The Right to Happiness

The Right to Happiness (2023)

Drama

The Right to Happiness centers on a small used book store in a small plaza in a small town with big vistas, somewhere in Italy. It sounds like a book lover's fantasy, and maybe it is. The bookseller, Libero, knows most of his rather eccentric customers and can barely bring himself to take their money (although fascists pay double). When a young boy, Essien (Didie Lorenz Tchumbu), an émigré from Burkina Faso, happens on the shop, Libero begins lending him books of increasing difficulty. From Pinocchio to Moby Dick, Essien can read as fast as Libero can lend, and the two form a bond over reading and meaning. "Books should be read twice," Libero says. "Once to understand them, and once to think." Life should probably be lived like that too, but the bookseller's name means "free," and freedom is what Libero bequeaths to Essien.

Director: Claudio Rossi Massimi
Writer: Claudio Rossi Massimi

Casts

	Remo Girone as Libero
	Corrado Fortuna as Nicola
	Didie Lorenz Tchumbu as Essien
	Moni Ovadia as Collezionista Medusa
	Pino Calabrese as Professor Saputo
	Federico Perrotta as Bojan
	Annamaria Fittipaldi as Chiara
	Lapo Braschi as Uomo con testa rasata
	Valentina Olla as Signora Sado/Maso
	Biagio Iacovelli as Prete
	Liliana Fiorelli as La voce del diario

Crew