title: Christmas Present (film)
text: # Christmas Present (film)
  
  Regalo di Natale, internationally released as Christmas Present, is a 1986 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Pupi Avati. It entered the 43° Venice Film Festival, in which Carlo Delle Piane won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. For his performance in this film Diego Abatantuono won a Nastro d'Argento for Best supporting Actor. The film has a sequel, Christmas Rematch.
  
  ## Plot
  
  The day before Christmas: a group of friends can be found, as tradition, rich in the house of one of them, for a game of poker. Each of the four men, including a mysterious lawyer, has problems in families, and trying to scrape together a Christmas game in a considerable sum in order to live better. But fate has a special plan for each day players.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Diego Abatantuono as Franco Mattioli
  * Gianni Cavina as Ugo Cavara
  * Alessandro Haber as Gabriele Bagnoli
  * Carlo Delle Piane as Antonio Sant'Elia
  * George Eastman as Stefano Bertoni
  * Kristina Sevieri as Martina
  * Rossella Como
  