Ciao, Professore!

R

Released Jul 15, 1994

1h 39m

Comedy

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57%

Tomatometer

7 Reviews

76%

Audience Score

1,000+ Ratings

An error puts a strict teacher (Paolo Villaggio) from northern Italy with street-smart third graders to the south.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Ciao Professore is a sweet movie with some lovable characters in it, but there was a time when Wertmuller would have snorted in scorn at the simplicity of this material, and gone to work to make it her own.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jan 1, 2000

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Alison Macor

Austin Chronicle

Rated: 3/5

Jan 1, 2000

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James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Rated: 3.5/4

Jan 1, 2000

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 2/5

Jul 14, 2005

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality & Practice

Revolves around a diligent northern Italian school teacher and his attempts to do his job well.

Jul 19, 2003

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Marc Vincenti

Palo Alto Weekly

Rated: 2/4

May 20, 2003

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Stephen C

Don't **** up again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Audience Member

As a northern Italian teacher is assigned to an elementary school in southern Italy, the cultural clashes result in gut-wrenching laughs. This silly and simple film is so genuine that the viewer does not doubt that they situations are real and not a film, which makes it that much more comedic. Empathy towards the protagonist is difficult to avoid. We understand why there are such cultural discrepancies in Italy between its industrial north and agrarian south through the personalities of the children in this film and their family situations. This can only be a positive and hilarious film viewing experience and should have 100% RT rating!

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/15/23

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Audience Member

A rude reality in a poor place of italy. That's a Ironically and reflective movie i liked so much.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Audience Member

Good humor but no story evolution

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Audience Member

Kids are fun, but the film is not very memorable. Oh, interesting how it talks about Italy's culture, it was very informative.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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Audience Member

What a rare and relatively unknown little gem of a film this is. You can read better reviews than mine here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107225/ but this made me laugh out loud, and I found the acting honest and true to life. In reality the kids made this film, it is hard to believe that they really said all that foul language, and there is a lot of foul language but do not let that distract you, this is a very charming and touching movie about a teacher who is wrongly assigned to a school in one of the roughest parts of Southern Italy, where the nine year olds are very street wise. Wonderful. 9/10

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Synopsis

An error puts a strict teacher (Paolo Villaggio) from northern Italy with street-smart third graders to the south.

Director: Lina Wertmüller
Screenwriter: Alessandro Bencivenni, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Andrej Longo, Domenico Saverni, Lina Wertmüller
Distributor: Miramax Films, Miramax Home Entertainment [us]
Production Co: Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinema
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: Italian
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 15, 1994, Wide
Release Date (DVD): Jul 1, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA): $63.0K
Runtime: 1h 39m
Sound Mix: Stereo, Dolby