Antonio Barozzi, an aspiring actor, goes to Rome to seek both fame and fortune.
Antonio Barozzi is a thirty-year-old from Laveno with the aim of becoming a film actor and who, to make it happen at any cost, decides to move to Rome. Here he begins to take part in some films and meets Cinzia, a beautiful girl, who is also an aspiring actress. Soon there is an end of unscrupulous characters who do not hesitate to deceive the aspiring actors by leaving them broke, in particular of the cynical and greedy lawyer Pedretti who proposes himself as his agent. Between a hopeless trip to Los Angeles in pursuit of a film producer and the business of a shampoo salesman at traffic lights, Antonio persists with his quest for success in film. Unfortunately, his provincial pride leads him to make a dramatic scene during a shoot with Monicelli and Gassman. Relegated to marginal roles, during the umpteenth appearance in a film, as Monica Vitti's stunt double, Antonio has a car accident that will leave him lame forever. Meanwhile Cinzia discovers she is pregnant and, thanks to her lover Sergio, tries to attribute the paternity to Antonio.
Antonio Barozzi is a thirty-year-old from Laveno with the aim of becoming a film actor and who, to make it happen at any cost, decides to move to Rome. Here he begins to take part in some films and meets Cinzia, a beautiful girl, who is also an aspiring actress. Soon there is an end of unscrupulous characters who do not hesitate to deceive the aspiring actors by leaving them broke, in particular of the cynical and greedy lawyer Pedretti who proposes himself as his agent.Between a hopeless trip to Los Angeles in pursuit of a film producer and the business of a shampoo salesman at traffic lights, Antonio persists with his quest for success in film. Unfortunately, his provincial pride leads him to make a dramatic scene during a shoot with Monicelli and Gassman. Relegated to marginal roles, during the umpteenth appearance in a film, as Monica Vitti's stunt double, Antonio has a car accident that will leave him lame forever. Meanwhile Cinzia discovers she is pregnant and, thanks to her lover Sergio, tries to attribute the paternity to Antonio.Having set aside his dreams of glory, Antonio returns to his country, marries Marisa who had patiently awaited him and adopts the twins born of Cinzia who, thanks to her "bed" skills, manages to obtain more important births. While remaining obsessed with cinema, he will accept his father's proposal to follow him into a gray, but safe, banking job.The film was released in Italian cinemas on March 21, 1980.The film was ranked 53rd in the top 100 highest-grossing films of the 1979-1980 Italian film season.
