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Giovanna's Father (Italian: Il papà di Giovanna) is a 2008 Italian drama film directed by Pupi Avati. Plot. In Bologna in the late 1930s, Michele Casali (Silvio Orlando) teaches design at the same institute where his daughter Giovanna (Alba Rohrwacher) studies. Michele is a loving father, but overprotective.
Dec 23, 2011 · Giovanna's Father: Directed by Pupi Avati. With Silvio Orlando, Francesca Neri, Ezio Greggio, Alba Rohrwacher. In pre-war Bologna, Michele Casali's teenage daughter Giovanna kills her best friend out of jealousy. Deemed mentally unfit, she is committed to a psychiatric hospital.
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- Drama, War
- Pupi Avati
- 2011-12-23
Sep 12, 2008 · Michele Casali is a middle-class professor in Fascist Italy who teaches at the same high school attended by his only daughter, Giovanna. A shy and sensitive girl, her insecurities are only magnified by Michele's overprotectiveness—reaching a point of no return.
Summaries. In pre-war Bologna, Michele Casali's teenage daughter Giovanna kills her best friend out of jealousy. Deemed mentally unfit, she is committed to a psychiatric hospital. Bologna, Italy, Pre-war scenario. Michele Casali's only teenage daughter, Giovanna Casali, poses a problem to him.
Sep 5, 2008 · GIOVANNA'S FATHER. Bologna 1938. Michele Casali has a serious problem. His only daughter, Giovanna, has just killed her best friend in a bout of jealousy. The girl, who is still an adolescent, is declared to be non compus mentis and is committed to a psychiatric hospital.
Giovanna's father Michele Casali is an art teacher at a school in Bologna in the late 1930s, just as the grip of Mussolini's fascist goverment is tightening and leading the country toward war. Casali has a teenage daughter who is somewhat delicate, childish and socially awkward for her age.
Aug 31, 2008 · By Alissa Simon. The story of a protective father’s overweening love for his mentally unstable daughter plays out against the backdrop of fascist Italy in ultra-prolific writer-helmer Pupi...
