Orchidea De Santis
Also Known As: Orchidea De Sanctis, Orquidea de Santis
Biography: Orchidea De Santis, pseudonym of Orchidea De Sanctis (Bari, December 20, 1948), is an Italian actress. Of Salento origins but born in Bari due to her father's work as an officer in the Navy, she moved with her family, who ran a hotel in the capital of Puglia, first to Gallipoli and then to Rome, following her sister who was sixteen years older. At the beginning she was also a singer and, later, a theater actress. She has ranged from cinema to radio, from theater to music, until arriving on television. From 2006 to 2013 she managed a blog. She collaborates with various animal rights and environmental associations. Active especially in the Seventies, she was an interpreter of the Italian sexy comedy, initially mainly in costume and with a Boccaccian setting. Her presence in Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno is curious, a film in which, for script needs, she was made up to appear ugly. In 1979, her film career came to an abrupt end following a serious injury on the set of Carlo Vanzina's film Arrivano i gatti when, due to an accidental fall into a trap door, she broke her elbow (which was later completely surgically reconstructed), risking permanent damage to her entire arm.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bari, Puglia, Italia
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Birthday: December 20, 1948
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Female
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Seven Murders for Scotland Yard
Overview: Several murders have taken place in London. All the victims are prostitutes and the murderer is using the same techniques as Jack the Ripper. Peter Dockerman, an ex-acrobat and husband of one of the victims is the prime suspect. But whoever the killer is has cannibalistic tendencies and if Scotland Yard doesn't solve the murders quickly the evidence just might be eaten!
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-07-10
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To Love Ophelia
Overview: Although he is in his thirties, Orlando still feels like a child. He is terrified of the outside world and is stuck in an obsessive relationship with his mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-25
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Prey of Vultures
Overview: Thanks to his ability, Danny can draw each of the bandits who robbed the stage coach in which he was traveling with his father, who was killed. When he arrives to the next town he looks for a job helped by the sheriffs` daughter. In the bulletin board there are some posters of people and they offer a dollar reward for providing information about them. After many obstacles, each of the components of the band gradually disappears. Danny believes that only fits the sheriff, but he is in love with his daughter.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-04-22
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Two Sons of Ringo
Overview: Another spoof from the Franco and Ciccio team in which the boys, who are running a scam pretending to be bounty hunters, are 'persuaded' to help a real bounty hunter discover a treasure by claiming to be the heirs of a deceased lawman.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-07
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L'ingenua
Overview: A young man somewhat embarrassed and distressed by a rather aggressive girlfriend, a vaudeville actress, and a newly married couple with an odd contract: all become involved, whether they intended to or not, in a scam involving a villa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-02
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To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
Overview: Count Fernando, called Didino, a shy and sexually repressed man, lives under the oedipal authority of countess Mafalda, his bloodsucking and over-controlling mother, until their family hires a new young maid that changes his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-22
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Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
Overview: Film in four episodes, inspired by the chronicle of the time: three mature sisters give themselves to a stranger, Maria tries to escape her husband, two Bolognese spouses quarrel and do not realize that the civil war has broken out, a Neapolitan fan scandalizes a first class compartment ..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-05-23
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Three Under the Sheets
Overview: Film in three episodes, entitled Sabato mattina, L'omaggio and No, non è per gelosia, which see as protagonists Andrea, Giorgio and Mr. Sgarbozzi, married men who cheat on their respective wives for escapades and one-night stands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-06-09
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The Sweet Aunts
Overview: An anarchist grandfather has custody of his nephew Free, but three aunts, two of which still handsome, they get the help of a priest and the police. So take possession of the child and cover it with lust
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-12-02
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Under the Sheets
Overview: Three medical students who are reluctant to hit the books and unwilling to work are much more enthusiastic about creating pranks and targeting a thriving confidential, female doctor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-05-20
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San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-02
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Quelli belli... siamo noi
Overview: Amateur songwriter falls in love with a Sicilian girl, but her father has already promised her to another.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-05-02
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How I Learned to Love Women
Overview: An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-10-02
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Love Angels
Overview: They're Italy's notorious "Ladies of the evening" catering to the strange cravings of their kinky, high-paying clients. But suddenly, the girls of the street find themselves being stalked by someone with desires even they can't satisfy. After a series of shocking crimes, the clues lead police to a pornographic film maker and his stable of lovely models and starlets. But can the authorities track down the "Hooker Maniac" before he strikes again?
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-07
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Your Sweet Body to Kill
Overview: Tells the story of a husband who wants to kill his unfaithful wife. He has many murderous fantasies in which he murders her. After the disposal of her beautiful dead body our hero loses an incriminating suitcase. It's time to get the crime evidence back.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-06-27
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Rene the Cane
Overview: "René la Canne" was the second collaboration between Francis Girod and Ennio Morricone, coming after "Le Trio Infernal" (1974) and before "La Banquière" (1980). His film is an adaptation of a story by Roger Borniche about the gangster René Girier and relates the fantastic adventures of a flamboyant mobster (René/Gérard Depardieu) and a maverick police inspector (Fernand la Sournoise/Michel Piccoli), through the 1940s.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-02-16
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Ridendo e scherzando
Overview: Four comic episodes based on betrayal. The main characters are a famous professionist that receives a girl as his anniversary present, a wife tired of her boring marriage, a look-alike of a dangerous wanted person and a very jealous husband. Fantastic Italian actors as Walter Chiari and Luciano Salce act in this beautiful movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-09-13
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Love, Passion and Pleasure
Overview: Cecco Angiolieri has joined, as storytellers and acrobats, the traveling company of Camillo. The stupidity of this man is so great that Cecco, inventing contagious childhood diseases, replacing it with his wife Dinda until the woman becomes pregnant. Meanwhile, the company has come in a city ruled by poetastro ser Gianni: Cecco, using his poetic vocation, getting license show for his teammates and conquers the woman, Tessa. Another victim of his jokes is fierce mother Lucrezia, new superior of the local monastery: Cecco, after forcing her to strip naked in the brothel of Filippa, precedes the convent pretending to it. Later, he clarified the misunderstanding, it becomes the lover and requires it to give shelter to Dinda, until Camillo is not ready to accept happily the unborn child as his.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-14
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Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
Overview: In Lazio, four young people named Riccetto, Girasole, Lallo and Tombarolo try to make a living by stealing what they find in the tombs of the rich buried. Being inexperienced, they often find themselves in trouble or pursued by the police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-04-28
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Hector the Mighty
Overview: A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal comes up with a plan to force Hector into selling him the land by kidnapping Helen, triggering a small gang war.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-06
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The Labyrinth of Sex
Overview: Take a trip into The Labyrinth of Sex with an insatiable nymphomaniac, a lovely lesbian and fetishists of every stripe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-03-19
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Una bella governante di colore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Hot Nights of the Decameron
Overview: Italian nunsploitation movie from 1972
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-04
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The Family Vice
Overview: When Giacomo D'Amato is released from jail he is immediately employed by Magda, in a plot to secure her the heritage of the count. But there are other players in this game too, and Giacomo has his own agenda.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-07
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Hurry, the Schoolgirls Are Coming!
Overview: Students from a private girls' school spend a few days at a seaside hotel owned by one of their parents, where hijinks predictably ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-06-06
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Close Friends
Overview: Fifteen-year-old Sabrina has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfolds it gradually becomes clear that Sabrina is a victim of incest.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-05-16
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The Sexbury Tales
Overview: Series of tales. The framing story: a group of women are doing their laundry and begin to tell lusty tales.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-05-29
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La nipote
Overview: The summer vacation of a young beautiful girl, at her uncle's country villa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-06-14
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Decameroticus
Overview: Five episodes :1) A husband has taken the place of the confessor to find out about his wife's betrayals and while he spends the night at the door of the house, the woman can freely receive her lover. 2) Judge Volfardo, to take revenge for the constant pranks of Lambertuccio, head of the guards, invites Leonetto, a young man whom women yearn for, to take advantage of his wife. But everything is resolved to their own damage 3) While Domitilla's husband sends the boy into his bed to be able to sleep with his lover. 4) Don Casimiro has Don Ciccillo treat his wife who will use a very intimate therapy. 5) Messer Ciccio and Messer Gerbino exchange confidences on how not to be betrayed by their wives, so that...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Snow White
Overview: Adventure and comedy film by Piero Regnoli.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
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Tales of Erotica
Overview: Four women of Gubbio – Angelica, Violetta, Lisa and Bettina – are conducted before the court by their lovers and husbands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-16
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The Forbidden Decameron
Overview: The Decameron forbidden is a 1972 Italian comedy, directed by Carlo Infascelli. The film, which counts among the starring actors such as Orchidea De Santis, Gabriella Giorgelli, nut Crostarosa and Carlo De Carvalho, is inspired by Boccaccio's fourteenth-century novels. In particular, it is the film adaptation of that novel starring frà Pepin, a young native of Florence, which was discovered and arrested for his relationship with Mona Fawaz, a married woman. Thanks to the help of his friends painters, manages to escape..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-22
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Psychopath
Overview: The hero steals the haul from the thieves, gives it back to the police but charges 10% for his services.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-04-15
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The Sensual Man
Overview: The Catanese baron Paolo Castorini leaves the closed Sicilian environment and moves to Rome where he enters into erotic relationships with women of all classes. He, however, feels dissatisfied with a life of only the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. But is it too late for him?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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L'appuntamento
Overview: Adelmo Bartelesi has a colleague desired by all, this Adelaide Picchioni. And Adelmo unable to get an appointment with her. But get home Adelaide begins to present some difficulties: a transition to an old woman who leads him astray, intense traffic, the fortuitous meeting with his wife and family and then an attack of colitis and the meeting with his head, the car that is taken away by police, the meeting with another colleague ... will Adelmo reaching the desired appointment?
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-20
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These Mad, Mad Women
Overview: Four episodes preceded with a narrator in the role of psychiatrist who tells some cases of female madness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-05-22
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La sensualità è un attimo di vita
Overview: The two brothers Marcella and Mario live with other young people in a neighboring country from that of their parents. The arrival of a stranger ignites the contrast with the adult world in them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-18
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Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
Overview: Misadventures of a sacristan with three eager tourists, a commendatore with a sheikh, a worker who is passionate about hunting with a wife too good and an appearance mistaken for a priest with a patrician family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-25
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Arrivano i gatti
Overview: Four young comedians from Verona ('I Gatti di Vicolo Miracoli') go to Rome trying to achieve big success on cinema or TV.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-13
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Togli le gambe dal parabrezza
Overview: "Remove your legs from the windshield" - Alberto, an engineer over forty years old, on his return from an inspection, a nineteen-year-old Parisian student called Sylvie is looking for a ride. Even though the girl reminds him of her daughter Francesca's age, Alberto decides to accompany her to Rome, with the secret hope of being able to derive an adventure from her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-03
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Charlys Nichten
Overview: Two young men want to get into an all-girls photo studio to see the scads of beautiful young nude women inside, so they decide to pose as women themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-05-10
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Una macchia rosa
Overview: A photographer comes back to Italy after a trip to India and struggles to adjust to his new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-04-17
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Le mille e una notte all'italiana
Overview: Two young friends - one poet, the other a sculptor - have fun conquering the wives of others.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-10
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Invasion
Overview: A professor and his wife suffer humiliation at the hands of an invading college dissidents protest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-23
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Coup D'Etat
Overview: Italy, 1972. Political elections are taking place and Christian Democrat victory is expected; but the electronic computer of the Ministry of the Interior reveals that the party with the highest number is the Italian Communist Party.
Genres: Comedy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-03-15
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3 Avengers
Overview: Ursus and his sword-wielding companions run head-on against a usurper of a throne.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-11-26
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Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods
Overview: An old professor rents a mysterious old villa, and finds a tape recorded by a previous occupant, detailing her debauched lifestyle and the events leading to her murder.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-04
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Devil in the Brain
Overview: Oscar is trying to re-establish an affair with Sandra, a disturbed young woman. Having found her husband Fabrizio shot dead and her young son Ricky standing beside him with a gun, Sandra suffered a complete breakdown and now lives in isolation with her protective mother. The latter saved the young boy from recrimination by placing the gun in his father's hand, making it seem like he committed suicide. However, things are not what they seem...
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-04-13
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The Weekend Murders
Overview: An aristocratic English family gather for the reading of their father's will. The family are dismayed to find that everything has been left to Barbara, the deceased's favourite daughter. The butler is soon found stabbed to death and Sergeant Thorpe, the local bobby, telephones Scotland Yard for assistance. Inspector Grey arrives and he and Barbara narrowly escape being shot. Cousin Ted and his wife Pauline are both killed. Sergeant Thorpe recalls some photos which Ted asked to have developed...
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-10-15
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The Killer Wore Gloves
Overview: At Heathrow Airport, a man is razored to death in a toilet cubicle. A young woman, Peggy Foster, is concerned about the disappearance of Michael, her photographer boyfriend, who has been in Vietnam for months. In order to pay the rent, she reluctantly sub-lets her garret flat to a man called John Kirk Lawford. The new tenant wears sunglasses indoors and acts suspiciously. Peggy is lured to an abandoned airfield by a call from Michael but is shot at by a sniper. Back at her apartment block she is shocked to find that a man has apparently committed suicide by jumping from her balcony. While the police question Peggy, a stranger turns up and announces himself as John Kirk Lawford! Shirley, secretary to Peggy's lascivious publisher, is killed by a black-gloved intruder and the mystery deepens...
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-08-05
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Il nero
Overview: The events in Naples of a few ‘figli della Madonna’ (Madonna’s sons), young people born between 1945 and 1946 from the relationship between the local women and Afro-American soldiers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Battle of the Mods
Overview: In Liverpool there's a gang war between the Mods (who dress in the latest fashions and styles) and the Rockers (who are more into the '50s "greaser" look). Ricky, the son of a wealthy businessman, is a Mod guitar player, and in a gang fight with some Rockers, his girlfriend is killed. He leaves Liverpool for the continent and winds up in Rome, where he becomes involved with his father's mistress.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-05
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Lady Dynamite
Overview: Donna Costanza is married to a New Jersey mafia boss. During their 10 year wedding anniversary party he is shot and killed. His dying words to her are "Giarratana from Palermo". Costanza takes a trip to Palermo in order to avenge the death of her husband. Her target is Don Giarratana, a dangerous and influential Italian politician.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-23
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Provaci anche tu Lionel
Overview: Anna Tredicesimo, wife of Luigi Tredicesimo of Santa Ninfa (Trapani), introduces herself to the private investigator Lionel Lionelli and instructs him to recover some red briefs, purchased by her jealous husband in Paris, and lost by her during a loving meeting with the heartthrob fetishist Gianni Agazzi. Lionel, recommended by his friend ten. Sheridan, begins the research and chases the panties from Agazzi to Lola Lola Bis, a stripper, and from this to Iolanda, Ennio's girlfriend, member of Hell's Angels. Lionelli, a bungler by nature, finds the path difficult and also dangerous because, as he will learn very late, a microfilm with a secret chemical formula is hidden in the briefs and, consequently, his steps are constantly followed by men of the boss Goran , master of Titan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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Scusi, si potrebbe evitare il servizio militare?... No!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-15
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Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-03-21
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