Release, runtime and language

2003 · 100 mins · Italian

Directed by

Ettore Scola

Starring

Edoardo Leo, Valerio Mastandrea, Stefania Sandrelli, Giorgio Colangeli, Massimo Sarchielli, Sabrina Impacciatore

In 2003 Rome, the camera wanders through everyday life, linking a night‑time scene of a woman preparing her husband’s lunch, commuters on different buses, a mayor’s office cleaner, a street interview about immigration, a racist bar owner, a Holocaust survivor recalling the ghetto deportation, Stefania Sandrelli playing with her granddaughter in a park, a man flirting with a bus driver, the city’s gay nightlife, and a sunrise at Piazza Navona where a nobleman and a tramp sit side by side. The film is a mock‑documentary comedy by Ettore Scola, echoing Fellini’s Roma and dedicated to the late Alberto Sordi.