Quo Vado?
| Quo Vado? | |
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| Directed by | Gennaro Nunziante |
| Produced by | Pietro Valsecchi |
| Screenplay by | Checco Zalone, Gennaro Nunziante |
| Story by | Checco Zalone, Gennaro Nunziante |
| Starring | Checco Zalone |
| Music by | Checco Zalone |
| Cinematography | Vittorio Omodei Zorini |
| Edited by | Pietro Morana |
Production company |
TaoDue, Medusa Film |
| Distributed by | Medusa Film[1] |
Release dates |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
| Budget | €10.000.000[1] ($11.200.000) |
| Box office | €65.284.765 ($72.868.503) |
Quo Vado? is a 2016 Italian comedy film directed by Gennaro Nunziante.[1] It was released on January 1, 2016.
Plot
Checco was born into a life of relative comfort and privilege among his peers in his small town in southern Italy. He is one of the lucky few to have a posto fisso, or guaranteed job as a public servant. When a new reformist government vows to cut down on bureaucracy, Checco is forced to accept ever-worsening public-sector postings in order to maintain his guaranteed pay, benefits, and lifetime employment. Mrs. Sironi is a representative of the new government who is tasked with downsizing the public sector by offering buyouts to targeted government employees in exchange for their resignation (see constructive dismissal). She takes a special interest in Checco who eventually becomes the last resilient holdout, no matter what hellish place he is appointed he finds rays of hope and won't surrender his public employee status.
In a final attempt to dissuade his willpower he is appointed at the north pole by Sironi, with Italian arctic research station as a hunter to protect the team. At the station Checco who initially wanted to resign, seeing Valeria changes the decision and falls in love with her at first sight. During the vacation Checco goes Valeria to Norway where she lives and he finds that Valeria is a polygamist and has three children from three races. He is also introduced to a whole new way of life. He becomes enchanted with the politeness and the aspects of progressive (attending classical concerts), eco-centric society. Norway's winter season depresses him and he becomes home sick and misses haggling, shouting, discrimination, above all rudeness. Checco and Valeria comes to Italy. Cheeco seems happy but Valeria fails to adjust with demanding living situation that requires compromises and bribery. Fed up, Valeria leaves Italy and Checco gets his permanent position with the government. Later he receives news that his love is pregnant and is in South Africa. Checco goes to South Africa, but Valeria is displeased with Checco's decision to juggle both responsibilities of fatherhood and the governmental position. Checco chooses to let go of his secure job, uses the leftover money from Sironi to buy vaaccines for an African medical camp and restarts his life with Valeria as a spermatozoon collector. Checco's parents visit them and groans over Checco's decision and the governmental benefits he had forfeited thus. Though his mother becomes happy seeing the child.
Cast
- Checco Zalone as Checco Zalone
- Eleonora Giovanardi as Valeria
- Ninni Bruschetta as Minister Magno
- Sonia Bergamasco as Dr. Sironi
- Maurizio Micheli as Peppino, Checco's father
- Paolo Pierobon as Ricercatore scientifico
- Lino Banfi as Senator Nicola Binetto
- Ludovica Modugno as Caterina
Reception
The film grossed €65.3 million,[1] on January 26.becoming and currently the highest grossing Italian film of all time.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Anderson, Ariston (January 4, 2016). "Italy Box Office: Local Hit 'Quo Vado?' Sets Opening Records". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- ↑ Niola, Gabriele (January 14, 2016). "Italy box office: 'Quo Vado?' becomes biggest ever local film". Screen Daily.