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Amici miei – Come tutto ebbe inizio (2011)

Amici miei – Come tutto ebbe inizio poster
Original title
Amici miei - Come tutto ebbe inizio
Directed by
Neri Parenti
Genre
comedy film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 45m
Rating
4.1 of 10 from 97 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This Italian comedy is a tribute to a classic film series. It follows a group of friends in 15th century Florence who pull elaborate pranks on each other, based on a famous Renaissance story.

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What happens

Amici miei – Come tutto ebbe inizio (lit. 'My friends: how it all began') is a 2011 Italian comedy film directed by Neri Parenti. The film is meant to be a tribute to Mario Monicelli's classic comedy My Friends (1975) and its two sequels, and it is set in 15th-century Florence. The main plot of the film is based on an Italian Renaissance novella known as Novella del Grasso legnaiuolo ("Tale of the Fat Carpenter"). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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