Movie: Discovery at Dawn

Top 10 Billed Cast

Margherita Buy
Margherita Buy

Caterina Astengo

Susanna Nicchiarelli
Susanna Nicchiarelli

Barbara Astengo

Gabriele Spinelli
Gabriele Spinelli

Giuseppe

Lino Guanciale
Lino Guanciale

Marco Tessandori

Bruno Corazzari
Bruno Corazzari

Loris Poletti

Lucia Mascino
Lucia Mascino

La mamma

Gianluigi Fogacci
Gianluigi Fogacci

Renato Carpentieri
Renato Carpentieri

Giovanni Tonini

Lina Sastri
Lina Sastri

Marianna Dall'Acqua

Sergio Rubini
Sergio Rubini

Lorenzo

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    Thirty years after the disappearance of her father, a university professor who was targeted by radicals in the '70s, a woman discovers a way to communicate with her past self and tries to prevent the tragedy that marred the life of her family, but she learns that not everything was as she thought.

  • Release Date

    2013-01-09

  • Average

    5.2

  • Rating:

    2.6 starts
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    Italiano
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