Fantozzi: White Collar Blues
An endlessly humiliated accountant survives a year of workplace indignities, domestic pressures, and spectacularly bad luck.
Overview
A hapless accountant navigates the absurdities of office life, facing one misfortune after another.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Mild
- irreverent
- frantic
- grotesque
- lazy sunday
- classic comedy night
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Fantozzi’s life is presented across a year through sketches, segments, and successive unlucky incidents.
The protagonist is an accountant whose professional life is shaped by humiliating office structures and authority figures.
The plot emphasizes Fantozzi’s provocative, unlucky, and humiliating experiences rather than conventional heroic adventure.
Fantozzi became a recognizable popular Italian figure through Paolo Villaggio’s books and this film adaptation.
Films like Fantozzi: White Collar Blues, and why
The Office
Shares episodic workplace satire, institutional humiliation, and an accident-prone everyman protagonist.
Modern Times
Combines physical comedy, social embarrassment, and a powerless protagonist trapped in rigid professional routines.
The Dinner Game
Uses sharp social satire and escalating comic misfortune to expose class and workplace hierarchies.
Movie Details
- Director
- Luciano Salce
- Release Date
- 1975-03-27
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 (900)
Cast
- Paolo Villaggio
- Anna Mazzamauro
- Gigi Reder
- Giuseppe Anatrelli
- Umberto D'Orsi
- Liù Bosisio
- Dino Emanuelli
- Plinio Fernando
- Paolo Paoloni
- Elena Tricoli
Where to watch in United States
- Rent
- Amazon Video
- Buy
- Amazon Video
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Fantozzi: White Collar Blues about?
- An endlessly humiliated accountant survives a year of workplace indignities, domestic pressures, and spectacularly bad luck.
- What is Fantozzi: White Collar Blues like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Fantozzi: White Collar Blues as brisk, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Fantozzi: White Collar Blues violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Fantozzi: White Collar Blues as mild.
- Which films are like Fantozzi: White Collar Blues?
- Films with a similar feel include The Office, Modern Times, and The Dinner Game.
- How long is Fantozzi: White Collar Blues?
- Fantozzi: White Collar Blues runs 108 minutes.
- Where can I watch Fantozzi: White Collar Blues?
- In United States, Fantozzi: White Collar Blues is available to rent or buy from Amazon Video.
