Azzurro (2000)
75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of...
Director:
Denis Rabaglia
Writers:
Antoine Jaccoud, Luca de Benedittis, Denis Rabaglia.
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Paolo Villaggio as Giuseppe De Metrio |
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Francesca Pipoli as Carla De Metrio |
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Marie-Christine Barrault as Elizabeth Broyer |
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Jean-Luc Bideau as Gaston Broyer |
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Renato Scarpa as Giorgio |
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Julien Boisselier as Pascal Broyer |
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Antonio Petrocelli as Roberto De Metrio |
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Soraya Sala as Lucia De Metrio |
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Tom Novembre as Philippe |
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Graziano Giusti as Prof. Papaleo |
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Anna Ferruzzo as Female Nurse |
| Directing | Denis Rabaglia | Director |
| Writing | Antoine Jaccoud | Screenplay |
| Writing | Denis Rabaglia | Story |
| Editing | Claudio Di Mauro | Editor |
| Camera | Dominique Grosz | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Louis Crelier | Music |
| Writing | Luca de Benedittis | Screenplay |
| Writing | Denis Rabaglia | Screenplay |
| Art | Fabrizio Nicora | Production Design |
