| Ivo the Genius | |
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| Directed by | Alessandro Benvenuti |
| Written by | Alessandro Benvenuti Ugo Chiti Nicola Zavagli |
| Starring | Alessandro Benvenuti Francesca Neri |
| Cinematography | Blasco Giurato |
| Music by | Patrizio Fariselli |
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| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
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Ivo, a troubled forty-year old man, keen on solving puzzles has just recovered from a mental illness. He goes back to his hometown where he meets Sara, who wants to help him at all costs. He falls in love with her and in order to keep seeing her he agrees to go and live with four people with mental problems with whom he sets up a kind of misfits community. [3]
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