comedy-drama film
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written and directed by
Pupi Avati
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. It won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2014
Montreal World Film Festival
The Montreal World Film Festival (), commonly abbreviated MWFF in English or FFM in French, was an annual film festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1977 to 2019.Riccardo Scamarcio
Riccardo Dario Scamarcio (; born 13 November 1979) is an Italian actor and film producer.
Early life
Scamarcio was born in Trani, Apulia, the son of Irene Petrafesa, a painter, and Emilio Scamarcio.
He went to train as an actor at the Scuola ...
), a copywriter whose father was a movie screenwriter. After his father's death, he leaves everything he has behind and moves to
Rome
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, where he meets an actress-turned-publisher named Ludovica (
Sharon Stone
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), who wants to release his father's autobiography.
Cast
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Riccardo Scamarcio
Riccardo Dario Scamarcio (; born 13 November 1979) is an Italian actor and film producer.
Early life
Scamarcio was born in Trani, Apulia, the son of Irene Petrafesa, a painter, and Emilio Scamarcio.
He went to train as an actor at the Scuola ...
as Davide Bias
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Sharon Stone
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as Ludovica Stern
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Cristiana Capotondi
Cristiana Capotondi (born 13 September 1980) is an Italian actress.
Early life and career
Capotondi was born in Rome to an Italian family of mixed Italian Catholic and Italian Jewish background (her maternal grandfather was Jewish). Growing ...
as Silvia
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Giovanna Ralli
Giovanna Ralli, (born 2 January 1935), is an Italian stage, film, and television actress.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Ralli debuted as a child actress at 7; at 13, she made her theatrical debut, entering the stage company of Peppino De Fili ...
as Davide's Mother
*Lucia Rossi as Beatrice
*Christian Stelluti as Walter Van Vooren
*Osvaldo Ruggieri as Beppe Masiero
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Tommaso Ragno
Tommaso Ragno (born 1 June 1967) is an Italian stage and film actor.
Biography Early life and education
Tommaso Ragno was born on 1 June 1967 in Vieste, a coastal town in the province of Foggia, as the eldest of two children. His family, ma ...
as Ludovica's Husband
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Sandro Dori
Sandro Dori (born Alberto Schiappadori; 21 December 1938 – 15 February 2021) was an Italian film, television and voice actor.
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1938 births
2021 deaths
Actors from the Province of Mantua
Male actors from ...
as Notaio
*Fabio Ferrari as Agente letterario
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Valeria Marini
Valeria Virginia Laura Marini (born 14 May 1967) is an Italian actress, showgirl and entrepreneur.
Biography
Born in Rome to a Sardinian mother, Gianna Orrù, and a Roman father, Mario, Valeria Marini was raised in Cagliari. Her first cinemato ...