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Happy to be Different

Country: Italy, Language: Italian, 93 mins

Original Title

Felice chi è diverso
  • Director: Gianni Amelio

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An older gay couple in a city in northern Italy talk about their decades-long relationship. A man describes how he was physically abused by his father because of his sexual identity. Another, who had a high-flying career, recounts a sexually fulfilled life and mentions numerous homosexual politicians. Gay men from across the social classes and regions of the country have their say and discuss the different conditions which determined gay life in Italy. Their stories recall isolation, discrimination, suffering and violence, but also reveal designs for a happy life. There is a discomfiting and controversial discrepancy between the reality of the individual accounts and the media coverage. The latter often portrays gay people with a discriminatory irony or is manipulating and vitriolic, especially where intellectuals are concerned.

With Felice chi è diverso, Gianni Amelio relates a gay history of Italy since fascist times. His anthropological study becomes a cultural history of the country. His analysis of social conditions is both moving and enraging and refuses to allow the audience to remain indifferent.


Il film documentario di Gianni Amelio a Berlino nella sezione Panorama e nelle sale a marzo 2014. L'Italia del mondo omosessuale dai primi del '900, attraverso le testimonianze di chi ha vissuto sulla propria pelle il peso di essere "diverso". Un quadro sfaccettato e sorprendente, che contrasta spesso con l'immagine stereotipata rappresentata dai mezzi di comunicazione.


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Cast & Characters

Glauco Bettera;
Giorgio Bongiovanni;
Mosè Bottazzi;
Nicola Calì;
Ciro Cascina;
Francesco Cocola;
Roberto David;
Ninetto Davoli