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Lessons in Chocolate
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Title: Lessons in Chocolate

Release Date: 23 Nov 2007

Runtime: 1h 39m

Genre: Comedy

Director: Cattleya

Production Companies: Cattleya

Overview: 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.

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Average Vote: 5.898 (197 votes)

Cast

  • Mattia: Luca Argentero
  • Cecilia: Violante Placido
  • Maestro: Neri Marcorè
  • Kamal: Hassani Shapi
  • Letizia: Monica Scattini
  • Luigi: Francesco Pannofino
  • Corrado: Josefia Forlì
  • Milo: Matteo Oleotto
  • Presentatore: Rolando Ravello
  • Giancarlo Ugolini: Ivano Marescotti
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