''Balancing Act'' ( it, Gli equilibristi, french: Les equilibristes) is a 2012 Italian-French

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Ivano De Matteo Ivano De Matteo (born 22 January 1966) is an Italian director, screenwriter, and actor. Life and career Born in Rome, De Matteo formed as an actor in the drama laboratory "Il Mulino di Fiora", and later formed a stage company together with his ...

. It premiered at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, in which

Valerio Mastandrea Valerio Mastandrea (born 14 February 1972) is an Italian film, stage and television actor. Life and career He was born in Rome. While being a student of philosophy, in the early 1990s Mastandrea enjoyed some success thanks to the semi-regular pa ...

won the Pasinetti Award. For his performance Mastandrea was also awarded

David di Donatello The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's ''David'', a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the ''Accademia del Cinema Italiano'' (The Academy of Italian Cinema). There are 26 award cat ...

for

Best Actor Best Actor is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actors in a film, television series, television film or play. The term most often refers to th ...

Cast

: Giulio *

Barbora Bobuľová Barbora Bobuľová (born 29 April 1974) is an Italian actress. Since 1995, she has lived and worked mainly in Italy. Life and work Born in Martin, Bobuľová trained at the National Drama Academy in Bratislava before moving to Italy in 1995. S ...

: Elena *

Maurizio Casagrande Maurizio Casagrande (born 4 November 1961) is an Italian actor and film and stage director. Life and career Born in Naples, the son of the actor and director Antonio, Casagrande studied as a baritone at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Maj ...

: Stefano *

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 ...

: Franco *

Rosabell Laurenti Sellers Rosabell Laurenti Sellers (born March 27, 1996) is an American-Italian actress. She is known for her role as the titular character in the children's series, ''Mia and Me'', and also as Tyene Sand in '' Game of Thrones''. Early life Sellers wa ...

: Camilla * Grazia Schiavo: Stefania *

Antonio Gerardi Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular male ...

: Pietro * Antonella Attili

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* 2012 films Italian drama films Films directed by Ivano De Matteo 2012 drama films French drama films 2010s French films 2010s Italian films {{2010s-Italy-film-stub