Ivo the Genius
Directed by	Alessandro Benvenuti
Written by	Alessandro Benvenuti Ugo Chiti Nicola Zavagli
Starring	Alessandro Benvenuti Francesca Neri
Cinematography	Blasco Giurato
Music by	Patrizio Fariselli
Release date	1995 (1995)
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Ivo the Genius (Italian: Ivo il tardivo) is a 1995 Italian comedy drama film co-written, directed and starred by Alessandro Benvenuti.^[1][2]

Plot

Ivo, a troubled forty-year old man, keen on solving puzzles has just recovered from a mental illness. He goes back to his hometown where he meets Sara, who wants to help him at all costs. He falls in love with her and in order to keep seeing her he agrees to go and live with four people with mental problems with whom he sets up a kind of misfits community.^[3]

Cast

• Alessandro Benvenuti as Ivo
• Francesca Neri as Sara
• Davide Bechini as Fabio
• Francesco Casale as Andrea
• Vito as Silvano
• Antonino Iuorio as Antonio
• Sandro Lombardi as Aldo
• Luca Fagioli as Carlino
• Sonia Grassi as Delfina
• Daniele Trambusti as Lele
• Maria Pelikan as Bruna
• Lucia Ragni as Aunt Augusta
• Guido Cerniglia as Sara's father