title: Grand Hotel Excelsior
text: # Grand Hotel Excelsior
  
  Grand Hotel Excelsior is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Castellano & Pipolo. The film was a commercial success, being the best grossing film in the season 1982/83 at the Italian box office.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Four funny characters are working in a luxurious Grand Hotel. Mr. Thaddeus is the hotel manager, lover of beautiful music and womanizer; Egisto Costanzi is a waiter who has lost his wife and who is in search of the ideal woman; Segrate is the magician illusionist entertainer evenings at Hotel. He is a vainglorious and bungler man, who never has managed to levitate. Finally in the hotel there is a bungler boxer: Pericles, who organizes the end of the story a great evening concert, where they play all four star protagonists of the film.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Adriano Celentano: Taddeus
  * Enrico Montesano: Egisto Costanzi
  * Carlo Verdone: Pericle Coccia
  * Diego Abatantuono: Nicolino, Il mago di Segrate
  * Eleonora Giorgi: Ilde Vivaldi
  * Aldina Martano: Ginevra
  * Tiberio Murgia: imbianchino
  * Franco Diogene: ingegner Binotti
  * Armando Brancia: Bertolazzi
  * Enzo Andronico: Manager of Bulldozer
  