CAST:
Sergio Castellitto,
Tai Ling

SCRIPT:
Gianni Amelio,
Umberto Contarello

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Luca Bigazzi

Synopsis:
A Chinese delegation arrives in Italy to buy a machine from an ironworks that is about to close. Vincenzo Buonavolontŕ, who maintains the machines, is convinced that this machine is not suitable for sale and persistently tries to find a malfunction in order to prevent accidents from happening when the new workers handle it. In the process, Vincenzo Buonavolonte travels to China and finds the country to be quite different from how he had imagined it from far away. The film is based on Ermanno Rea’s novel La Dismissone.

color, 35 mm, 104 min