Maddalena, Zero for Conduct

For decades, girls at the secretarial school have been writing a fictitious businessman in Vienna in their business correspondence course. One day, the letters are mailed, and it turns out that there is a real man by a very similar name at the address, so it gets delivered to Vittorio De Sica. Among the letters is one written in despair by Vera Bergman, the class' teacher. DeSica is so intrigued that he flies to Rome to discover the letter's author. Through. The usual mix-up in such romantic comedies, student Carla Del Poggio is thought to be the writer. She is suspended, but determines to bring together De Sica and Signorina Bergman. The usual complications ensue.

De Sica's. Second movie as director is a charming little affair, with schoolgirl pranks, discussions of buffalo. Hunting. Between people who know nothing on the subject, and Arturo Bragaglia. As the physical education teacher who is defintely not up to the job physically. Signorina Del Poggio makes a cute Italian Deanna Durbin, and De Sica exudes effortless charm.