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2016 In Italian Television
This is a list of Italian television related events from 2016. Events *13 May – 26-year-old harmonica player Moses wins the seventh season of ''Italia's Got Talent''. *23 May – Alice Paba wins the fourth season of ''The Voice of Italy''. Debuts RAI Serials * ''L'allieva'' ("The pupil") – by various directors, with Alessandra Mastronardi and Lino Guanciale, from the Alessia Gazzola's novels; 3 seasons (till now). It's the most successful among the Italian forensic dramas and has for protagonist Alice Allievi, a young would-be coroner, professionally capable but maladroit in the private life. * ''Medici (TV series), Medici'', by various directors, with Richard Madden (Cosimo de' Medici), Daniel Sharman (Lorenzo de' Medici, Lorenzo il Magnifico) and Dustin Hoffman (Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, Giovanni di Bicci de Medici); 3 seasons (till now); coproduction with Great Britain. The series, despite its great production values, gets mixed critics, moreover for the exces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mafia Kills Only In Summer (film)
''The Mafia Kills Only in Summer'' () is a 2013 Italian comedy-drama film. It marked the directorial debut of the TV satirist Pif. The Italian Senate President and former anti-mafia magistrate Pietro Grasso referred to this film as the best film work on Sicilian Mafia ever made. The film premiered at the 2013 Torino Film Festival and released to theatres in Italy on 28 November 2013. It was awarded best comedy film at the 27th European Film Awards. Plot The story takes place in Palermo and it follows the story of the young Arturo Giammarresi, who wishes to become a journalist and has loved Flora since he was ten years old. His awkward attempts to conquer her heart run parallel to his (and his city's) slow realisation of the existence of Cosa Nostra. In the end, the movie is mostly a homage paid to the policemen and the magistrates who fought and gave their lives between the late 1970s and 1992, heroes of legality that were martyred in the attempt to dismantle the Sicilian Maf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fais Pas Ci, Fais Pas ça
''Fais pas ci, fais pas ça'' (; 'Don't do this, don't do that') is a French television series created by Anne Giafferi and Thierry Bizot for France Télévisions, starring Valérie Bonneton, Isabelle Gélinas, Bruno Salomone and Guillaume de Tonquédec. The comedy series debuted on 8 September 2007 on France 2; after nine seasons, the final episode aired on 22 February 2017. In 2020 and 2024, two additional special episodes aired in December for the Christmas season. The series is set in the Parisian suburb of Sèvres, following two neighbouring families raising their children, one conservatively (Lepic), one liberally (Bouley). The series was met with wide popular success and critical acclaim, reaching cult status in France. Ahead of the last episode airing, ''Le Monde'' wrote "it will not be easy to say goodbye." Cast Main characters Supporting characters Guest actors * Anne Benoît as Andrée (2 episodes) * Arielle Dombasle as Herself (1 episode) * Arnaud D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa Spagnoli
Luisa Spagnoli (; ; 30 October 1877 in Perugia – 21 September 1935 in Paris) was an Italian businesswoman, famous for creating a women's clothing company and chocolate factory Perugina. Early life Luisa Sargentini was born to fishmonger Pasquale Sargentini and housewife Maria Lo Conte from Ariano Irpino. At the age of 21, she married Annibale Spagnoli, with whom she had three sons: Mario, Armando and Aldo. The couple acquired a grocery store and started the production of dragées. Perugina With Giovanni Buitoni, Spagnoli founded the small company Perugina, headquartered in the historical center of her hometown of Perugia. Perugina initially began with 15 employees. With the outbreak of World War I when men had to leave for the front, Spagnoli was left to carry on the business alone with her three children, including two sons Mario and Aldo, taking care of them all by herself. After the war, the Perugina factory grew to more than 100 employees. In 1922, a brand of Italian ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa Ranieri
Luisa Ranieri (born 16 December 1973) is an Italian actress. She made her breakthrough in Leonardo Pieraccioni's '' The Prince and the Pirate'' (2001) before starring in a variety of Rai crime and biographical miniseries. Her other film credits include romantic comedy '' Letters to Juliet'' (2011), drama '' Fasten Your Seatbelts'' (2014), biographical drama '' The Music of Silence'' (2017), thriller '' Naples in Veils'' (2017), drama ''The Hand of God'' (2021), romantic drama '' Nuovo Olimpo'' (2023), and dramas ''Parthenope'' and '' Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness'' (both 2024). ''Callas e Onassis'' Ranieri is best known for her television movie portrayal of the opera diva Maria Callas in the 2005 Italian television film ''Callas e Onassis'', which began her acting career. Though a number of fiction and nonfiction movies, and documentaries, have been done on the late shipping magnate billionaire Aristotle Onassis, and of Callas, the TV movie ''Callas e Onassis'' is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libero Grassi
Libero Grassi (; 19 July 1924 – 29 August 1991) was an Italian clothing manufacturer from Palermo, Sicily, who was killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands. The businessman wrote an open letter to the local newspaper informing the extortionists that he was no longer willing to pay '' pizzo'', a Sicilian term for protection money. Other business-owners and shopkeepers in Palermo refused to join his public campaign. Grassi was gunned down in the street near his home eight months after writing the letter. Grassi was born in Catania, was married, and had a son and daughter. Following his death, his family have continued his campaign, lending their support to the Addiopizzo movement that is against ''pizzo''. ''Pizzo'' demands Grassi ran the Sigma factory producing men's underwear and pyjamas in Palermo. The company had around 100 employees and a business volume of US$5 million in 1990. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beppe Fiorello
Giuseppe Fiorello, also known as Beppe Fiorello or Fiorellino (born 12 March 1969), is an Italian actor. Career Fiorello was born in Catania, Sicily, the youngest of four children. His elder brother is the noted television and radio personality Rosario Fiorello, better known to Italian audiences as Fiorello. Giuseppe's first job was as an electrician in a tourist village.RAI International Online In 1994, Giuseppe began his career in the entertainment business as a disk jockey on the nationally-aired ''Dee Jay Radio'', using the name Fiorellino. That same year, he made his debut on television as a presenter for the Mediaset programme ''Karaoke'', which his brother had also hosted. Four years later in 1998, he made his screen debut in the film ''L'ultimo capodanno'', directed by Marco Risi. He played the part of ''Gaetano Malacozza''. Since then he has performed regularly in films and television fiction, with many starring roles such as in ''L'uomo sbagliato'', '' Joe Petrosino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enzo Monteleone
Enzo Monteleone (born 13 April 1954 in Padova, Italy) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Career Enzo Monteleone made his professional debut as a screenwriter with the screenplay of ''Hotel Colonial'', an Italian-American co-production (filmmaking), co-production directed by Cinzia TH Torrini, and starring Robert Duvall, John Savage (actor), John Savage, Rachel Ward and Massimo Troisi. He has written four screenplays for director Gabriele Salvatores: ''Kamikazen'', ''Marrakech Express'', ''Mediterraneo (film), Mediterraneo'', which won an Oscar in 1992 for Best Foreign Film, and ''Puerto Escondido,'' as well as films for such directors as Carlo Mazzacurati, Giuseppe Piccioni, Alessandro D'Alatri, Maurizio Sciarra and Carlos Saura (''¡Dispara!'', starring Antonio Banderas and Francesca Neri.) Monteleone's first film as a director was a biopic of the actor Alessandro Haber, ''La Vera Vita di Antonio H.'', which was shown at the Venice Film Festival and which won the It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Giallini
Marco Giallini (born 4 April 1963) is an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Rome, Giallini is the son of a housewife and a furnace labourer. After attending the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, he began acting on stage, working among others with Arnoldo Foà and Angelo Orlando. He made his film debut in 1995, in the Orlando's comedy film ''L'anno prossimo vado a letto alle dieci''. He appeared on several TV series and was co-protagonist, alongside Valerio Mastandrea, of the Rai Tre sitcom ''Buttafuori''.Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. . He is also very active in music videos and short films. In 2012 Giallini won the Nastro d'Argento for best supporting actor for his performance in '' ACAB - All Cops Are Bastards''. The same year he won the Ciak d'oro as personality of the year. Giallini was married to his wife Loredana for 25 years, and they had two children. He has remained a widower since July 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aosta
Aosta ( , , ; ; , or ; or ) is the principal city of the Aosta Valley, a bilingual Regions of Italy, region in the Italy, Italian Alps, north-northwest of Turin. It is situated near the Italian entrance of the Mont Blanc Tunnel and the Great St Bernard Tunnel, at the confluence of the Buthier and the Dora Baltea, and at the junction of the Great St Bernard Pass, Great and Little St Bernard Pass routes. History Aosta was settled in proto-historic times and later became a centre of the Salassi, many of whom were killed or sold into slavery by the Ancient Rome, Romans in 25 BC. The campaign was led by Aulus Terentius Varro Murena, Terentius Varro, who then founded the Ancient Rome, Roman colony of ''Augusta Praetoria Salassorum'', housing 3,000 retired veterans. After 11 BC Aosta became the capital of the Alpes Poeninae, Alpes Graies province of the Roman Empire, Empire. Its position at the confluence of two rivers, at the end of the Great St Bernard Pass, Great and the L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocco Schiavone
''Rocco Schiavone'' (also known as ''Rocco Schiavone: Ice Cold Murders'') is an Italian crime drama television series broadcast on Rai 2. It was first aired on 9 November 2016. The series is based on the books by Antonio Manzini. Premise Rocco Schiavone is a widowed detective superintendent who has recently been transferred from his beloved Rome to Aosta in the Italian Alps for disciplinary reasons. While hating his new posting, Schiavone investigates crimes that disrupt the peaceful Aosta Valley, although he sometimes resorts to questionable methods when doing so. His wife, who died almost ten years ago, is always present in his mind. He often sees her in other women and when he is home alone, he takes comfort in hearing her sound advice regarding various cases and the ethical issues they may pose. Cast * Marco Giallini as Rocco Schiavone * Ernesto D'Argenio (s. 1–5) and Paolo Bernardini (s. 6) as Italo Pierron * Massimiliano Caprara as Michele Deruta * Christian Ginepro as Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Guerritore
Monica Guerritore (born 5 January 1958) is an Italian film, theatre, and television actress. Biography Guerritore was born in Rome to a Neapolitan father and a Calabrian mother. She had her first small part in Vittorio De Sica's ''Una breve vacanza'', at the early age of 13. After her official debut at just sixteen years of age under the direction of Giorgio Strehler in ''The Cherry Orchard'', she tied herself romantically and artistically to film and theatre director Gabriele Lavia, acting in his theatrical performances mostly strong female characters like Jocasta, Lady Macbeth and Ophelia. Miss Julie in Strindberg's drama. The couple separated in 2001, during the rehearsals of Ingmar Bergman's ''Scenes from a Marriage'' in which she played Marianne. Guerritore continued her work with other directors, like Giancarlo Sepe, in ''Madame Bovary'', ''Carmen'', and ''The Lady of the Camellias''. Beside the stage career, Guerritore works on television and film, starting in 1976 alon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
