Il medico della mutua
- 1968
- 1h 38m
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7.1/10
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The eventful ascent of a doctor in the corrupted Italian healthcare system.The eventful ascent of a doctor in the corrupted Italian healthcare system.The eventful ascent of a doctor in the corrupted Italian healthcare system.
- Awards
- 3 wins
Ida Galli
- Anna Maria-Guido's Wife
- (as Evelyn Stewart)
Filippo De Gara
- Doctor
- (as Filippo Degara)
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- TriviaProducer 'Dino de Laurentiis (I)' refused join the production because according to him any Italian would go to a theater to see a movie about doctors and diseases. The movie had the record at the Italian box office in 1968 beating Kubrik's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).
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Story of an ambitious young medical school graduate who through not always ethical means makes a rapid career. Even though its not the best of Alberto Sordi's tragicomical films, this film tells the public about all the inefficiencies and absurdies of the national sanitary system, almost to become a documentary ,but retaining always that 'commedia all'Italiana' satire on Italian society ! The film was so pungent in its critism of the amorality of the Italian medical category, that the Italian Medical Association condemned the film , even though many doctors in private admitted to Alberto Sordi that his film basically depicted well the situation. Now the system of 'mutue' has been abolished in Italy, so the film is only relevant as social criticism for Italy of the early 1970's, but always interesting to watch, and additionally you can have a few laugh's.A 7 vote.
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- Be Sick... It's Free
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- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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By what name was Il medico della mutua (1968) officially released in Canada in English?
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