Alberto Express Movie Review 1992

Black comedy explores the debts children owe their parents--literally. Alberto's family has a peculiar tradition. It seems that now he's married and about to become a father, he's expected to pay back every cent spent on his own upbringing. Cash poor (and panicky) Alberto hops a train from Paris to Rome and frantically tries to raise the necessary cash by preying, in a series of increasingly bizarre ways, on his fellow passengers before he faces his father once again. In French and Italian with English subtitles.

Distribution

Wellspring Media, A Division of Genius Products, Inc., 2230 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90904, Phone: (310)453-1222, Fax: (310)453-0074, URL: http://www.wellspring.com

Available on VHS
Running time 90 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Black Comedy, Trains, Heists: Trains, Paris, Family Comedy

Screenplay

Arthur Joffe

Cast

Sergio Castellitto, Nino Manfredi, Marie Trintignant, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Aumont, Dominique Pinon, Marco Messeri, Eugenia Marruzzo

Director

Arthur Joffe

Producer

Maurice Bernart, MK2