''Couch Potatoes'' ( it, Gli sdraiati) is a 2017 Italian
comedy-drama
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...
film directed by
Francesca Archibugi
Francesca Archibugi (; born 16 May 1960) is an Italian film director and scriptwriter.
Life and career
Born and raised in Rome in an intellectual family (her elder brother is the political and economic theorist Daniele Archibugi), she started t ...
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Cast
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Claudio Bisio
Claudio Bisio (; born 19 March 1957) is an Italian actor, presenter, voice actor, comedian, and writer.
Early life
Bisio was born in Novi Ligure, Piedmont, and raised in Milan, Lombardy. He attended '' scientific lyceum Luigi Cremona'' of Mil ...
as Giorgio Selva
* Gaddo Bacchini as Tito Selva
* Ilaria Brusadelli as Alice Bendidio
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Cochi Ponzoni
Aurelio Ponzoni (born 11 March 1941), known professionally as Cochi Ponzoni, is an Italian actor, screenwriter, singer and comedian.
Life and career
Born Aurelio Ponzoni in Milan, Ponzoni studied at the Italian Liceo classico in Milan, having ...
as Pinin Innocenti
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Antonia Truppo
Antonia Truppo (born 14 February 1977) is an Italian actress. Truppo's television credits include '' Per amore del mio popolo'', '' Inspector De Luca'' and '' Il segreto di Arianna''. Her film credits include ''The Double Hour'', ''Kryptonite!' ...
as Rosalba Bendidio
* Matteo Oscar Giuggioli as Lombo
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Gigio Alberti
Gigio Alberti (born 19 June 1956) is an Italian actor.
Background
Born in Milan as Luigi Alberti, he studied at the acting school of the Piccolo Teatro, graduating in 1981. His career is mainly associated to Gabriele Salvatores, with whom he ...
as Gianni
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Barbara Ronchi as Annalisa
* Federica Fracassi as Carla
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Donatella Finocchiaro
Donatella Finocchiaro (born 16 November 1970) is an Italian actress. She has appeared in more than 20 films since 2002. She starred in ''The Wedding Director'', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. ...
as President Barenghi
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Sandra Ceccarelli
Sandra Ceccarelli (born 3 July 1967) is an Italian film actress.
Daughter of Franco Ceccarelli, guitarist of the 1960s and 1970s Italian rock group Equipe 84, and Sandra von Glasersfeld (daughter of philosopher Ernst von Glasersfeld), Ceccar ...
as Livia Innocenti
* Carla Chiarelli as Elena
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Giancarlo Dettori as the psychoanalyst
References
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2017 films
Films directed by Francesca Archibugi
2010s Italian-language films
2017 comedy-drama films
Italian comedy-drama films
2010s Italian films
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