

The Complexity of Happiness
2015-11-26 · 117 min · ★ 6.0
Enrico is a corporate man whose job is to manipulate inexperienced scions into selling their flailing companies. His latest assignment proves more difficult than anticipated—since his target are two young siblings whose parents just died in a car accident.
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- Directors
- Gianni Zanasi
- Production companies
- Pupkin Production, IBC MOvie
- Countries
- Italy
- Status
- Released
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Valerio MastandreaEnrico Giusti
Hadas YaronAvinoam
Giuseppe BattistonCarlo Bernini
Filippo De CarliFilippo Lievi
Maurizio DonadoniZio Umberto
Teco CelioBernini Sr.
Daniele De AngelisNicola Giusti
Maurizio LastricoIvano
Paolo BrigugliaMatteo Borghi
Domenico Dieleassistente di Bernini
Matteo MartariGuido
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