The Thursday

• Walter Chiari: Dino
• Roberto Ciccolini: Robertino
• Michèle Mercier: Elsa

The feature film Thursday ( Il giovedi ) by Dino Risi is a Commedia all'italiana from the year 1963. Risk demonstrates how make the claims in the consumer society and female employment, the traditional masculinity into question.

Action

Dino is labor and also as agent for encyclopedias and unsuccessful lives at the expense of his partner Elsa. He has an eight -year-old son, to see his mother, from whom he lives separately, has not allowed for five years. Now he may spend the whole Thursday with him.

In order to make the best possible impression on the small Robertino, he rents with borrowed money from Elsa an imposing street cruiser. So they go to different places in Rome. Dino tells the boy adventurous stories of his alleged captivity and are otherwise much of what the wily boy sees through soon. On the beach they meet Elsa, who could not find a permanent job for Dino. But Dino refuses because he still clings to the dream of earning a large business a lot of money to pursue instead of a boring office job. Furious, she tells him that she no longer wants to see him. With further linger with the boy Dino noted that his son in the make spheres in which to move his mother, suffocated and given him something of life. He can eat with your hands instead of utensils. Eventually Dino has no more money to fuel the petrol -thirsty cars and should be only let him. At the end of the day he confesses Robertino an opposite, that he told many lies and has brought it to anything. Robertino his father has fallen in love and want to see him again. Dino calls to Elsa that he nevertheless accepts the body.