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Rita the American Girl

Rita the American Girl

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 2, 1965

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

47%

Original Title

Rita, la figlia americana

Production Companies

CMV Produzione Cinematografica

Director

Piero Vivarelli

Description

Professor Serafino Benvenuti is a master of classical music who has the passion of the orchestra director. However, the young audience of the 60 does not appreciate classical composers like Mozart or Beethoven, and so Serafino is likely to have compromised his image as a director. One day Serafino receives the news that his adopted daughter Rita is about to return to Italy from America, where she is studying. Serafino is very happy, because at least he can teach her the real music. However, Rita is deeply grown and changed: she follows the musical patterns of her time: the rock music and blues. Serafino gets very angry, especially when he discovers that his daughter falls in love with a young man, a member of a band called "The Rockets.