''Amore che vieni, amore che vai'' is a 2008

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directed by Daniele Costantini. It is based on the novel ''

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'' by

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and Alessandro Gennari.

Plot

In 1963

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, bartender Carlo is fired for having saved prostitute Luciana from her

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's violent behaviour. Following that, the girl makes a proposal to Carlo to be a pimp to her and two colleagues of hers. Carlo asks approval to his mother Lina to perform this new job of his, and he obtains it after some initial hostility from her. At the same time Carlo falls in love with Maritza, a new girl in town (freely based on Bocca di Rosa, the protagonist of De André's eponymous song from 1967). Elsewhere, Salvatore, a shepherd from

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who has just been released from prison, also falls in love with Veretta, one of Carlo's girls. The pair find themselves involved in a big heist on account of local criminal boss Bernard. The next day, after having intercepted and skillfully stolen a smuggled truckload of money by masquerading as ''

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'', Carlo and Bernard stumble upon Salvatore's corpse and realize that the smuggled funds have been stolen from them. In the meantime, Carlo, not being able to locate Maritza any longer, goes out of his mind and starts suspecting everybody of having kidnapped her. In a surprise

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, it is revealed that the money was stolen by Salvatore, who also took the chance to kill his twin brother - because of whom he had unjustly been jailed for five years. However, while escaping on a train, Salvatore has a change of heart and confesses his theft and his murder to a man whom he erroneously believes to be a priest, but who is actually a

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working for Bernard. Salvatore is "absolved" by the fake priest and gives him all of the money he stole. Soon afterwards, the man shoots him and dumps his corpse from a train window.

Cast

* Fausto Paravidino as Carlo *

Filippo Nigro Filippo Nigro (born 3 December 1970) is an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Rome, Nigro studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia under Lina Wertmüller. After a minor role in the 2001 Ferzan Ozpetek's drama film ''The Ignor ...

as Salvatore *

Massimo Popolizio Massimo Popolizio (born 4 July 1961) is an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Massimo Popolizio studied at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome in 1984, Popolizio started his career as a stage actor and, after gradu ...

as Bernard * Donatella Finocchiaro as Veretta * Tosca D'Aquino as Luciana * Claudia Zanella as Maritza *

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as Lina *Giorgia Ferrero as Antonia *Davide Paganini as Vichingo

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* 2008 films Italian crime drama films 2008 crime drama films Films about prostitution in Italy Films scored by Nicola Piovani 2000s Italian films Films set in Genoa 2000s Italian-language films Italian-language crime drama films {{2000s-crime-drama-film-stub

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