Be Seeing You, Father (Italian: Arrivederci, papà!) is a 1948 Italian period comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque and starring Gino Bechi, Mariella Lotti and Silvana Pampanini. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti. The film was a breakthrough for Pampanini, who outshone the more established female star Lotti and rapidly gained appeal at the box office.
Synopsis
The film takes place in the nineteenth century. Two as yet unborn children are allowed to select their future parents. They choose the daughter of a general and a young opera singer, but attempts to bring them together are far from simple.
Cast
Gino Bechi as Stevano Mai
Mariella Lotti as Daniela Beauville
Silvana Pampanini as Chornette
Nino Besozzi as Tetriaca
Nico Pepe as Il principe
Guglielmo Barnabò as Generale Beauville
Marcella Rovena as Zia Gertrude
Galeazzo Benti as Il 'contino'
Nerio Bernardi as Bernardine - il critico
Amina Pirani Maggi as Nanna - la governante
Augusto Di Giovanni as Il maggiordomo
Guido Tomasini as Phanton
Anna Maestri as La cameriera negra
References
Bibliography
Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991. Gundle, Stephen. Fame Amid the Ruins: Italian Film Stardom in the Age of Neorealism. Berghahn Books, 2019.