Open to the Public
Genres
Overview
The Institute for Public Housing in Naples employs about 100 people. When the office is open to the public, employees receive residents who live in the 40,000 houses managed by the institute. Their task is to find solutions to citizens’ problems and trigger the bureaucratic procedures to solve them. But managing these chaotic lives within rigid legal structures is not an easy task and employees are often forced to resort to a singular art: “bureaucratic compromise”. (Tënk)
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
60 min
Release Date
2018-07-01
Status
Released
Original Language
Italian
Vote Count
1
Vote Average
9
7.1
Welfare
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1975-09-23 | en
7.0
Juvenile Court
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1973-06-04 | en
7.3
16 Acres
The dramatic inside story of the monumental collision of interests at Ground Zero in the decade after 9/11.
2012-09-23 | en
7.3
The Spanish Flu: The Invisible Enemy
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2021-09-29 | fr
7.0
A Good American
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2015-09-23 | en
4.9
Visions of Europe
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
2004-05-01 | en
7.4
Sicko
A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s lives. "The more people you deny health insurance the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.
2007-05-18 | en
8.0
Your Call Is Important To Us
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0.0
Minerva
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2021-06-01 | ar
0.0
Berlin Ulysses
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2024-03-25 | de
0.0
Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed
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1979-01-01 | en
0.0
Losing It
Tracking missing socks in the European Union.
1999-05-15 | fi
6.0
Action J
Compilation film, tracing the political career of Dr. Hans Globke, allegedly a former Nazi, now Secretary of State in West Germany.
1961-04-20 | de
0.0
Ruurdt
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2024-09-16 | nl
7.3
The Story of Qiu Ju
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1992-08-31 | zh
7.2
Shin Godzilla
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2016-07-29 | ja
6.1
Moebius
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1996-10-17 | es
7.1
L.627
In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he witnesses the worst of the human condition.
1992-09-09 | fr
4.3
How to Apply for a Sexual Position
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2017-08-02 | en
7.3
Death of a Bureaucrat
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1966-07-24 | es