The Past Is a Foreign Land

6.2(35 votes)

2008

2h 0m

DramaThriller

A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had never known.

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Production

Budget:$5,600,000

Revenue:$965,171

Companies:

Fandango

R&C Produzioni

RAI Cinema

Languages

Original:it

Spoken:

Italian

Cast

Elio Germano

Giorgio

Michele Riondino

Francesco

Chiara Caselli

Maria

Valentina Lodovini

Antonia

Marco Baliani

Franco

Daniela Poggi

Anna

María Jurado

Ángelica

Romina Carrisi

Giulia

Federico Pacifici

Lawyer

Lorenza Indovina

Alessandra

Antonio Gerardi

Officer

Gianrico Carofiglio

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