rests near a river, Saverio speaks to Astriaha and confides that Mario is truly a man from Alonso. The woman, disdain, runs away. Mario gets angry, the two fight, beat each other, chase each other until they reach a beach. Together they call the name of Columbus at the top of the lift, but they discover that the three caravels have already started. Disconsolate, Saverio reveals to Mario the real reason why he wanted to stop the navigator : "Fred, my sister's boyfriend was American, he was of the NATO of Pisa. If i, for five minutes i could stop Colombo, that imbecile would not be born and my sister would've been fine." The two versions joint in the scene of the beach race. Production Filming Benigni and Troisi in an interview said that the famous scene in which the customs pass was shot over and over again because the two were unable to remain serious. The two comedians, halfway through the film, had shot so much superfluous material that they were forced to erase some episodes, such as the one that should have been wearing the common friend Marco Messeri the role of Savonarola. The scene in which Benigni and Troisi write the letter to Girolamo Savonarola is a tribute to the scene of the film Totò, Peppino and the ... Malafemmina, in which the protagonists write a letter bewitched for his nephew's girlfriend. During registration in the Umbrian countryside a joke was made to Carlo Monni (Vitellozzo in the film). Benigni and Troisi made him pronounce scurrilous things about Amanda Sandrelli's mother, Stefania, an actress then in vogue. Amanda, who had listened to the two, went to Carlo Monni's camper and gave him a slap. Places Some scenes from the film were shot at the Bracciano hospital and at the Capranica Scalo station, where the famous level crossing is located. The famous "Della Dogana" scene was shot in Paliano, inside the La Selva Nature Reserve. So also the final scene with the locomotive of group 400 of the Calabro Lucane Mediterranean railways, which today lies on a tronchino by rusting. The scene of the meeting with Leonardo da Vinci has turned on the banks of the Pellicone pond, near Vulci, in the Lazio Maremma, inside the Etruscan archaeological area of the same name. Some scenes of three men and one leg with Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo were shot