Movie Comedy
A film director unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising faces divorce from his producer wife.
Nanni Moretti Margherita Buy Silvio Orlando Barbora Bobuľová Mathieu Amalric Jerzy Stuhr Anger Zsolt Teco Celio Valentina Romani Flavio Furno Giuseppe Scoditti Valerio Da Silva Angelo Galdi Arianna Pozzoli Francesco Brandi Laura Nardi Arianna Serrao Blu Yoshimi Michele Eburnea Elena Lietti Benjamin Stender Francesco Rossini Federica Sandrini Carolina Pavone Corrado Augias Renzo Piano Chiara Valerio Enrico Cerretti Simone Proietti Giulia Lazzarini Alba Rohrwacher Jasmine Trinca Lina Sastri Anna Bonaiuto Renato Carpentieri Dario Cantarelli Rosario Lisma Beniamino Marcone Fabio Traversa Mariella Valentini Elio De Capitani Claudio Morganti Gigio Morra Silvia Nono
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