Il bambino cattivo
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Il bambino cattivo | |
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Written by | Pupi Avati Tommaso Avati Claudio Piersanti |
Directed by | Pupi Avati |
Starring | Luigi Lo Cascio Donatella Finocchiaro |
Music by | Stefano Arnaldi Lucio Gregoretti |
Original language | Italian |
Production | |
Producer | Antonio Avati |
Cinematography | Blasco Giurato |
Original release | |
Release | 2013 |
Il bambino cattivo ("The naughty child") is a television film released in 2013, directed by
The film was made in collaboration with the Autorità Garante per l'Infanzia e l'Adolescenza.[2]
Plot
Abandoned by his parents, and with his paternal grandmother, incapacitated, Brando is given to a family house (an orphanage). Michele accepts the court's decision: his reasons being that he does not want his son entrusted to his maternal grandparents in Catania, who Michele feels will not provide proper care to the boy, and he also wants to assuage Lilletta, who has recently moved in with Michele, as she feels the same about the grandparents.
Brando falls into deep distress. He develops
After about a year in the family home, Brando receives a proposal to go into foster care with the family of a man he knew while still at home. The couple had a son who had died recently, but the boy rejects them, fearing that he would be abandoned again.
After a few months, Michele visits Brando and reaffirms that he has no interest in him. Brando then agrees to the foster care proposal, stating that he did not want to become just a substitute for their dead son. Surrounded by the love that is in his new family, Brando becomes happy again.
Cast
- Luigi Lo Cascio as Michele
- Donatella Finocchiaro as Flora
- Leonardo Della Bianca as Brando
- Erika Blanc as Giuditta
- Pino Quartullo as Stefano
- Isabella Aldovini as Laura
- Eleonora Sergio as Lilletta
- Augusto Zucchi as Vico
- Mia Benedetta as Marcella
- Patrizia Pellegrino as Novella
- Chiara Sani as Elide
- Rita Carlini as Suntina
- Marina Ninchi as Mina
- Diletta Dalla Casa as Ornella
- Bob Messini as Alioti, the lawyer
- Mariella Valentini as Bartocci
TV Ratings
Airing | Viewers | Share |
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November 20, 2013 | 4,812,000 | 17,87%[3] |
References
- ^ "Il bambino cattivo, Pupi Avati caring abandoned children narrator. Panorama.it". Archived from the original on November 23, 2013. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
- ^ "Il bambino cattivo: Pupi Avati Director for the Rights of Childhood ancd Adolescence". Archived from the original on November 21, 2013. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
- ^ Ufficio Stampa Rai (ed.). "Audience Wednesday, November 20". Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved November 21, 2013.