''Nightwatchman'' ( it, Metronotte) is a 2000 Italian
thriller-
drama film
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directed by
Francesco Calogero.
Plot
Paolo Torregiani is a
night watchman who has been working in
Lucca
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Lucca is known as one ...
for twenty years in a security agency. After a violent argument with his colleague Alcide, he tries to make peace but he finds him in a puddle of blood, hit by a bullet in the abdomen, inside a shoe factory where he was guarding. It is a place that Paolo knows well because Oscar, the owner, lives in the same complex with his
Russian
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wife Nadia. Since Daria left him, Paolo began to invade Nadia and spend part of the night next to her windows. That night, by chance, Paul can talk to her, as she accompanies her to search for the husband who is not aware of the incident. Nadia is upset: she tells Paolo a confused story, tells of a brother, Dimitri, to whom she would hide her new life in Italy including the wedding with Oscar. Dimitri spent a few years in jail and now seems to be coming to Italy, perhaps upset to have been kept unaware. Nadia does not dare to reveal this story to Oscar and fears that Dimitri may be involved in the events of that night; then she asks Paolo to protect her and keep Dimitri under control in case she meets him. From that moment on, Paolo starts to split between the episode about his colleague and this 'assignment' that allows him to stay close to the woman he wants. The events lead him to discover that Dimitri is not the brother but Nadia's lover. Gettin in the house of Russo, a colleague, Paul realizes that he has a standard of living above normal, and then the truth emerges: Russo, Oscar and another nightwatchman were in collusion, Alcide blackmailed Russo who killed him.
Cast
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Diego Abatantuono
Diego Abatantuono (born 20 May 1955) is an Italian cinema and theatre actor, and screenwriter, three-time winner of the Nastro d'Argento.
Biography and career
Abatantuono was born in Milan to a father of Apulian origin and a mother from Como. T ...
: Paolo Torregiani
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Marco Messeri
Marco Messeri (born 15 December 1948) is an Italian actor, comedian, stage director, singer-songwriter and voice actor.
Life and career
Born in Livorno, Messeri studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and acting at the drama s ...
: Pasquale Riani
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Anna Safroncik: Nadia Lecetti
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Andrei Klimenko: Dimitri
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Flavio Insinna
Flavio Insinna (born 3 July 1965) is an Italian actor and television presenter. He is the current host of ''L'eredità ''. He is also known for having hosted '' Affari Tuoi'', the Italian version of ''Deal or No Deal'' between 2006 and 2008 and t ...
: Salvatore Russo
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Nini Salerno: Pietro Della Santa
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Antonella Ponziani: Daria
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Ugo Conti
Ugo Conti (born 30 March 1955) is an Italian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1982.
Selected filmography
References
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1955 births
Living people
Italian male film actors
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: Oscar Lecetti
References
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2000 films
Italian thriller films
2000 thriller films
2000s Italian films
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