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What a Beautiful Day

Original title: Che bella giornata
  • 2011
  • 1h 37m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
6.4K
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What a Beautiful Day (2011)
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Checco is an immigrant from Southern Italy living in Milan, in the North. After failing his exam to join the Italian gendarmerie, he's hired as a security guard at Milan's Cathedral, but is ... Read allChecco is an immigrant from Southern Italy living in Milan, in the North. After failing his exam to join the Italian gendarmerie, he's hired as a security guard at Milan's Cathedral, but is spotted by Muslim extremists.Checco is an immigrant from Southern Italy living in Milan, in the North. After failing his exam to join the Italian gendarmerie, he's hired as a security guard at Milan's Cathedral, but is spotted by Muslim extremists.

  • Director
    • Gennaro Nunziante
  • Writers
    • Gennaro Nunziante
    • Checco Zalone
  • Stars
    • Checco Zalone
    • Nabiha Akkari
    • Ivano Marescotti
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
    6.4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Gennaro Nunziante
    • Writers
      • Gennaro Nunziante
      • Checco Zalone
    • Stars
      • Checco Zalone
      • Nabiha Akkari
      • Ivano Marescotti
    • 2User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 6 nominations total

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    Checco Zalone
    Checco Zalone
    • Checco Zalone
    Nabiha Akkari
    Nabiha Akkari
    • Farah
    Ivano Marescotti
    Ivano Marescotti
    • Colonello dei carabinieri Gismondo Mazzini
    Michele Alhaique
    Michele Alhaique
    • Don Ivano
    Herbert Ballerina
    Herbert Ballerina
    • Giovanni
    • (as Luigi Luciano)
    Anna Rita Del Piano
    • Anna
    • (as Annarita del Piano)
    Anna Bellato
    • Maria Bellini
    Mehdi Mahdloo
    • Sufien
    Cinzia Mascoli
    • Rossella Mazzini
    Paolo De Vita
    • Maresciallo Capobianco
    Bruno Armando
    • Capo Intelligence
    Rocco Papaleo
    Rocco Papaleo
    • Nicola Zalone
    Tullio Solenghi
    • Cardinale Rosselli
    Isabelle Adriani
    Isabelle Adriani
    • Mercedes
    Matteo Reza Azchirvani
    • Arabo
    Andrea Bonella
    • Accompagnatore Tibetani
    Giovanna Bozzolo
    • Madre Ivano
    Giustina Buonomo
    • Nonna Rosa
    • Director
      • Gennaro Nunziante
    • Writers
      • Gennaro Nunziante
      • Checco Zalone
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    7LyserSD

    Checco Zalone plays the role of the Italian stereotype in a play full of fun.

    Following the excellent success of "Falling from the clouds"the couple Checco Zalone - Gennaro Nunziante returns to cinemas with "What a beautiful day". Beating the competition and setting a new record of receipts. This film has the air of anti-cinepanettoni: comes out on epiphany, joking lightly on hot topics such as frequent use of mimics and a lot of profanity. Those deprecated bad words that distinguished other movies of this genre are pronounced with the right comic timing provoking laughter in the audience without falling into the vulgar and coarse. The spectator likes Zalone because it is flawed and causes the viewer a sense of alienation rather than identification: no one feels so ignorant as to give more consideration to a scratch on his car than to a painting of the seventeenth century, no one has a lexicon so deprived, no one is able to combine so many pies on workplace, no one is so unlucky in love (or at least hopes to not be).

    Recommended for everyone that's looking for a light film and a two hours of fun. carefree.
    5MoviecriticElyn

    Checco has better films

    Hi there. I am not Italian living in Italy so thats why in English. Watched the movie after his ultimate success of Quo vado. Thats why dare to say that he has better movies in his dossier. This includes also Sole a Cattinelle. The movie we are speaking now has a very weak female character - all I remembered the day after was her teeth. SO she just smiled and made grimaces. And did it for unforgivable too many minutes of the film. The Checco itself plays good and his character is more consistent and vivid so thats fine. The first half of the movie is rather interesting but then...you need some 1 liter or beer to keep being interested because rather weird scenes and events without sense takes place. And then you await the last 10 minutes waiting of something extraordinary to make for the annoying half an hour. But...oh no, the thing in the end with the building is just stupid. Why the woman did so I cant get. Because it has NO sense. Per fortuna, we have better and more interesting Checco films. Dixi

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    • Trivia
      Highest gross at the Italian box office, since the release of Life Is Beautiful (1997), fourteen years before.
    • Quotes

      Checco: But you live in Islam, don't you?

      Terrorista arabo: Islam is not a country, it's a faith

      Checco: In this case, I am from Cattolica!

    • Soundtracks
      Serenade in E Minor also known as Little Night Music
      Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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    • Release date
      • January 5, 2011 (Italy)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
    • Official site
      • Medusa Film (Italy)
    • Languages
      • Italian
      • Arabic
    • Also known as
      • Que hermoso día
    • Filming locations
      • Alberobello, Bari, Apulia, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Medusa Film
      • Taodue Film
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    • Budget
      • €6,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $60,756,040
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 37 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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