cinematography
Maurizio Calvesi
editing
Sara Petracca
music
Ratchev & Carratello

sound
Gianluca Scarlata
production design
Isabella Angelini
costumes
Gaia Calderone
Ilenia Miggiano

cast
Gianni di Gregorio (Professor)
Greta Scarano (Sofia)
Tom Wlaschiha (Helmut)
Iaia Forte (Giovanna)

production
Bibi Film
with Rai Cinema
co-production
Les Films du Poisson
producer
Angelo Barbagallo

world sales
Fandango Sales
Italian distribution
Fandango Distribuzione
Italian press office
Viviana Ronzitti

Is dodging all the annoyances of daily life and shielding yourself from hassles of any kind enough to make you happy? A seventy-year-old professor believes he finally is just that. He has a lovely home, a decent pension, friends to have some laughs with, and a lady with whom he spends some quality time. He devotes himself exclusively to the agreeable – until his life is turned upside down by the arrival of his daughter, whose marriage is on the rocks, and his two noisy grandchildren. New worries and fears now, yet new bonds as well. So begins his foray into the love lives of others and also his own, with the life lesson to the effect that love is always worth living, despite the troubles, sacrifices, and tribulations it brings. It’s a film that meditates on love and the driving instinct of human beings to merge their own destinies with those of others, with all that entails: hard work, but also its satisfactions, and the feeling of having truly lived.

2025 Come ti muovi, sbagli
2022 Astolfo
2019 Lontano lontano
2014 Buoni a nulla
2011 Gianni e le donne
2008 Pranzo di ferragosto

“There’s one thing that we humans cannot do without, it would seem: family. After all, what is more wonderful than family? And what is more demanding than family, with their bottomless pit of love that crushes all personal ambition and every yearning for freedom, and peace? This film is devoted to family and so love itself, this force that makes us do things we never thought we ever could or would, turning us into worker ants and epic heroes and heroines at the same time.” (Gianni Di Gregorio)

Gianni Di Gregorio has loved cinema since he was a child. After a rigorous high school education, he studied literature at college, but eventually dropped out to enroll in Rome’s Accademia di Arti Sceniche, where he graduated in acting and directing. After three years in theater as an actor and assistant director, he switched to being an AD for the big screen, then tried his hand at screenwriting, writing several films. He met Matteo Garrone in 1995 and worked with him as an AD on his films Roman Summer, The Embalmer, and First Love. In 2007, he co-wrote, with Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Massimo Gaudioso, Roberto Saviano, and Garrone, the script for the film Gomorrah. He made his directorial debut with the 2008 film Mid-August Lunch, a hit with audiences and critics alike (winning the Lion of the Future – Luigi De Laurentiis Best Debut Film Prize at Venice and the David di Donatello for Best New Director).