A Hero of Our Times

Year: 1955

Runtime: 85 mins

Language: Italian

Director: Mario Monicelli

Comedy

Alberto Menichetti shares a modest home with his aunt and the elderly housekeeper Clotilde. He works for a firm whose widowed manager, Mrs. De Ritis—her husband having died in a wild‑boar hunt—takes a fancy to him. Alberto, however, is infatuated with the teenage Marcella and plans to confess his feelings on her birthday. His chronic timidity and selfishness lead him into a series of mishaps.

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