''Ivo the Genius'' ( it, Ivo il tardivo) is a 1995 Italian comedy drama film co-written, directed and starred by

Alessandro Benvenuti Alessandro Benvenuti (born 31 January 1950) is an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter. He was co-founder, together with Francesco Nuti and Athina Cenci, of the comedy ensemble "GianCattivi" with whom he achieved his first successes o ...

Plot

Ivo, a troubled forty-year old man, keen on solving puzzles has just recovered from a

mental illness A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Such features may be persistent, relapsing and remitti ...

. He goes back to his hometown where he meets Sara, who wants to help him at all costs. He falls in

love Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest Interpersonal relationship, interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of ...

with her and in order to keep seeing her he agrees to go and live with four people with mental problems with whom he sets up a kind of misfits community.

Cast

as Ivo *

Francesca Neri Francesca Neri (born 10 February 1964) is an Italian actress. Biography Neri was born in Trento, Italy. She has twice received the Silver Ribbon Award for Best Actress from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, for ''Pensavo foss ...

as Sara * Davide Bechini as Fabio * Francesco Casale as Andrea * Vito as Silvano * Antonino Iuorio as Antonio * Sandro Lombardi as Aldo * Luca Fagioli as Carlino * Sonia Grassi as Delfina * Daniele Trambusti as Lele * Maria Pelikan as Bruna *Lucia Ragni as Aunt Augusta * Guido Cerniglia as Sara's father

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* 1995 films 1995 comedy-drama films Italian comedy-drama films Films about intellectual disability Films directed by Alessandro Benvenuti 1990s Italian-language films 1990s Italian films {{1990s-comedy-drama-film-stub

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