The Right to Happiness
7.5 / 10
Italiano / 81 min. / 2023-03-03
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Storyline:
The Right to Happiness centers on a small used book store in a small plaza in a small town with big vistas, somewhere in Italy. It sounds like a book lover's fantasy, and maybe it is. The bookseller, Libero, knows most of his rather eccentric customers and can barely bring himself to take their money (although fascists pay double). When a young boy, Essien (Didie Lorenz Tchumbu), an émigré from Burkina Faso, happens on the shop, Libero begins lending him books of increasing difficulty. From Pinocchio to Moby Dick, Essien can read as fast as Libero can lend, and the two form a bond over reading and meaning. "Books should be read twice," Libero says. "Once to understand them, and once to think." Life should probably be lived like that too, but the bookseller's name means "free," and freedom is what Libero bequeaths to Essien.
Cast:
Remo Girone
as Libero
Corrado Fortuna
as Nicola
Didie Lorenz Tchumbu
as Essien
Moni Ovadia
as Collezionista Medusa
Pino Calabrese
as Professor Saputo
Federico Perrotta
as Bojan
Annamaria Fittipaldi
as Chiara
Lapo Braschi
as Uomo con testa rasata
Valentina Olla
as Signora Sado/Maso
Biagio Iacovelli
as Prete
Liliana Fiorelli
as La voce del diario