It isn't just a stereotype that Italians gesticulate, they really do. In today's
New York Times journalist Rachel Donadio, who specializes in Italian topics, has
an article about gestures, with a small illustrated lexicon of the most common ones.
In the video, Vittorio Gassman expresses his righteous indignation, verbally and manually, at the behavior of Roman drivers (from Dino Risi's
I mostri).