Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra (1978) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1978 · 107 mins · Italian

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Directed by

Giorgio Capitani

Starring

Vittorio Congia, Ugo Bologna, Erika Blanc, Paolo Villaggio, Massimo Boldi, Cochi Ponzoni

Three absurd Italian vignettes. In the first, odd‑job worker Elia is hired as a waiter and unwittingly becomes entangled in a scheme to eliminate his mistress—in more ways than one. The second follows Della, convinced that aliens will devour Earth, who ends up as a guinea‑pig passenger on a Phobos‑origin spacecraft. The third sees Roberto enlist as a Bersaglieri, only to nearly spark a war between Italy and Switzerland over a single packet of cigarettes.