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Feature film — 2017

Ignorance Is Bliss (2017)

5.91h 42mComedy

Ernesto and Filippo, two high school teachers, couldn’t be more different: Filippo is a cheerful liberal who is constantly online. Handsome and youthful, he is a serial seducer on the social networks. Ernesto, instead is a stern conservative, rigorously computerless. He is probably the last person around who still has a first-generation cell phone and his teaching methods are very traditional. They used to be best friends but an unresolved fight kept them far apart, until the day fate intervened and they found themselves teaching at the same school. Their opposite viewpoints will soon and inevitably lead to a new clash. The internet will force them to deal with their past, which resurfaces in the shape of Nina, a young woman who conducts an experiment on them: Filippo must try to leave the world of Internet and Ernesto must try to enter it.

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A high-signal pick with 460 votes.

Italian International Film / RAI Cinema

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Director: Massimiliano Bruno

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Cast & crew

Marco Giallini as Ernesto

Marco Giallini

Ernesto

Alessandro Gassmann as Filippo

Alessandro Gassmann

Filippo

Valeria Bilello as Margherita

Valeria Bilello

Margherita

Carolina Crescentini as Marianna

Carolina Crescentini

Marianna

Teresa Romagnoli as Nina

Teresa Romagnoli

Nina

Michela Andreozzi as Dott.ssa Andreoli

Michela Andreozzi

Dott.ssa Andreoli

Alessandro Di Carlo as bidello

Alessandro Di Carlo

bidello

Pietro De Silva as Ulderico

Pietro De Silva

Ulderico

Roberta Fiorentini as Nonna Binetti

Roberta Fiorentini

Nonna Binetti

Luciano Scarpa as Meyer

Luciano Scarpa

Meyer

Massimiliano Bruno as Osvaldo

Massimiliano Bruno

Osvaldo

Luca Angeletti as Nazi

Luca Angeletti

Nazi