original title:
Le badanti
directed by:
cast:
Pino Ammendola, Alessandro Bressanello, Daniela Foa, Michele Vigilante, Franco Bignotto, Cristina Chiaffoni, Marco Tizianel, Carla Camporese, Samantha Castillo, Nadiah M. Din, Anna Jimskaya, Giorgio Ariani, Priscilla Salerno, Fulvio Musico, Bruno Furini, Umberto Panarotto, Silvia Garbi, Minuta Gabura, Luigi Andreoli, Carolina Pollini, Franco Demaestri
screenplay:
Marco Pollini, Pino Ammendola, Giovanni Dentici, Peppino Crea
cinematography:
Blasco Giurato, Roberto Mettifogo
editing:
Paolo Formisano
set design:
Alessio Stefanato
costume design:
music:
Franco Bignotto, Vinicio Bianchini, Federico Poggipollini
producer:
production:
Ahora! Film, Sg Malaysia Sg Entertainment, in association with Dominic Amaloo, Almac Medicale, with the support of Nuovo Imaie, Regione Veneto
distribution:
country:
Italy/Malaysia
year:
2015
film run:
105'
format:
colour
release date:
11/06/2015
festivals & awards:
Three immigrants women, Lola Carmen and Irina, forced to flee from their lives made of violence, envies and abuses, responding to an ad to work as Caretakers in a nursing home for elderly. Due to a crook director the nursing home "Villa Bella" will end up in bankrupt. The Caretakers will have to invent something to save the house and the old people living there.
The elderly guests of the clinic, first in open contrast with the newcomers, will change their mind and became friends.