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A Girl in Australia is a italien film of genre Comedy directed by Luigi Zampa released in USA on 6 june 1971 with Alberto Sordi

A Girl in Australia (1971)

Bello, onesto, emigrato Australia sposerebbe compaesana illibata

A Girl in Australia
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Released in USA 6 june 1971
Length 1h47
Directed by
OriginItalie
Genres Comedy,    Romantic comedy
Rating68% 3.4382553.4382553.4382553.4382553.438255

A Girl in Australia (Italian: Bello onesto emigrato Australia sposerebbe compaesana illibata [Handsome honest emigrant in Australia would marry chaste fellow-countrywoman]) is a 1971 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa, with stars Alberto Sordi and Claudia Cardinale.

Synopsis

At the end of World War II, the promise of jobs and a chance to start a new life induced tens of thousands of young Italians to join the post-war immigration to Australia. In 1971, having lived about twenty-five years Down Under, one of those immigrants, middle-aged Amedeo Battipaglia, a lineman in the remote New South Wales settlement bearing the (fictional) name of Bun Bun Ga, several kilometers from the outback city of Broken Hill, is about to meet Carmela, his prospective bride from Rome, with whom he has been corresponding. Each of them misrepresented facts to the other — Carmela, a very attractive woman in her early thirties, is a semiliterate prostitute seeking an opportunity to get away from her abusive pimp, with the letters to Amedeo ghostwritten by her friend Rosalba, while Amedeo, feeling inadequate about his ordinary appearance, sent Carmela a photograph, taken about twenty years earlier, of himself between two Italian immigrant friends, Giuseppe Bartoni and Bampo. The arrow in the photo, however, is over Giuseppe because, when Amedeo visited his tall, handsome friend for advice, Giuseppe erased the arrow over Amedeo's head and pencilled it over his own head.

Actors

Alberto Sordi

(Amedeo)Claudia Cardinale

(Carmela)Corrado Olmi

(Don Anselmo)Riccardo Garrone

(Giuseppe Bartone)Tano Cimarosa

(emigrato italiano da Gela)
And :
Angelo Infanti
Mario Brega
Eugene Walter
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