Il barbiere di Rio Filming Locations
Il barbiere di Rio Filming Locations
Rio de Janeiro is a huge seaside city in Brazil, famed for its Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, 38m Christ the Redeemer statue atop Mount Corcovado and for Sugarloaf Mountain, a granite peak with cable cars to its summit. The city is also known for its sprawling favelas (shanty towns). Its raucous Carnaval festival, featuring parade floats, flamboyant costumes and samba dancers, is considered the world’s largest.
Rome is the capital city of Italy. It is also the capital of the Lazio region, the centre of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, and a special comune named Comune di Roma Capitale.
Il barbiere di Rio (1996)
Matteo is a Roman barber. In Roma his activity is driving him almost to ruin, he is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality accepting his sister Angelina invitation to Brazil. In Rio he knows his nephew Rocco and his fiancé Giorgigna. They both drive him round Rio for the classic tour among beaches and monuments. Following the news that his former wife had a car accident Matteo decides to come back to Roma. Soon Giorgigna reaches him in Roma. But at the end the delicate economic situation in Roma oblige them to come back to Brasil, where Matteo open a new barber shop.
