Ciao, Professore!

Ciao, Professore original title Io speriamo che me la cavo, or Me, Lets Hope I Make It is a 1992 Italian fish out of water comedy film about an elementary school teacher from northern Italy who is sent by mistake to an impoverished town in the Naples region of southern Italy. There he must deal with vast cultural differences and teach chronically truant children who only respect violence and power, especially one young boy who is already caught up in the gangster lifestyle. The film was directed by Lina Wertmller and stars Paolo Villaggio.

Marco Tullio Sperelli is a professor of Italian language for children from the region of Liguria in northern Italy. Due to a failure of the Ministry of Education, he is transferred not to another northern town, but instead a similarsounding town near Naples, in southern Italy. There he finds a school where the students, teachers and parents deal with the poverty of the south in a resigned and practical manner that he feels are unworthy of the morality, ethics and education children should learn. For example, most of the children avoid school because they must work for a living to help support their families.Initially contemptuous of the attitudes in the south, and linking them to the underlying poverty, Marco Tullio requests a transfer back to the north. In the mean time, things are brought to a head by Raffaele, a student registered to his class who only shows up to recruit other children into the gangster lifestyle. Marco Tulio slaps Raffaele for threatening him with physical violence, and is then appalled when instead of being scandalized by the event the principal, children and even the boys mother are actually encouraged by it because it means he may do what needs to be done to set the children on the right path. Still, Marco Tulio rescinds his request for a transfer. Eventually, Raffaele grows respect for Marco Tulio after he helps save Raffaeles mother, who has become ill and needs transport to the hospital. ........

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