Caterina in the Big City
Oct 24 2003
•2h 45m
•Comedy, Drama
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself at sea with an environment where students sort themselves by social class and their parents' political affiliation.
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Sergio Castellitto
Giancarlo Iacovoni
Margherita Buy
Agata Iacovoni
Alice Teghil
Caterina Iacovoni
Federica Sbrenna
Daniela Germano
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