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1982 In Italian Television
This is a list of Italian television related events from 1982. Events *11 July - Italy beat West Germany 3-1 to win the 1982 World Cup at Madrid, Spain. Debuts Rai * ''Che fai, ridi?'' (What are you doing? Are you laughing?) – cycle of mockumentaries or documentaries in a humorous key about the Italian comic actors, from Monica Vitti to Diego Abatantuono, sometimes works by famous directors as Carlo Vanzina or Pupi Avati. Serials *La pietra di Marco Polo ( Marco Polo’s stone) – by Aldo Lado; for children. Five Venetian kids make up a gang, searing allegiance upon the stone of the title. *Pimpa – cartoon, by Francesco Tullio Altan. Private channels * '' Maurizio Costanzo show'' (Rete 4, later Canale 5) – talks show hosted by Maurzio Costanzo, again on air (with a break-up from 2009 to 2015). The most long-living, popular and controversial Italian talk show, during the years sometimes has faced social questions with commendable commitment, more often has given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Television
Television in Italy was introduced in 1939, when the first experimental broadcasts began. However, this lasted for a very short time: when fascist Italy entered World War II in 1940 all transmissions were interrupted, and were resumed in earnest only nine years after the end of the conflict, on January 3, 1954. There are two main national television organisations responsible for most viewing: state-owned RAI, accounting for 37% of the total viewing figures in May 2014, and Mediaset, a commercial network which holds about 33%. The third largest player, the Italian branch of Warner Bros. Discovery, had a viewing share of 5.8%. Apart from these three free to air companies, Comcast's satellite pay TV platform Sky Italia is increasing in viewing and shares. According to the BBC, the Italian television industry is widely considered both inside and outside the country to be overtly politicized. Unlike the BBC which is controlled by an independent trust, the public broadcaster RA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rete 4
Rete 4 (in English Network 4) is an Italian free-to-air television channel operated by Mediaset Italia and owned by MFE - MediaForEurope. Presently the director is Sebastiano Lombardi. Programs TV Programmes (currently) Rete 4's strength is information: a lot of programs are of this genre. * ''Quarta Repubblica'' (Political and chronical news), on Monday's prime-time with Nicola Porro. * '' Fuori dal coro'' (Political and chronical news), on Tuesday's prime-time with Mario Giordano. * '' Zona bianca'' (Political and chronical news), on Wednesday's prime-time Giuseppe Brindisi. * '' Dritto e rovescio'' (Political and chronical news), on Thursday's prime-time with Paolo Del Debbio. * '' Quarto grado'' (Crime news), on Friday's prime-time with Gianluigi Nuzzi and Alessandra Viero. * '' Stasera Italia'' (Political news). Every day at 8.30 PM, with Barbara Palombelli (Monday-Friday) and Veronica Gentili (Weekends and summer) * '' Lo sportello di Forum'' (Culture and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Charterhouse Of Parma
''The Charterhouse of Parma'' (french: La Chartreuse de Parme, links=no) is a novel by Stendhal published in 1839. Telling the story of an Italian nobleman in the Napoleonic era and later, it was admired by Balzac, Tolstoy, André Gide, di Lampedusa and Henry James. It was inspired by an inauthentic Italian account of the dissolute youth of Alessandro Farnese. The novel has been adapted for opera, film and television. The title refers to a Carthusian monastery, which is only mentioned on the last page of the novel and does not figure significantly in the plot. Plot summary ''The Charterhouse of Parma'' chronicles the adventures of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo from his birth in 1798 to his death. Fabrice spends his early years in his family's castle on Lake Como, while most of the rest of the novel is set in a fictionalized Parma (both locations are in modern-day Italy). The book begins with the French army sweeping into Milan and stirring up the sleepy region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara De Rossi
Barbara De Rossi (born 9 August 1960) is an Italian actress who has combined a career in international cinema with longstanding popularity in Italian television. Biography Barbara De Rossi was born in 1960 in Rome to an Italian wine importer and his German wife. She spent many of her early years in Rimini. At the age of 15, De Rossi was spotted by director Alberto Lattuada in a beauty contest. Her film debut was in Lattuada's '' Stay As You Are'' (1978), alongside Marcello Mastroianni and Nastasia Kinski. She went on to play Virna Lisi's screen daughter in '' La Cicala'' (The Cricket) in 1980, again directed by Lattuada. In 1983, she played Bradamante, the famous female warrior, in '' Hearts and Armour'' directed by Giacomo Battiato. By the mid-1980s, she was gaining English-speaking roles such as the beautiful Greek slave girl Eunice in the TV miniseries ''Quo Vadis?'' and Claretta Petacci, Mussolini's mistress in the docudrama ''Mussolini and I'' alongside the actors Anthony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Bonetti
Massimo Bonetti (born 28 March 1951) is an Italian actor and director. Life and career Born in Rome, Bonetti after several years as character actor debuted in a leading role in 1981, in Aurelio Chiesa's ''Bim Bum Bam''. Then, he obtained roles of weight for notable directors such as Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Pupi Avati and Massimo Troisi. He is also very active in Italian television, in which he is probably best known for the main role in the crime TV-series ''La squadra'', that he starred for eight seasons between 1999 and 2007. In 2010 Bonetti made his directorial debut with ''Quando si Diventa Grandi''. Selected filmography * '' Free Hand for a Tough Cop'' (1976) * ''Beach House'' (1977) * '' The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist'' (1977) * '' Stay as You Are'' (1978) * '' The Night of the Shooting Stars '' (1982) * ''Kaos'' (1984) * '' Le vie del Signore sono finite'' (1987) * ''The Last Minute'' (1987) * ''The Story of Boys & Girls'' (1989) * ''The Sun Also Shines at Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudio Amendola
Claudio Amendola (born 16 February 1963) is an Italian actor, director and television presenter. He starred in the 1993 film '' The Escort'', which was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. Biography Born in Rome and the son of actors and voice dubbers Ferruccio Amendola and Rita Savagnone, Amendola started his movie career during the 1980s, playing comic roles in some Italian comedies directed by Carlo Vanzina. In 1987 he played his first dramatic role in '' Soldati - 365 all'alba'', directed by Marco Risi, and in the following decade he confirmed his dramatic skills in some movies like ''Ultrà'' (1990) and '' The Escort'' (1993), both directed by Ricky Tognazzi. During the 2000s Amendola became a very popular television actor, acting in the popular fiction '' I Cesaroni'', the Italian version of ''Los Serrano''. Personal life Amendola is married to actress Francesca Neri and they have a son together, Rocco. He also has two daughters from a previous marriage. One of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Rossi (director)
Franco Rossi (19 April 1919, Florence – 5 June 2000, Rome) was an Italian people, Italian film screenwriter and Film director, director, mainly known for having directed the six-hour Italian-German-British-Swiss TV mini-series ''Quo Vadis? (1985 TV mini-series), Quo Vadis?'' in 1985. Biography Rossi was born in Florence, Italy. He studied law and then began to work on theatre. He was assistant director of Mario Camerini, Luis Trenker, Renato Castellani, Aldo Vergano. Rossi made his debut as a director with the crime thriller ''I Falsari''. He went on to have his first success with ''Il seduttore'', starring by Alberto Sordi, and among Rossi's other films were ''The Woman in the Painting'' (''Amici per la pelle'', 1955), ''Odissea Nuda'' (1961), ''Three Nights of Love'' (1964), an episode of ''Le bambole'' (1965), and ''Porgi l'altra guancia'' with Bud Spencer in (1974). Rossi was one of the first established Italian film directors also doing work for television, being one of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stathis Giallelis
Stathis Giallelis ( el, Στάθης Γιαλελής; born January 21, 1941) is a Greek actor. He won brief international renown in the early 1960s as the star of Elia Kazan's Academy Award-nominated epic ''America America'', a role which brought him the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor, as well as a nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. ''America America'' Stathis Giallelis' entire prominence revolves around his central role in ''America America''. He appears in nearly every scene of the 174-minute film and gives what some critics described at the time as a "towering performance". He has not, however, faced a camera since 1980 and his biographical details remain sketchy. The date of his birth is generally accepted as correct, although two sources indicate 1939 as the year. All listings agree that he was born in Greece, but none specify the location. The medium-height, slightly built Giallelis was twenty-one years old in m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Ferrara
Giuseppe Ferrara (15 July 1932 – 25 June 2016) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Biography Born in Castelfiorentino, near , he founded at the high school an innovative film club, which proposes and critically analyzes neorealism movies; since then he showed a character of "novelty", often considered as "subversive". He graduated from the |
Alexandros Panagoulis
Alexandros Panagoulis ( el, Αλέξανδρος Παναγούλης; 2 July 1939 – 1 May 1976) was a Greek politician and poet. He took an active role in the fight against the Regime of the Colonels (1967–1974) in Greece. He became famous for his attempt to assassinate dictator Georgios Papadopoulos on 13 August 1968, but also for the torture to which he was subjected during his detention. After the restoration of democracy, he was elected to the Greek parliament as a member of the Centre Union (E.K.). Biography Family, childhood and education Alexandros Panagoulis was born in the Glyfada neighbourhood of Athens. He was the second son of Vassilios Panagoulis, an officer in the Greek Army, and his wife Athena, and the brother of Georgios Panagoulis, also a Greek Army officer and victim of the Colonels' regime, and Efstathios, who became a politician. His father was from Divri (Lampeia) in Elis (Western Peloponnese) while his mother was from the Ionian island of Lefk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesare Zavattini
Cesare Zavattini (20 September 1902 – 13 October 1989) was an Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema. Biography Born in Luzzara near Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, on 20 September 1902, Zavattini studied law at the University of Parma, but devoted himself to writing. He started his career in ''Gazzetta di Parma''. In 1930 he relocated to Milan, and worked for the book and magazine publisher Angelo Rizzoli. After Rizzoli began producing films in 1934, Zavattini received his first screenplay and story credits in 1936. At the same time he was writing the plot for the comic strip '' Saturn against the Earth'' with Federico Pedrocchi (script) and Giovanni Scolari (art) for ''I tre porcellini'' (1936–1937) and ''Topolino'' (1937–1946). In 1935, he met Vittorio De Sica, beginning a partnership that produced some twenty films, including such masterpieces of Italian neorealism as '' Sciuscià'' (1946) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marine Boy
''Marine Boy'' was one of the first color anime cartoons to be shown in a dubbed form in the U.S., and later in Australia and the United Kingdom. It was originally produced in 1965 in Japan as by Minoru Adachi and animation company Japan Tele-Cartoons. It was sold outside Japan via K. Fujita Associates Inc., with Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Television handling worldwide distribution of the English-language version. The series was distributed in syndication in the United States starting in 1966. Series The show revolves around a talented boy who is further enhanced by some sophisticated inventions. With these, he serves with the underwater policing agency, the Ocean Patrol, in making Earth's oceans safe. The series is set in the future, when humankind has explored the world's oceans, establishing great facilities for undersea ranching (episode 4, 17, 22), mineral and oil exploitation (ep. 2, 12), research (ep. 6, 7), and some underocean communities (ep. 10, 15). In this era ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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