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Ciao, Professore!

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

Critics Reviews

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 01/01/2000
2.5/4
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. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 07/14/2005
2/5
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice 07/19/2003
Revolves around a diligent northern Italian school teacher and his attempts to do his job well. Go to Full Review
Marc Vincenti Palo Alto Weekly 05/20/2003
2/4
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 01/31/2003
3/5
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Audience Reviews

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GABRIEL S 08/21/2024 Beautiful Film.The plot and emotional depth are beautiful. See more 07/17/2016 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! See more 01/30/2013 A rude reality in a poor place of italy. That's a Ironically and reflective movie i liked so much. See more 04/07/2011 Good humor but no story evolution See more 07/08/2010 Kids are fun, but the film is not very memorable. Oh, interesting how it talks about Italy's culture, it was very informative. See more 12/14/2009 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 See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis An error puts a strict teacher (Paolo Villaggio) from northern Italy with street-smart third graders to the south.
Director
Lina Wertmüller
Producer
Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Ciro Ippolito
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