La nostra vita is a 2010 Italian film directed by Daniele Luchetti

Daniele Luchetti

Daniele Luchetti is an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.He was born in Rome. He debuted as assistant director for Nanni Moretti in Bianca and La messa è finita...

. It competed for the Palme d'Or

Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...

 at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival

2010 Cannes Film Festival

The 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival was held from May 12 to May 23, 2010, in Cannes, France. The Cannes Film Festival, hailed as being one of the most recognized and prestigious film festivals worldwide, was founded in 1946. It consists of having films screened in and out of competition during the...

, with Elio Germano

Elio Germano

Elio Germano is an Italian actor.Born in Rome, he debuted, aged twelve, in the Castellano e Pipolo's movie Ci hai rotto papà...

 sharing the prize for Best Actor with Javier Bardem

Javier Bardem

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem is a Spanish actor. In 2007 he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as sociopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men, and has also garnered critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón, jamón, Carne trémula, Boca a boca, Los...

 for his role in the Mexican film Biutiful

Biutiful

Biutiful is a drama film directed by Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Javier Bardem. It is González Iñárritu's first feature since Babel and fourth overall, and his first film in his native Spanish language since his debut feature Amores perros...

directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican film director.González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the DGA of America for Best Director. He is also the first and only Mexican born director to have won the Prix de la mise en scene...

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Cast

• Elio Germano
  Elio Germano
  Elio Germano is an Italian actor.Born in Rome, he debuted, aged twelve, in the Castellano e Pipolo's movie Ci hai rotto papà...
  
   as Claudio
• Isabella Ragonese
  Isabella Ragonese
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   as Elena
• Raoul Bova
  Raoul Bova
  Raoul Bova is an Italian actor.Bova was born in Rome to Calabrian parents. At the age of 16 he became a local champion in the 100 meter backstroke. At the age of 21 he joined the Italian Army and performed his military duty in the Bersaglieri corps...
  
   as Piero
• Stefania Montorsi as Liliana
• Luca Zingaretti
  Luca Zingaretti
  Luca Zingaretti is an Italian actor, known for playing Salvo Montalbano in Il commissario Montalbano mystery series based on the character and novels created by Andrea Camilleri. Zingaretti is a native of Rome...
  
   as Ari
• Giorgio Colangeli as Porcari
• Alina Madalina Berzunteanu as Gabriela
• Marius Ignat as Andrein
• Awa Ly as Celeste
• Emiliano Campagnola as Vittorio

Production

Cattleya produced the 6.2 million Euro

Euro

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 film together with Rai Cinema

RAI

RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...

 and French company Babe Films. The project received money from the Italian Culture Ministry, the CNC and Canal+

Canal+

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 via pre-sales.

Release

The film premiered in Italy on 21 May 2010. As of 20 June 2010, Box Office Mojo

Box Office Mojo

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reported that the film had made 3,805,514 dollars (3,075,807 Euro) at the Italian box office.