Overview
Director Maurizio Nichetti is invited on TV to introduce a screening of his neo-realist classic 'The Icicle Thief'. He is horrified to discover that his black-and-white tale of life in poverty is constantly interrupted by garish color commercials, and even more horrified when a power cut in the studio causes film and commercials to mix up – a glamorous model finds herself in the arms of an unemployed pauper, while his wife finds herself in consumers' heaven. Nichetti has to break into the film to try to sort everything out.
Cast
- Maurizio Nichetti as Self / Antonio Piermattei
- Caterina Sylos Labini as Maria Piermattei
- Federico Rizzo as Bruno Piermattei
- Renato Scarpa as Don Italo
- Heidi Komarek as Modella
- Carlina Torta as Telespettatrice
- Massimo Sacilotto as Telespettatore
- Claudio G. Fava as Critico
- Lella Costa as Segretaria TV
- Marco Zannoni as Tecnico TV