Grand Hotel Excelsior is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Castellano & Pipolo. The film was a commercial success, being the best grossing film in the season 1982/83 at the Italian box office.
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Plot
Four funny characters are working in a luxurious Grand Hotel. Mr. Thaddeus is the hotel manager, lover of beautiful music and womanizer; Egisto Costanzi is a waiter who has lost his wife and who is in search of the ideal woman; Segrate is the magician illusionist entertainer during evenings at the Hotel. He is a vainglorious and a bungler, who has never managed to levitate. Finally in the hotel there is a bungler boxer: Pericles, who organizes the end of the story a great evening concert, where they play all four star protagonists of the film.
Cast
Adriano Celentano: Taddeus
Enrico Montesano: Egisto Costanzi
Carlo Verdone: Pericle Coccia
Diego Abatantuono: Nicolino, Il mago di Segrate
Eleonora Giorgi: Ilde Vivaldi
Aldina Martano: Ginevra
Tiberio Murgia: imbianchino
Franco Diogene: ingegner Binotti
Armando Brancia: Bertolazzi
Enzo Andronico: Manager of Bulldozer