesting start, the story loses
interest and ends in the trenches, with moves and countermoves until a
paradoxical end.
To save the film from total fall there are actors, all used to their best of ability.
Gloria Guida, in her usual role is less naked than in the previous
films but there is the scene of the strip at the window and the one of
the medical examination. Here we also see her little dressed in a
ridiculous dream in which she is attacked by so-called Moroccan and
saved by her heroic father.
Claudia's father is Colonel Oreste Raselli starring Jacques Dufilho
that proposes his Rambaldo Buttiglione connoting with some minor
fascists aspects. Nieves Navarro instead plays well the role of
Luisa, the mature woman in contrast with the exuberance of the youth.
Pino Colizzi closes the quartet of main characters in the role of
Filippo Chiti the doctor of the title but ends up in the vortex of
history without affecting particularly.
As shoulders we have a funny Ric assistant Dufilho and Enrico Beruschi in the role of a communist janitor.
The story tells about Claudia that after graduating wants to go to live
in London for a while. His father, Colonel Oreste Raselli consent and
without her daughter thinks to asks a transfer in the South of Italy.
This move, however, would separate Luisa wife of Oreste and stepmother
of Claudia from her lover, Dr. Filippo Cinti. So she convinces her
husband not to leave her daughter.
Angry and very bored Claudia tries to seduce the Doctor. When she
discovers the relationship between the stepmother and the man, she sets
up a diabolical plan. Blackmail, erotic games and humiliation in
public, ending with the revelation of the affaire just when Philip and
Claudia are to marry.
Revenge, terrible, exaggerated to demonstrate just how wrong the stepmother was.
Roberto Pregadio at the music as always performs his duty, even too
much for a film that is not perfectly successful and is the last with
Gloria Guida and Silvio Amadio together.
Technical Data Sheet
Original Title: The medical student ...
Alternate Titles: Los Caprichos de Gloria (Spain), and O Médico Estudante (Portugal), Liebe ohne Studenplan (Germany)
Director: Silvio Amadio
Year: 1976
Country: Italy
Cast: Gloria Guida, Jacques Dufilho, Pino Colizzi, Nieves Navarro, Ric,
Augusto Bonardi, Nicoletta Amadio, Antonietta Caputo, Gloria Poletti,
Enrico Beruschi
Duration: 88 '
Production Company: Domitian International Film Festival
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Technical Data Sheet
Original Title: The medical student ...
Alternate Titles: Los Caprichos de Gloria (Spain), and O Médico Estudante (Portugal), Liebe ohne Studenplan (Germany)
Director: Silvio Amadio
Year: 1976
Country: Italy
Cast: Gloria Guida, Jacques Dufilho, Pino Colizzi, Nieves Navarro, Ric,
Augusto Bonardi, Nicoletta Amadio, Antonietta Caputo, Gloria Poletti,
Enrico Beruschi
Duration: 88 '
Production Company: Domitian International Film Festival