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written by Vincenzo Marega and directed by Maria Erica Pacileo and Fernando Maraghini and starring Andrea Chimenti,

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and

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. In the film, several protagonists of the Italian music scene of the 1980s appear as actors and clients. The author of the novel, Vincenzo Marega, in addition to participating as an actor, also produced the film by winning the ''

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Prize'' in the beginners category "for the quality of the production of cinematographic fiction" at the Sixteenth Italian Television Festival.

Plot

Luca, a fifty-year-old salesman in a sex shop, is struggling with his own dissatisfaction as a musician. The film describes his adventures and those of his two former comrades during a single day. The

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is the emblem of the many personalities of the protagonists, of their hidden and unspeakable desires, not only necessarily of a sexual nature.

Cast

* Andrea Chimenti as Luca Gobbi * Vincenzo Marega as Giorgio * Uberto Kovacevich as Uberto Stacci * Giulia Mercati as Betta * Michele D’Urso: Il carrozziere * Antonio Barillari as Marshal Antonio Petruzzi * Alessandro Nicoletti as Brigadier * Michela Cembran as Pornostar Lilì Roden * Cindy Cattaruzza as Anna * Johnson Righeira as Maniacal Customer * Garbo as Client *

as Gipsy *

as The Doctor *

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as The Mister * Gian Maria Accusani as The Guy *

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as The Thefter *

as Onirica's Manager * Veit Heinichen as Writer * Luca Riccobon as Trans * Marisa Fumis as Nurse

References

External links

* 2014 comedy films 2014 films Italian comedy films 2010s Italian films {{2010s-comedy-film-stub

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