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Enrico Medioli
Enrico Medioli (17 March 1925 – 21 April 2017) was an Italian screenwriter. Biography Born in Parma, Medioli was one of the most well known screenwriters in Italy. He co-wrote seven films directed by Luchino Visconti (including '' The Damned'' for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay) and worked with directors like Valerio Zurlini, Sergio Leone, Giuliano Montaldo, Mauro Bolognini, Alberto Lattuada, Vittorio Caprioli and Liliana Cavani. Medioli died in his home in Orvieto at the age of 92. Filmography * ''Rocco and His Brothers'' (1960) * '' Girl with a Suitcase'' (1961) * ''The Leopard'' (1963) * '' Sandra'' (1965) * '' The Damned'' (1969) * '' Listen, Let's Make Love'' (1969) * '' Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale'' (1970) * ''Indian Summer'' (1972) * '' Ludwig'' (1973) * ''Conversation Piece'' (1974) * '' The Innocent'' (1976) * ''The Lady of the Camellias'' (1981) * '' Beyond the Door'' (1982) * ''Petomaniac'' (1983) * ''Once Upon a Tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parma
Parma (; ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, Giuseppe Verdi, music, art, prosciutto (ham), Parmesan, cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,986 inhabitants as of 2025, Parma is the second most populous city in Emilia-Romagna after Bologna, the region's capital. The city is home to the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world. Parma is divided into two parts by the Parma (river), stream of the same name. The district on the west side of the river is ''Oltretorrente'', meaning ''The other side of the stream''. Parma's Etruscan name was adapted by Romans to describe the round shield called ''Parma (shield), Parma''. History Prehistory Parma was already a built-up area in the Bronze Age. In the current position of the city rose a Terramare culture, terramare. The "terramare" (marl earth) were ancient villages built of wood on piles according to a defined scheme and squared form; c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liliana Cavani
Liliana Cavani (born 12 January 1933) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Cavani became internationally known after the success of her 1974 feature film ''Il portiere di notte'' ('' The Night Porter''). Her films have historical concerns.Brunetta, ''The History of Italian Cinema'', p. 227 In addition to feature films and documentaries, she has also directed opera. Early life Cavani was born in Carpi, near Modena in the regione of Emilia-Romagna.Marrone, ''The Gaze and the Labyrinth'', p. 3 Cavani's father, an architect from Mantua, belonged to a conservative bourgeois family of landowners. "My father was an architect interested in urban development. He took me to museums. He had worked in urban planning in Baghdad in 1956, when Iraq was still under British control. My mother was very strong, very capable, and very sweet", Cavani explained in an interview. Her mother was passionate about films and took her to the movies every Sunday from an early age. On her mother's side, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petomaniac
''Il petomane'', internationally released as ''Petomaniac'', is a 1983 Italian commedia all'italiana film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile. It is loosely based on real life events of Joseph Pujol, best known as " Le Pétomane". Cast * Ugo Tognazzi: Joseph Pujol * Mariangela Melato: Catherine Dumurier * Ricky Tognazzi: Michel Pujol * Gianmarco Tognazzi: Lucien Pujol * Stefano Roffi: Marc Pujol * Giovanni Grimaldi: Louis Pujol * Giuliana Calandra: Giulia Pujol * Vittorio Caprioli: Pitalugue * Anna Maria Gherardi: Misia Edwards * Peter Berling: Ziedler * Sergio Solli: Montesquieu * Felice Andreasi Felice Andreasi (8 January 1928, in Turin – 25 December 2005, in Cortazzone) was an Italian film, television, and stage actor. He appeared in over 50 films in Italy between 1972 and 2005. Biography He was considered one of the leading stage a ...: Lawyer Mercier * Enzo Robutti : Giudice Istruttore * Pietro Tordi: Prince d'Orleans References External links * 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond The Door (1982 Film)
''Beyond the Door'' (, and also known as ''Beyond Obsession'') is a 1982 Italian drama film directed by Liliana Cavani. Cast * Marcello Mastroianni as Enrico Sommi * Eleonora Giorgi as Nina * Tom Berenger as Matthew Jackson * Michel Piccoli Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli (27 December 1925 – 12 May 2020) was a French actor, producer and film director with a career spanning 70 years. He was lauded as one of the greatest French character actors of his generation who played a wide vari ... as Mr. Mutti * Paolo Bonetti * Maria Sofia Amendolea as Secretary * Enrico Bergier * Marcia Briscoe as Nina's Friend * Cicely Browne as Nina's Grandmother * Hadija Lahnida as Hassan's Sister * Leandro Marcoccio as Ira * Atik Mohamed as Stranded Motorist * Abdelkader Moutaa * Mahjoub Raji * Fatima Regragui as Grandmother's Housekeeper * Giuseppina Romagnoli as Enrico's Prostitute * Gary Shebex * Hammadi Tounsi References External links *Filmografia di Liliana Cavani 1982 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady Of The Camellias (1981 Film)
''The Lady of the Camellias'' (, ) is a 1981 French-Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini and starring Isabelle Huppert. It tells the actual story of Alphonsine Plessis, who became a famous courtesan in Paris and the inspiration for the novel ''La Dame aux camélias'' by Alexandre Dumas, ''fils'', which has in turn become the source for many plays, operas, ballets, and films. Plot Alphonsine, growing up motherless in absolute poverty, goes alone to Paris and finds work as a seamstress. In the evening most of the girls she works with work as prostitutes but one is a cloakroom attendant at the opera house and takes her there to help. Seeing high society on display fills her with the desire to join their world. Illiterate, her only asset being her body, she soon becomes the mistress of a young nobleman. From him she passes to a wealthy old aristocrat and then elopes to England with the Count de Perregaux, who marries her there. Though he makes her a Countess and gives h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Innocent (1976 Film)
''The Innocent'' () is a 1976 period drama film directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, and Jennifer O'Neill. It is an adaptation of Gabriele d'Annunzio's 1892 novel '' The Intruder'',' about a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful, he becomes enamored of her again''.'' It was Visconti's final film, released posthumously, three months after his death in March 1976. Plot In the late 1890s, Tullio Hermil is a wealthy Roman aristocrat. He has a possessive aristocratic mistress, Teresa Raffo, and neglects his wife, Giuliana. His interest in his wife is rekindled when he sees Giuliana's happiness after she has begun a love affair with a novelist, Filippo d'Arborio. She becomes pregnant by d'Arborio. Tullio urges an abortion but she refuses; d'Arborio then dies of complications from malaria. Tullio cannot tolerate the healthy male child delivered to Giuliana, although he tries. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conversation Piece (film)
''Conversation Piece'' () is a 1974 drama film directed, co-written, and produced by Luchino Visconti. It stars Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano, and Romolo Valli; with cameo appearances by Claudia Cardinale and Dominique Sanda. The film explores such themes as the collision between old and new, imminence of death, existential crises, and the sociopolitical gap between generations. The title refers to an informal group portrait, especially those painted in Britain in the 18th century, beginning in the 1720s. Plot A retired American professor lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome, surrounded by pieces of art and books. He barely maintains contact with people other than his long-time housekeeper Erminia, but even that contact is characterized by detachment. One day, the rich but vulgar Countess Brumonti (her husband is a right-wing industrialist who does not appear) rings his doorbell. She manages to talk the Professor into renting the empty apartment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig (film)
''Ludwig'' () is a 1973 epic biographical drama film co-written and directed by Luchino Visconti. The film stars Helmut Berger as King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Romy Schneider as Empress Elisabeth of Austria, along with Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Griem, and Gert Fröbe. It is the third and final part of Visconti's "German Trilogy", following '' The Damned'' (1969) and '' Death in Venice'' (1971). An international co-production by Italian producer Ugo Santalucia and West German producer Dieter Giessler, ''Ludwig'' was one of the most expensive European films at the time, and was a moderate success in its home territories, but was more lukewarmly received in the United States, where a heavily truncated 177-minute version was released. It was filmed in Munich and surrounding parts of Bavaria, and at Cinecittà Studios. ''Ludwig'' won two David di Donatello Awards, for Best Film and Best Director, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design. Berger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Summer (1972 Film)
''Indian Summer'' () is a 1972 Italian romantic drama film directed by Valerio Zurlini and starring Alain Delon, Sonia Petrovna, Renato Salvatori, Alida Valli, Adalberto Maria Merli, Salvo Randone and Lea Massari. The version released in France and West Germany runs less than the Italian cut. The film tells the story of a gifted but restless young man who cannot live up to the high traditions of his family and survives in obscurity, taking casual teaching jobs and living in a loveless partnership with a depressed woman. His aimless existence reaches a crisis point when he falls for one of his pupils, a beautiful but badly damaged girl. Despite the film receiving positive reviews from critics, it was a commercial failure. Plot While a teacher is on sick leave, despite his dishevelled appearance and an employment history with unexplained gaps, Daniele is hired to take a class in Rimini. To get to know his pupils, he asks them to write a free essay or, if they prefer, one on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Splendori E Miserie Di Madame Royale
''Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale'' (also known as ''Madame Royale'') is a 1970 Italian comedy drama film directed by Vittorio Caprioli. Plot Alessio, a homosexual ex-dancer and now framer, has raised the young Mimmina as a daughter, abandoned by her father at an early age. Despite the commitment to make the girl an honest woman in her own way, Mimmina reveals a complete moral ruthlessness that leads her to prison for an attempted abortion, at the time still illegal. In the hope of somehow benefiting the young woman, whom he is sincerely fond of, Alessio is forced to accept the proposal of an ambiguous commissioner and becomes a police informer. Thanks to his confidences, the police manage to thwart drug trafficking, fake paintings and pornographic photos, but Alessio is soon abandoned by all the friends who have discovered his activity as an informer. Decided to move to another city, Alessio falls victim of the revenge of the underworld on the eve of his departure. Cast * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listen, Let's Make Love
''Scusi, facciamo l'amore?'' (internationally released as ''Listen, Let's Make Love'') is a 1969 Italian commedia all'italiana written and directed by Vittorio Caprioli. Plot Lallo di San Marciano moves from Naples to Milan after the death of his father Bebe. Because the father did not own anything, except a series of elegant dresses, Lallo is welcomed into the home of his uncle Carlo. Lallo begins attending the wealthy friends of his aunt, with whom he starts a series of sexual relations in order to be kept. Cast * Pierre Clémenti: Lallo di San Marciano * Claudine Auger: Ida Bernasconi * Beba Lončar: Lidia * Carlo Caprioli: Carlo * Valentina Cortese: Mrs. di San Marciano * Massimo Girotti: Tassi * Franca Valeri: Diraghi * Edwige Feuillère Edwige Feuillère (born Edwige Louise Caroline Cunatti; 29 October 1907 – 13 November 1998) was a French stage and film actress. Biography She was born Edwige Louise Caroline Cunatti to an Italian architect father and an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra (1965 Film)
''Sandra'' () is a 1965 drama film directed and co-written by Luchino Visconti, and starring Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, and Michael Craig. A modern-day retelling of the Electra story, the film centers on the incestuous relationship between a young Italian woman (Cardinale) and her brother (Sorel), on her return to their ancestral home of Volterra. It premiered at the 26th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion. Plot Visconti's retelling of the Electra story starts with Sandra returning to her ancestral home in Italy. On the eve of an official ceremony commemorating the death of her Jewish father in a Nazi concentration camp, she revives a sexual involvement with her brother, which troubles her naive husband. The incestuous siblings determine to wreak revenge on their mother and stepfather, who supposedly denounced their father to the Nazis. Cast * Claudia Cardinale as Sandra Dawdson * Jean Sorel as Gianni Wald-Luzzati * Michael Craig as Andre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
