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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.

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Alison Macor Austin Chronicle Rated: 3/5 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review 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 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Jul 14, 2005 Full Review 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 Full Review Marc Vincenti Palo Alto Weekly Rated: 2/4 May 20, 2003 Full Review Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Rated: 3/5 Jan 31, 2003 Full Review Read all reviews

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GABRIEL S Beautiful Film.The plot and emotional depth are beautiful. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/21/24 Full Review Stephen C Don't **** up again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Audience Member Good humor but no story evolution Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review 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 Full Review 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