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| Directed by | Pupi Avati |
| Cinematography | Pasquale Rachini |
| Music by | Riz Ortolani |
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| Language | Italian |
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After Sandro Lanza, an aging television soap opera television star, suffers through an embarrassing televised media event, he attempts suicide. This brings his three daughters, Clara, Betty and Ines, the children of three different wives, to his home in Rome, where they meet each other for the first time.
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