Maddalena, Zero for Conduct (Italian: Maddalena... zero in condotta) is a 1940 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It is a remake of the Hungarian film Magda Expelled (1938).
Plot
A mysterious love letter arrives to Alfredo Hartman (Vittorio De Sica) in Vienna, and he goes to Rome to find who wrote it.
Cast
Vittorio De Sica as Alfredo Hartman
Vera Bergman as L'insegnante Elisa Malgari
Carla Del Poggio as Maddalena Lenci
Irasema Dilián as Eva Barta, la privatista (as Eva Dilian) Amelia Chellini as La direttrice Pina Renzi as La professoressa Varzi Paola Veneroni as L'allieva Varghetti, la spiona Dora Bini as L'allieva Caricati Enza Delbi as Un'allieva Roberto Villa as Stefano Armani Armando Migliari as Malesci, il professore di chimica Guglielmo Barnabò as Il signor Emilio Lenci Giuseppe Varni as Amilcare Bondani, il bidello Arturo Bragaglia as Sila, il professore di ginnastica
References
Bibliography
Cardullo, Bert. Vittorio De Sica: Actor, Director, Auteur. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.