Francesco Calandra, Moreno Di Rocco, Enrico Di Rocco, and Samira Bacci in La palestra (2012)

La palestra

20121h 10m
Comedy

Francesco, the director, is from San Donato. A dreamer with a candid soul, he is inspired to make a film about his neighborhood through the thwarted-love story between a roma girl and a local gagè boy, a talented and promising boxer. To give his film a sense of local authenticity he decides to organize an acting laboratory. That's when the problems begin. First: no roma girl answers the ad for someone to play the love interest. As if that's not enough, all his attempts to meet roma girls are vain.

Runtime
1h 10m
Released
2012

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Release year: 2012

Storyline

Francesco, the director, is from San Donato. A dreamer with a candid soul, he is inspired to make a film about his neighborhood through the thwarted-love story between a roma girl and a local gagè boy, a talented and promising boxer. To give his film a sense of local authenticity he decides to organize an acting laboratory. That's when the problems begin. First: no roma girl answers the ad for someone to play the love interest. As if that's not enough, all his attempts to meet roma girls are vain.

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