Il professor Cenerentolo
Il professor Cenerentolo () is a 2015 Italian comedy film written, directed and performed by Leonardo Pieraccioni. The scenes of the film were shot in Lazio, between Rome, Formia, Gaeta and Ventotene. It was Pieraccioni's first film not being set in his homeland of Tuscany. The cast also includes Laura Chiatti, Massimo Ceccherini and Flavio Insinna. Plot. Umberto Massaciuccoli is an engineer who attempted a bank robbery to avoid the bankruptcy of his business; the robbery, however, fails miserably and Umberto is thus arrested and sentenced to a period of detention in the Ventotene prison. Arriving near  the end of the sentence, the man is admitted to day work outside the penitentiary, which sees him as librarian and tutor to the daughter of the director of the prison in view of the graduation of the girl. One evening, during a socio-cultural event open to the public, Umberto meets Morgana, a fascinating dance teacher; the fact that he is called by fellow prisoners and prison staff with the nickname of "professor" makes the girl believe that he works in the prison as an educator and that he is not a prisoner: taking advantage of the misunderstanding, Umberto  begins to attend her in clandestine way instead of going to work in the library, but every day by midnight he must return to the structure. One day Morgana discovers the truth and distances herself from Umberto, who, however, will be able to win her back, with the help and complicity of friends and companions and taking risks personally, making her recover a gold chain handed down for generations in her family and that his violent ex had sold to a Romanian fence. Finally, Morgana, reflecting on Umberto's questions regarding the love of a daughter for her father, will  decide to give the jewel of the chain to Martina, Umberto's daughter, leaving the latter in the dark about her. Some time later Umberto, Morgana and Arnaldo, owner of the municipal library where Umberto worked, opened a company that deals with recovering missing objects, exploiting the body of Arnaldo (afflicted by dwarfism) to dig in the crevices. Release. The film was released in cinemas starting from 7 December 2015, distributed by 01 Distribution in collaboration with Rai Cinema. Reception. Receipts. The film on its debut weekend grossed over 1,250,000 euros, placing itself in 1st place in the Italian box  office, surpassing even "Chiamatemi Francesco". After a week, as of December 15 2015 the film held the top spot reaching a total of € 2,975,950. With the arrival in the theaters of "" the movie dropped to second position, and then dropped to sixth position at the end of December, behind "Natale col Boss" and "Vacanze ai Caraibi". As of January 6 2016 the film has grossed euro, ranking in third place of the most viewed Italian films of the holidays.