Snack Bar Budapest | |
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Directed by | Tinto Brass |
Screenplay by | Tinto Brass |
Based on | Snack Bar Budapest by Silvia Bre and Marco Lodoli |
Starring |
Giancarlo Giannini François Negret Raffaella Baracchi Philippe Léotard Carlo Monni |
Cinematography | Alessio Gelsini Torresi |
Edited by | Tinto Brass |
Music by | Zucchero |
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Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Snack Bar Budapest is a 1988 Italian neo-noir comedy film written and directed by Tinto Brass and starring Giancarlo Giannini. It is based on the novel with the same title by Marco Lodoli and Silvia Bre. [1]
A disbarred lawyer ( Giancarlo Giannini) is working as a debt collector for his partner Sapo ( Philippe Léotard). Prostitute Milena ( Raffaella Baracchi) impregnated by Sapo at an unnamed sea resort with a grotesque atmosphere (filmed in Lido di Ostia), he encounters the ambitious young ringleader Molecola ( François Negret) who has bought several old recreational sites in the environs to turn the town into an "Italian Las Vegas", but the hotel-bar named "Snack Bar Budapest" run by a man ( Carlo Monni) and his family remains an obstacle. Molecola needs a lawyer to legitimise the forceful eviction of Snack Bar Budapest and the lawyer agrees. However, a murder he commits brings him at odds with Molecola.
Snack Bar Budapest | |
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![]() Italian theatrical release poster | |
Directed by | Tinto Brass |
Screenplay by | Tinto Brass |
Based on | Snack Bar Budapest by Silvia Bre and Marco Lodoli |
Starring |
Giancarlo Giannini François Negret Raffaella Baracchi Philippe Léotard Carlo Monni |
Cinematography | Alessio Gelsini Torresi |
Edited by | Tinto Brass |
Music by | Zucchero |
Release date |
|
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Snack Bar Budapest is a 1988 Italian neo-noir comedy film written and directed by Tinto Brass and starring Giancarlo Giannini. It is based on the novel with the same title by Marco Lodoli and Silvia Bre. [1]
A disbarred lawyer ( Giancarlo Giannini) is working as a debt collector for his partner Sapo ( Philippe Léotard). Prostitute Milena ( Raffaella Baracchi) impregnated by Sapo at an unnamed sea resort with a grotesque atmosphere (filmed in Lido di Ostia), he encounters the ambitious young ringleader Molecola ( François Negret) who has bought several old recreational sites in the environs to turn the town into an "Italian Las Vegas", but the hotel-bar named "Snack Bar Budapest" run by a man ( Carlo Monni) and his family remains an obstacle. Molecola needs a lawyer to legitimise the forceful eviction of Snack Bar Budapest and the lawyer agrees. However, a murder he commits brings him at odds with Molecola.