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Giovanna's Father

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Giovanna's Father
Directed byPupi Avati
Written byPupi Avati
Antonio Avati
StarringSilvio Orlando
Francesca Neri
Alba Rohrwacher
Release date
Running time
104 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Giovanna's Father (Italian: Il papà di Giovanna) is a 2008 Italian drama film directed by Pupi Avati.

Plot

In Bologna in the late 1930s, Michele Casali (Silvio Orlando) teaches design at the same institute where his daughter Giovanna (Alba Rohrwacher) studies. Michele is a loving father, but overprotective. He does not recognize the mental health problems of his daughter and cannot save her when she is committed to a mental institution after killing her best friend.

Cast