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Bruno Beltrame has let it all hang out, for quite a while. All that’s left of his old talent as a writer is just enough to ghost-write “other people’s books”, biographies of football players or television personalities (he is currently writing a book for Tina, a famous Slovakian porno star who has become a producer of porno films). His passion for teaching has given way to an apathetic routine of tutoring equally apathetic students, including fifteen-year old Luca, who is as ignorant as the others, but vivacious and irreverent.
One day the boy’s mother turns up, like a ghost from the past, revealing a secret that turns Bruno’s life upside down: Luca is his son, a son he knew nothing about… And that is not all: the woman is about to leave for a six-month job as a volunteer in Africa, and the boy cannot and certainly does not want to follow her down there. The woman asks Bruno to take the boy in, and take care of him, but without revealing his true identity to him.
This is the beginning of an unlikely coexistence between the lethargic former professor and the restless adolescent, six months during which Luca will have to deal with an adult male figure and Bruno, despite himself, will be forced to take care of this secret son, who moreover seems destined to get himself into big trouble…

Director

Francesco Bruni

Cast

Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Filippo Scicchitano
Barbara Bobulova

Executive producer

Rita Rognoni

Production

I.B.C. MOVIE · RAI CINEMA

Distribution

01 DISTRIBUTION

Foreign sales

RAI TRADE

Year

2010-2011

Release date

18 november 2011

Awards and Festival

  • David di Donatello 2012: Migliore Regista esordiente, David Giovani
  • David di Donatello 2012: Premio David Scuola
  • Annecy Cinema Italien 2011: Compétition fictions
  • Busan International Film Festival 2011: World Cinema
  • Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt 2011: Concorso – Prix du Public
  • Incontri del Cinema Italiano di Tolosa 2011: En compétition – Prix de la Critique
  • La Biennale di Venezia 2011: Controcampo italiano – Premio Controcampo
  • Festival del Cinema Italiano di Madrid 2011: Largometrajes
  • Cinema Italian Style 2011: Panorama