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2010 Locations and Dates

Auckland
Rialto Cinemas, Newmarket
September 29 - October 17
Bridgeway Cinemas, Northcote Pt
September 30 – October 17
Wellington, Paramount Cinemas
October 13 – October 27
Christchurch, Rialto Cinemas
October 20 – November 3
Dunedin, Rialto Cinemas
October 27 – November 10
Nelson, Suter Theatre
November 3 – 17
Napier, Century Cinema
November 10 – 24
Tauranga, Rialto Cinemas
November 17 – December 1

Italian Film



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Genre: Comedy

Language: Italian with English Subtitles

Director: Ivan Polidoro

Cast: Gianfelice Imparato, Gianni Ferreri, Mimmo Esposito, Lorenza Indovina, Roberto De Francesco

Released: 2006

Duration: 86 Minutes

Rating: M contains violence, sexual references and offensive language

Distribution: Intramovies

 

Monotonous days go by one after the other for the three friends. Peppe, unemployed, who occasionally drives the hearse for the city authorities; Ivo the postman and Rosario the cemetery custodian and dreamer husband of Patrizia, a restless Italian teacher who dreams of a more adventurous life. In their attempt to make ends meet and due to foolish artistic ambitions, they play music in dreary looking clubs. Their music is not well liked, but they keep persisting.

Then suddenly the news: Paolo é Fierro is dead. The local mafia hood, famous for his hold-ups. Or better, actually pretending to be dead to avoid splitting the loot from his latest hit with the local boss. Up to this point nothing seems strange. But on the night of a full moon, in the cemetery, the three friends witness a mysterious and ghastly scene: the Boss, who is a stand offish type and covered in scars, has Paolo é Fierro's tomb excavated by two maniacs and discovers something he was afraid to. From then on the quiet tranquility of the small town will be tarnished and for the three friends their attempt to change their lives drastically turns them into unlikely robbers. Dare I suggest, not everything will go as planned....

A fun comedy in the vein of Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo (‘Three men and a leg’). Slapstick humour set in a small town in the Gulf of Naples.

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