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#ICFF16 Interview: Actor Stefano Grillo on his role in Checco Zalone's "Quo Vado?"

Born in the historic seaside city of Crotone, Calabria, actor Stefano Grillo  is about to reach North American shores. "Quo Vado?" is Checco Zalone's box office record-breaking film and it's in the lineup of this year's edition of the Italian Contemporary Film Festival  in Canada. Grillo plays the part of Don Michele Vannucci, the pastor in a fictitious village in Calabria, called Castrovizzo. Don Michele Vannucci is a priest who fights against organized crime and because of this, ends up being transferred elsewhere. The focus of "Quo vado?" is on Checco Zalone ( Luca Medici aka Checco Zalone ). Born into a life of relative comfort and privilege among his peers in his small town in southern Italy, he is one of the lucky few to have a posto fisso, or guaranteed job as a public servant. When a new reformist government vows to cut down on bureaucracy, Checco is forced to accept ever-worsening public-sector postings in order to maintain his guarante...