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The famous Italian football coach Oronzo Canà has retired to a villa in Apulia. Now, old and tired, he is enjoying a quiet life there, cultivating his vineyard, when suddenly he is summoned to Milan, in northern Italy. There the elderly chairman of a great Lombard ("Longobarda") club is suffering from dementia and has lost his powers of judgement, and the club's manager has been fired. He has decided to bring back Oronzo Canà as trainer, remembering him from his great football team of thirty years before, tasking him with bringing the club back to its old winning ways. Oronzo puts his trust in the intervention of a Russian billionaire who has bought the club for promotion. But it is a deception.Read moreLess
The famous Italian football coach Oronzo Canà has retired to a villa in Apulia. Now, old and tired, he is enjoying a quiet life there, cultivating his vineyard, when suddenly he is summoned to Milan, in northern Italy. There the elderly chairman of a great Lombard ("Longobarda") club is suffering from dementia and has lost his powers of judgement, and the club's manager has been fired. He has decided to bring back Oronzo Canà as trainer, remembering him from his great football team of thirty years before, tasking him with bringing the club back to its old winning ways. Oronzo puts his trust in the intervention of a Russian billionaire who has bought the club for promotion. But it is a deception.
The story
The famous Italian football coach Oronzo Canà has retired to a villa in Apulia. Now, old and tired, he is enjoying a quiet life there, cultivating his vineyard, when suddenly he is summoned to Milan, in northern Italy. There the elderly chairman of a great Lombard ("Longobarda") club is suffering from dementia and has lost his powers of judgement, and the club's manager has been fired. He has decided to bring back Oronzo Canà as trainer, remembering him from his great football team of thirty years before, tasking him with bringing the club back to its old winning ways. Oronzo puts his trust in the intervention of a Russian billionaire who has bought the club for promotion. But it is a deception.
Cast & crew
Lino BanfiOronzo Canà
Biagio IzzoFedele
Giuliana CalandraMara Canà
Anna FalchiGioia Desideri
Stefania SpugniniMichelina
Andrea RoncatoBergonzoni
Elisa Della ValentinaFidanzata Calciatore
Urs AlthausAristoteles
Joanna MoskwaMyra
Andrea PucciWilly BorlottiExplore the crew
- Director
- Sergio Martino
- Producer
- Marco Poccioni
- Producer
- Luciano Martino
- Producer
- Marco Valsania
- Producer
- Mino Loy
- Original Music Composer
- Amedeo Minghi
- Editor
- Eugenio Alabiso
- Director of Photography
- Giancarlo Ferrando
- Director of Photography
- Bruno Cascio
- Editor
- Alberto Moriani
- Screenplay
- Riccardo Cassini
- Screenplay
- Sergio Martino
- Screenplay
- Lino Banfi
- Screenplay
- Luca Biglione
- Screenplay
- Franco Verucci
- Screenplay
- Romolo Guerrieri