''Un ragazzo di Calabria'' (internationally released as ''A Boy from Calabria'') is a
1987
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Italian
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** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
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comedy drama film
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by
Luigi Comencini
Luigi Comencini (; 8 June 1916 – 6 April 2007) ''The Guardian'' was an Italian
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It entered the main competition at the 44th
Venice Film Festival
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in which it won the Pasinetti Award for Best Actor (to Gian Maria Volonté).
Diego Abatantuono
Diego Abatantuono (born 20 May 1955) is an Italian cinema and theatre actor, and screenwriter, three-time winner of the Nastro d'Argento.
Biography and career
Abatantuono was born in Milan to a father of Apulian origin and a mother from Como. T ...
as Nicola
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Thérèse Liotard
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