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Antonio, let's smile
Why only children? Why not also promote the adoption of old-timers?
That is the premise behind my idea for the film "Antonio, Let's Smile" (Fate un Bel Sorriso). A modern fairytale of sorts, openly paradoxical, that seeks to explore - and compare - various realities.
After refusing to move in with his daughter, old Antonio, a retired magistrate, ends up in a strange Institute where, after an intense preparatory course, the guests find themselves adopted by willing families. Antonio's “infernal” journey begins here... He undergoes a body and soul “re-education” that inevitably leads him to situations beyond his wildest imagination...
The result will not be a new man, but surely a different one. And perhaps all the wiser.
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Antonio, let's smile
Fate un bel sorriso
2000
Goodtime Enterprise, Mact Productions, Marieto Enterprise
Gold Film
Rai Trade
Anna Di Francisca and Alberto Taraglio
Bernardino Zapponi, Anna Di Francisca, Alberto Simone
Giuseppe Schifani
Beatrice Scarpato
Liliana Sotira
Bernard Bats, Marco Fiumara
Simona Paggi
Charles Papasoff
Anna Di Francisca
Giustino Durano, Claudia Pandolfi, Carla Signoris, Fabrizio Gifuni, Cinzia Mascoli