Massimo Troisi
Mario Ruoppolo
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Il Postino: The Postman. Il Postino: The Postman ( Italian: Il postino, lit. ''The Postman''; the title used for the original US release [5]) is a 1994 comedy-drama film co-written by and starring Massimo Troisi and directed by English filmmaker Michael Radford. Based on the 1985 novel Ardiente paciencia (English translation: "Burning Patience ...
Mar 22, 1996 · A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry from a famous exiled poet and uses it to woo a local beauty. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, plot summary, and more for this biographical film.
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- Biography, Comedy, Drama
- Michael Radford, Massimo Troisi
- 1996-03-22
Jun 23, 1995 · A comedy-drama about a simple postman who befriends the exiled poet Pablo Neruda on a remote Italian island. Read Roger Ebert's analysis of the film's themes, performances and style, and his final verdict.
The Postman. Il Postino movingly explores themes of love and friendship through sensitively depicted -- and beautifully acted -- relationships in 1950s Italy. Mario Ruoppolo, the mailman on an ...
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- Michael Radford
- PG
- Massimo Troisi
A comedy-drama film about a simple Italian postman who befriends the exiled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and learns to love poetry and life. The film follows his romance with Beatrice, his political involvement, and his tragic fate.
Jun 14, 1995 · Naturally, this story is too good to be true. "The Postman" is based on a novel, "Burning Patience," by Antonio Skarmeta, in which the postman was a teen-age boy. Anyway, the postman is a fiction ...
