''Christmas in Love'' is a 2004
cinepanettone
The cinepanettoni (singular: cinepanettone) are a series of farcical comedy films, one or two of which are scheduled for release annually in Italy during the Christmas period. The films were originally produced by Aurelio De Laurentiis' Filmauro ...
film starring
Christian De Sica
Christian De Sica (; born 5 January 1951) is an Italian actor and film director.
Life
De Sica was born in Rome the second son of Italian director Vittorio De Sica and Spanish actress María Mercader. His first cousin once removed was Ramón ...
,
Danny DeVito
Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He gained prominence for his portrayal of the taxi dispatcher Louie De Palma in the television series ''Taxi'' (1978–1983), which won him a Gold ...
,
Massimo Boldi
Massimo Antonio Boldi (born 23 July 1945) is an Italian stand-up comedian and actor.
Biography
Boldi was born in Luino on 23 July 1945. In 1955 his family moved to Milan, where he joined evening classes and began working as a window-dresser an ...
,
Cristiana Capotondi
Cristiana Capotondi (born 13 September 1980) is an Italian actress.
Early life and career
Capotondi was born in Rome to an Italian family of mixed Italian Catholic and Italian Jewish background (her maternal grandfather was Jewish). Growing ...
and
Ronn Moss
Ronald Montague Moss (born March 4, 1952) is an American actor, musician and singer/songwriter, a member of the band Player, and best known for portraying Ridge Forrester, the dynamic fashion magnate on the CBS soap opera ''The Bold and the B ...
. The film was directed by
Neri Parenti
Neri Parenti (born 26 April 1950, in Florence) is an Italian film director and writer. He is known for comedy films, including the series starring Paolo Villaggio playing the character Ugo Fantozzi, and a later series of '' cinepanettoni'' - za ...
.
The film was nominated for a
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song is a Golden Globe Award that was awarded for the first time in 1962 and has been awarded annually since 1965 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The award is presented to the songwriters of a ...
at the
63rd Golden Globe Awards.
Plot
Fabrizio Barbetti (
Christian De Sica
Christian De Sica (; born 5 January 1951) is an Italian actor and film director.
Life
De Sica was born in Rome the second son of Italian director Vittorio De Sica and Spanish actress María Mercader. His first cousin once removed was Ramón ...
) and Lisa Pinzoni (
Sabrina Ferilli
Sabrina Ferilli (born 28 June 1964) is an Italian theater and film actress. Listed among the best Italian actress, she has won five Nastro d'Argento (including a special award in 2016 for civil engagement for her performance in ''Me, Myself and ...
) are two remarried doctors who, since divorce, have been simply unable to get along with each other. They hate one another to such an extent that they argue and fight in public, even on television, but their lives as a divorced couple are going to change as they establish, with their respective new partners, to spend their Christmas holidays in Gstaad, Switzerland. Here, after a difficult start, the two end up falling again for each other and begin planning to make their partners do so as well, so that they can end their current relationships and start a new life together. However, they ignore that Angela (Fabrizio's new wife) and Gabriele (Lisa's current husband) have been cheating on them for a year and are already in a relationship. In fact, the vacation was planned by them in order to make Fabrizio and Lisa want to get back together.
Actors
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Christian De Sica
Christian De Sica (; born 5 January 1951) is an Italian actor and film director.
Life
De Sica was born in Rome the second son of Italian director Vittorio De Sica and Spanish actress María Mercader. His first cousin once removed was Ramón ...
: Fabrizio Barbetti
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Danny DeVito
Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He gained prominence for his portrayal of the taxi dispatcher Louie De Palma in the television series ''Taxi'' (1978–1983), which won him a Gold ...
: Brad La Guardia
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Massimo Boldi
Massimo Antonio Boldi (born 23 July 1945) is an Italian stand-up comedian and actor.
Biography
Boldi was born in Luino on 23 July 1945. In 1955 his family moved to Milan, where he joined evening classes and began working as a window-dresser an ...
: Guido Baldi
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Sabrina Ferilli
Sabrina Ferilli (born 28 June 1964) is an Italian theater and film actress. Listed among the best Italian actress, she has won five Nastro d'Argento (including a special award in 2016 for civil engagement for her performance in ''Me, Myself and ...
: Lisa Pinzoni
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Ronn Moss
Ronald Montague Moss (born March 4, 1952) is an American actor, musician and singer/songwriter, a member of the band Player, and best known for portraying Ridge Forrester, the dynamic fashion magnate on the CBS soap opera ''The Bold and the B ...
: Himself
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Anna Maria Barbera: Concetta La Rosa
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Cristiana Capotondi
Cristiana Capotondi (born 13 September 1980) is an Italian actress.
Early life and career
Capotondi was born in Rome to an Italian family of mixed Italian Catholic and Italian Jewish background (her maternal grandfather was Jewish). Growing ...
: Monica Baldi
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Tosca D'Aquino
Tosca D'Aquino (born 10 June 1966) is an Italian actress, comedian and television presenter.
Life and career
Born in Naples, Tosca D'Aquino started her career at 15 years old, appearing in several local television shows. At nineteen years old ...
: Angela Barbetti
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Cesare Bocci: Gabriele Perla
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Alena Seredova
Alena is a feminine given name from the origins Russia and Czechia.
People
Alena is a variant of Helen. People with this name include:
* Saint Alena (died 640), born in Dilbeek, Belgium, and martyred c. 640
* Alena Douhan, Belarusian diplo ...
: Sofia
See also
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List of Italian films of 2004
A list of films produced in Italy in 2004 (see 2004 in film):
See also
* 2004 in Italian television
External linksItalian films of 2004at the Internet Movie Database
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References
External links
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2000s Italian-language films
English-language Italian films
2000s English-language films
Italian Christmas comedy films
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Films scored by Bruno Zambrini
2004 multilingual films
Italian multilingual films