Bets & Wedding Dresses

Italian comedy drama starring Sergio Castellitto (The Wedding Director) as a father who's gambling problems are either the making or breaking of his daughter's wedding.

Stars Castellitto in the role of Franco Campanella, a former post office worker married to German-born Josephine (Martina Gedeck, The Baader Meinhof Complex). Franco is a gambler and he frequents the dingiest corners of Naples to bet on horses and play poker, roulette and "zecchinetta". Despite the trouble his debts have caused and the disapproval of his family, he has managed to maintain a precarious balance… until now. For the Campanella family, and in particular for Josephine, their daughter Luisa's wedding has to be perfect as it is the day of their social redemption. But Franco, desperate to make his daughter's dreams come true, can see only one path, certain that fate - this time - will be on his side." (Italian Film Festival 2011)

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