Tolo Tolo

Tolo Tolo
	The poster of the movie.
Directed by	Luca Medici
Produced by	Pietro Valsecchi
Screenplay by	Checco Zalone, Paolo Virzì
Story by	Checco Zalone, Paolo Virzì
Starring	Checco Zalone
Music by	Checco Zalone
Edited by	Pietro Morana
Production; company	TaoDue
Release date	January 1, 2020;
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
Budget	€20 million
Box office	€46.2 million[1]

Tolo Tolo is a 2020 Italian comedy film directed by Luca Medici, real name of Checco Zalone, in his feature debut film.[2]

The film grossed €46.2 million, and became the fifth highest-grossing film of all time in Italy, and the ninth highest-grossing film of 2020.

Plot

Set construction of Tolo Tolo in 2019 in Trieste, Italy.

Checco is a young Apulian entrepreneur dreamer who has opened a sushi restaurant in his town Spinazzola. However, after one month, the restaurant went bankrupt and he chose to emigrate to Africa to escape from debt. Here he adapts to being a waiter in a resort in Kenya, but at the outbreak of a civil war he decides to embark on a stowaway trip on a boat for migrants to Europe and chooses to do it with his African friends. However, he would not like to return to Italy, but rather to go to Liechtenstein where banking secrecy is in force and there is a lower tax burden than in Italy.[3]

Cast

Checco Zalone as Pierfrancesco "Checco" Zalone
Souleymane Sylla as Oumar
Manda Touré as Idjaba
Nassor Said Birya as Doudou
Barbara Bouchet as Mrs. Inge
Alexis Michalik as Alexandre Lemaitre
Arianna Scommegna as Nunzia
Antonella Attili as Mrs. Lella
Gianni D'Addario as Gramegna
Nicola Nocella as Lawyer Russo
Diletta Acquaviva as Barbara (second wife)
Maurizio Bousso as Boy in Agadez
Sara Putignano as Nicla (first wife)
Nicola Di Bari as Uncle Nicola

Additionally, Nichi Vendola, Enrico Mentana, and Massimo Giletti appear as themselves.

Reception

The film opened with a record-breaking first day gross of €8.7 million, surpassing the previous record achieved by Quo Vado? (2016), in which Checco Zalone had also starred in.[4] By 8 March 2020, the film had grossed €46 million[1] when cinemas in Italy were closed due to the coronavirus lockdown.

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References

"Box Office al 02/03/2020". cinetel.it (in Italian). 2 March 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
""Tolo Tolo": com'è l'esordio alla regia di Checco Zalone" (in Italian). vanityfair.it. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
"Tra la Murgia e l'Africa, Checco il genio parla di noi" (in Italian). lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it. 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
""Tolo Tolo", incassi da record ma Checco Zalone divide gli italiani" (in Italian). iltempo.it. 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.

External links

Tolo Tolo on IMDb

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[gross-1] "Box Office al 02/03/2020". cinetel.it (in Italian). 2 March 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020.

[2] ""Tolo Tolo": com'è l'esordio alla regia di Checco Zalone" (in Italian). vanityfair.it. Retrieved 3 January 2020.

[3] "Tra la Murgia e l'Africa, Checco il genio parla di noi" (in Italian). lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it. 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.

[4] ""Tolo Tolo", incassi da record ma Checco Zalone divide gli italiani" (in Italian). iltempo.it. 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.