Azzurro (2000)

ALL 08/12/2000 (it) Drama 84 Min
  • Release
    08/12/2000
  • Production
    Alhena Films, C-Films, Gam Films, RSI, RAI Cinema
  • Rotten tomato
    71%
  • Original title
    Azzurro
  • Original language
    it
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of...

  1. Denis Rabaglia

    Director

  2. Producer



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  1. Paolo Villaggio

    Giuseppe De Metrio

  2. Francesca Pipoli

    Carla De Metrio

  3. Marie-Christine Barrault

    Elizabeth Broyer

  4. Jean-Luc Bideau

    Gaston Broyer

  5. Renato Scarpa

    Giorgio

  6. Julien Boisselier

    Pascal Broyer

  7. Antonio Petrocelli

    Roberto De Metrio

  8. Soraya Sala

    Lucia De Metrio

  9. Tom Novembre

    Philippe

  10. Graziano Giusti

    Prof. Papaleo

  11. Anna Ferruzzo

    Female Nurse

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 11 , Crews : 9

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Azzurro (2000) 84 Min

ALL 08/12/2000 (it)
Drama
  • Release 08/12/2000
  • Production
    Alhena Films, C-Films, Gam Films, RSI, RAI Cinema
  • Original title Azzurro
  • it
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of...

  1. Denis Rabaglia

    Director

  2. Denis Rabaglia

    Story

  3. Claudio Di Mauro

    Editor

  4. Producer