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LA BUCA

By Daniele CIPRÌ

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Comedy - Completed 2015

Oscar and Armando two fifties who become friends after a chance encounter. Oscar is a failed lawyer, Armando has just been released from prison after twenty-five years for a crime he did not commit.

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Comedy
- Countries
- ITALY, SWITZERLAND
- Languages
- ITALIAN
- Budget
- N/A
- Duration
- 104 mn
- Director(s)
- Daniele CIPRÌ
- Writer(s)
- Alessandra ACCIAI, Daniele CIPRÌ, Massimo GAUDIOSO, Miriam RIZZO
- Cast
- Sergio CASTELLITTO, Rocco PAPALEO, Valeria BRUNI TEDESCHI
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-CA61-0000-W-0000-0000-F
- Producer(s)
- Alessandra ACCIAI (Passione), Giorgio MAGLIULO (Passione), Roberto LOMBARDI (Passione)
- Synopsis
- Oscar (Sergio Castellitto) is a cynical man, a failed lawyer who survives by ripping off the local authorities – he invents “accidents” and claims that supposedly handicapped people have fallen victim to them. Armando (Rocco Papaleo) is a good man who grew up poor on the city’s outskirts. He has just been released from prison having served a 25-year sentence for a crime he never committed. Nonetheless, prison has left his positive view of the world unblemished. Not welcomed by his family, he spends his first night as a free man alone on the rainy streets; his only company is a scruffy dog that follows him everywhere. The next morning, Oscar and Armando meet for the first time in front of a sweet and sympathetic Carmen (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi). In Oscar’s case, Armando’s sees a great opportunity: Why not sue the state for millions for convicting an innocent man? In an attempt to find redemption and, through the search for evidence, a strong and unexpected friendship begins to develop.