I Won the New Year's Lottery

I Won the New Year's Lottery

1989 · 92 min · IT · 5.9 (88 votes)
Dir. Neri Parenti · Starring Paolo Villaggio, Antonio Allocca, Camillo Milli, Ugo Bologna, Giancarlo Magalli, Valerio Merola · Music Bruno Zambrini
Comedy

Ciottoli is a journalist with absolutely no prospective for his career, with a lot of debts and a mobster that want him died. Unexpectedly he win the national lottery (almost Eur 2.5 Mln) and try to remain unanimous hiding the winner ticker into his typewriter. Ironically his director order to him to write an article on the mysterious winner. When he is back home he discovers all his furniture has been confiscate and will go on a public auction. He will try desperately to buy back the worthless typewriter while all his previous problems still follows him, especially the mobster...

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A frantic, anxiety-fueled caper where a down-on-his-luck journalist's lottery win spirals into a chaotic chase. Expect relentless misfortune and desperate schemes against a backdrop of 80s Italian absurdity.

chaoticslapstickanxiousdarkly comedicfrenetic80s caperphysical comedyItalian comedyluckdesperationdebtsurvival
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