The ultimate Italian road comedy, Il Sorpasso stars the unlikely pair of Vittorio Gassman (Big Deal on Madonna Street) and Jean-Louis Trintignant (Z) as, respectively, a waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and the bookish law student he takes on a madcap trip from Rome to rural Southern Italy. An unpredictable journey that careers from slapstick to tragedy, this film, directed by Dino Risi (the original Scent of a Woman), is a wildly entertaining commentary on the pleasures and consequences of the good life. A holy grail of commedia allitaliana, Il sorpasso is so fresh and exciting that one can easily see why it has long been adored in Italy.

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Director	Dino Risi
Actor	Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudio Gora
Label	CRITERION

Genre	Comedy
Content	Blu-ray + DVD
FSK / age rating	from age 16
Publication date	29.04.2014
Edition	Criterion Collection
Audio	Italian
Subtitles	English
Year of production	1962
Version	US Version
Region code	A

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