Media1964

Tinto Brass's flying-saucer satire 'Il disco volante'

When: 1964
Sources: 2 public sources

Tinto Brass, director of Il disco volante Gorupdebesanez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Tinto Brass directed Il disco volante, an Italian comedy in which a Carabinieri sergeant investigates reports of a saucer landing in a Veneto village. Alberto Sordi plays four roles, and the film uses the scare to satirize provincial society.

Sources

OtherIl disco volante (film record, censorship approval 22-12-1964) (opens in a new tab)Archivio del Cinema Italiano (ANICA)
OtherIl disco volante (scheda) (opens in a new tab)Fantafilm

How sources are chosen and tiered

Where it fits

Earlier in MediaNikolai Kardashev proposes ranking civilizations by energy use1964 Later in MediaNICAP publishes 'The UFO Evidence'Jul 1964

See it on the timeline More in Media