Checco is employed as a security guard at the Cathedral of Milan. Convinced that the rules do not apply to him, he meets Farah during lunch break in the Cathedral Museum (actually shot inside the Pinacoteca of Brera). His working life takes place in and around the Cathedral, on another break he sits with his friend Giovanni at the tables of a bar in Via Mercanti: the Gothic gargoyles of the cathedral are visible in the background.
The house where Checco sends Farah to live is the Cascina del Guado on the Naviglio Grande in the Parco del Ticino, today the headquarters for an art-culture laboratory, while the scenes involving Checco’s life outside his workplace (the house where he lives with the family, the trullo he inherited from his grandfather, the place where Checco joins Farah with the painting of Santa Teresa) were shot in Cuggiono (MI) and its hamlet Castelletto. A naviglio in Turbigo (MI) is the setting for the moment when Ivan shares some information about Farah with Checco. During a day trip, Checco and Farah organize a picnic on Lago di Alserio (CO). The care home where Checco’s mother visits Don Bruno is Villa Clerici in Milan.
Farah meets Checco’s family and discovers the regional traditions of Apulia during a baptism which is held in Alberobello (BA). These scenes display the characteristic trulli of the historical centre and the dry stone walls of the surrounding countryside while the baptism is celebrated at the Abbey of Santa Maria di Barsento in Noci (BA). There’s time for a swim too, in Cala Incina in Polignano a Mare (BA).
The scenes set in Rome were shot in Piazzale Garibaldi (on the Janiculum Hill) where Colonel Mazzini and his wife are sitting at a table in the bar, and in Piazza Pio XII, near the Vatican City, which stands in for Piazza San Pietro, where the Pope ‘protected’ by Checco greets the faithful.
Checco is employed as a security guard at the Cathedral of Milan. Convinced that the rules do not apply to him, he meets Farah during lunch break in the Cathedral Museum (actually shot inside the Pinacoteca of Brera). His working life takes place in and around the Cathedral, on another break he sits with his friend Giovanni at the tables of a bar in Via Mercanti: the Gothic gargoyles of the cathedral are visible in the background.
The house where Checco sends Farah to live is the Cascina del Guado on the Naviglio Grande in the Parco del Ticino, today the headquarters for an art-culture laboratory, while the scenes involving Checco’s life outside his workplace (the house where he lives with the family, the trullo he inherited from his grandfather, the place where Checco joins Farah with the painting of Santa Teresa) were shot in Cuggiono (MI) and its hamlet Castelletto. A naviglio in Turbigo (MI) is the setting for the moment when Ivan shares some information about Farah with Checco. During a day trip, Checco and Farah organize a picnic on Lago di Alserio (CO). The care home where Checco’s mother visits Don Bruno is Villa Clerici in Milan.
Farah meets Checco’s family and discovers the regional traditions of Apulia during a baptism which is held in Alberobello (BA). These scenes display the characteristic trulli of the historical centre and the dry stone walls of the surrounding countryside while the baptism is celebrated at the Abbey of Santa Maria di Barsento in Noci (BA). There’s time for a swim too, in Cala Incina in Polignano a Mare (BA).
The scenes set in Rome were shot in Piazzale Garibaldi (on the Janiculum Hill) where Colonel Mazzini and his wife are sitting at a table in the bar, and in Piazza Pio XII, near the Vatican City, which stands in for Piazza San Pietro, where the Pope ‘protected’ by Checco greets the faithful.
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Checco Zalone, Nabiha Akkari, Luigi Casciano – Via Mercanti, Milan
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Rocco Papaleo, Checco Zalone, Nabiha Akkari – Abbey of Santa Maria di Barsento, Noci (BA)
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Checco Zalone – Piazza Pio XII, Rome
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Caparezza, Paolo De Vita – Alberobello (BA)
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Nabiha Akkari – Alberobello (BA)
When a threat alert requires special measures to protect places considered targets, Checco becomes a security guard at Milan Cathedral, but through a series of misunderstandings he becomes the risk to Italy’s artistic heritage himself.
