What if your boring office job was secretly a pressure cooker of lust, envy, and existential dread?
Direction
Avati's surgical precision with social humiliation.
Production
Painfully authentic 1980s Bologna bank interiors.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes mundane office small talk.
Director
Pupi Avati
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Italy's 'anni di piombo' aftermath, reflecting a generation's lost economic momentum and crumbling social contracts. The bank becomes a metaphor for stalled Italian modernity.
Avati cast mostly non-professionals and real bank employees from Bologna; Luca Barbareschi's breakout role before becoming a controversial TV host and politician.
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