''The Chair of Happiness'' () is a 2013

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comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...

written and directed by

Carlo Mazzacurati Carlo Mazzacurati (2 March 1956 – 22 January 2014) was an Italian film director and screenwriter born in Padua. He started his cinema career in 1980. His better known films include '' The Bull'' (1994) and '' Holy Tongue'' (2000). He was edu ...

and starring

Valerio Mastandrea Valerio Mastandrea (born 14 February 1972) is an Italian film, stage and television actor. Life and career He was born in Rome. While being a student of philosophy, in the early 1990s Mastandrea enjoyed some success thanks to the semi-regular p ...

and

Isabella Ragonese Isabella Ragonese (born 19 May 1981) is an Italian actress. She studied acting at the Teatès School in Palermo, under director Michele Perriera. During her studies, she wrote, directed and starred in several adaptations of his plays. In 1998 s ...

. It premiered at the 2013

Torino Film Festival The Torino Film Festival (also called the Turin Film Festival, TFF) is an international film festival held annually in Turin, Italy. Held every November, it is the second largest film festival in Italy, following the Venice Film Festival. It was f ...

Plot

Cast

as Dino *

as Bruna *

Giuseppe Battiston Giuseppe Battiston (born 22 July 1968) is an Italian actor. He has appeared in more than 50 films since 1990. Filmography Film Television References External links * 1968 births Living people Italian male actors Pe ...

as Father Weiner *

Antonio Albanese Antonio Albanese (born 10 October 1964 in Olginate, Province of Lecco), is an Italian comedian, actor, director and writer. Biography Born in Lombardy to Sicilian parents, he studied at the Civic Drama School in Milan, then opted to pursue a ...

as Dante Becchin's Sons * Raul Cremona as Casimiro Foggia aka Kasimir the Magician * Cosimo Messeri as Alex Pavelka *

Marco Marzocca Marco Marzocca (born 14 September 1962) is an Italian actor and comedian. Life and career Born in Rome, Marzocca worked as a pharmacist until 1994, when he began working as a sidekick of the comedian Corrado Guzzanti in a series of stage and ...

as The Florist *

Milena Vukotic Milena Vukotic (, ; born 23 April 1935) is an Italian actress of film, stage and television and former ballerina. Biography Vukotic was born in Rome, to a Montenegrin comedy playwright father and an Italian pianist/composer mother. As a ch ...

as Armida Barbisan * Natalino Balasso as Volpato * Mirko Artuso as Bepin Lievore * Roberto Abbiati as Giani * Lucia Mascino as Elisa *

Katia Ricciarelli Katiuscia Maria Stella "Katia" Ricciarelli (; born 16 January 1946) is an Italian soprano and actress. Early life and career Born in Rovigo, Veneto, to a very poor family, Ricciarelli struggled during her younger years. She studied at the Be ...

as Norma Pecche *

Roberto Citran Roberto Citran (born 26 January 1955) is an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Padua, Citran graduated in psychology and founded the university film club CinemaUno. After some sporadic stage works he founded a small theater company, "Punto ...

as The Fishmonger *

Fabrizio Bentivoglio Fabrizio Bentivoglio (born 4 January 1957) is an Italian film and stage actor and screenwriter. Biography Fabrizio Bentivoglio was born in Milan (his father is Venetian). After only one season in the juvenile team of Inter Milan, he left his ...

as The Art Critic *

Silvio Orlando Silvio Orlando (born 30 June 1957) is an Italian actor. Orlando was born and raised in Naples, where he started acting in theatre in 1976. He made his film debut in 1988 with a supporting role in the comedy '' Kamikazen: Last Night in Milan'', ...

as The Art Vendor

Production

The film was shot in

Jesolo Jesolo (; ) is a seaside resort town and ''comune'' of 26,873 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy. With around 5.5 million visitors per year, Jesolo ranks second among beach resorts in the country for number of tourists, and t ...

Padua Padua ( ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua. The city lies on the banks of the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza, and has a population of 20 ...

, the

Euganean Hills The Euganean Hills ( ) are a group of hills of volcanic origin that rise to heights of 300 to 600 m from the Padovan-Venetian plain a few km south of Padua. The ''Colli Euganei'' form the first Regional park established in the Veneto (1989), enc ...

Abano Terme Abano Terme (known as Abano Bagni until 1924) is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Padua, in the Veneto region, Italy, on the eastern slope of the Euganean Hills; it is southwest by rail from Padua. Abano Terme's population is 19,062 (20 ...

and the mountains of

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Release

The film premiered at the 31st edition of the

Turin Film Festival The Torino Film Festival (also called the Turin Film Festival, TFF) is an international film festival held annually in Turin, Italy. Held every November, it is the second largest film festival in Italy, following the Venice Film Festival. It was f ...

. It was released in theaters on April 24, 2014.

Awards and nominations

The film won the

Silver Ribbon The (plural: ''Nastri d'Argento''; English: Silver Ribbon) is an Italian film award, held since 1946 by the ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani'' (Italian National Union of Film Journalists). Awards are given annually in ...

of the Year 2014. It also received eight

David di Donatello The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's ''David (Donatello, bronze), David'', a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the ''Accademia del Cinema Italiano'' (the Academy of Italian Cin ...

nominations, including awards for Best Director, Best Supporting Actress (

), Best Supporting Actor (

) and Best Film.

References

External links

* Italian comedy films 2013 comedy films 2013 films Films scored by Mark Orton 2010s Italian-language films 2010s Italian films {{2010s-Italy-comedy-film-stub