After being forgotten in a highway café during a bus trip, a housewife decides to start a new life by herself in Venice.
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Silvio Soldini
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| Licia Maglietta | ... | Rosalba Barletta | |
| Bruno Ganz | ... | Fernando Girasole | |
| Giuseppe Battiston | ... | Costantino Caponangeli | |
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Antonio Catania | ... | Mimmo Barletta |
| Marina Massironi | ... | Grazia | |
| Felice Andreasi | ... | Fermo | |
| Vitalba Andrea | ... | Ketty | |
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Tatiana Lepore | ... | Adele |
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Daniela Piperno | ... | Woman in Car |
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Tiziano Cucchiarelli | ... | Nic |
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Matteo Febo | ... | Salvo |
| Lina Bernardi | ... | Nancy | |
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Mauro Marino | ... | Lello |
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Antonia Miccoli | ... | Sami |
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Ludovico Paladin | ... | Eliseo |
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Life is often just "for sake of" and we need to know about it and want to benefit when we are presented with the occasion to. A bit for "sake of", a bit for choice, Rosalba, young and apart from anything a housewife of Pescara, during a bus trip after she found herself alone and...forgotten in a highway café, decides not to wait for her husband and sons to come back to pick her up but instead decides to find her own way home. She is a little offended that she has been forgotten by her family and has been told by her husband to stay put so, rebelling a little she finds herself hitch-hiking direct for Venice. Her adventure in Venice begins meeting strange but fascinating people. Fermo; an anarchistic florist, Grazia; a masseuse and Fernando; a waiter from Iceland that speaks his own language of Italian. Written by <caitlin_leroy@hotmail.com>
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ItalianRelease Date:
2 November 2001 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$32,933, 29 July 2001, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$5,311,177, 24 February 2002Company Credits
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Composed by Gioachino Rossini
Performed by Licia Maglietta
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Licia Maglietta actually played the accordion in the scenes where her character does so. It is her playing that can be heard in the movie. See more »Soundtracks
Theme from La Gazza LadraComposed by Gioachino Rossini
Performed by Licia Maglietta
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