Nerone (1930 film)

Nerone 1930 is an Italian comedy film, directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It stars Ettore Petrolini as the main actor. It has been described as a Roman farce, a genre which was popular in Italy at the time. It is a parody of imperial Rome and of the notorious Roman emperor, Nero.

The film features some unforgettable characters more precisely in Italian macchiette created by Ettore Petrolini Gastone, Fortunello and Nero. Nero, who rides a bicycle, which burns Rome with a match, that calls the fire department by phone from the imperial palace. There is also Petrolini in his dressing room surrounded by admirers, including a young girl who returns to the theater the next day, between the two was born a flirt, but the actor will not leave the theater to go out with her.It is the first of three sound films interpreted by Ettore Petrolini who, flanked by some members of his theater company, performs here in some of the characters that had made him famous Pulcinella, Gastone, Fortunello, Nero. ........

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