Mattia, a 32 year old building contractor in Perugia has lots of style, nice suits, nice car, gorgeous looking girlfriend but behind this facade is cutting corners with site safety and ...
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Title: Lezioni di cioccolato (2007)
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| Luca Argentero | ... | Mattia | |
| Violante Placido | ... | Cecilia Ferri | |
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Neri Marcorè | ... | Maestro Corrado |
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Hassani Shapi | ... | Kamal |
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Monica Scattini | ... | Letizia |
| Francesco Pannofino | ... | Luigi | |
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Vito | ... | Osvaldo |
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Josefia Forlì | ... | Corrado Mineo |
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Matteo Oleotto | ... | Milo |
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Rolando Ravello | ... | Presentatore |
| Ivano Marescotti | ... | Giancarlo Ugolini | |
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Salami Bahija | ... | Shamira |
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Gian Luca Bianchini | ... | Povero nella mensa |
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Mauro Celaia | ... | Garzone |
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Alessandro Checcobelli | ... | Jaffar |
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Mattia, a 32 year old building contractor in Perugia has lots of style, nice suits, nice car, gorgeous looking girlfriend but behind this facade is cutting corners with site safety and hiring immigrant workers. Taking to the golf course hoping to meet wealthy, upmarket clients he meets a doctor who offers him a contract to build a luxurious weekend getaway but not one Euro above 300,000 will he pay. Meantime back on site to save 12,000 euros in scaffolding he has illegally-hired worker Kamal working on a roof without any safety nets and Kamal falls from the roof, finishing up in hospital with his entire upper body in plaster. Kamal unknown to Mattia has won a position in a chocolate making competition at a nearby factory who are celebrating their centenary of operation. Before leaving Egypt, Kamal was a pastry cook in Egypt. By doing the chocolate course he hopes to gain a diploma to start a new career in Italy as a chocolate maker. First prize is enough money to start his own ... Written by John575
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ItalianRelease Date:
23 November 2007 (Italy) See more »Also Known As:
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This movie is set in Perugia, Italy where Mattia, played by Luca Argentero, is a self-centred, carreerist, building promoter who, in order to break into the market accepts cheap contracts and cuts corners by buying cheap material, hiring black labour, paying little and not caring for his team's safety. On one occasion, one of the workers, an Egyptian, Kamal, played by Hassani Shapi, has an accident and falls from a roof.
Kamal could denounce Mattia, who would end in prison and see his career ruined. To avoid this, the two strike a deal...
The movie's strength, in my opinion, is in the lightness through which the story passes us a delicate message about immigration and about those in margin of society. The film is about how, if we take time, we can appreciate someone else's culture and point of view, and that, things that seem odd and perhaps picturesque, make sense when one lives them, or at least, sees them from closer by. This movie is about what matters in life: values such as quality over mediocrity, helping and achieving together over selfishness, and truth over lies. It is also about how people on the margins of society are confronted by everyday life through a different perspective than the everage middle-class citizen. The movie brings through all these serious messages in a very easy flowing and light way. Although there is quite a bit of stereotyping, it is mastered for the sake of the message, and I for one, at no point felt it was offending. The actors are OK, and the film does not offer any technical break-throughs but flows pretty well. All in all, it is a very pleasant and positive film, with an intelligenty written screenplay and a worthy message behind. Bravo.