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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Titta Di Girolamo is a middle-aged loner who has spent the last eight years living in an upmarket hotel in Lugano, Switzerland. Every day he puts on his suit and wanders around, avoiding contact with people. In the morning, he solves the chess puzzles in the paper and in the evening he plays Grabber with a bankrupt aristocratic couple who are marooned in the hotel they used to own. Occasionally, he rings his family in Italy but his wife is always reluctant to talk, and his grown-up children despise him. He develops feelings for Sofia, the beautiful and stylish waitress at the bar of the hotel but he refuses to speak to her because, in his shyness, he fears that love would complicate his monotone but quiet life.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Toni Servillo
Titta Di Girolamo
Nino D'Agata
Mafioso
Diego Ribon
Director
Giselda Volodi
Waitress
Giovanni Vettorazzo
Letizia
Gaetano Bruno
Hired Assassin
Adriano Giannini
Valerio