''The Family Friend'' ( it, L'amico di famiglia) is a 2006 Italian film directed by
Paolo Sorrentino
Paolo Sorrentino (; born 31 May 1970) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and writer. His 2013 film ''The Great Beauty'' won the Academy Awards, Academy Award, the Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe, and the British Academy of Film and Te ...
. It was entered into the
2006 Cannes Film Festival
The 59th Cannes Film Festival was held from 17 to 28 May 2006. Twenty films from eleven countries were in competition for the Palme d'Or. The President of the Official selection Jury was Wong Kar-wai, the first Chinese director to preside over t ...
.
Plot
Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter.
Cast
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Giacomo Rizzo
Giacomo Rizzo (born 17 January 1939) is an Italian film actor. He has appeared in more than 40 films since 1970. He starred in ''The Family Friend'', which was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Selected filmography
* ''Il sindacalista' ...
- Geremia De Geremei
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Laura Chiatti - Rosalba De Luca
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Gigi Angelillo - Saverio
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Marco Giallini
Marco Giallini (born 4 April 1963) is an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Giallini is the son of a housewife and a furnace labourer. After attending the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, he began acting on stag ...
- Attanasio
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Barbara Valmorin - Nonna al bingo
* Luisa De Santis - Silvia
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Clara Bindi - Madre di Geremia
* Roberta Fiorentini - Moglie di Saverio
* Elia Schilton - Teasuro
* Lorenzo Gioielli - Montanaro
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Emilio De Marchi - Chef
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Giorgio Colangeli
Giorgio Colangeli (born 14 December 1949) is an Italian stage, television and film actor.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Colangeli graduated in nuclear physics, then he started a stage career.
After several minor roles, Colangeli's breakout r ...
- Massa
* Fabio Grossi - Cognato di Saverio
* Lucia Ragni - Cassiera
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Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Fabrizio Bentivoglio (born 4 January 1957) is an Italian cinema and theatre actor and screenwriter.
Biography
Fabrizio Bentivoglio was born in Milan (his father is Venetian). After only one season in the juvenile team of Inter, he left his spor ...
- Gino
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References
External links
Il sito ufficiale del film
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2006 films
2006 drama films
2000s Italian-language films
Films directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Italian drama films
Films with screenplays by Paolo Sorrentino
2000s Italian films
Fandango (Italian company) films
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