''La rivincita di Natale'', internationally released as ''Christmas Rematch'', is a 2004

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comedy-

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directed by

Pupi Avati Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati (born 3 November 1938), is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known to horror film fans for his two '' giallo'' masterpieces, '' The House with Laughing Windows'' (1976) and '' ...

. It is the sequel of the 1986 film '' Christmas Present''.

Plot

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, Franco, Lele, Stefano and Ugo, once old friends once, reunite for the

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holidays. Franco, who was defeated 18 years before, is now a great industrialist and film producer, and he is going to have the rematch of a poker game played many years ago. Initially, Franco loses many euros, but after a while, he starts winning. At the end of the game his friends leave defeated, and Franco realizes he is left alone because of a game because now he has lost the esteem of his dear comrades.

Cast

Diego Abatantuono Diego Abatantuono (born 20 May 1955) is an Italian cinema and theatre actor, comedian and screenwriter, three-time winner of the Nastro d'Argento. Biography and career Abatantuono was born in Milan to a father of Apulian origin and a mother f ...

: Franco Mattioli * Gianni Cavina: Ugo Cavara *

Alessandro Haber Alessandro Haber (born 19 January 1947) is an Italian actor, film director and singer. Haber was born in Bologna in a Jewish family of mixed ancestry (his father was a Romanian Jew and his mother Italian) and spent his childhood in Israel. His m ...

: Gabriele Bagnoli *

Carlo Delle Piane Carlo Delle Piane (2 February 1936 – 23 August 2019) was an Italian film actor. From 1948 until his death, he appeared in more than 100 films.George Eastman George Eastman (July 12, 1854March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Kodak, Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. After a decade of experiments in photography, he ...

: Stefano Bertoni * Petra Khruz: Elisa Delai * Osvaldo Ruggieri: Renato Delai * Eliana Miglio: Mariarosa Boscovich

References

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* 2004 films 2004 comedy-drama films Italian comedy-drama films Films directed by Pupi Avati Films scored by Riz Ortolani Films about poker 2000s Italian-language films Italian sequel films 2000s Italian films Medusa Film films {{2000s-comedy-drama-film-stub