Poppy (1952 film)

90 minutesCountryItalyLanguageItalian

Poppy (Italian: Lo sai che i papaveri) is a 1952 Italian comedy film by Vittorio Metz and Marcello Marchesi and starring Walter Chiari, Anna Maria Ferrero and Carlo Campanini.^[1] It was sot at the Ponti-De Laurentis Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alberto Boccianti.

Unknowingly, respectable schoolteacher Gualtiero leads a double life as Walter who frequents nightclubs every night. Whereas Gualtiero is engaged to a fellow teacher Anna, Walter is a carousing womaniser. Pierina, one of his students who has a crush on him, discovers about his nocturnal visits and seeks him out. They enjoy a romance, but by day he remembers nothing about it. Eventually when confronted, he visits a psychiatrist who reveals he has a duel personality with strong contrasting traits inherited from each of his parents.

• Walter Chiari as Gualtiero/Walter
• Anna Maria Ferrero as Pierina Zacchi
• Carlo Campanini as Padre di Pierina
• Luisa Rossi as Anna Butti
• Franca Rame as Silvana
• Raimondo Vianello as lo psicoanalista
• Lauro Gazzolo as il preside
• Juan Carlos Lamas as Lamas
• Galeazzo Benti as Viveur del night
• Dorian Gray as La guardarobiera
• Marcella Rovena as Governanta casa Zacchi
• Belle Tildy as Jeanette D'Aubry
• Maria Pia Trepaoli as Cartomante
• Guglielmo Barnabò as Medico
• Ennio Girolami as Marocchi
• Bruno Smith as Direttore del night 'I tarocchi'
• Guglielmo Inglese as il bidello Elia
• Mario De Simone as Compoagna del scuola
• Franco Pastorino as Rinaldo
• Mimmo Poli as 'Sfilatino'
• Furio Meniconi as Spacciatore di droga

• Brunetta, Gian Piero. The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century. Princeton University Press, 2009.

• Poppy at IMDb