Totò le mokò: Mazurka

The square of Naples where Antonio Lumaconi (Totò) plays the mazurka at the beginning of the film is not in Naples, but in Piazza della Colonnetta in Isola Farnese, near Rome, on the Cassia street near the ancient Etruscan city of Veio.

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Plot:

The notorious bandleader Pepè le Mokò, who has his headquarters in the Algerian Kasbah, is killed in a gunfight with the police. His succession is offered to one of his close relatives, Totò, a Neapolitan itinerant musician who dreamed precisely of being able to lead a musical band. The offer to lead a band, which he believes to be musical, sends him into raptures. Arriving in Algiers, he wants to conduct a concert in the major hotel, but the band he directs is actually a gang of thugs so the police corner him and force him to flee. During a police raid on the Kasbah, Totò, frightened, pours a miraculous lotion on his head, which makes him bold: he becomes the idol of the Kasbah but to please the beloved maiden he will have to fight to the death. A jealous lover during the night cuts off his hair, thus taking away all his courage.