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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose is a film of genre Comedy directed by Nanni Loy with Nino Manfredi
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose (1982)
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Add to a movie listHeads I Win, Tails You Lose (Italian: Testa o Croce, also known as Heads or Tails) is a 1982 Italian comedy film written and directed by Nanni Loy.
The film consists in two back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the episode of Renato Pozzetto and the homosexuality in the one with Nino Manfredi.
^ Eleanor Mannikka. "Testa O Croce (1982)". New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
^ Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gremese Editore, 1991.
Actors
Nino Manfredi
(Beduino)
Renato Pozzetto
(Padre Remigio)
Mara Venier
(Teresa)
Ida Di Benedetto
(Stefania)
Leo Gullotta
(Walter)
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