The best Jacopo Bonvicini’s movies

Composed and inspired by several comics by Italian underground prodigy Andrea Pazienza, Paz! is a 24-hour slice of life of a bunch of students living in an apartment in Bologna during the 70's, divided between marjuana, university, girls and political militancy.

Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement.

An socially inept dockworker (Fabio Volo), an unemployed 30-year-old teacher who works flipping pizzas (Piefrancesco Favino), a college professor nostalgic for the Marxist revolution (Giuseppe Battiston) and a man without a past who’s just been released from prison (Paolo Sassanelli) decide to kidnap a political minister and use the ransom money to compensate the family of a victim of an on-the-job accident. Motivated by disappointment, bitterness, rage, and the winds of anti-politics, they are also supremely clumsy. And, along with a journalist (Claudia Pandolfi) they involve in their scheme, they mistakenly grab an anonymous vice-minister (Giorgio Tirabassi) who turns out to be the only honest politician around.

David, a student in Pisa who is about to pass his final exam, gets involved in an anti-globalist group.