''Auguri professore'' (''Good Luck Professor'') is a

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Italian comedy drama film directed by

Riccardo Milani Riccardo Milani (born 15 April 1958) is an Italian film and television director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Rome, Milani began his career in 1985, as assistant director of Mario Monicelli in '' Let's Hope It's a Girl''. After b ...

Plot

The film is set in a school near Rome, and in a small mountain village of

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. The boys of the grammar school where teaches Professor Vincenzo Lipari, Italian teacher, are in serious crisis. The crisis, however, is not only that of a typical young adolescent: it is a real collective crisis that pushes young students to not studying, and caring of life, to believe in false ideals, and to get lost in the vortex of ignorance, that will not get them in any future. Vincenzo Lipari tries to help the guys, but also he is a frustrated like them, because they can not even organize a program of Italian lessons of the year. And so the man, trying to understand the new requirements youth, recalls his early school years: past, when teachers did not have to ask pupils to behave well in school, because it was all the opposite.

Cast

* Silvio Orlando as Professor Lipari * Claudia Pandolfi as Luisa *

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as the headmaster * Imma Piro as Professor Sollazzo

References

External links

* 1997 films 1997 comedy-drama films Italian high school films Italian comedy-drama films Films directed by Riccardo Milani Films about educators 1997 directorial debut films 1990s Italian-language films 1990s Italian films {{1990s-comedy-drama-film-stub