In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years before. To spite her rival, the innkeeper arranges to have her nephew set up a second pharmacy to take business away him. Unbeknownst to them a romance is developing between the younger generation of the families.
Cast
Titina De Filippo
donna Elvira
Umberto Spadaro
don Filippo
Antonella Lualdi
Lia
Armando Francioli
Sandro
Paolo Stoppa
don Cosimo
Marisa Merlini
donna Filomena
Carlo Sposito
Tonino
Carlo Romano
don Saverio
Pietro Carloni
Cavaliere Anselmi
Gianni Cavalieri
don Michele
Mario Mazza
Andrea
Silvio Bagolini
Geometra
Giuliana Pinelli
Clotilde
Nietta Zocchi
Nunzia
Norma Nova
Mariannina
Nino Milano
Rinaldo
Violetta Gragnani
Checchina
Renato Lupi
Il segretario comunale
Mario Frera
Unknown
Rita Livesi
Unknown
Crew
Leonardo De Mitri
Director, Screenplay, Story
Vittorio Carpignano
Co-Director
Jacopo Comin
Screenplay, Production Manager
Mario Monicelli
Screenplay
Cesare Rivelli
Screenplay
Umberto Spadaro
Story
Maria Rosada
Editor
Lionello Massobrio
Editor
Marco Scarpelli
Director of Photography
Luigi Freddi
Producer
Franco Lolli
Production Design
Amerigo Gengarelli
Camera Operator
Libero Politi
Makeup Artist
Kurt Doubrowsky
Sound
Gino Filippini
Original Music Composer
Maurizio Mammì
Set Decoration
Vera Scivicco
Script Supervisor
Orlando Orsini
Unit Manager
M. Saccheri
Production Secretary
Aristodemo Petri
Production Secretary