- Country: France, Italy
- Genres: Drama, Romance
- Release: 2015-10 (Rome Film Festival), 2015-11-05 (Italy)
- Director: Claudio Cupellini
- Writers: Claudio Cupellini , Filippo Gravino , Guido Iuculano
- Language: Italian | French | English
- Stars: Elio Germano , Astrid Bergès-Frisbey , Valerio Binasco , Elena Radonicich , Antoine Oppenheim , Paolo Pierobon , Pino Colizzi , Marco D’Amore , Roschdy Zem , Anastasia Vinogradova
- Runtime: 125 min
- Awards: 2 wins & 8 nominations
- AKA: Alaska (United States of America) , I principianti , The Beginners (Sweden) , Alaska , The Beginners , Alaska (Italy) , Alaska (United Kingdom) , Аляска (Russian Federation)I principianti
- Plot:
Nadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a restaurant waiter. They accidentally meet at a five-star hotel. Both are fragile, alone and obsessed with the idea of an unattainable happiness. Their intense love is challenged by their own individual ambition and desperation.
- IMDB:tt2290397
Alaska Cast · · · ALL
Claudio Cupellini
Director
Elio Germano
Fausto
Astrid Bergès-Frisbey
Nadine
Valerio Binasco
Sandro
Paolo Pierobon
Marco
Elena Radonicich
Francesca
Antoine Oppenheim
Nicholas
Pino Colizzi
Alfredo Wiel
Marco D’Amore
Toni
Roschdy Zem
Benoit
Xavier Lemaître
Maître Hotel Parigi
Stefano Fregni
Emilio
Rossana Mortara
Assistente responsabile casting
Désirée Giorgetti
Agente immobiliare
Maria Sole Mansutti
Cameriera Alaska