Movie Details
Original Language:Italian
Cast & Crew
C
Claudio Rossi Massimi
Screenplay
C
Claudio Rossi Massimi
Director
L
Lucia Macale
Producer
G
Gianluca Gallucci
Director of Photography
D
Davide Zucchetti
Editor
The Right to Happiness
Audience Score
1 hr 21 minDrama
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 lovers 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 booksellers name means free and freedom is what Libero bequeaths to Essien
DirectorClaudio Rossi Massimi
