La buca is a bizarre comedy in “buddy movie” style set in an undefined city and in an unspecified era, in which modern-day events are mixed with Fifties elements, like cars, bicycles, street-lights, bistros, fur collars and black antique telephones. Oscar (Castellitto) is a failed and shady lawyer, a misogynist and misanthrope, who, by chance in the bar of the kind and caring Carmen (Bruni Tedeschi), meets a man who is fresh out of prison. Armando (Papaleo) has served 27 years for armed robbery and manslaughter. But he’s innocent, and the lawyer immediately sees a potential business opportunity: he offers him a retrial and the enormous respective compensation for the years unjustly spent in prison. Together they go in search of witnesses of that fateful day, accompanied by a stray dog which follows them everywhere and which Armando renames International. Among the witnesses is Arianna (Valentina Bellè) the girl with whom Armando was in love when he was young…

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