Angelo Infanti: the audition with Francis Ford Coppola, how he met Carlo Verdone, 7 secrets

«Well, more than beautiful… my life has been an odyssey. Always here, there, around the world. One fine day I went to Genoa, because I had opted for the sea, and there I embarked on a freighter flying the Liberian flag». This is perhaps Angelo Infanti’s most famous line, pronounced – in the role of Manuel Fantoni – in «Borotalco», broadcast this evening on Cine 34 at 21.00. Perhaps not everyone knows that the character was originally designed for Vittorio Gassman (Infanti himself told it in 2009 in an interview with Stracult). While waiting to see this cult film by Carlo Verdone from 1982, let’s discover some curiosities about the unforgettable actor from Zagarolo.