A Boy from Calabria
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Set in 1960, the year of the Rome Olympics, a 13 year-old boy with aspirations to become an athlete befriends an ageing, disabled bus driver who understands his ambitions.
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Cast
22 people
Gian Maria Volonté
Felice
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A Fistful of Dollars
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Diego Abatantuono
Nicola Sileca
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Mediterraneo
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Thérèse Liotard
Mariuccia Sileca
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One Sings, the Other Doesn't
My Father's Glory
Santo Polimeno
Domenico 'Mimì' Sileca
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Giada Desideri
Crisolinda
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Splendor
Enzo Ruoti
Autista Fiat 600
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Jacques Peyrac
Barista
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That Night of Varennes
The Family
Jean-René Masrevery
Preside
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Alessandro Casile
Pasqualino
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Rosario Costantino
Medico
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Bruno Crisafio
Vincenzino
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Raffaella De Carolis
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Luigi Comencini Director · Francesca Comencini Screenplay Ugo Pirro Screenplay
United States release November 20, 1987 · Produced in France, Italy · Production U.P. Schermo Video, Carthago Films
Production
Italian International Film
Production
U.P. Schermo Video
Production
Carthago Films
Production
Canal+
Production
RAI
Production
Dolly Cinematografica
Production
Société(s) de production : Canal+, FIT Productions
Production
France · Italy
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Languages
Original title
Un ragazzo di Calabria
Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
Italy · September 2, 1987
Premiere · Venice Film Festival
Italy · September 11, 1987
Theatrical · Rome
United States · November 20, 1987
Limited theatrical · New York
France
February 10, 1988 · Theatrical · Paris
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