Primo premio: Mariarosa


Primo premio: Mariarosa, also known as Primo premio: Maria Rosa, is a 1952 Italian comedy film directed by Sergio Grieco and starring Carlo Croccolo.

Plot

The film is one of a series of light comedies directed by Grieco at a period in his career when he could not make serious films. Mariarosa, a cow, is the prize in an annual raffle held by a village in Abruzzo. One year the winner is a visitor who works in a government ministry in Rome, Virgilio, and he decides to keep the cow. Eventually he is persuaded to honour custom and return her to be raffled off again the following year; in the process he finds love.

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