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Non ti pago

2021

A gentle, talky Italian comedy-drama that ambles through dreams, luck and small-town grudges with a theatrical, lived-in warmth.

Directed by
Edoardo De Angelis
Genres
Drama, Comedy, Tv movie
Starring
Sergio Castellitto, Maria Pia Calzone, Gianluca Di Gennaro
Overview
Ferdinando inherits a lottery office from his father. He fantasises about making it famous with a millionaire prize. The winner, however, will be his employee Mario, to whom Ferdinando's father "went in a dream".

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Directed by
Edoardo De Angelis
Genres
Drama, Comedy, Tv movie
Starring
Sergio Castellitto, Maria Pia Calzone, Gianluca Di Gennaro
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • fate
  • family
  • greed
  • work
  • deception
Places
  • small town
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy, tv movie
Directed by
Edoardo De Angelis
Written by
Eduardo De Filippo, Massimo Gaudioso, Edoardo De Angelis
Starring
Sergio Castellitto, Maria Pia Calzone, Gianluca Di Gennaro, Angela Fontana, Maurizio Casagrande, Carmen Pommella
Cinematography
Agostino Vertucci
Country
Italy
Languages
Italian

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