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A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof (...e per tetto un cielo di stelle)

A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof (...e per tetto un cielo di stelle)

Movie · 1968 · 15 people

A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof (Italian: ...e per tetto un cielo di stelle) is an Italian-language spaghetti western comedy from 1968. Giulio Petroni directed it, and it was only his second western; the script is credited to Mariano Laurenti and Bernardino Zapponi. The job was first meant for Franco Giraldi, but Giraldi turned to A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die and the film passed to Petroni. Critics generally singled out its opening sequence, with several calling it among the best openings in the whole genre.

Giuliano Gemma, Mario Adorf and Magda Konopka head the cast, with Federico Boido and Anthony Dawson also among the leads. Benito Stefanelli, Alberto Dell'Acqua, Mimmo Poli and Riccardo Pizzuti are other familiar names in the cast.

Ennio Morricone composed the score and Gianni Hecht Lucari produced; the running time is 100 minutes. Scenes from it were later reused as the film-within-the-film in Giuliano Montaldo's 1978 television thriller Closed Circuit.

DirectorGiulio Petroni

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Benito Stefanelli Actor · died at 71 Alberto Dell'Acqua Alberto Dell'Acqua Actor · born 1938 Giuliano Gemma Mario Adorf Magda Konopka Federico Boido Anthony Dawson Franco Balducci Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia John Bartha Luciano Bonanni Riccardo Pizzuti Mimmo Poli Julie Ménard Cris Huerta

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

It's a spaghetti western, but with comedy mixed in, so don't expect a straight gunslinger thriller. Most critics rank the opening among the genre's very best, so the film stakes its claim right away. Giuliano Gemma and Mario Adorf, heading the cast, keep the energy up. The catch: constantly switching between comedy and tension makes the pace sag in places.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Giulio Petroni's second western leans on the genre's ironic side. The opening, which most critics call one of the best in all of spaghetti western cinema, is its strongest card; but such an ambitious start also makes the comedy-heavy structure that follows look somewhat scattered. Mariano Laurenti and Bernardino Zapponi's script stumbles at times in its shifts of tone. On the other hand, Morricone's score and a cast led by Gemma and Adorf keep it above the genre average. That scenes from it were reused as the film-within-the-film in Giuliano Montaldo's 1978 TV thriller Closed Circuit is an interesting sign of confidence in its visual language.

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