Desc: Un ragazzo di Calabria: Directed by Luigi Comencini. With Gian Maria Volontè, Diego Abatantuono, Thérèse Liotard, Santo Polimeno. Dad wants his 13-year-old son to work harder and smarter than he himself did; thus justifying the beatings and scoldings given the boy. The boy was also forced to work with some rope manufacturers who worked him like a dog.