Bianco, rosso e Verdone

Three men cross Italy to vote in the town where they are registered. Pasquale lives in Munich with his German wife and returns home looking forward to a few days in the country he left, though what he finds differs from what he remembers. Furio, a civil servant, sets out for Rome with his wife Magda and their two small children, and his fussing over every detail turns the trip into an ordeal for her. Mimmo, a quiet young man, accompanies his grandmother from Verona to the capital, worried about her health along the way.

Carlo Verdone directed, wrote the screenplay with Leonardo Benvenuti and Piero De Bernardi, and plays all three travellers, supported by Irina Sanpiter, Elena Fabrizi, Angelo Infanti, Milena Vukotić and Mario Brega. Released in February 1981, it was the second film Verdone directed, arriving a year after Fun Is Beautiful and followed by Talcum Powder, Soap and Water and Compagni di scuola.

The film is a comedy of ordinary journeys, and the ratings reflect lasting goodwill: on IMDb it holds 7.4 from roughly 4,700 votes, while on TMDB it has 7.3 from about 760 votes, close agreement from a much smaller audience.