Carefree Giovanni (1986)
In this entertaining drama, "Carefree Giovanni" (Sergio Castellitto) is the beleaguered last heir to a dukedom closely associated with the great artist Leonardo da Vinci. As the curtain opens, one of Giovanni's ancestors drops dead when he hears that Leonardo has died. Cut to the present, and the last duke in this line, Giovanni, is miserable in a home shared by two older women who browbeat and badger him without mercy. Giovanni's one solace is to go up on the rooftop and gaze out at the world around him as he daydreams. He has a special passion for the lovely Claire (Eleonora Girogi) who lives next door. To show his sincerity, he zooms off paper airplanes in her direction. However, these missiles are made from actual letters written by the great Leonardo himself. Could this man be last link in the lineage that started 400 years earlier?
Director: Marco Colli
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Sergio Castellitto as Giovanni |
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Eleonora Giorgi as Claire |
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Franco Fabrizi as Gino |
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Luigi De Filippo as Achille, il tabaccaio / Segretario del duca |
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Aldo Fabrizi as Il bottegaio ed il suo fratello gemello |
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Anita Durante as Zia Teresa |
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Franca Balletta as Zia Letizia |
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Tatiana Farnese as Elena Cappelli |
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Claudio Spadaro as Il prete |
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Gastone Pescucci as Il declamatore |
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Richard McNamara as L'amministratore di Claire |
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Rodolfo Bigotti as Il meccanico |
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Alessandro Fersen as Il professore |
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Fabrizio Costantini as Ettore |
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Pasquale Zito as Il cliente del tabaccaio |
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Valerio Isidori as Il barista / La sentinella |
| Directing | Marco Colli | Director |
| Writing | Marco Colli | Writer |
| Writing | Gianni Di Gregorio | Writer |
| Production | Gabriela Curiel | Producer |
| Sound | Lamberto Macchi | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Emilio Bestetti | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Roberto Schiavone | Editor |
| Art | Enrico Colli | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Clary Mirolo | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Valeria Sponsali | Costume Design |