Human Capital
Film poster
Il capitale umano
Directed by	Paolo Virzì
Written by	Paolo Virzì Francesco Piccolo Francesco Bruni Stephen Amidon (novel)
Produced by	Fabrizio Donvito, Marco Cohen, Benedetto Habib
Starring	Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Fabrizio Bentivoglio Valeria Golino Fabrizio Gifuni Luigi Lo Cascio Giovanni Anzaldo Matilde Gioli Guglielmo Pinelli Gigio Alberti Bebo Storti
Cinematography	Jérôme Alméras
Edited by	Cecilia Zanuso
Music by	Carlo Virzì
Production companies	Indiana Production Company, coproduced byRai Cinema and Manny Films
Release date	3 December 2013 (2013-12-03) (Giornate professionali di cinema Sorrento)
Running time	109 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Human Capital (Italian:Il capitale umano) is a 2013 Italianthriller film directed byPaolo Virzì.^[1] The film is based on the American novelHuman Capital byStephen Amidon.^[2] For her performance in the film,Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was awarded Best Actress at the 2014Tribeca Film Festival.^[3] It was selected as the Italian entry for theBest Foreign Language Film at the87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.^[4]

The film is set in a town inBrianza and inMilan. On Christmas Eve, a waiter cycling home from working at a prestigious private school gala is hit by a car. The driver flees, leaving the waiter lying in the street badly injured. The waiter is hospitalized and close to death. The next day, two well-known families' lives are connected by the incident.

Even though the story is set in a town in Brianza, most of the urban scenes were filmed in February 2013 in the cities ofVarese. Principal photography began on 18 February 2013 and lasted eight weeks.^[5] andComo, in the countryside ofOsnago in theProvince of Lecco and inArese for the villa with the swimming pool.^[6] The beautiful villa of the Bernaschi Family is located inFortunago, a medieval village in theProvince of Pavia.^[7]

• Fabrizio Bentivoglio: Dino Ossola
• Valeria Bruni Tedeschi: Carla Bernaschi
• Fabrizio Gifuni: Giovanni Bernaschi
• Valeria Golino: Roberta Morelli
• Matilde Gioli: Serena Ossola
• Guglielmo Pinelli: Massimiliano Bernaschi
• Luigi Lo Cascio: Donato Russomanno
• Giovanni Anzaldo(it): Luca
• Gigio Alberti: Giampi
• Bebo Storti: Inspector
• Michael Sart: Jean Louis, Bernaschi's assistant
• Silvia Cohen: Adriana Crosetti
• Gianluca Di Lauro: Fabrizio, the cyclist
• Paolo Pierobon, Luca's uncle

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Human Capital holds an 81% rating and aweighted average of 6.8/10 onRotten Tomatoes based on 68 reviews, with the consensus being, "Part character study, part socioeconomic fable,Human Capital offers trenchant commentary as well as absorbing drama."^[9]Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 19 critics.^[10]

• List of submissions to the 87th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
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• 2013 films
• 2013 drama films
• 2010s Italian-language films
• Italian drama films
• Italian neo-noir films
• Films directed by Paolo Virzì
• Films scored by Carlo Virzì
• Indiana Production films

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