

Quiet Chaos(2008)
Overview
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.
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Nanni Moretti
Pietro Paladini

Alessandro Gassmann
Carlo

Valeria Golino
Marta

Isabella Ferrari
Eleonora Simonicini

Blu Yoshimi
Claudia

Hippolyte Girardot
Jean Claude

Kasia Smutniak
Jolanda

Denis Podalydès
Thierry

Charles Berling
Boesson

Silvio Orlando
Samuele

Alba Rohrwacher
Annalisa

Manuela Morabito
Maria Grazia

Roberto Nobile
Taramanni

Babak Karimi
Mario

Beatrice Bruschi
Benedetta
Sara D'Amico
Francesca

Tatiana Lepore
Mamma di Matteo
Anna Gigante
Amica di Maria Grazia

Antonella Attili
Gloria

Cloris Brosca
Psicoterapeuta

Valentina Carnelutti
Amica di Maria Grazia
Stefano Guglielmi
Matteo
Nestor Saied
Simoncini
Dina Braschi
Donna anziana
Ester Cavallari
Lara Paladini

Roman Polanski
Steiner
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