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Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe

1976 film by Vittorio Sindoni

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Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ3899752
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Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe (Italian for "Desperately yours ... I sign Macaluso Carmelo late Giuseppe") is a 1976 satirical comedy film written and directed by Vittorio Sindoni and starring Stefano Satta Flores and Macha Méril.

Plot

Cast

Stefano Satta Flores as Carmelo Macaluso

Macha Méril as Baroness Valeria Lamia

Leopoldo Trieste as Don Calogero Liotti

Cinzia Monreale as Jessica

Luciano Salce as Baron Alfonso Lamia

Umberto Orsini as Lawyer Vito Orsini

Marisa Laurito as Tindara Liotti

Pino Ferrara as Defense Attorney

Deddi Savagnone as Don Calogero's Wife

Roberto Della Casa as Bank Teller

See also

List of Italian films of 1976

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Perdutamente tuo...

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The public source identifies “Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe” as 1976 film by Vittorio Sindoni. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Perdutamente, firmo and Macaluso.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-02-26. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Perdutamente, firmo and Macaluso providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3899752. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.