Azzurro

Story

Synopsis

75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of...

Director

Denis Rabaglia

Writers

Antoine Jaccoud, Luca de Benedittis, Denis Rabaglia

Language

Italian

Country

Switzerland, France, Italy

Release date

12 August 2000

Budget

$3,100,000

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Paolo Villaggio

  Giuseppe De Metrio

• Francesca Pipoli

  Carla De Metrio

• 

  Marie-Christine Barrault

  Elizabeth Broyer

• 

  Jean-Luc Bideau

  Gaston Broyer

• 

  Renato Scarpa

  Giorgio

• 

  Julien Boisselier

  Pascal Broyer

• 

  Antonio Petrocelli

  Roberto De Metrio

• Soraya Sala

  Lucia De Metrio

• 

  Tom Novembre

  Philippe

• 

  Graziano Giusti

  Prof. Papaleo

• 

  Anna Ferruzzo

  Female Nurse