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7.2(87 votes)
1971
1h 38m
DramaComedy

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?

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Documento Film

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Original:it
Spoken:
Italian

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