Lessons in Chocolate

Lessons in Chocolate

99 mins | Comedy | Nov. 23, 2007

Mattia, a building contractor on a promising career path, is about to close the biggest deal of his professional life, when his illegally-hired worker Kamal falls off some scaffolding, suffers a severe break and threatens to sue and press charges against Mattia unless... Unless Mattia takes his place in an advanced course for pastry makers! This is the reason Kamal came to Italy from his native Egypt and that will allow him to realize his dream of opening his own pastry shop... Mattia has no choice but to take Kamal’s place in the school and pretend to be him. Among laughs and mouth-watering recipes, Mattia will discover a way to bring his and Kamal's disparate cultures together.

Lessons in Chocolate

99 mins | Comedy | Nov. 23, 2007

Lessons in Chocolate
Mattia, a building contractor on a promising career path, is about to close the biggest deal of his professional life, when his illegally-hired worker Kamal falls off some scaffolding, suffers a severe break and threatens to sue and press charges against Mattia unless... Unless Mattia takes his place in an advanced course for pastry makers! This is the reason Kamal came to Italy from his native Egypt and that will allow him to realize his dream of opening his own pastry shop... Mattia has no choice but to take Kamal’s place in the school and pretend to be him. Among laughs and mouth-watering recipes, Mattia will discover a way to bring his and Kamal's disparate cultures together.
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Cattleya
Original title Lezioni di cioccolato
Directors Claudio Cupellini
Writers Christian Poli, Fabio Bonifacci

Cast

Luca Argentero

as Mattia

Violante Placido

as Cecilia

Neri Marcorè

as Maestro

Hassani Shapi

as Kamal

Monica Scattini

as Letizia

Josefia Forlì

as Corrado

Matteo Oleotto

as Milo

Rolando Ravello

as Presentatore

Ivano Marescotti

as Giancarlo Ugolini

Salami Bahija

as Shamira

Vito

as Osvaldo

Federico Fazioli

as Sindaco

Regina Orioli

as Clara

Giulia Ruffinelli

as Ragazza castana

Giovanni Trevisanello

as Padre milo

Gian Luca Bianchini

as Povero nella mensa

Mauro Celaia

as Garzone

Costanza Farroni

as Ragazza bionda

Stefania Floresta

as Giornalista

Alessia Lauteri

as Ragazza mora

Geremia Longobardo

as Inserviente

Nadir Mura

as Radu

Jatinder Pal

as Venditore di rose

Cecilia Eleonora Pippo

as Responsabile scuola

Joseph Queen

as Nonno kamal