Azzurro (2000) Online
75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of...
Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Paolo Villaggio | - | Giuseppe De Metrio | |
Francesca Pipoli | - | Carla De Metrio | |
Marie-Christine Barrault | - | Elizabeth Broyer | |
Jean-Luc Bideau | - | Gaston Broyer | |
Renato Scarpa | - | Giorgio | |
Julien Boisselier | - | Pascal Broyer | |
Antonio Petrocelli | - | Roberto De Metrio | |
Soraya Sala | - | Lucia De Metrio (as Soraya Gomaa) | |
Tom Novembre | - | Philippe | |
Graziano Giusti | - | Professor Papaleo | |
Anna Ferruzzo | - | Female Nurse | |
Domenico Carli | - | Priest | |
Maria Palumbo | - | Weeping Lady | |
Emmanuela Iannacci | - | Weeping Lady | |
Antonio Miggiano | - | Vittorio Stefanelli |
Denis Rabaglia's father was actually a building worker and did invent a special type of bitumen, just like the hero of the film.
About 540 girls were auditioned in Apuglia and Roma before casting Francesca Pipoli who was 7 at the time of principal photography.
Gala Screening in presence of Prince Albert de Monaco, during the 41st Television Festival of Monte-Carlo on 21 February 2001.
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