Christmas Present (film)

Regalo di Natale, internationally released as Christmas Present, is a 1986 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Pupi Avati. It entered the 43° Venice Film Festival, in which Carlo Delle Piane won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. For his performance in this film Diego Abatantuono won a Nastro d'Argento for Best supporting Actor.^[1] The film has a sequel, Christmas Rematch.^[2]

Christmas Present
Italian theatrical release poster by Enzo Sciotti
Directed by	Pupi Avati
Written by	Pupi Avati
Produced by	Antonio Avati
Starring	Diego Abatantuono, Alessandro Haber, Carlo Delle Piane
Cinematography	Pasquale Rachini
Edited by	Amedeo Salfa
Music by	Riz Ortolani
Distributed by	SACIS Film
Release date	1986 (1986)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Plot

The day before Christmas: a group of friends can be found, as tradition, rich in the house of one of them, for a game of poker. Each of the four men, including a mysterious lawyer, has problems in families, and trying to scrape together a Christmas game in a considerable sum in order to live better. But fate has a special plan for each day players.

Cast

• Diego Abatantuono as Franco Mattioli
• Gianni Cavina as Ugo Cavara
• Alessandro Haber as Gabriele Bagnoli
• Carlo Delle Piane as Antonio Sant'Elia
• George Eastman as Stefano Bertoni
• Kristina Sevieri as Martina
• Rossella Como
• Oreste Rizzini as Narrator

See also

• List of Christmas films
• List of Italian films of 1986