''What a Beautiful Day'' ( it, Che bella giornata) is a 2011 Italian film directed by
Gennaro Nunziante
Gennaro Nunziante is an Italian film director. He directed the three highest-grossing Italian films in Italy headed by ''Quo Vado?''.
Career
He teamed up with Checco Zalone to write '' Cado dalle nubi'' (2009), with Zalone starring and Nunzian ...
Luigi Luciano
Luigi Luciano (born 7 March 1980, in Campobasso, Italy), better known as Herbert Ballerina, is an Italian radio host and actor. Since January 2011, he has been that radio show co-host of the Lo Zoo di 105 broadcast by Radio 105 Network.
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and
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 ...
bouncer
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at a
nightclub
A nightclub (music club, discothèque, disco club, or simply club) is an entertainment venue during nighttime comprising a dance floor, lightshow, and a stage for live music or a disc jockey (DJ) who plays recorded music.
Nightclubs gener ...
in
Brianza
Brianza (, , lmo, label=Brianzöö dialect, Briànsa) is a geographical, historical and cultural area of Italy, at the foot of the Alps, in the northwest of Lombardy, between Milan and Lake Como.
Geography
Brianza extends from th ...
, dreams of becoming a
carabiniere
The Carabinieri (, also , ; formally ''Arma dei Carabinieri'', "Arm of Carabineers"; previously ''Corpo dei Carabinieri Reali'', "Royal Carabineers Corps") are the national gendarmerie of Italy who primarily carry out domestic and foreign polic ...
like his uncle Giuseppe Capobianco, however, he is rejected by Colonel Gismondo Mazzini after his third interview in one year. By the recommendation of the Archbishop of
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
, Checco manages to become a security officer at
Milan Cathedral
Milan Cathedral ( it, Duomo di Milano ; lmo, Domm de Milan ), or Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary ( it, Basilica cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria Nascente, links=no), is the cathedral church of Milan, Lombard ...
. While working at the cathedral he meets Farah, an Arab woman pretending to be an architecture student in order to gain access to the Madonnina. Farah, with the help of her brother and two other accomplices, plans to place an explosive device at the feet of the Madonnina to avenge the killing of her family in an unspecified bombing. Checco takes Farah to a dilapidated
trullo
A trullo (plural, trulli) is a traditional Apulian dry stone hut with a conical roof. Their style of construction is specific to the Itria Valley, in the Murge area of the Italian region of Apulia. Trulli were generally constructed as temporary f ...
, which he inherited from his grandfather in
Alberobello
Alberobello (; literally "beautiful tree"; Barese: ) is a small town and ''comune'' of the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, southern Italy. It has 10,735 inhabitants and is famous for its unique '' trullo'' buildings. The ''trulli'' of Alberob ...
. Checco wants the trullo to be demolished, however, it would cost €10,000. As the two spend time together, Checco falls in love with Farah.
Farah becomes conflicted by her plan to destroy Milan Cathedral, and by the friendship and kindness shown to her from Checco and his family. Before returning to her country, Farah gives Checco a suitcase that is supposed to contain the bomb, telling him not to open it until he reaches the Madonnina. When Checco opens the suitcase he discovers a model of a house that conceals the activation mechanism of the bomb. The bomb, which Farah had evidently placed in Checco's trullo, explodes, demolishing it as Checco desired.
Throughout the film, Checco continuously mentions (albeit some do also appear) relatives of his sharing the last name "Capobianco", acting as a
running gag
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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 ...
: his father Nicola
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Tullio Solenghi
Tullio Alberto Gianfranco Solenghi (born 21 March 1948) is an Italian actor, voice actor, director, comedian, television personality and impressionist.
Together with fellow actors Anna Marchesini and Massimo Lopez, he has been a member of the ...
Ivano Marescotti
Ivano Marescotti (4 February 1946 – 26 March 2023) was an Italian actor and theatre director.
Life and career
Born in Villanova di Bagnacavallo, province of Ravenna, Marescotti worked as a clerk in the urban sector of the Councillorship of ...
: Colonel Gismondo Mazzini
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Luigi Luciano
Luigi Luciano (born 7 March 1980, in Campobasso, Italy), better known as Herbert Ballerina, is an Italian radio host and actor. Since January 2011, he has been that radio show co-host of the Lo Zoo di 105 broadcast by Radio 105 Network.
Career ...
: Giovanni
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Anna Rita Del Piano
Anna Rita Del Piano, real name Anna Rita Viapiano (born 26 July 1966, in Cassano delle Murge), is an Italian people, Italian actress and theater director.
Biography
Anna Rita Viapiano was born in Cassano delle Murge, where she lived his chi ...
: Anna Capobianco, Checco's mother
Reception
The film was met with high commercial success. In its opening weekend, the comedy surpassed ''
Avatar
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'' for the most sales in the first 3 days of release, reaching $9.4 million. In just its second week, it reached $42.2 million in box-office revenue, topping ''
Life Is Beautiful
''Life Is Beautiful'' ( it, La vita è bella, ) is a 1997 Italian comedy drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami. Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian bookshop owner, who employ ...
'' to become the highest-grossing Italian film in Italy. ''Life Is Beautiful'' retained the worldwide record for an Italian film with $70 million worldwide.
The film was surpassed as the highest-grossing Italian film in Italy by ''
Sole a catinelle
''Sole a catinelle'' (, modeled on the expression , "rain in bucketfulls ", which means that it is raining very hard) is a 2013 Italian comedy film directed by Gennaro Nunziante. The film is the second highest-grossing Italian film in Italy.
Plot ...
'' in 2013, also starring Zalone and directed by Nunziante and is now third behind the leader ''
Quo Vado?
''Quo vado?'' is a 2016 Italian comedy film directed by Gennaro Nunziante. It was released on 1 January 2016. The film is the highest-grossing Italian film in Italy.
Plot
Checco was born into a life of relative comfort and privilege among his pe ...
'', again starring Zalone and directed by Nunziante. It is currently the fifth highest-grossing film in Italy.
The film did not receive wide distribution outside of Italy, with only limited festival releases in France and the Philippines and only a wide release in the Italian-speaking Swiss canton of
Ticino
Ticino (), sometimes Tessin (), officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino,, informally ''Canton Ticino'' ; lmo, Canton Tesin ; german: Kanton Tessin ; french: Canton du Tessin ; rm, Chantun dal Tessin . ...
.
See also
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List of Italian films of 2011
This is a list of films produced in Italy in 2011 (see 2011 in film). Of the 100 or so Italian films released in 2011, about half of them were comedies.
2011
See also
*2011 in Italy
*2011 in Italian television
References
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