''Viva l'Italia'' () is a 2012 Italian comedy film written and directed by

Massimiliano Bruno Massimiliano Bruno (born 4 June 1970) is an Italian director, screenwriter, playwright and actor. Life and career Born in Rome into a family of Calabrian origins, Bruno formed as an actor in a drama laboratory "Torre Spaccata". He started hi ...

. Politician, Michele Spagnolo loses the ability to lie because of a stroke in the brain and that has dire consequences.

Cast

Raoul Bova Raoul Bova (born 14 August 1971) is an Italian actor. Bova's European film breakthrough was in the 1993 film ''Piccolo grande amore'', and he's played romantic male leads the following years. His American film credits include ''Under the Tusca ...

as Riccardo Spagnolo *

Ambra Angiolini Ambra Angiolini (born 22 April 1977, in Rome) is an Italian actress and singer. She made her film debut in Ferzan Özpetek's '' Saturn in Opposition'' (2007) for which she won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress as well as the N ...

as Susanna Spagnolo *

Michele Placido Michele Placido (; born 19 May 1946) is an Italian actor, film director, and screenwriter. He began his career on stage, and first gained mainstream attention through a series of roles in films directed by the likes of Mario Monicelli and Marco ...

as Michele Spagnolo *

Alessandro Gassmann Alessandro Gassmann (born 24 February 1965) is an Italian actor and film director. Early life Gassmann was born in Rome, Italy, the son of Italian actor Vittorio Gassman and French actress Juliette Mayniel. He is of German, Jewish and French ...

as Valerio Spagnolo *

Rocco Papaleo Rocco Antonio Papaleo (born 16 August 1958) is an Italian actor, film director and singer. Born in Lauria ( Basilicata), he moved to Rome to study math at university but left soon to attend the theatre school. He made his theatrical debut in 19 ...

as Tony *

Edoardo Leo Edoardo Leo (born 21 April 1972) is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Rome, Leo, a graduate in Literature and Philosophy from the Sapienza University of Rome, started attending acting courses at young age a ...

as Marco *

Maurizio Mattioli Maurizio Mattioli (born 3 June 1950) is an Italian actor and comedian. Life and career Born in Rome, Mattioli started his career in 1973, when he appeared in the RAI variety show ''Dove sta Zazà''. He got his first successes as a member of th ...

as Antonio *

Rolando Ravello Rolando Ravello (born 4 June 1969) is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Rome, at young age Ravello founded a comedy ensemble with Manuela Morabito e Renato Giordano, and in 1988 the trio co-hosted the RAI ch ...

as Giansanti *

Sarah Felberbaum Sarah Felberbaum is an Italian actress. Life and career Born in London to a British mother and an American father of German Jewish descent, Felberbaum moved to Italy with her family when she was a year old. At 15 she started working as a model ...

as Valentina * Isabelle Adriani as paziente ospedale * Imma Piro as Giovanna *

Camilla Filippi Camilla Filippi (born 13 October 1979) is an Italian film, stage and television actress. Life and career Born in Brescia, Filippi started her career, when she was a teenager, appearing in a series of Barilla commercials. She made her acting de ...

as Elena * Nicola Pistoia as Roberto D'Onofrio *

Isa Barzizza Isa Barzizza (born 22 November 1929) is an Italian actress who has appeared in 46 films since 1947. Life and career Early life Born in Sanremo, Barzizza is the daughter of the conductor and composer Pippo Barzizza. Gianfranco Baldazzi. "Isa Ba ...

as Marisa *

Sergio Fiorentini Sergio Fiorentini (29 July 1934 – 11 December 2014) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Fiorentini was best known for his portrayal of characters in Italian crime dramas and films as well as dubbing Gene Hackman in a majority of his films a ...

as Cesare *

Remo Remotti Remo Remotti (16 November 1924 – 21 June 2015) was an Italian actor, playwright, artist and poet. Life and career Born in Rome, Remotti lost his father at 12 years old, then after graduating in Law he moved to Perù, where he attended an a ...

as Annibale * Massimiliano Vado as Max * Samantha Fantauzzi as Sonia * Edoardo Maria Falcone as Stalker * Barbara Folchitto as Anna *

as TV presenter *

Patrizia Pellegrino Patrizia Pellegrino (born 28 July 1962) is an Italian actress, television personality and singer. Life and career Born in Torre Annunziata, Pellegrino graduated in dance at the San Carlo, Naples.Giorgio Dell'Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo ...

as Talk Show presenter *

Frankie HI-NRG MC Francesco Di Gesù (; born 18 July 1969), better known by his stage name Frankie Hi-NRG MC, is an Italian rap and hip hop artist of Sicilian descent, born in Turin and raised between Caserta and Città di Castello. He has been active since the e ...

as Mc *

Ninni Bruschetta Ninni Bruschetta (born Antonino Bruschetta on 6 January 1962) is an Italian actor, film and stage director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Messina, in 1983 Bruschetta co-founded with Maurizio Puglisi "Nutrimenti terrestri", a stag ...

as himself *

Paola Minaccioni Paola Minaccioni (born 25 September 1971) is an Italian actress. Her credits include '' Fasten Your Seatbelts'', '' Many Kisses Later'', ''Magnificent Presence'' and the television series '' Una pallottola nel cuore''. She won the 2012 Globo d'O ...

as Logopedist *

Edoardo Pesce Edoardo Pesce (born 12 September 1979) is an Italian actor. Biography A student of the actor Enzo Garinei, Pesce began his career on stage, but gained notoriety with the TV series ''Romanzo criminale'' and ''I Cesaroni''. He received critical ac ...

as Mazzone * Stefano Fresi as Santini * Valerio Aprea as Director * Lucia Ocone as Waitress *

Cristiano Malgioglio Giuseppe Cristiano Malgioglio (; born 23 April 1945) is an Italian composer, singer-songwriter, showman and television personality. Biography Born in Ramacca, Catania, Malgioglio obtained his first contract with a record label, Durium, thanks to ...

as himself *

Alessandro Mannarino Alessandro Mannarino (Rome, 23 August 1979), simply known mononymously as Mannarino, is an Italian singer-songwriter. Biography Alessandro Mannarino started his artistic activity in 2001, performing in the famous Monti district, in Rome, with ...

as himself

External links

* 2012 comedy films 2012 films Films directed by Massimiliano Bruno Italian comedy films Films about dysfunctional families Films set in Rome 2010s Italian films {{2010s-Italy-comedy-film-stub