Marrakech Express
Marrakech Express is a 1989 Italian film directed by Gabriele Salvatores and starring Diego Abatantuono, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Cristina Marsillach, Giuseppe Cederna, and Gigio Alberti. A classical road movie, it was the first installment of Salvatores trilogia della fuga escape trilogy, followed by On Tour 1990 and the Academy Award winning Mediterraneo 1991. The cast of the three movies is partly the same most notably, Diego Abatantuono has a leading role in all of them.
Marco Bentivoglio is visited at home by a girl named Teresa Marsillach who claims to be the girlfriend of Rudy Massimo Venturiello, an old college friend of Marcos she also claims that Rudy is in jail in Morocco for possession of hashish, and has sent her over to his old friends to collect themillions lire that are needed to bribe a judge and return him to freedom.Marco brings together two more members of the old company, Maurizio Ponchia Abatantuono and Paolino Cederna, and they eventually resolve to bring the money to Rudy in Morocco. Ponchia, who is a used car dealer, provides a Mercedes offroad car for the journey. Along the way, they also go and get Cedro, a fourth friend, who has since chosen to live in isolation somewhere on the Alps inspired by the reading of Kerouacs Desolation Angels. Marco, Ponchia, Paolino, Cedro, and Teresa thus begin their journey through France and Spain and across the Strait of Gibraltar to Marrakech. ........
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