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Released
2011 · FILM

What a Beautiful Day

Directed by
Gennaro Nunziante
Written by
Gennaro Nunziante, Checco Zalone
Runtime
92 min
Language
IT
Comedy

Synopsis

Checco is an uneducated but self-satisfied man from Milan who has long dreamed of becoming a police officer. He fails his entrance exam for the third time, and during the oral examination, he shockingly admits that his motivation for joining the police is based on benefits in kind and cronyism. However, thanks to his connections, Checco soon lands a job as a security agent at the Milan Cathedral. Unfortunately, his incompetence quickly turns him into a living catastrophe. He is noticed by Sufien, an Arab terrorist planning an attack on the cathedral, who sees Checco as the perfect mark. To manipulate him, Sufien sends his charming sister, Farah, to seduce Checco.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Pietro MoranaShot by Federico MasieroScored by Checco ZaloneDesigned by Sonia Peng

Box Office

2011 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 7.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$43.5M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$43.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • What a Beautiful Dayen
  • Que hermoso díaes
  • Une bien belle journéefr

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