The vips of italian television disappear in a mysterious way. Two detectives, Lucia and Franco, try to investigate in this mystery, drowning into a strange world, where the leader is the powerful star Sonia Norton.
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| Margherita Buy | ... | Lucia Allasco | |
| Barbora Bobulova | ... | Azzurra Rispoli | |
| Valerio Mastandrea | ... | Franco Berardi | |
| Francesca Neri | ... | Sonia Norton | |
| Antonino Bruschetta | ... | Vittorio Terracciano (as Ninni Bruschetta) | |
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Luis Molteni | ... | Rocco Piccolo |
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Maddalena Maggi | ... | Esther Bonanni |
| Marco Giallini | ... | Michele Benda | |
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Antonio Ianiello | ... | Pasquale Terracciano |
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Rosario J. Gnolo | ... | Mago Daniel |
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Marco Cortesi | ... | Matteo De Muzzi |
| Armando De Razza | ... | M. Simone | |
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Giovanni Argante | ... | Calaciura |
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Carlo Luca De Ruggieri | ... | (as Carlo De Ruggieri) |
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Marica Coco | ||
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The vips of italian television disappear in a mysterious way. Two detectives, Lucia and Franco, try to investigate in this mystery, drowning into a strange world, where the leader is the powerful star Sonia Norton.
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ItalianRelease Date:
15 April 2004 (Italy) See more »Also Known As:
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Rome, Lazio, ItalyEdit
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Rodeo Drive, Rai Cinema, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC) See more »
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Written by Cecilia Dazzi and Micol Barsanti
Performed by Micol Barsanti
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Mediocre italian giallo, based on a novel by Niccolò ammaniti and directed by Infascelli, this movie has only a couple of excellent scenes (like the death of the comedian Rocco)on a too derivative script, that tries to make fun in a corrosive way on the power of television talk shows (the target of the writer is a notorious italian talk show), but the plot is contrived, full of holes as big as houses (while the assassin did not check the demise of the police woman, for example?), the acting is always really poor with very few exceptions (and this is a shame as most of the actors and actresses involved are normally really good). All in all, this is another example of the abysmal level of the new wave of Italian giallos, best exemplified by the terrible Il Cartaio. This one is definetily better, but only slightly so.