The Roof
Brief Synopsis
Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This comedy follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed couple can have their own home.
Cast & Crew
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Vittorio De Sica
Director
Giorgio Listuzzi
Maria Difiori
Emilia Martini
Gastone Renzelli
Maria Dirollo
Film Details
Also Known As
Il Tetto, Roof, tetto
Genre
Drama
Foreign
Release Date
1959
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 31m
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Synopsis
A newlywed couple, barely making ends meet must share their Roman apartment with a slew of relatives. Once the overcrowding becomes unbearable they embark on a task to construct an expanded apartment on thr roof on the building, knowing that, once completed, they cannot be evicted according to Italian law.
Director
Vittorio De Sica
Director
Cast
Giorgio Listuzzi
Maria Difiori
Emilia Martini
Gastone Renzelli
Maria Dirollo
Giuseppe Martini
Angelo Visentin
Aldo Boi
Maria Sittoro
Gabriella Pallotta
Crew
Alessandro Cicognini
Music
Eraldo Da Roma
Editor
Vittorio De Sica
Producer
Rudolph Deharak
Titles
Emilio Derosa
Sound
Mario Devecchi
Producer
Kurt Doubrowsky
Sound
Franco Ferrara
Music
Marcello Girosi
Associate Producer
Fred Laing
Titles
Robert L. Lawrence
Producer
Gastone Medin
Art Director
Nino Misiano
Production
Carlo Montouri
Director Of Photography
Alfred R Stern
Producer
Cesare Zavattini
Screenplay
Film Details
Also Known As
Il Tetto, Roof, tetto
Genre
Drama
Foreign
Release Date
1959
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 31m
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Voted One of the Year's Five Best Foreign Films by the 1959 National Board of Review.
Voted One of the Year's Ten Best Foreign Films by the 1959 New York Times Film Critics.
Released in United States 1959
Released in United States 1959
