Azzurro
2000 · 84 min · Drama
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...
- Director
- Denis Rabaglia
- Writers
- Antoine Jaccoud, Denis Rabaglia, Luca de Benedittis
- Released
- August 12, 2000
- Language
- Italian
Cast
Paolo Villaggio
Giuseppe De Metrio
Francesca Pipoli
Carla De Metrio
Marie-Christine Barrault
Elizabeth Broyer
Jean-Luc Bideau
Gaston Broyer
Renato Scarpa
Giorgio
Julien Boisselier
Pascal Broyer
Antonio Petrocelli
Roberto De Metrio
Soraya Sala
Lucia De Metrio
Tom Novembre
Philippe
Graziano Giusti
Prof. Papaleo
Anna Ferruzzo
Female Nurse
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