Azzurro 24 years old

75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of...

Credits

Azzurro Cast

Name Character
Tom Novembre He was 40, now 65 years old as Philippe
Paolo Villaggio He was 67, 84 years old when he died as Giuseppe De Metrio
Renato Scarpa He was 60, now 85 years old as Giorgio
Jean-Luc Bideau He was 59, now 84 years old as Gaston Broyer
Julien Boisselier He was 30, now 54 years old as Pascal Broyer
Antonio Petrocelli He was 46, now 71 years old as Roberto De Metrio
Marie-Christine Barrault She was 56, now 80 years old as Elizabeth Broyer
Soraya Gomaa as Lucia De Metrio
Francesca Pipoli as Carla De Metrio
Anna Ferruzzo She was 34, now 58 years old as Female Nurse

Azzurro Crew

Name Department
Denis Rabaglia as Director. He was 34 (now 58) years old Directing
Azzurro poster
Azzurro (24 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, August 12, 2000
  • Runtime: 84 minutes
  • Budget: 3100000.00