The Complexity of Happiness

Nov 26, 2015

1h 57m

★ 6.0

Overview

Enrico is a corporate man whose job is to manipulate inexperienced scions into selling their flailing companies. His latest assignment proves more difficult than anticipated—since his target are two young siblings whose parents just died in a car accident.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Pupkin Production

IBC MOvie

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Cast

Enrico Giusti

Valerio Mastandrea

Avinoam

Hadas Yaron

Carlo Bernini

Giuseppe Battiston

Filippo Lievi

Filippo De Carli

Camilla Lievi

Camilla Martini

Zio Umberto

Maurizio Donadoni

Bernini Sr.

Teco Celio

Nicola Giusti

Daniele De Angelis

Ivano

Maurizio Lastrico

Matteo Borghi

Paolo Briguglia

assistente di Bernini

Domenico Diele

Guido

Matteo Martari

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