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Released
1986 · FILM

School of Thieves

Directed by
Runtime
96 min
Language
IT
ComedyCrime

Synopsis

Frenetic in its pacing and with miniscule character development, this trite slapstick farce stars three Italian comics - Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, and Massimo Boldi as the idiot-nephews of a wealthy invalid (Enrico Maria Salerno). The uncle's plan is to teach the trio how to successfully steal for a living but the plan does not have a chance against their exaggerated ineptitude.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Sergio MontanariShot by Alessandro D EvaScored by Bruno ZambriniDesigned by Mario Ambrosino

Box Office

1986 · Box office

Grossed $3.6M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$3.6M

Worldwide gross$3.6M

Also known as

  • Klauen will gelernt seinde
  • Escuela de ladroneses

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