Like "matti per il calcio" is the film "Si può fare" ("It can be done") dedicated to the over 30,000 social cooperatives, which are from the 80s to under the "Legge Bersani Basaglia allowed "from the Italian closed" asylums "People with psychiatric conditions laid off work, employment and partly self-determined life. The 2008 motion picture released by Giulio Manfredonia also has the great in all areas in Italy and very revered comedian Claudio Bisio from at least as popular cabaret program " Zelig "in the title role. And Claudio Bisio next brilliant wordplay promises a theatrical precision that I liked the film had been fat before he finally hit cinema in my province.

"What role in a community can take someone who never speaks, and whose life is miserable? The President! "
(Nello)

"Si può fare" is a comedy, a subtle, profound, but yet still incredibly relaxed comedy with unexpected ease one not treated so lightly tilled topic, so you can sit back at first quite relaxed and loud laugh out. Now I do not know how it goes fraction of the usual consternation, I found myself well entertained, I laughed out loud in places and by the way get a clear lesson about life. A comedy about the mentally handicapped? Can you make! The main thing is it does well.

"I admit that not right because they are crazy. I've always treated them as equals. If they get upset, I encourage to me: that's respect. "
(Nello)

Nello (Claudio Bisio) is 1983, a Milan trade unionists, and not just his appearance is reminiscent of Lenin, his argument can be no doubt about the political orientation of the man. Now he also has a head to think and his just released book questions the market is taken by his Stalinist comrades not just thrilled, and so he will find themselves relegated to the square of the head of "Cooperativa 180" again, one of the tens of thousands of projects for disability, which emerged after the Basaglia-law (Law 180) in Italy. Again, not everything that glitters is gold and Nello quickly realize that not his real work is expected: In his first visit he drips from professionally arrogant medical director of the institution and of the stamps adhesive and severely medicated patients, at best, polite ignored, otherwise rejected aggressive. Small bald Weltrevoluzzer meets with his full enthusiasm to an oppressed working class, who absolutely do not want to be rescued. His first work day ends with a bloody nose. The first red speckles in the gray hospital routine.

"If he gets mad, tell him that I signed the last ..."
(Fabio)

But can not be stopped as soon Nello. He wants to change, and change it out. Completely free of experiences in the field and with a good dose of naivety he plans to fill the word "cooperative" with life - a non-hierarchical cooperation of adult humans. So he calls the pack together and explained to them the meaning and purpose of a cooperative and we worked together in the roles created on wheels. Each according to his ability, to each according to his performance. And anyway, is not an appropriate adhesive stamp work - together, they agree to shake up the market for parquet laying work. "Together" is now the defining word and the pride of the press with such respect and responsibility-appointed members of the cooperative is initially made in amazement and wonder.

"We are completely out of the city! These roads are not there! "
(Ossi, as you spend hours in Milan remains at a construction site redirection)

And the "Cooperativa 180" gets down to work. As expected runs in the crazy bunch more troubled when Nello had expected, but the project slowly takes shape. And what a figure - the nymphomaniac telephone operator is easy, but like the phone. The driver is a frustrated Formula 1 driver, but his illness allowed him only, only the second To use gear. And the accountant can deal well with numbers, stands alone with this talent, however, largely because the rest of the group may be difficult to get used to its accuracy. The symptoms and characteristics of the colored troops are so varied that it needs daily headache to maintain befallen upon them a sense of community. Now, discover, and Luca and Gigio (Giovanni Calcagno and Andrea Bosca) their artistic side precisely at the moment when they surprise you in a more aristocratic club of the ultra-conservative owner with a finely chiseled giant five-pointed star on the floor - the boys had run out of floor and they invented the art of Versägestücken and other residues.

"We do everything from waste, this is a cooperative of waste."
(Ossi)

To everyone's surprise, the artwork is a success and now is the Cooperativa inundated with orders. Very slowly and in small increments earned the cooperative self-confidence are all still believe in what has been drummed into them for a lifetime, that they counted for nothing and nothing can. But from work to work, from victory to victory, in the everyday work as first contacts with the opposite sex who see patients that they are, despite their limitations far more diverse than some alien children. Nello decides to reduce the medication and the doctor after he Del Vecchio (Giorgio Colangeli) gets a basket, he gets the young and modern-thinking Dottore Furlan (Giuseppe Battiston) into the boat. The drug dose is reduced and funded by the European Union, the group moves into a new headquarters. Now, imagine those of the new freedoms completely turned heaps, where there is no shortage of problems: The smart Gigio falls in love with a customer, the excursion of the reduction of tranquilizers uninhibited troupe on the road line provides general revival and the growing self-confidence of the troops Nello makes a total of more problems than expected.

"We are crazy, not stupid."
(Luca)

But it grows together, and all parties are always surprised at what services we have in common is capable. Performance that the patient has been denied by the company for a lifetime. Of course it's a pleasure to watch her new world discovering patients at the children's conquest of the planet. Tragic losses must also insert the troops, self-doubt, fear and resignation. In the meantime, it seems as if you had taken and would fail due to external and internal obstacles but ultimately and then give the doubters right. But amazingly, it is at the end of the chronically skeptical Doctor Del Vecchio, Nello and obliged him to carry on its lists not held for possible success. The Director Nello conjures not to give up his incredible work and keep going. And so the film ends with a view of the newly arrived workers from other cooperatives and a swivel on the floor prefabricated parts for a huge contract for the Paris Metro. They have done it.

"They have voted against you. Did you not realize that this is your most beautiful victory? "
(Dr. Furlan)

"Si può fare" is a refreshing and clever comedy lightning, rather tragicomedy about life from different angles. Each of the "Cooperativa 180" brings its strengths in the group and each individual makes the group stronger. Based on the clinical picture is a multi-faceted, mosaic-like glance at all of our self-evident truths of the "normal" life and so Nello learns in the course of his work at least as much as to his colleagues. Among other things, that the world recovery begins in small ways and his own life is at least as well organized as the haphazard his new colleagues. An incredibly funny film in parts with the mentally handicapped, which comes entirely without pointing the finger or other gooders and never too serious: Communist-gooders are also presented as the unspeakable ignorance of the alleged mentally powerful general population. And alter a film about the friendship, the will, even in miniature the world and the fun of life - regardless of what the majority defines as life straight.

Si può fare (2008) - Official Trailer

Si può fare - How to setup a cooperative