A WORLD APART

With Antonio Albanese, Virginia Raffaele

Disillusioned primary school teacher Michele requests reassignment from Rome to a remote snowbound village in the Italian Alps where the air is pure, the students less jaded, and where he will teach in the equivalent of a one-room schoolhouse.  The idyllic life he envisions comes with its own unique obstacles in this Italian hit comedy-drama that radiates warmth and humanity even as the teacher faces community rancor, a romantic temptation, and the challenge of an administrative plan from above to close the area’s only school for good.  The solution to the problem is pure genius, opening this isolated little town to a new vision of their place in the world.  In Italian with English subtitles.