A dead friend leaves them a house—if they can stand living together. What could go wrong?
A man enters a restaurant in Trastevere, in the suburbs of Rome, and asks the owner to cook him the superb bass he has just been given. He wants it served at the dinner gathering like every year the group of inseparable friends he is a member of. The others join him. The last to come is a lawyer who has just liquidated the succession of the one that will be missing tonight. The deceased leaves them an estate in Umbria provided they live there in community. What will the friends decide during this dinner like no other?
Acting
Vittorio Gassman anchors the ensemble with gravitas
Writing
Sharp dialogue about friendship, money, and mortality
Director
Gianfrancesco Lazotti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vittorio Gassman was 72 during filming and had already starred in over 100 films; this was one of his final comedic roles before his death in 2000.
The Trastevere setting and communal living fantasy reflect 1990s Italian anxieties about family dissolution and aging populations without traditional support structures.
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