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Looking for Paradise is a film of genre Comedy directed by Mario Monicelli with Margherita Buy
Looking for Paradise (1995)
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Add to a movie listFacciamo paradiso (also known as Looking for Paradise) is a 1995 Italian comedy drama film directed by Mario Monicelli. It is based on a short story by Giuseppe Pontiggia.
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The film tells the story of Claudia Bertelli, a young Italian girl born after World War II, who takes place contestating in '68, along with the Communists, and then mother full of contradictions and doubts over the years of modernism. She dies in 2011, in an era full of crisis.Actors
Margherita Buy
(Claudia Bertelli)
Lello Arena
(Calabrone)
Philippe Noiret
(Padre di Claudia)
Aurore Clément
(Madre di Claudia)
Mattia Sbragia
(Investigatore)
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