Tommaso Lazotti

After the Charlie Hebdo shooting events by the hand of jihadist terrorists David wants to bring on stage a play based on the late satyrical cartoonist George Wolinski's comicbook strips, but he struggles to finds cohoperation from institutional figures. He then agrees to direct in a small provincial town a stage play about an apulian folk dance, the Pizzica. Masterminding to disguise the original planned one, with its sexually explicit nature, into the accorded one he will gain the complicity of the curious cast hired on the spot. The start of the rehearsals will arouse excited consensus either censure which will lead to a growing boycott of the staging.

In 1983 an English journalist travels to Italy to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young vatican girl.

À l’occasion du vingtième anniversaire de la disparition d’il Maestro, Qu’il est étrange de s’appeler Federico est un film hommage à Federico Fellini, à son art, sa personnalité. Ettore Scola fait revivre leur rencontre au journal Marc’Aurelio dans les Années 50, leurs amis communs, parmi lesquels Marcello Mastroianni, et surtout le plaisir partagé de faire des films.