Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
| Writing | Vincenzo Cerami | Screenplay |
| Camera | Giuseppe Lanci | Director of Photography |
| Production | Vittorio Cecchi Gori | Producer |
| Writing | Roberto Benigni | Screenplay |
| Production | Mario Cecchi Gori | Producer |
| Directing | Roberto Benigni | Director |
| Editing | Nino Baragli | Editor |
| Sound | Evan Lurie | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Vincenzo Cerami | Story |
| Writing | Roberto Benigni | Story |
| Art | Paolo Biagetti | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gianna Gissi | Costume Design |
| Camera | Franco Bruni | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Gianni Arduini | First Assistant Director |
| Sound | Remo Ugolinelli | Sound |
| Sound | Corrado Volpicelli | Boom Operator |
| Production | Alessandro von Norman | Line Producer |
| Directing | Andrea Marrari | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Michela Giorelli | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Giorgia Onofri | Script Supervisor |
| Production | Franco Ballati | Production Manager |
| Production | Lynn Kamern | Unit Manager |
| Production | Lorenzo Errico | Unit Manager |
| Production | Nicola Mastrorilli | Unit Manager |
| Production | Benedetta Von Normann | Production Secretary |
| Production | Gianluigi Braschi | Production Secretary |
| Camera | Fabrizio Vicari | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Andrea Collepiccolo | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Mario Tursi | Still Photographer |
| Art | Maria Luigia Battani | Assistant Production Design |
| Art | Massimo Tavazzi | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Francesca Sartori | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Fabrizio Sforza | Makeup Department Head |
| Costume & Make-Up | Giusy Bovino | Hair Department Head |
| Costume & Make-Up | Antonio Maltempo | Makeup Artist |
| Lighting | Roberto Belli | Gaffer |
| Camera | Giancarlo Serravalli | Key Grip |
| Editing | Alessandra Rocchi | Assistant Editor |
| Editing | Antonio Baragli | Assistant Editor |
| Editing | Patrizia Ceresani | Assistant Editor |
| Sound | Romano Checcacci | Sound Mixer |
