Il professor Cenerentolo

Il professor Cenerentolo (lit. 'Professor Cinderella') is a 2015 Italian comedy film written, directed and performed by Leonardo Pieraccioni.[1][2] The scenes of the film were shot in Lazio, between Rome, Formia, Gaeta and Ventotene. It was Pieraccioni's first film not being set in his homeland of Tuscany. The cast also includes Laura Chiatti, Massimo Ceccherini and Flavio Insinna.

Il professor Cenerentolo
Film poster
Directed byLeonardo Pieraccioni
Written byLeonardo Pieraccioni
Giovanni Veronesi
Domenico Costanzo
Produced byMarco Belardi
StarringLeonardo Pieraccioni
Laura Chiatti
Massimo Ceccherini
Flavio Insinna
CinematographyFabrizio Lucci
Edited byPatrizio Marone
Music byGianluca Sibaldi
Distributed by01 Distribution
Release date
  • December 7, 2015 (2015-12-07)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Plot

Umberto Massaciuccoli is an engineer who attempted a bank robbery to avoid the bankruptcy of his business; the robbery, however, fails miserably and Umberto is thus arrested and sentenced to a period of detention in the Ventotene prison. Arriving near the end of the sentence, the man is admitted to day work outside the penitentiary, which sees him as librarian and tutor to the daughter of the director of the prison in view of the graduation of the girl.

One evening, during a socio-cultural event open to the public, Umberto meets Morgana, a fascinating dance teacher; the fact that he is called by fellow prisoners and prison staff with the nickname of "professor" makes the girl believe that he works in the prison as an educator and that he is not a prisoner: taking advantage of the misunderstanding, Umberto begins to attend her in clandestine way instead of going to work in the library, but every day by midnight he must return to the structure.

One day Morgana discovers the truth and distances herself from Umberto, who, however, will be able to win her back, with the help and complicity of friends and companions and taking risks personally, making her recover a gold chain handed down for generations in her family and that his violent ex had sold to a Romanian fence. Finally, Morgana, reflecting on Umberto's questions regarding the love of a daughter for her father, will decide to give the jewel of the chain to Martina, Umberto's daughter, leaving the latter in the dark about her. Some time later Umberto, Morgana and Arnaldo, owner of the municipal library where Umberto worked, opened a company that deals with recovering missing objects, exploiting the body of Arnaldo (afflicted by dwarfism) to dig in the crevices.

Cast
  • Leonardo Pieraccioni as Umberto Massaciuccoli
  • Laura Chiatti as Morgana
  • Massimo Ceccherini as Tinto
  • Flavio Insinna as the prison director
  • Davide Marotta as Arnaldo
  • Lisa Ruth Andreozzi as Martina
  • Sergio Friscia as Don Vincenzo
  • Nicola Nocella as officer Nocella
  • Nicola Acunzo as Calabrese
  • Lorena Cesarini as Sveva
  • Manuela Zero as Mia
  • Emanuela Aurizi as the spouse
  • Lucianna De Falco as Signora Mammolotti

Release

The film was released in cinemas starting from 7 December 2015, distributed by 01 Distribution in collaboration with Rai Cinema.

Reception

Receipts

The film on its debut weekend grossed over 1,250,000 euros, placing itself in 1st place in the Italian box office, surpassing even Chiamatemi Francesco. After a week, as of December 15 2015 the film held the top spot reaching a total of € 2,975,950.[3] With the arrival in the theaters of Star Wars: The Force Awakens the movie dropped to second position, and then dropped to sixth position at the end of December, behind Natale col Boss and Vacanze ai Caraibi.[4] As of January 6 2016 the film has grossed 5,889,119 euro, ranking in third place of the most viewed Italian films of the holidays.

References
  1. "Pieraccioni, Leonardo". Treccani Encyclopedia. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  2. D'Agostini, Paolo (8 December 2015). ""Il professor Cenerentolo", la commediola inoffensiva di Pieraccioni" (in Italian). la Repubblica. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  3. Il professor Cenerentolo ancora primo nelle sale
  4. Box Office Italia 26 dicembre, 2 milioni a Santo Stefano per Star Wars VII


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