{{Short description|1953 Italian comedy-drama film by Renato Rascel}} {{Infobox film | name =The Walk | image = La_passeggiata_poster.jpg | caption = | director = Renato Rascel | screenplay = Turi Vasile<br /> Diego Fabbri<br />Ugo Guerra<br /> Giorgio Prosperi<br /> Franco Rossi<br />Cesare Zavattini<br />Enzo Curreli<br />Renato Rascel | story = | starring = Renato Rascel <br /> Valentina Cortese | music = Giovanni Militello | cinematography = Vaclav Vich | editing = | producer = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1953}} | country = Italy | language = Italian }} '''''The Walk''''' ({{langx|it|La passeggiata}}) is a 1953 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Renato Rascel and starring Rascel, Valentina Cortese and Paolo Stoppa. It is very loosely based on Nikolai Gogol's short story ''Nevsky Prospekt''.<ref>Pietro Cavallo. ''Viva l’Italia. Storia, cinema ed identità nazionale (1932-1962)''. Liguori Edit., 2009. {{ISBN|9788820749149}}.</ref> It grossed 148 million lire at the Italian box office.<ref name="45-59">{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|date=1991 |publisher=Gremese, 1991|isbn=8876055487}}</ref>
== Plot == left|285px|thumb|Renato Rascel crouching behind Valentina Cortese in a still from the film. A timid schoolteacher attempts to fall in love with a prostitute. In the process he loses his position. He finds that she is hard to convince.
== Cast == * Renato Rascel as Paolo Barbato * Valentina Cortese as Lisa * Paolo Stoppa as Headmaster of the College * Peppino De Martino as Luigi Magri * Francesco Mulé as Teacher * Anna Maria Bottini as Lisa's Friend * Lia Angeleri as Teacher * Tino Bianchi as Teacher * Ignazio Leone as Teacher * Enzo Maggio * Lina Marengo
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0046168}}
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