A World Apart

Mar 28, 2024

1h 53m

★ 6.5

Overview

Elementary school teacher Michele Cortese is about to start a whole new life. After 40 years of teaching in the metropolitan Roman jungle, he had to move to a village in Central Italy, to teach in a tiny school with just a few children aged 7-10. Struggling to overcome his urban inadequacy, he finds a friendly face in vice-principal Agnese and gradually manages to fit in, thanks to her and their spirited pupils. As everything seems to be falling into place, unwelcome news comes through: the school has failed to meet its student quota for the next year and will soon be shut for good.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Wildside

Medusa Film

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Cast

Michele Cortese

Antonio Albanese

Agnese

Virginia Raffaele

Collaboratore scolastico Nunzio

Sergio Saltarelli

Maria Antonietta

Alessandra Barbonetti

Filomena

Solidea Pistilli

Ezechia, sindaco di Castel Romito

Sergio Meogrossi

Gaetano, Preside della Scuola di Castel Romito

Corrado Oddi

Aniceto

Gianmarco Borsa

Concezio

Guglielmo Casale

Cesidio

Enzo De Sanctis

Sabatino

Andrea Decina Di Pirro

Luigia, provveditore

Franca Di Cicco

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