''Ivo the Genius'' () is a 1995

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co-written, directed and starred by

Alessandro Benvenuti Alessandro Benvenuti (born 31 January 1950) is an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter. He was co-founder, together with Francesco Nuti and Athina Cenci, of the comedy ensemble "GianCattivi" with whom he achieved his first successes on ...

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Ivo, a troubled forty-year old man, keen on solving puzzles has just recovered from a

mental illness A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. A mental disorder is ...

. He goes back to his hometown where he meets Sara, who wants to help him at all costs. He falls in

love Love is a feeling of strong attraction and emotional attachment (psychology), attachment to a person, animal, or thing. It is expressed in many forms, encompassing a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most su ...

with her and in order to keep seeing her he agrees to go and live with four people with mental problems with whom he sets up a kind of misfits community.

Cast

as Ivo *

Francesca Neri Francesca Neri (born 10 February 1964) is a retired Italian actress. Career Neri was born in Trento, Italy. She has received the Silver Ribbon Award three times, for Best Actress for '' Pensavo fosse amore, invece era un calesse'' (1991), dire ...

as Sara * Davide Bechini as Fabio * Francesco Casale as Andrea * Vito as Silvano * Antonino Iuorio as Antonio * Sandro Lombardi as Aldo * Luca Fagioli as Carlino * Sonia Grassi as Delfina * Daniele Trambusti as Lele * Maria Pelikan as Bruna *Lucia Ragni as Aunt Augusta * Guido Cerniglia as Sara's father

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* 1995 films 1995 comedy-drama films Italian comedy-drama films Films about intellectual disability Films directed by Alessandro Benvenuti 1990s Italian-language films 1990s Italian films United International Pictures films Italian-language comedy-drama films {{1990s-comedy-drama-film-stub

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