The Career of a Chambermaid

Telefoni bianchi

Also known as La diva del teléfono blanco, La carrière d'une femme de chambre, De carrière van een kamermeisje

“Italian comedy”

This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.