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Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!

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Starring
  
Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Cinematography
  
Luca Bigazzi

Director
  
Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Music director
  
Fausto Mesolella

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Directed by
  
Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Music by
  
Fausto Mesolella

Initial release
  
30 November 2007 (Italy)

Featured song
  
A Fermati

Produced by
  
Ivan Fiorini Domenico Procacci

Written by
  
Fabrizio Bentivoglio Umberto Contarello Filippo Gravino Guido Iuculano Valia Santella

Screenplay
  
Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Filippo Gravino, Umberto Contarello, Guido Iuculano

Cast
  
Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Golino, Toni Servillo, Peppe Servillo, Ernesto Mahieux

Similar
  
Fascisti su Marte, Mario's War, Like Two Crocodiles, The Acrobats, Diario di un curato di montagna

Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny! (Italian: Lascia perdere, Johnny!) is a 2007 Italian biographical comedy-drama film written and directed by Fabrizio Bentivoglio. It is loosely based on real life events of musician Fausto Mesolella, a member of Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel.

It was nominated for four David di Donatello Awards, including Best New Director.

Cast

  • Antimo Merolillo as Fausto "Johnny" Ciaramella
  • Fabrizio Bentivoglio as Augusto Riverberi
  • Ernesto Mahieux as Raffaele Niro
  • Valeria Golino as Annamaria
  • Lina Sastri as Vincenza, Johnny's mother
  • Peppe Servillo as Gerry Como
  • Roberto De Francesco as Autore
  • Toni Servillo as Maestro Falasco
  • Daria D'Antonio as Franca Marocco
  • Ugo Fangareggi as Pietro Tagnin
  • Luigi Montini as Discografico

    • References

    Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny! Wikipedia
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