# Avanti! (1972)

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**Runtime**: 138 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Romance
**Directed by**: Billy Wilder
**Written by**: Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
**Starring**: Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, Edward Andrews, Gianfranco Barra, Franco Angrisano

> *When someone knocks on your door and says permesso?... be careful before you say Avanti!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

It seems Italians do it better, even in death. A businessman travels to Italy to retrieve his father's body. It's a Wilder take on love and death.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, tender

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