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Storyline

Nello Balocchi, 35, a shy and clumsy man devoted to the academic world is sent by his father - a pragmatic businessman and womanizer who happens to be the Pope's tailor - to teach at a high school in Bologna in the hope that living in such an emancipated city will allow him to find a wife at last, thus giving the family its eagerly awaited heir. On reaching Bologna, Nello goes to live in a pensione run by Arabella where he shares a room with a Neapolitan barber, thanks to whose advice he gradually gets to know the fairer sex. While he discovers that he has a great talent for teaching, the search for a soul mate is unsuccessful. Until the day he finds himself at a tea dance in a home for blind women, by chance or sent there by Providence. There Nello meets a "femme fatale", Angela Gardini, the most beautiful and open-minded young woman in all Bologna, who turns his life upside down.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Festival de Cannes 2003
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