From June 15 to 27, 2026, the splendid setting of the Alberto Sordi House Museum on Via Claudio Marcello will open its doors to host the event “The Great Cinema of Alberto.” Curated by Luca Verdone and explored through the theme of “love, passion, disillusionment…,” the festival will offer the public the chance to relive some of the unforgettable Roman actor’s most iconic masterpieces on the big screen. Screenings will take place every evening at 9:00 PM outdoors in the villa’s picturesque park (with the event moving indoors to the Villa Sordi Theater in case of rain).
The program
The festival offers a thrilling journey through the decades and the myriad roles played by Sordi.
- June 15: My Son Nero by Steno (1956, 82 min). A humorous parody of ancient Rome in which Sordi plays a timid and childish Emperor Nero, dominated by his despotic mother Agrippina and perpetually at odds with the wise Seneca.
- June 16: Il seduttore by Franco Rossi ( 1954, 85 min); Alberto, a modest married Roman office worker, convinces himself that he is an irresistible “Latin lover.” His clumsy attempts to juggle his wife and two lovers simultaneously lead to tragicomic results.
- June 17: Le coppie by Alberto Sordi (1970, 111 min); An anthology film that explores, with the unmistakable cynicism and irony of the era, the dynamics, paradoxes, secrets, and small yet significant hypocrisies of marriage and married life in Italy.
- June 18: Souvenir d’Italie by A. Pietrangeli (1957, 100 min), three young foreign women hitchhike across the Italian peninsula. Along the way, they experience various romantic adventures, even encountering a petulant and comical professor played by Sordi.
- June 19: Amore mio aiutami by Alberto Sordi ( 1969, 117 min); Giovanni, a husband who boasts to friends and relatives of being a modern and open-minded man, enters a deep crisis when his wife (Monica Vitti) candidly confesses to him that she has fallen in love with another man.
- June 20: *Venice, the Moon, and You* by Dino Risi ( 1958, 107 min), the misadventures of Bepi, a charming Venetian gondolier engaged to the beautiful Nina, who simply cannot keep his Don Juan instincts in check around the alluring foreign tourists.
- June 21: Brevi amori a Palma di Majorca by Giorgio Bianchi (1959, 103 min), a classic beach comedy in which an Italian bon vivant, on vacation in the Balearic Islands, juggles fleeting affairs, beautiful women, and a series of inevitable vacation misunderstandings.
- June 23: Io e Caterina by Alberto Sordi (1980, 105 min); Enrico, a deeply sexist businessman, decides to solve his problems with women by purchasing a sophisticated robot maid (Caterina). The android, however, will develop an obsessive and dangerous jealousy toward him.
- June 24: Una botta di vita by Enrico Oldoini (1988, 92 min), two elderly men, tired of daily monotony and family reproaches, decide to escape in an old car toward the French Riviera in search of, precisely, one last sensational “botta di vita.”
- June 25: Fumo di Londra by Alberto Sordi ( 1966, 106 min); Dante Fontana, a Roman antique dealer obsessed with the myth of British culture, finally travels to London. His desperate attempts to integrate into English high society and the Mod youth subculture will prove to be bittersweet.
- June 26: The Devil by G. Polidoro (1963, 104 min); Amedeo, an Italian businessman in Sweden on a business trip, is convinced he has found a paradise of sexual freedom. He will soon come face to face with his own moral inhibitions and a culture profoundly different from his own.
- June 27: *Polvere di stelle* by Alberto Sordi ( 1973, 152 min); the daring adventures of Mimmo and Dea, a mediocre pair of vaudeville actors who, in the midst of World War II, experience a fleeting illusion of grandeur while performing for Allied troops in Southern Italy.
Useful Information
Admission to the festival is free, but reservations are required. Reservations are considered valid only if confirmed via email by writing to: comunicazione@fondazionemuseoalbertosordi.org.
The event is sponsored by the Rome Department of Culture and the Coordination of initiatives related to Holocaust Remembrance Day.
