Hi Nì
1979: what will become is programmed in cinemas all over Italy one of the greatest and most unexpected successes of Renato Zero's career: Ciao Nì, an absolutely unique, original and unconventional film.
Directed by Paolo Poeti, in the first weeks of programming it defeated the very favorite Supermen at the box office.
Plot
During his tour, Renato Zero receives a letter from a certain «Ciao nì!», Who wants to see him dead. Between one exhibition and the next, Renato, together with the psychoanalyst «Super ego», brings back his past to find out who the killer is. He will see his parents, whom he accuses of not having addressed him to a defined sexual identity, the nun, who pierced him with a crucifix as a knife for his narcissism, and finally the sergeant Paolo Rovesi, to whom Renato introduced himself during the visit lever in garters and silk panties. But none of these are the killer, as the parents are only interested in Renato's money and popularity, the nun is repentant and has now become a fan of his, and the sergeant, Renato discovers, wears women's clothing under the camouflage suit. . Halfway through his concert, Renato gives an interview to a journalist, who pricks him with questions and even calls a platoon of scientists to examine him. Among these, one observes him with great interest, so much so that during an exhibition he will never take his eyes off him, but even this has nothing to do with it, in fact the scientist wanted to examine Renato who, according to him, is the perfect combination of the two sexes in one. Renato also fears that the killer is hiding inside his entourage: the manager "Dollar", "Super ego", the mute hopping postman "Mignolo" and the maternal housekeeper "Zucchero". On the threshold of the last performance, in front of the mirror, Renato will discover that "Hello nì!" other is just his normality, which wants to punish him for having become a pervert, but Renato breaks the mirror with a brick and, throwing the letter behind him, makes the last performance, with the people of his past looking at him amused.
Hi Nì
Country of Production: Italy
Year: 1979
Duration: 92 min.
Gender: musical, thriller, grotesque
Direction: Paolo Poets
Subject: Renato Zero
Film script: Giorgio Basile
Production House: Cineriz
Photography: Sergio Salvati
Assembly: Ornella Micheli
Music: Mario Scotti
Piero Pintucci
Alessandro Centofanti
Scenography: Umberto Bertacca
Costumes: Umberto Bertacca
Interpreters and characters
Renato Zero: Himself
Renzo Rinaldi: Super me
Carlo Monni: Dollar
Nerina Montagnani: Sugar
Guerrino Crivello: Little finger
Franco Garofalo: Black scientist
Elio Bertolotti: Renato's father
Rita of Lernia: Renatoù's mother
Victoria Zinny: Sister Chained
Marco Girondino: Renato as a child
Paolo Roversi: Sergeant
Ulysses From Prato: Gattamelata
Mauro Vestri: Journalist
Soundtrack
Here are the songs featured in the film:
The bandwagon
My story
I equal me
Sex or them
Stop
Who are you
Triangle
Hide me
Let's fight
Tin dreams
Man, no
Barter
Your idea