Secret Fantasy

Story

Synopsis

Niccolò Vivaldi is a cello player and he plays in Arena di Verona Orchestra. But he is not the first and neither the second cello. He is frustrated. Nobody can remember his face, nor his name. Niccolò is married to Costanza, who is really beautiful and he takes some pictures of her naked. Later he shows the pictures to a friend and so he feels better. He starts to write a comic opera called "Il merlo maschio" only to discover later he had written Rossini's "La gazza ladra". To maintain his self-esteem he can only show his wife...

Director

Pasquale Festa Campanile

Writers

Pasquale Festa Campanile, Luciano Bianciardi

Language

Italian

Country

Italy

Release date

22 September 1971

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Lando Buzzanca

  Niccolo Vivaldi

• 

  Laura Antonelli

  Costanza Vivaldi

• 

  Lino Toffolo

  Cavalmoretti

• 

  Ferruccio De Ceresa

  The psychanalyst

• 

  Gianrico Tedeschi

  Orchestra conductor

• 

  Elsa Vazzoler

  Costanza's mother

• 

  Gino Cavalieri

  Costanza's father

• Felicita Fanny

  Whore

• 

  Edda Ferronao

  Costanza's relative

• 

  Corrado Olmi

  Violin teacher

• 

  Aldo Puglisi

  Chemist

• Luciano Bianciardi

  Mazzacurati