In this film we were very close to Roberto Lipari to break his legs right from the start, so as to eliminate the competition". With the comedy all 'made in Sicily' by Ficarra and Picone, the press conference for the presentation of the film Tuttapposto opened, moderated by the comic duo at the Adriano cinema in Rome. Directed by Gianni Costantino and produced by Attilio De Razza, the film is the portrait of a country that makes recommendations its strong point and meritocracy an overvalued concept.
The protagonist of the story is Roberto Lipari – who gave his name and surname to the character he plays – a university student at a university where professors sell exams, hire only friends and relatives and are prone to recommendations. “Obviously this is a story of pure fantasy, these things don't happen here in Italy, but only abroad,” Ficarra and Picone ironically underlined. In the film, the one who gets the biggest 'push' is Roberto, son of the magnificent rector (played by Luca Zingaretti). One day, however, Lipari, against the advice of his family, tired of being subservient to the power of the baronate, decides with his friends to fight this system. He thus creates a smartphone app (actually downloadable from digital stores) called Tuttapposto, which evaluates the work of professors. The success is such that the roles are soon reversed: the students acquire unexpected power and the professors are forced to behave honestly in order to get a good grade. “By now we are used to and resigned to the concept of the barony at the university and we never protest, 'nothing ever changes anyway'”, Lipari said at the conference. “Precisely for this reason – he said – I decided to work on this written project taking inspiration from current events and experience”. In theaters from October 3 with Medusa Film, Tuttapposto is a light but not superficial comedy, intelligent, very funny and for Zingaretti “instructive and never vulgar”. A result obtained thanks to the very young Roberto who, for this film, showed off his talent in writing, giving the journalists present at the preview his best Sicilian comedy.
The cast, in addition to Lipari and Zingaretti, also includes Monica Guerritore (Minister of Education Beccaria), Viktoriya Pisotska (Irina), Carlo Calderone (Elio), Simona Di Bella (Sonia), Francesco Russo (Pietro), Maurizio Marchetti (Domenico Lipari), Ninni Bruschetta (Giovanni Mancuso), Maurizio Bologna (Salvatore Mancuso), Paolo Sassanelli (Professor Castellino), Angela Di Mauro (Agata Mancuso), Gino Astorino (Matteo Lo Cicero), Barbara Gallo (Santina Riccobono), Silvana Fallisi (Luisella Lipari) and Sergio Friscia (Nuccio).
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