The Big Fox

The Big Fox

115 mins | Comedy | Feb. 27, 1988

Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?

The Big Fox

115 mins | Comedy | Feb. 27, 1988

The Big Fox
Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica, RAI, Maura International Films
Original title Il volpone
Directors Fabrizia Iacona, Maurizio Ponzi, Ferzan Özpetek
Writers Ben Jonson, Maurizio Ponzi, Piero De Bernardi, Ottavio Jemma, Leonardo Benvenuti

Cast

Enrico Montesano

as Bartolomeo Mosca

Paolo Villaggio

as Ugo Maria Volpone

Enrico Maria Salerno

as Ciro Corvino

Renzo Montagnani

as Raffaele Voltore

Athina Cenci

as Marta Corbaccio

Alessandro Haber

as Ernesto Corbaccio

Mariangela Giordano

as Eliana Voltore

Eleonora Giorgi

as Francesca Corvino

Maurizio Donadoni

as Aldo Marignano

Sabrina Ferilli

as Rosalba Marignano

Vittorio Amandola

as Serse Tessari

Aldo Ralli

as il sacerdote

Giancarlo Palermo

as Notaio Coletti