| The Transporter | |
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| Directed by | Giorgio Simonelli |
| Written by | Pietro Garinei Sandro Giovannini Dino Maiuri Mario Amendola Ruggero Maccari Vittorio Metz |
| Produced by | Antonio Altoviti Raffaele Colamonici Umberto Montesi |
| Starring | Peppino De Filippo Silvana Pampanini Lída Baarová Aroldo Tieri |
| Cinematography | Sergio Pesce |
| Edited by | Giuseppe Vari |
| Music by | Gino Filippini |
Production company | C.M. Produzione Film |
| Distributed by | Regionale |
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| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
The Transporter (Italian:La bisarca) is a 1950 Italiancomedy science fiction film directed byGiorgio Simonelli and starringPeppino De Filippo,Silvana Pampanini,Lída Baarová andAroldo Tieri.[1] It is based on a radio program with the same name.[2][3]
It was shot at theFarnesina Studios inRome. The film's sets were designed by theart directorAlberto Boccianti. It earned 182 and a half millionlira at the Italian box office.[4]
Abarber is engaged to amanicurist working in the shop, but he grows jealous and picks a quarrel with one of the customers. Struck on the head he crashes into a radio playing a serial programme. Knocked unconscious he begins to have bizarre dreams about adeluge and acar transporter which functions as aNoah's Ark.
The film was based on the homonymous radio broadcast by Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini, broadcast for two seasons from 1949 to 1951. A theatrical magazine was also taken from the radio broadcast, staged for the first time at the Sistina Theater in Rome. The film was shot in the Titanus studios at the Farnesina.
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