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== Plot ==
== Plot ==
In a grammar school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day of school before the summer holidays. Professor Vivaldi, Italian literature teacher, before the end bitterly remembers what happened in that year and he wonders what will happen to those young students that he cared for as children from their first day of school. But they've paid him off in a somewhat offensive way, given that, as the professor has noted, today's youth are in most cases changed, drifters and without a sense of civic duty.
It is the last day of school in a run-down technical institute in the Roman suburbs before the summer break. Mr. Vivaldi, an Italian literature teacher, bitterly remembers what happened during the school year and wonders what will happen to those young students that he cared for as children from their first day of school: they've paid him off in a somewhat offensive way, given that, as the teacher has noted, today's youth have changed, they are drifters and without a sense of civic duty.


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==Reception==
==Reception==
The film was the third most popular Italian film in Italy for the year with a gross of 8.7 billion lire ($5.5 million) and was [[List of 1995 box office number-one films in Italy|number one at the Italian box office]] for three consecutive weeks.<ref name=gross/>
The film was the third most popular Italian film in Italy for the year with a gross of 8.7 billion lire ($5.5 million) and was [[List of 1995 box office number-one films in Italy|number one at the Italian box office]] for three consecutive weeks.<ref name=gross/>

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La scuola
Directed byDaniele Luchetti
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyAlessio Gelsini Torresi
Edited byMirco Garrone
Music byBill Frisell
Distributed byCecchi Gori Group
Release date
  • 6 April 1995 (1995-04-06)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
Box office$5.5 million (Italy)[1]

La scuola (also known as School) is a 1995 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Daniele Luchetti. It is loosely based on two books by Domenico Starnone, Ex Cattedra and Sottobanco.

The film was awarded with the David di Donatello for Best Film.[2]

Plot

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It is the last day of school in a run-down technical institute in the Roman suburbs before the summer break. Mr. Vivaldi, an Italian literature teacher, bitterly remembers what happened during the school year and wonders what will happen to those young students that he cared for as children from their first day of school: they've paid him off in a somewhat offensive way, given that, as the teacher has noted, today's youth have changed, they are drifters and without a sense of civic duty.

Cast

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Reception

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The film was the third most popular Italian film in Italy for the year with a gross of 8.7 billion lire ($5.5 million) and was number one at the Italian box office for three consecutive weeks.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Top 10 Domestic Films 1995". Screen International. 5 April 1996. p. 17.
  2. ^ Enrico Lancia (1998). I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 88-7742-221-1.
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