Mani di velluto

Mani di velluto, internationally released as Velvet Hands, is a 1979 Italian comedy film directed by Castellano amp Pipolo. For this film Adriano Celentano was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Actor. The film also won the David di Donatello for Best Producer.

The day Guido announces the news that he would lose all his money to his wife, his young lover Maggie leaves him as she was only after his money. As he races after Maggie on a defective Vespa to return her handbag she had accidentally left behind, Guido attracts the attention of Tilli, a pickpocket working the local subways who has a passion for horoscopes and Arsene Lupin, and her brother Momo, a bumbling counterfeiter, two members of a family clan of petty criminals. Their grandfather had a short time earlier attempted to break into a jewelry shop window, only to be thwarted by the Quiller glass, and was arrested by the police. When Guido crashes into a fountain, Tilli and Momo, thinking that he is a fellow thief, take him to their home but his involuntary bath has infected Guido with laryngitis, rendering him temporarily mute and thus unable to identify himself.Upon waking, Guido meets Tilli and develops an attraction to the pretty thief. After leaving her home and following a minor misunderstanding with the police who assume that Guido has been kidnapped due to his infection, he returns home and gets himself cured. He visits Tilli again, this time in his most prestigious outfit, but before he can tell her his name, he learns that Tilli and her friends consider him a scumbag because of his invention. Guido eventually confides in his faithful butler, Benny, about his growing affection for Tilli, his issues concerning his true identity and his intention to bail Tillis grandfather out of prison, whereupon the latter suggests that Guido should become a thief himself. Using his intelligence, Guido, who publicly borrows his butlers name to remain anonymous, becomes a highly successful master thief and gradually wins Tillis affection. ........

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