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Before telling the story from that Christmas...

I want you to know the town most beautiful in the world,

the town of my grandparents.

Where my parents were born. And where we spent Christmas.

This is Garibaldi Street with the Gate of Naples.

It's called that because, according to what I've heard, In other words, going straight you reach Naples.

The street is called that because passed Garibaldi to go to Caprera.

SNAKE RELATIVES

Here I went to school my mother...

but now it is the City Hall.

This is the church of the Pilgrim Virgin.

He had it built the same virgin once she passed through the town,

said: "Since I appear here, I want them to build me a church."

The man who is buying the newspaper is the lawyer Colacioppo.

My father says he is famous because he also works in the north.

- Is it fair to work on Christmas? - Someday that will end!

Will it end? Christmas, Easter... You must work, proletarians!

- The wall has already fallen! Will they no longer defend you? - We'll see.

They know that lady in the town all. It's called Assunta.

- Where are you going tonight? - Are you leaving us alone at Christmas?

- What is your name, miss? - Call me Suzy, guys.

My father says it's important because it makes the lives of...

less tough military.

The owner of that boutique His name is Osvaldo.

See you tonight, in the "Sixth Sense."

But I don't know why everyone They call it "La Fendessa."

The chaste diva passes through there. The flower of youth appears!

This lady was a companion from my mother's school...

that, due to having a defect in sight, Since she was little she wanted to sell glasses.

Try these glasses on.

Looks like Christian made them to your measure. Look how wonderful.

This is the monument to most famous character, Ovidio Nasone.

Behind him is the bar most beautiful, the Gran Café.

- Anto! You are always like a cricket! - Again?

- And he says that he still drowns the goose. - It's going well.

Those miniskirts drive me crazy!

- Shall we buy nougat? -And that basket up there?

"The man is like the egg, If it boils it becomes hard."

What a cretin.

My mother was born here, and my grandparents are still alive.

The one that peeks out It's Grandma Trieste...

but maybe it's better meet me and my family first.

This is me.

�He is my father. He is a surveyor in our town hall, in Teramo.

He is a Pescara fan, and affiliated with Christian Democracy, but it always says...

who has never voted for them.

On the other hand, my mother is a teacher, and works in the municipal library.

He suffers from colitis and nervous diarrhea, due to It's the library director's fault, he says...

My father's, and mine.

He has decided that what I cook is not going well.

He prefers to get sick and make me die of fright, I tell you.

What have you done now?

I don't want to spoil your eve of Christmas. Let's leave it there.

This one eats chips! I discovered, that after school...

they go with Nicolino to swell of Patburger fries.

Tell him how his stomach is going to end. The liver. Tell him!

Do you know how you're going to finish? Having to carry a plastic bag forever...

to do the needs inside.

- Have you heard? You shouldn't eat French fries. - Never! Never, never.

- Never! - Not even the hamburgers.

Who knows what they put inside! Go slowly, yo.

Jesus, so much snow! Just now that they are about to arrive.

- Save, have you flushed the toilet? - What for? I haven't done anything!

Control well. You know that they I like to find everything clean.

It seems that we are going to receive to the princes.

When Trieste tells you one thing, You should do it and keep quiet.

Do what I tell you. And take the TV there.

Calm.

The grandfather is from Cisterna, and he was carabinieri, as he always says,

first in Lanciano and then in Chieti Scalo, where he was a sergeant.

For a few years now, it has started to lose my memory a little...

maybe because throughout the day, The only thing he does is dance around the house...

and watch TV.

How cold!

- Come on, come on! - Mauro, open the trunk.

Help me, we're freezing! Come on, Mauro.

Here we are! Grandpa! Always ready, huh?

I haven't gone to the bathroom in 4 days.

- How are you, mom? - Thank the Lord, pulling.

- Grandma! - I haven't gone to the bathroom in 4 days.

- How lucky. I go 3 times a day. - Damn colitis.

I don't know what to eat anymore. The pasta It's bad, meat, fish...

vegetables, don't even think about it. Can I keep going like this?

Damn, I was so worried. In this snow, cars skid.

Luckily, it stopped snowing after Popoli.

�this is the bedroom of my grandparents...

where since childhood I have always slept too...

first in the big bed, and now on a cot.

�this was uncle's bedroom Alfredo and uncle Alessandro.

And here my mother slept young, with his sister, my aunt Milena.

�This is the living room.

The paintings are part from grandfather's private collection.

It's all full of his companions carabinieri.

The one I like the most is this one, the one who has breakfast on the grass.

I see you have very good taste. It is a true masterpiece.

The marshal painted it Giuseppe Miscia. It is written.

Think that all those in possession of his paintings they only await his death.

- And why? - I don't even know that.

Mauro, it is useless for you to carry your things there.

We've already talked about it. You're not going to sleep with grandparents, you're already grown up!

It's the coldest room! Sick for sure!

- Grandpa, can I sleep with you? - Like you've always done.

But how cold? It's just that you are accustomed to sleeping in heat?

That's the bad thing. My grandson will sleep with us, and that's it.

- It's already big. - How big? If it's a little thing...

That's Alessandro.

After us, Uncle Alessandro arrived from Modena...

my mother's brother, with Aunt Gina and my cousin Monica.

Everyone okay? Glad to hear it.

Everyone okay? Glad to hear it.

Uncle Alessandro loves nature very much,

and is part of a group which is called "Friends of the Earth".

Are you okay? Very happy.

But my father says it's thanks to whom the uncle works at the Post Office.

My mother says that my uncle He has a simple soul...

and that's why he married Aunt Gina, with whom he gets along perfectly.

Mónica always seems older to me. I participated in a "teenager" contest...

and it has gone to his head, because he says he wants to be...

dancer from "Fantastico".

�Let's get the decorations from the tree to the attic?

Do you still think about those things?

His chest also seems to me It's bigger.

Alessa, the Berlin Wall has already fallen...

Russia, Poland fell, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria...

Hungary, Albania, Yugoslavia...

And according to you the hammer and sickle must they still be on the oak?

Yes. It is so that the symbol of the party have a certain "continuum".

- A what? - A "continuum".

Yoga relaxes me a lot, both the physical and the mind, you understand?

Helps find balance between inside and outside.

And the ligaments, It relaxes you completely.

Every day I do at least one hour of meditation.

If you find a yoga school, go right away.

I have to inform myself. If there is any course...

Who is it?

From Rome came Uncle Filippo and Aunt Milena, my mother's other sister.

- It's Milena. - Mom!

Uncle Filippo is Major Commander of Aeronautics and works in a tower...

but almost every day He returns home with chicory from the field.

Aunt Milena is very good, and she is famous...

because many years ago I participated on the radio program "Il Gambio"...

maybe that's why he likes "Quiz" and M. Bongiorno so much...

but your greatest pain It is not having children.

- How are you? Well? - Good.

- Glad to hear it. - In top shape!

Do you know what my biggest flaw is? It's just that I'm very good.

I give everything I have to people, And do you know what I get in return?

- A good kick in the ass! - Being good always ends like this.

�this is the last of the family, uncle Alfred. Single, and teacher

Italian in a girls' school.

- Beautiful! Milena, Lina and Gina! - What a good memory.

-How are you? - Good. And you?

Everything okay? Glad to hear it.

- �Dad�! - Professor, come here!

How lucky. Always between those girls

One day we will read in the press: "Suspicious teacher."

- Who do you take me for? - Come on, don't say you're offended.

How pretty! What do you say, where do we put it?

- I don't know. - Don't you like decorating the tree?

What are you doing? It's for the tree.

- I see you fine. You have lost weight. - Logical, a month eating rice.

- Do you still have colitis? - Don't ask.

- I've already gotten old. - And how are you doing with yours?

- What's mom? - Have you gone for a checkup?

I'll tell you later. Monica is very developed, huh?

- How cute, God bless her. - Of course, he is at a critical age.

- How is school going? - Poor thing! It works, it applies...

He is not a genius, everything he does It will be a great achievement.

What are you eating? Don't you know how many calories that has?

- Look how tough you are! - Leave her.

What the hell! If he comes to me with a huge ass!

Then he says he wants be a dancer

A few years from now, you will realize it.

- God willing. -What a nice sweater...

neither light nor heavy.

It's cashmere.

I prefer to buy just one, oh well.

It's no use buying so many clothes and then throw it away.

It seems fair to me.

- Did you go to Antonella's wedding? - Fresh, fresh!

At least you, Milena. It's what you ate as a child.

Precisely, mom. I don't feel well, I have like a knot in my stomach.

Even children digest it.

Don't insist, mom. He said no.

- Well, if you want... - I take it with pleasure.

Grandma, have you forgotten? You can't talk about children with Aunt Milena.

- He gets upset. - Okay, but from time to time...

I wanted to ask you... How was the wedding?

That day, I left a fever on the lip.

And I don't know why, whenever I have something important, something happens to me.

And there are more. �The car battery just that morning!

If they had gotten married in a church center, nothing happens, take a taxi...

But no! They wanted to get married in the countryside!

Not even if it were Carolina de Monaco! I say that...!

- How presumptuous. - Very ambitious.

- Treasure, you have remembered my anxiolytic. - Me? What a hard face!

- Do I have to remember? - And how do I sleep? I shit...!

Do you know what it's like to close a house? �The windows, the light, the gas...

Defrost the refrigerator! He doesn't do anything And I have to remember his anxiolytic!

I don't have the recipe on me.

- If you want, I can give you my Valium. -But it's not the same!

- It's already starting. It doesn't help. - I'm going to catch the eel.

Why don't you learn from Alfredo, that he does everything?

Sometimes he comes from work to home before me, and I wonder:

At least you could set the table. Do something... get off your ass!

No! I have to remember also his anxiolytic!

What are you doing? It's mine. Damn it!

And how was she?

He says that the wedding dress It was from Valentino.

-Who knows what it would have cost him. - I don't believe it. I bought it at the market.

After the weddings, my mother and my aunts began to talk...

of diseases of his acquaintances.

- Do you know my partner Rosalba? - The one I met on the beach?

That. He was taking a shower, and noticed something near the chest.

- Like a chickpea, here. - Don't touch yourself.

He told me this in the morning at work, and I told him to go to the doctor right away.

The doctor barely saw her, I understood everything.

He touched her and said: "Lady, "It must be operated on immediately."

My God!

- Just remove the... - Chickpea.

...they analyzed it.

Evil!

As soon as they were alone, my Mother and Aunt Milena were talking about Aunt Gina.

Hey? Now she does yoga. He says he should relax. But of what?

If I were Alessandro, I hit him!

What about cashmere and fur? Where does he get all that money from?

Oh, Milena. How naive you are.

What do you say? I can't believe it.

- Have you seen what a misfortune? - What happened?

The earthquake! Didn't you see it on TV?

- Where? - Hundreds of dead!

- But where? - I didn't understand it well, because of China...

Ah, there are almost a billion, they are accustomed to catastrophes.

Hunger, epidemic, scarcity...

I can't watch TV. It makes me feel bad.

- I am very sensitive. - I know.

My God, have mercy on us! "Life is spent looking out the window."

Listen, according to you, continue with him or have you already changed your "partner"?

Just one? They saw her go to the movies alone.

I entered alone...

-And the banquet wasn't a big deal? - It was standing. They wanted to make it modern.

- And me with a high heel! - Figure it out.

- Have you seen how he looked at us? - His conscience weighs on him.

Sister.

Mom and dad are fine, right?

I have found dad better this time.

Yes, I have also noticed some improvement.

- He's more awake. - Better.

"Thank you. Very good. How are you?"

- What are you looking at? - Nothing.

"Very good."

Crazy. All crazy. There is no solution.

Well, it was always a little strange...

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Mom... my song flies through the wind.

Mom... you will never be alone.

How much I love you. They are words of love.

That my heart sighs, Well, I will never forget her.

Mom, nothing is worth it without you.

I want you in my life forever.

Mom, I will never leave you.

The eel! I'm going to prepare it.

What does it do?

- What happened? - He likes it.

And now what?

I always tell Trieste close the doors well...

that animals can enter. And she swims.

Damn it!

They have a defense that's scary!

- But he sent her to the stands! - But Zenga is the best goalkeeper in the world.

- He's a thoroughbred. - Look how physical.

Do you see how strong his legs are? It's a beast, a cheetah.

Did you see what he did after 45 minutes?

- Who is he playing with? - With Inter, with whom else?

Luckily the eel fell on the balcony below.

- Imagine that it falls on someone's head. - Ersilia didn't believe it.

- What are you going to do with that brazier? - I take him to the room a little.

How many times do we have to tell you that Is the brazier in the bedroom very dangerous?

Consume all the oxygen.

- One hour! Before going to sleep, I turn it off. - When are you going to buy a stove?

We have been using it for 50 years, and we are still alive.

Mom is very stubborn.

Turn off.

This bell is called "squilla"...

and they play it in the procession of Christmas Eve.

Grandma says she is a very old tradition.

Mom, where is the cinnamon?

It has started.

While the bell rings all over the town it stops, and everyone must be home...

because tradition says that Children must kiss their parents' hands.

Does it look good like this? See?

No, I don't see. Put it further to the right. Ah, perfect.

No, that's not how I see it.

This is where spaghetti with tuna comes!

First the children.

- Monica. - A little more, grandmother.

- How much are you going to put into it? - It's Christmas!

Eat, eat! How sure you will win the dancer contest.

The good things in life are illegal, or they are immoral, or they make you fat...

- Bernard Shaw already said it. - How pretty. Who said it?

A friend, an acquaintance.

Little by little, Because I have to stay light.

-And why do you have to stay light? - As if you didn't know.

I have forgotten. Why?

Because tomorrow I'm on duty.

Save, you've been retired for 20 years.

Guys, I'm sorry to say...

but for some time now your mother He is not right in the head.

Measures must be taken before it's too late.

Trieste, you have to heal.

- This is what was missing! - Come on, it's Christmas!

Look at this one. I remember her, It was the same when I was little.

- The Gambineri! - No, Orsomando.

- They are great! - Don't choke.

- Oh shit. - Always so fine.

Look how much grace from God. and think that there are people in Italy who regret it.

We have everything: plenty of food, democracy, freedom...

A paradise. And to think that...

There are Italians who have had to wait the end of communism to realize.

Tell it to our revolutionaries.

And now, I would send them all to Russia, Albania...

...Bulgaria, Yugoslavia... - How good.

Thinking that they have to suffer of hunger and cold.

I can't even think about it. My heart shrinks.

- Very good. What is it? - Nebbiolo. It's a good wine.

I can't stand that woman.

I wonder how the hell an athlete as Borg supports it.

I wouldn't touch her even with a 3 meter rod.

I would do something different with my rod.

This one only thinks in rods.

If I were 70 years old, I would show him the rod.

Shut up and eat!

Fresh fish! Here it is.

What is this?

Breaded cauliflower. It's very good.

- Take another "pescaito." - Another "fish"?

- Enough, let's not exaggerate. - Thank you, you are a sweetheart.

- Try the fish. - It's okay.

I would like to know why you eat like an animal.

- I don't eat like an animal. - So how?

I do it normal.

"Don't you see that you don't taste like this" what do you eat?

Yes I taste it!

Gentlemen, I leave my skin in the kitchen, every day,

He arrives, and bang. He doesn't even know what he eats.

- Yes I know. Drop the topic! - I'll leave it when I feel like it.

He has the record for albums sold with the song "White Christmas"...

or "White Christmas."

- According to you, is this singer Pat Boone? - No, no!

No, it's not Pat Boone.

- It's Bing Crosby. - It's actually Bing Crosby.

Very good!

You know them all, huh.

I never get it, since I was little.

These thorns!

sometimes I remember when you were little.

And I have to put it out of my mind right away, because I get a lump in my throat.

- Mom! - I wanted you to be happy!

And we are all happy.

I always say it to Jesus...

- Make me suffer, and not them. - Mom...

Why do you say that? We are all here, and happy!

It's true.

We have been lucky for having had children.

When I think of those poor people who They don't have... how sad!

- Why are you getting like this? - Sorry. Sorry...

What do you have to apologize for? We are your family.

You shouldn't get like that, It hurts you.

God wanted you not to have, and that's it.

Children are not everything in life.

And mom too with her little speeches!

Love, don't worry, Nothing has happened to the aunt.

- Now let's go. - I just wanted a Coca-Cola.

Listen to this one! How come a Coca-Cola?

Stop with the Coca-Cola!

It's crazy! Do you see it? They poison your blood!

At least you have a reason living.

"I'm exhausted, and you don't know what is nervous exhaustion!

- I know, I know! - No, you don't know!

Only those who suffer from it know it! You don't know!

- Well okay, I don't know. - You get up in the morning...

and you feel useless, you understand? Desperate!

- Why? - Because I'm alone!

Completely alone!

To whom do I give this love that I have? inside? To whom?

- To me, treasure. - To Filippo, see?

Do you know who we saw this year in Tremiti?

- To Cl�lia. - What's Clília? Not at all.

Hold on tight: Ornella Muti.

Impossible. Wasn't he in Porto Ercole?

I tell you I was in Tremiti with his Facchinetti and his girls.

I can't believe it. Think about it, one diva like her living here? And instead...

Instead, one morning, we found it.

While I was calmly going to the beach with his "tribe".

- How is it? -Who?

- Ornella Muti. - How is it going to be? A hunk!

Beauty is not everything.

She is small and has ears pointed Like Lina.

- Do I have pointed ears? - It doesn't seem like it to me.

- A bit. - She is a beautiful mare!

It is well proportioned, that's for sure. But it was so natural...

And who kills that one?

- Sandroca. - Beautiful!

"Do you remember when Alfredo it was small...

he stood in front of the mirror and imitated...

to Sandra Milo And the Kessler sisters?

�Forgive me, please, You know I hate those things!

- Why? We are in family! - How horny!

The night is short for us. Too small.

Come on, Alfredo, just a little!

Okay!

A round of applause to encourage you!

But only a little bit.

"Dadaumpa."

A show, come on!

I'm going to turn off the light to create atmosphere. Turn off the TV.

- Dad, the TV. - That he concentrates.

You are the one who should work on TV and not my daughter.

Alfredo, promise one thing to your mother.

-The what? - I want to see you settle down.

With a beautiful woman. And you must also give me a grandson.

- But I'm "single." - What is it?

That is what is called someone who wants live alone

Alfredo must do whatever he wants.

It's okay, now you're young, but when you're old...

who will think of you?

If it weren't for you, What would become of our life?

Alfredo is right. Find a good girl today is difficult.

Don't believe that everyone is like us.

People are ignorant, hypocritical, false, thinks only of his own.

Because it has been lost the sense of family.

That's why today's young people They are disbanded, without ideals.

We can't get into our heads that we are only reproducers?

And so, our duty is to find a woman, a house, a job...

bring some children into the world...

and try to be as united as possible, and be together hand in hand.

It's true. Together hand in hand...

and give so much, so much, so much love

- And the eel? - Here it is!

Luckily it fell on the balcony of the Cardellini and Cesira took it.

What are you looking at?

This Christmas comes with everyone its symbology.

Look how it snows!

It's all so beautiful, so intimate...

There is such a suggestive atmosphere, so particular...

full of meanings.

- Do you usually eat eel? - No, we don't eat.

Well, it's a delight. You don't know what you're missing.

He knows it, he knows it.

Remember when we were little and were we going to play in the snow?

I pulled you on your back to See what mark you left.

And when Milena crashed with the sleigh against the wall?

It's not funny. three ribs Broken because of these idiots.

And poor Cesira, who didn't go out out of fear to the snowballs that Alessandro threw at him.

It was good to have snow with a drop of liquor.

Pull, harder!

�Look how the liquor with the snow it warms!

I already said they were going to get hurt!

- Nothing has happened! - Add a little more.

You like it, huh.

Like this. One last touch is missing, look.

So... wait. Already.

-Alfredo! - It's nothing, mom!

- Now push yourself. - Come on, sit down, Lina.

-Wine hurts! - Rude.

- It's Cardellini! - Cardellini!

You guys shoot too!

- These are crazy. - Crazy, all crazy!

It's a bombardment.

Die in that cage.

- Not this! - Take this.

Oh, women too?

- Do you want war? - Take war.

My head is frozen.

White flag!

Victory! Victory!

After dinner, wine the Cardellini family. At home they said...

that Mr. Cardellini spent everything his money in Rome, in women and letters...

and that is why his wife, Ersilia, He attempted suicide 7 times with gas.

Cesira, his only daughter, she is without a husband,

and teaches catechism in the oratory of Santa Lucia.

But everyone said that always She was in love with Uncle Alfredo.

- I open with a thousand. - Passed.

Lawyer Colacioppo is good, It is also from the parish.

With wife and children.

I fold.

That's why he travels so far north. To their "audiences."

And he does them, but in station services.

- Passed. - Are you sure?

Ask Alfredo, who saw it with his own eyes...

in the Milan station services. What more can be said?

But the woman is very good. 8 thousand.

Compadre, when one likes the fish, not even Sofia Loren solves it.

I see them.

We move them, attention...

- I open with number 79! - How?

- Which one came out? - 7-9.

Here is the number.

Grandma Letizia is Camilo's mother. He is 95 years old and has a heart of iron.

He has been in an asylum for 20 years, and they only release it for Christmas.

- Attention! - Has 51 come out?

6-4. 64. Attention...

Don't let me go back to the asylum.

It's horrible. What am I bothering at home?

Try to convince them.

- Here. - So?

I'm not saying it.

37. 3-7.

- Trio! - How do I trio, dad?

Alfredo, confirm: 2, 26, 37.

Very well, that's how it is.

"Forcibly dad," I already made the fifth corner!

Have you seen? Let's go for the quad!

No more bets allowed! Shout the number you want to appear!

- What is it? - Cesira's age.

18!

- Quaterna. - How, quaterna?

- How! - How quaternary, dad!

Women, get ready! It's midnight soon!

- What do we do? - Let's leave everything like this.

- No, let's divide! - We continue after mass.

-How does this look on me? - The first one suited you better.

- Right, mom? - Yes.

Let's see!

Look! The smell from when I was little!

Let me try it, please.

Are you going to do yourself a favor and paint yourself a little? the lips If not, you won't go out with us.

- No, I don't wear that. - A little bit!

No, not that! Are you crazy? Do you want them to laugh at me?

- It's going to be fine, just a little. - Mom, help me with the bow tie.

- Mom is going to put on lipstick. - I understand. Let me do it.

Quiet!

Do like this. Good. Quiet! You look gorgeous with lipstick.

- What's wrong? Are you ready or not? - Look how pretty mom is.

How pretty mom!

Give me a kiss, mom. How pretty!

- You painted yourself. - Let's see. Milena, the bow tie.

Are you ready?

One moment. You pass me the jacket.

We are ready!

But what have you worn?

If I don't wear it today, what is it? Christmas, when do I wear it?

Is it carnival? Oh my God, take that off right away.

Leave it.

Let's make them laugh of us at Christmas?

Why?

"Accustomed to obeying silently."

That's our motto.

- Merry christmas. - Congratulations, doctor.

Congratulations.

Naturally at midnight mass, All the families of the town went.

The Cipolloni, the Maranga, the Marcianis, the Colacioppos...

the Pozzolini and the Mazzocconi.

Look at that big guy with that cap.

"Little woman, big hole", They say in Milan.

How are you not ashamed?

He has been at university for 20 years and has not yet graduated.

With wife and twins and their parents support them.

Happy holidays! And your lady?

Have you seen how pretty Is she Barbieri's daughter?

A chip off the old block. The mother is siliconed, the daughter is siliconed.

- Guapa, Colacioppo's wife. - How lucky he has been.

You have done what Mrs. Trozzi said, He has fixed his son's life.

- Gaspari? - No, Rosa Russo Jervolino.

- So are you. - Merry Christmas, commander.

Have you seen the public works advisor? He was a communist.

After the woman cheated on him, He joined the Socialist Party.

Look who's there: Rosa Giannetta.

Arrived as far as Saudi Arabia working in a bank.

At least he has seen the world.

- Yes, that one ascended on its own. - Lawyer.

In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

- The Lord is with you. - And with your spirit.

Sit down.

I confess to God, Omnipotent Father...

and to the Blessed Mary ever Virgin, that I have sinned...

in thought, word and acts...

because of me, because of me, for my great fault.

Dad, sit down.

- Word of the Lord. - Praise Christ.

Watching TV, and reading the press...

we discover the brutalities of this world.

War, famine, plague, murders, diseases, destruction, devastation...

fires, homicides...

catastrophes, extortions, beatings, raptures, corruption and lust.

But today we discovered that God truly loves us...

and doesn't leave us alone in the hands of evil.

At our side is the Holy Father, He sends us to Jesus.

And Jesus is not afraid to be born in this world of horrors.

On the contrary, like every year, He returns, to do better.

He is born in a miserable manger, At his side are Mary and Joseph.

It is welcomed and visited by poor people, shepherds, open-hearted people.

So to prepare for Christmas...

It is not enough to turn on so many lights per the streets, nor buy new things.

And now that we have looked deep in our hearts...

Let's take a closer look at the church...

where is it starting to take forms the mystery of God.

The mystery of love, of God who comes to us.

He will be the hope of our hope, the life of our life.

Ah...ah.

From the bottom of humanity, He advances.

Listen to the echo of his steps, day and night...

from era to era, at every moment, He advances, he advances...

Let's turn on the lights! The Lord is born for us!

And now, everyone in line...

we will give you a sign of our affection.

Save, move.

And as always, during the night, everyone They were going to put the gifts on the tree...

as if it had happened Real Santa Claus.

- Alfredo, what gift are you carrying? - It's a secret, you'll see tomorrow.

You too! Lina, come.

- Have you already put the gifts? - Mónica's is missing.

Don't make noise!

Milena, be careful you wake up to the children.

Have you seen, Trieste, how many good gifts?

What beauty!

If you saw what snow has fallen! Get sick, get sick, you're hot!

Grandma will bring you breakfast in bed.

- Merry Christmas, my beautiful one. - Oh my God, how cold!

When are you going to buy a gas stove?

One! Huh?

And you carry it around the house, like with the brazier.

- Another expense? - Michele says the same thing.

Go to the bathroom, otherwise you have to wait in line.

-The water is freezing! - Merry Christmas, Li.

- Likewise. How cold! - Merry Christmas, mom.

Merry Christmas, Alessa. Merry christmas.

You could have stayed more in bed.

It's Christmas.

- Good morning. - Good morning.

Good morning, beautiful. Good morning.

- Merry Christmas, mom. - Merry Christmas to you too.

- Do you know what I dreamed tonight? -The what?

Sometimes dreams They are very crazy.

I dreamed that grandmother Annina I was lying in the cornfield

and I approached him and asked him: What are you doing here alone?

She took my hand and told me:

"Milena, help me. I've fallen."

Where have you fallen from? "Of an elephant."

- Why an elephant? - I don't know, mom.

Dreams are like that. I don't know why an elephant.

- Good morning. - Merry christmas.

Likewise. Merry Christmas, mom.

Alfredino.

How cold, guys.

Mom, I just want some.

- I'll give you some coffee, so you wake up. - Just a little.

Mom, can you give me a cup Should I bring Gina coffee?

She is used to having breakfast in bed.

Lucky you, you found to whoever takes it.

- Mom, can I have some tea? - I'll prepare it for you right away.

- Is it for Gina? - Yes.

- Has Dad gotten up? - No. The later you get up, the better.

- Grandpa! - He's already up.

- Grandpa! - Open up, dad!

- Open. - Come on, dad, get out!

Saverio, come out! It's an order!

You have to respect the turns. That's what military regulations say.

- Do you like Mina too? - Of course, why not?

For me, it is unique. Also I like Battisti, Dalla...

but she helped me get over it difficult moments in life.

Once, I was with a person, and I didn't know whether to cut or not.

You know when everything seems go wrong from the beginning?

Well, I went to buy their latest LP, I had never heard of it.

I put it on the plate, and it begins a song titled "A�n, a�n."

It seemed written for me. Listen to him saying: "Still, still...

"I still love you" and at that moment I realized realize that he still loved this person.

Thank goodness they're not there, because when they are in the middle...

nothing can be done!

As time goes by They become boring and useless.

Like the one that appears on TV sheds every 3 and a half years.

Who says it?

A boy from "Maurizio Constanzo Show".

What is it called? Sgarbi.

He says that after 3 and a half years He has to go live with his sister.

And he is right. It's nice to receive from time to time from time to time "fresh air".

And what should I say? What do I wear? more than 60 years with that poultice.

- You should have thought about it before. - It's true. I was a fool!

Mom, where is the Maraschino?

- There is no. - Why not?

I forgot to buy it.

And how do I make the "Maraschino Cream" without Maraschino?

Take Mandarinetto Isobella. Isn't it the same?

Mandarinetto Isobella! Have you heard it?

I'm going to make Maraschino with Mandarinetto!

It will then be creamy Mandarinetto.

-And where is he? - On the living room furniture.

Like every year, on Christmas morning Dad forced us to go...

to hunt some poor little bird.

"Come with daddy" this year There must be many!

Before the Christmas meal We delivered the gifts.

It's so you look more beautiful.

You shouldn't have.

Grandpa, one for you. Mauro.

See if he likes it.

"Congratulations, dad!" Merry Christmas!

Now we can go skiing.

Look how it widens.

My God, how pretty!

I have been looking for one of this for years color and I could never find it.

- Now you come... thank you. - You are welcome.

Splendid.

Milena, Milena.

- This is for you. - Thank you.

Wait, I'm going to get mine.

- So you can buy whatever you want. - Thank you.

Take. Congratulations.

- Congratulations. - Thank you.

So I can make a set. What a nice idea!

- I already have it. - What is it?

When you talk, it moves. hello! Do you like it?

- If you want, I'll give it to you. - Thank you.

"Coke."

"Goodbye."

It's brand name, I'm going to use it with black shoes.

Congratulations.

It's a corkscrew. an object fine for classy people.

Do you like it?

You have realized a dream.

You can't imagine how much This pen can be useful to me.

Let's clean all this up, It's almost time to go to the table.

Wait a moment!

Group photo!

�Everyone ready for the ritual of photography?

- Ready? - Wait!

Ready, me too I want to go out!

- Are we all here? - What, everyone? I'm missing.

I start right now. Put the self-timer... I'm going.

Leave me room! Smile!

- It's not going! - Wait a minute!

�You took me out while I was turning!

Dear Romans and Italians, happy and holy christmas...

the peace of Christ the Savior It is in your hearts.

Since today is such a beautiful day...

I want to say something important.

I've wanted to say it for a long time, but one day and another passes...

but today I have decided.

�And when Trieste takes a decision, it is very tenacious!

And what do you have to say so important?

We have thought that these few days that we have left of life...

we want to spend more close to you.

As you know, we have very little left here.

- Yes, we know. - But it's over.

-Enough of living alone. - Finally!

I have been married for 15 years, and you must have visited me a couple of times.

How long have I been telling you this? Come out, what the hell!

- We didn't expect anything else, right? - Clear.

How beautiful! What a beautiful Christmas!

Have you heard, Save? and I thought that you didn't want.

What pride have children like you!

Where do you get these ideas, mom? Have you heard?

When you want, just let us know and our house will be at your disposal.

Now I even feel ashamed, but I'm going to speak because I want to be honest.

Did you know...

Did you know what I had thought even in a nursing home?

An asylum? What does it have to do with it?

When he entered there, he noticed the smell of old age.

I felt like a block in the pit of the stomach.

And because I alone, I can't take responsibility for it.

Let's understand each other, it's not that I don't want to. Can't.

Because I have my job. I have to study English.

The borders will open soon, Therefore, you will not have time.

In fact, another reason is him.

Anything can happen to us any time now...

and here alone, Who sees us, who hears us?

What can happen?

The problem is knowing Who are we going to live with?

I say we're not going to go past one. the other like junk, out of charity!

I've always laughed at that. Go from here to there!

You can imagine it, the two of us...

Rome, Como, Modena... By God!

That's why I thought What do you decide?

Of course I wasn't born yesterday...

and I know it's uncomfortable...

That's why I have decided that apart half of the pension

that we will give to whoever stays with us, He will also keep the house.

Great capital is not but it's all we have...

Isn't that so?

Now think about it, discuss it, do your calculations...

and when you decide, you say it

Calm down, no one is pulling us out of here.

And furthermore, we cannot move now, in this cold.

In spring, maybe. When the good weather arrives.

April, May...

- May, June... - God willing.

Good.

- Take advantage. - Take advantage.

How is it that Alfredo hasn't he come?

He said he would come later, He stayed helping mom.

- Go play at the arcade. - I don't like them.

Go make a snowman, that later we will see it.

- Love, go play with Mauro too. - I don't want to go.

Well go eat a cake Chocolate, they are delicious here.

Guys, let's talk clearly...

here the only one who can take care Alfredo is one of them.

I'm sorry you're not...

Alfred? How can you trust to two old people to a single man?

Sorry, Gina, but we are family

and we will decide what can be done and it can't be done.

In fact, Lina is absolutely right. Of course, who better than him?

He is alone, without a woman, without children, free...

Mom will cook for him. At least when I come back After working, you will find hot food.

Antonio, I don't want coffee, Better an anise liqueur. And a black coffee.

- Decaf! - And I have brandy.

And the pension, would half be enough?

I don't know if you have found out, but the pension has gone up.

And the house? It's also worth good money nowadays.

True, the decision they have made It is sacred, but, the house...

It seems a little to me excessive... sorry.

TRUE. Lina is right.

It's not because of the capital, but for a sentimental issue...

of affection, let's say.

There is something clear, a point of Family reference is important.

We will say that, Michele, that we have been born and grown.

I know Alfredo will understand. Mom said it that way out of delicacy.

Alfredo will never accept the house. After all we are

offering an opportunity. "I didn't say Whenever I missed my parents?

Say what you want, but don't see to dad and mom in our house...

It breaks my heart.

Don't be like that, darling. In the end, they go to be with your brother, not with a stranger.

But it will all be over, you understand? Christmas, the joy of these days...

We have always been united. Now Dad and mom need our help...

and they come to ask us for it. My God!

Filippo, let go of my hand, I can't stir the cappuccino.

They even thought about an asylum.

I can't even think about it.

They even went to see him!

"Lina, don't say those things, you know they hurt me!

Something stupid has come to mind, As for the house we will see what is done,

But what about the things inside?

The donation of the house does not include what's inside. The only thing missing would be that!

There are good things inside. The television is new.

and the washing machine that we gave him last year,

It's new. And it has a program for delicate clothes.

Excuse me, I take this opportunity to comment now since it's time.

In the house, there is a which I'm dying for her.

The what?

- The dresser. - The one in the hallway?

- Yes. - Grandma Lisetta's?

This one carved with the piece marble on top?

Lina, at home there is only one dresser and it's the one she wants.

Oh my God, I'm so sorry, darling.

That's Grandma Lisetta. He gave it to me just before he died.

I explain to you. When I was little I always I was in front looking at those shapes,

and one day he said: "When you grow up, this will be yours."

Naturally, while mom and dad use it... but then...

Lina, when Grandma Lisetta died, Weren't you a year old?

- Yes. -And how do you remember it?

It's the first memory I have. In fact, if you ask me what it is...

...the first memory I have, I answer this.

Look!

Instead I think of Alfredo's face when we give him the good news.

Are you kidding?

How? Are you not happy?

Happy?

Are you serious? Are you crazy? Why me?

That's why I didn't go to the bar. How did it occur to you?

I, a single man, run by two old men.

Honey, apart from the fact that mom and dad are two capable people, and not old...

as you say, if we think of you...

...it's to do you a favor. - A favor?

It is understood. They are two people who Not only will they make you feel less alone...

but they will also help you economically.

- Sorry if it's not enough... - So I have to give up my life...

...to my independence. 10 years off, for 4 walls and a little money.

Alfredo, you are the only one no responsibilities...

without family, the only one who lives alone.

- I don't live alone. - Don't you live alone?

No.

10 years ago that I share a flat.

Oh God! Secrets between us?

"You've been with a woman for 10 years and you don't do you say anything? Who is it? What is it called?

His name is Mario, he is a security guard.

Oh God!

Mauro and Mónica, go play in the kitchen, please.

That's it.

And in all these years, you didn't confess with your sisters, with your brother?

How did it happen, Alfredino? How did you discover that difference?

What do you want me to tell you? one day, I realized that I liked cocks.

- Alfredo, please! - Why?

What did you expect from a child raised by a submissive father and a protective mother?

Alfredo, please, mom and dad They can come back at any moment.

Good. So finally they will know it too.

I am not effeminate, And we don't have the same parents?

Alessandro, please, you won't be a faggot...

but it's better that you shut up.

Now I understand why you found yourself with lawyer Colacioppo...

in the station services.

And?

Have you seen? What had I told you?

For me, there is only one person here who can take care of them.

And for me, that person is you.

- Me? - Yes, dear.

You have always been by their side, the one who knows best and lives closest.

The move would be less shocking: same region, same language...

Can you imagine these poor people? old people in Modena?

They wouldn't even dare to go out from home, because of the trauma.

The Lombard League is coming!

If I don't even know how I can endure with mine

Alone at home with two men, I leave in the morning and return at night...

and when I come back, Only God knows what I find.

Without anyone's collaboration...

With the nervous exhaustion that reaches the hair, spasmodic colitis...

And you want me to take care of these two? How did it occur to you?

But you have to admit that they like you better. You were always more present.

And now you? �Sure, I am the one who lives closest!

Since we are talking about the topic, precisely That's why you've always messed with me...

-with all due respect-. When dad He had surgery, who stayed with him? Me!

Without any dog ​​to replace it!

Don't you remember that everyone called you? the days to replace you?

And you always said no. And now you play the victim.

I said no, because you are a man.

It was your wife who had to go, because if there was That at least I knew how to make coffee.

It was she who should understand it! So much sensitivity that he claims to have!

Your wife only has it in part, the sensitivity. Let's leave it, it's better.

So this speech Does it also go for me?

It is understood. "Poor Milena", Mom said, "He always calls me."

But the one who cleaned the ass Dad, it was me! Dear!

I've been putting up with it for 20 years! It's over! Hold them!

- You did wrong, you shouldn't have done it. - Oh, yes?

Clear. Because so you have educated them badly.

And now those of us who pay we are all the duck.

If they had gotten used to it to live alone, without help...

...now we wouldn't be talking. - Filippo is right, dear.

�Now I have to feel guilty for having helped them?

Lina, it's true. We all We adapt to your behavior...

so as not to seem like ungrateful children.

It's true, you have done it to win the affection of mom and dad.

That's why you did it.

But what are you saying?

But what do you say? You, you're not even part of the family!

-Milena, Alessandro, we have arrived! -The TV, the TV!

You were right to close the door. This way the heat is conserved.

It's bitterly cold outside.

How can you get out with this cold?

Even if it was -40, My walk must be done.

- Fresh air and stretch your legs. - Can we go in now?

Why did you throw them out?

Since that afternoon, all the times the grandparents went out...

they locked themselves in the living room and they kicked us out.

Ah, so when it is convenient, I form part of the family, and when not...

Am I no longer part of it?

Look dear, my mother-in-law came to live with me after getting married,

because my husband wanted it that way, and I kept quiet.

Because he was dying, If not, it would still be there.

My husband can do whatever he wants. But as soon as they set foot...

at my place, I pack my bags and leave.

Again? But where do I put them? If I don't have room!

How not? Let Mauro sleep in the study!

And you? �With a 180m2 house, without talking about the terrace, and without children!

You shouldn't say that.

Judas! �Like that time, when you saw me smoking with Rosamaria

...and you ran to tell dad! -What did I know?! I was 5 years old!

Did you know, did you know! You've always known everything!

- The truth is that you envy me! - Envy?

Yes, because I am tall, slim and I have class.

What gratitude! Just you, that you were always mom's favorite.

And if it had not been for Dad, you wouldn't have won the contest.

He went to talk the revolutionary communist...

if it weren't for my husband Now you would be... cleaning latrines!

Ah, so I'm a slut? Love, don't you hear your sister?

He says I'm a slut! What are you doing? You don't respond, you don't react.

React? Look how I leave it!

Calm down, Lina. Since we have arrived To this, let's say it all.

That our brother got married with a bitch, we already know that...

but someone else took the opportunity to wet your "cake." Do we say it or not?

- I don't understand. - No? Michele, you explain it to them.

- I'm very good, but... - They're out.

Michele, what cake? Does my sister speak?

- I don't understand. - Neither do I!

Michele, it's useless to deny it. We have the evidence.

- Have you made me follow? - Filippo, show him, come on.

Here it is. box ad postal. Do not deny the evidence.

Everything corresponds.

The watch, the necklace, even the stain on the arm.

If you want to check the stain on the left buttock...

yourself.

Slut!

You have destroyed the peace of my house!

- Let me see. - It's nothing to you. Go away.

Alfredo! Where are you?

Look who's here!

What are you doing here? Look who has come to say hello.

- Aunt Clementina! - Aunt Clementina!

How beautiful to see you all gathered!

- What? - Can I?

I was thinking. It is useless to fight among ourselves...

- Come, come. - What?

- You did well to come. - What's wrong?

I was saying, that the situation is serious.

- Fighting among ourselves leads to nothing. - I think the same.

Go call Alessandro. Let's talk calmly.

- Just! - If you want to talk alone, I'm leaving.

Where are you going? The solution must be common.

I wanted to say, that there are asylums, and asylums.

- They are not all the same. - Let's not call them that. "Asylums."

Hey! Hotels. Hostel houses.

They have some that go crazy, they are beautiful, they have trees, plants...

If they are expensive, just sell the house.

Didn't you hear mom? What do we tell them, that we don't love them?

And the people? Have you not thought about what they will say?

Four children, and they in a nursing home. It's not a solution that cannot be considered.

- Let's draw lots. - No, not me.

What if it's my turn? Now that I finally found balance with Mario.

For charity!

We can do the opposite. Come us here.

Four children: three months each.

Do you realize what you're saying? And the work?

Do I bring the control tower with me? Don't say stupid things.

- Let's go to the parish. - To the Parish?

Let's find a woman to keep them company.

Let's find a Filipino, an Albanian, a polish...

- Did you see it on TV? Very good people. - Look how stubborn you are.

You still don't understand it?

They want to be with us, They want our affection.

They don't want to die alone and abandoned.

So much talk for nothing! They won't live forever!

How many years do you think they have left? to the poor things? Mom will be about 80 years old...

and dad a little less, Have you seen how he is?

Life expectancy has increased. Chronically ill people will live longer.

Although there are those who are well, and he has a heart attack and dies.

And those are the luckiest cases. Imagine paralysis.

Immobilized for the rest of life. "So what" What do you do, call Christ to help you?

When you come home, you'll see.

- What have I done now? - Don't you see that you're getting wet?

Go finish your homework!

�I'm missing the wording about vacations and I have to wait to finish them!

You always wait for the last day! That snow is full of germs!

Who cares if it gets bad? I'm the fool here!

Furthermore, brother-in-law, These are purebred. They have fiber!

Don't I know? Yesterday I went to cemetery, for distraction.

I wrote it down here, look.

The youngest: Grandpa Tanino. He died at 85 years old.

In the bombing, what if not...

Let's see, you!

When your mother tells you something, you must obey. And quiet.

Also, laughing and joking...

The two World Wars have passed. They are strong!

Don't worry, have your aperitif!

"La Raisa" is coming.

Go shopping just one It's very tiring.

- My treasure, what do you want to drink? - A Dry Martini, thank you, love.

- And you? - A chocolate cake.

The what? Chocolate cake?

A skimmed yogurt that will make you feel better!

Happy New Year's Eve from Videoesse

At the end of the year, we are waiting for you all at the Palomba Restaurant.

Where you eat, you drink and you dance.

With the spectacle of: �Rudi of Cesaris!

And for New Year's Eve We don't organize anything?

With what we have in the head?

I said it just to say it.

Unfortunately, this news of serenity are disturbed...

for another news from one dead and three injured...

in the explosion that destroyed last night an apartment on the outskirts of Milan.

The origin of the disaster was caused by gas from an old stove.

There are now 135 the victims this year...

of accidents caused by gas leaks.

For greater security...

we advise you to periodically verify the state of conservation of the devices...

especially those fed with liquid gas.

Prudence is never too much.

"What is this?"

- How? -What is this?

I'll give you a cake!

- "Bubusettete" - What "bubusettete", grandfather?

- "This is book." Book. - Ah, this is English.

- Mom! - What?

My God! What have you done another gift?

- So you can finally throw away that brazier. - It's about time.

- This is for the new year. - You shouldn't have.

It's just a stove. We have all contributed.

You put it in your room. The operation is simple.

How pretty!

Look how easy it is to transport.

We have put the noose on it.

Michele, what can I say...

thank you, thank you with all my heart.

- The stove was necessary. - When you turn it on...

heat up as much as you want, It's not like the brazier.

And so, with the help from daddy's friend...

we found a place in the Palomba...

where my mother said they were all the important families of the town...

The Cipolloni, the Moroni, the Maranga, the Barbati...

the Pozzolini, the Contenti, the Mazzocconi and the Colacioppo.

- Try the lentils, they are very good. - I would like to, but with colitis...

"Who eats lentils at the end of the year, "It's rich all year round."

It's the tradition, You should at least try it.

Sorry.

The one who dances with Mónica is not the one son of Mazzoccone, the one with the macaroni?

- It seems like him. - Well-placed people.

Come on, let's go too.

OK! Lights!

Midnight is imminent. Did you grab your drinks?

-Are they full of champagne? - Yes.

The drums!

�10, 9, 8, 7, 6...

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0!

Happy new year!

My vacation started well, but they ended badly...

because my grandparents died.

Really? Very sorry.

They died from a gas leak. and it was very important...

because it appeared in the newspapers and also on TV.

But I don't understand why my parents and uncles...

They said it was the fault of the stove, which was very old.

However, the stove was new, because they gave it to him that same day...

as a new year gift.

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