Human Capital (film)

Human Capital (Il capitale umano)
Film poster
Directed by	Paolo Virzì
Produced by	Fabrizio Donvito, Marco Cohen, Benedetto Habib
Written by	Paolo Virzì Francesco Piccolo Francesco Bruni Stephen Amidon (novel)
Starring	Fabrizio Bentivoglio Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Fabrizio Gifuni Valeria Golino
Music by	Carlo Virzì
Cinematography	Jérôme Alméras
Edited by	Cecilia Zanuso
Production company	Indiana Production Company, coproduced by Rai Cinema and Manny Films
Release date	3 December 2013 (2013-12-03) (Giornate professionali di cinema Sorrento)
Running time	109 min
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Human Capital (Italian: Il capitale umano) is a 2013 Italian film directed by Paolo Virzì. The film is based on the American novel Human Capital by Stephen Amidon. For her performance in the film, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was awarded Best Actress at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. It was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.

The film is set in a town in Brianza and in Milan. On Christmas Eve, a waiter cycling home from working at a prestigious private school's gala is hit by a car. The driver flees, leaving the waiter lying in the street badly injured. The waiter is hospitalized and close to death. The next day, two well-known families' lives are connected by the incident.

Even though the story is set in a town in Brianza, most of the urban scenes were filmed in February 2013 in the cities of Varese and Como, in the countryside of Osnago in the Province of Lecco and in Arese for the Villa with the swimming pool. The beautiful Villa of the Bernaschi Family is located in Fortunago, a medieval village in the Province of Pavia.