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The Art of Happiness is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Alessandro Rak with Nando Paone
The Art of Happiness (2013)
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Add to a movie listThe Art of Happiness (Italian: L'arte della felicità) is a 2013 Italian animation drama film written and directed by Alessandro Rak, at his directorial debut. It opened the International Critics' Week at the 70th Venice International Film Festival.
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Sergio works as a taxi driver in Neaples; under a heavy rain, he brings his customers through the increasingly degraded city. At the same time he tries to metabolize the death of his brother, who departed for Tibet ten years before and never returned. On the seats of his taxi a singer, a radio speaker, an old uncle and other characters alternate, and each of them brings a trace of his missing brother.Actors
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