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In his quirky and idiosyncratic documentary Life As a Corporate Holiday, director Paolo Muran provides a character study of two genial working-class men: Italian beverage salesmen Silvano Bignozzi and Lino Toselli, business partners with a 25-year history of traveling around the world to various countries, lodging together, and jointly hawking chamomile tea, grappa brandy, and spumante wine to clients. For 25 years, the men have joined forces to compete with colleagues in a perennial contest, whose victors win an all-expenses-paid trip to an exotic vacation site such as China, Australia, and Paris; each year, for 25 years, the men have jointly won, and in many instances, they have taken their wives. Muran films Toselli and Bignozzi at a point when each nears retirement. As this year's contest encroaches, the men determine to win it one last time and snag the prize trip to Cuba for themselves and their families. Prior to helming this colorful portrait of life on the road and an enduring friendship, director Muran reportedly spent over 15 years with his subjects.