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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1981 - 1.9 August

Sections & Films

I’M STARTING FROM THREE

Category: Edition 1981

Synopsis
Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people. He arrives in Florence, at his aunt's house. In a clinic, where it happens by chance, she knows Marta and falls in love with her. After a series of funny situations (an old friend from unstoppable talk comes from Naples, the mature aunt and his elderly lover, a young American priest who wants to involve him in his evangelical visits, the meeting with Riccardino, a young man frustrated by an oppressive mother, the father waiting for the miracle of the regrowth of an amputated hand, etc.) Gaetano decides to stay in Florence and to act as a father to the son that Marta waits, even if the girl does not want to reveal exactly the name of her father.

Original Title Ricomincio da tre
Italian Title Ricomincio da tre
Category Out of competition
Section Review "Youth Problems in Contemporary World"
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 110'
Production Year 1981
Nationality Italy
Directed by Massimo Troisi
Screenplay Massimo Troisi, Anna Pavignano
Music Pino Daniele
Main cast Massimo Troisi, Fiorenza Marchegiani, Marco Messeri

 regista massimo troisiMASSIMO TROISI

His acting career started when he was 15 in a theatre (Centro Teatro Spazio). In 1969 he founded the group "I saraceni" (later renamed "La smorfia") with Enzo Decaro and Lello Arena. He became famous to the TV audience between 1976 and 1979 with two TV programs "Non Stop" and "Luna Park". First movie "Ricomincio da tre" in 1981.