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Released
2013 · FILM

Welcome Mr. President

Directed by
Runtime
98 min
Language
IT
Comedy

Synopsis

In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everyone calls him by the nickname Peppino. He enjoys fishing, the company of friends, and works at the library as a precarious employee. He is an optimistic person, even though his child accuses him of being a wannabe. One day, due to a mix-up involving politicians, an amazing thing happens: Peppino is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic. Pulled out of his quiet life, he must play a role for which he clearly feels unqualified, but his common sense and instinctive gestures prove surprisingly effective, except when it comes to etiquette, where he struggles. The inflexible and fascinating Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Janis Clementi, becomes increasingly anxious in her futile attempts to control the President's unpredictable behavior.

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Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Giogio FranchiniShot by Saverio GuarnaScored by Andrea GuerraDesigned by Paola Comencini

Box Office

2013 · Box office

Grossed $9.5M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$9.5M

Worldwide gross$9.5M

Also known as

  • Willkommen, Herr Präsident!de
  • Welcome Mr. Presidenten
  • ¡Bienvenido, presidente!es

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