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Flavio Bucci
Flavio Bucci (25 May 1947 – 18 February 2020) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film producer. Biography Born in Turin, Bucci began appearing in film and television in 1971, making his debut appearance in the film '' The Working Class Goes to Heaven''. He is known for playing Daniel, the blind pianist, in Dario Argento's ''Suspiria'' and for playing the thuggish Blackie in Aldo Lado's 1975 '' Night Train Murders''. Another one of Bucci's iconic appearances was in the 1978 film '' Closed Circuit'' directed by Giuliano Montaldo, with whom he made several film collaborations with. On stage, Bucci appeared in adaptations of ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''; '' The Clown'' and more. He also recited poems written by Giacomo Leopardi. Bucci had a rare career as a voice dubber during the 1970s and 1980s. He dubbed John Travolta in his earlier films as well as Sylvester Stallone in ''The Lords of Flatbush''. His character dubbing roles for television include Potsie Weber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Property Is No Longer A Theft
''Property Is No Longer a Theft'' () is a 1973 Italian-French comedy drama film directed by Elio Petri. The film is considered the conclusion to Petri's so-called ''Trilogy of Neuroses'', showing the neurosis of money, along with ''Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion'' (neurosis of power), and ''The Working Class Goes to Heaven'' (neurosis of work). Plot Total, a young bank cashier, is allergic to money and feels only contempt for his customers who, in his eyes built their wealth on criminal or corrupt activities. After witnessing an armed robbery in his bank, he becomes a Marxist, resigns from his job and turns to theft for ideological reasons. He stalks a former client, a butcher from Rome who for him represents the evils of capitalism, and robs him of his valuables: first the butcher's knife and hat, then his jewellery, money, car and even his mistress Anita. When the butcher identifies his pursuer, he tries to pay Total off, but the latter resists and teams up with pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Days
''Happy Days'' is an American television sitcom that aired first-run on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC network from January 15, 1974, to July 19, 1984, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning 11 seasons. Created by Garry Marshall, it was one of the most successful series of the 1970s. The series presented life in the 1950s and early 1960s Midwestern United States, and it starred Ron Howard as Richie Cunningham, Henry Winkler as his friend Fonzie, and Tom Bosley and Marion Ross as Richie's parents, Howard Cunningham (Happy Days), Howard and Marion Cunningham (Happy Days), Marion Cunningham. Although it opened to mixed reviews from critics, ''Happy Days'' became successful and popular over time. The series began as an unsold pilot starring Howard, Ross and Anson Williams, which aired in 1972 as a segment titled "Love and the Television Set" (later retitled "Love and the Happy Days" for syndication) on ABC's anthology show ''Love, American Style''. Based on the pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gegè Bellavita
''Gegè Bellavita'' is a 1978 Italian commedia all'italiana film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile. Cast * Flavio Bucci as Gennarino Amato * Lina Polito as Agatina * Enzo Cannavale as Gennarino's Friend * Marisa Laurito as Carmen * Pino Caruso as Duke Attanasi * Maria Pia Conte Maria Pia Conte (born 10 March 1944) is an Italian former actress. Life and career Born Maria Pia Vaccarezza in Genoa, Italy, the daughter of a carpenter, Conte spent her youth in Sestri Levante before moving to Genoa to study classical ball ... as Mercedes * Miranda Martino as Rosa * Marina Hedman as Chantal, Attanasi's wife * Maria Baxa as Signora Sciscioni References External links * 1978 films Italian comedy films 1978 comedy films Films directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile Films scored by Riz Ortolani 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dove Volano I Corvi D'argento
Columbidae is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with small heads, relatively short necks and slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. They feed largely on plant matter, feeding on seeds (granivory), fruit (frugivory), and foliage (folivory). In colloquial English, the smaller species tend to be called "doves", and the larger ones "pigeons", although the distinction is not consistent, and there is no scientific separation between them. Historically, the common names for these birds involve a great deal of variation. The bird most commonly referred to as "pigeon" is the domestic pigeon, descendant of the wild rock dove, which is a common inhabitant of cities as the feral pigeon. Columbidae contains 51 genera divided into 353 species. The family occurs worldwide, often in close proximity to humans, but the greatest diversity is in the Indomalayan and Australasian real ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Spiral Of Mist
''A Spiral of Mist'' (, , also known as ''Une spirale de brume'') is a 1977 Italian- French thriller-drama film directed by Eriprando Visconti. It is based on the novel with the same name written by Michele Prisco. Plot During a short hunt, Fabrizio ( Marc Porel) kills his wife Valeria (Carole Chauvet) with a shotgun. There are no eyewitnesses. Maria Teresa (Claude Jade), Fabrizio's cousin, remains convinced of his innocence. And the only way to suffocate the scandal seems to be to intervene Marcello (Duilio Del Prete), lawyer and husband of Maria Teresa, to put pressure on the judiciary. Judge Renato Marinoni ( Stefano Satta Flores) begins her investigation. He finds out, what we see in flashbacks: Valeria tried to couple her friend Maria Teresa with the beautiful and sexually active lawyer Cesare Molteni (Roberto Posse). But Maria Teresa declined to sleep together in the house of Fabrizio at the last moment. Both marriages, by Maria Teresa and by her cousin Fabrizio, were unha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Orca
''Prisoner of Passion'' () is an Italian film directed by Eriprando Visconti. The film was followed with the sequel '' Oedipus Orca''. Cast *Michele Placido: Michele * Rena Niehaus: Alice *Carmen Scarpitta: Irene, Alice's mother * Lisa Morpurgo: Elisa *Flavio Bucci: Gino *Bruno Corazzari: Paolo Production In reference to the scene in which Rena Niehaus has her vagina fingered explicitly by Michele Placido, the actress said she was not clear what the scene would be like because she couldn't speak Italian. Reception From a contemporary review, David Badder wrote in the ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' that the film was "slowly paced and directed with no commitment to character or theme, it is difficult to detect any compelling motive behind ''Prisoner of Passion''." Badder continued that "the sex scenes remain wholly unerotic because their premise, that Alice uses her worldliness to overcome and then exploit the innocent peasant, is insufficiently defined." References Sources * * E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Occasion
''Quelle strane occasioni'', internationally released as ''Strange Occasion'', is a 1976 Italian anthology comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Luigi Magni. Loy didn't accept to sign his segment, ''Italian Superman'', that results directed by "Anonimo" (Anonymous). Plot First segment Giobatta and Piera are a couple of Italian immigrants in the Netherlands, who barely earn a living selling castagnaccio to the locals. While checking his pockets during a night robbery, some muggers discover Giobatta is well-endowed and take him to the owner of a nightclub, who forcibly hires him as a live sex performer, unbeknownst to Piera. While the profits improve the couple's livelihood, their sexual life suffers. When Piera finds out about Giobatta's moonlighting, she allows him to continue on the condition that she be the female performer. Seeing as Giobatta is too shy to perform with Piera in public, the nightclub owner demotes him to doorman and hires another male perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And Agnes Chose To Die
''L'Agnese va a morire'', internationally released as ''And Agnes Chose to Die'', is a 1976 Italian drama film directed by Giuliano Montaldo. It is based on a novel of the same name by Renata Viganò which won the Viareggio Prize in 1949. Plot Agnese is a middle-aged woman from Comacchio who lives with her husband Palita, a member of the Italian Resistance. One day her husband is deported to a concentration camp, where he will die; due to her loss she wants to help her companions by bringing food, information, weapons and news from one country to another. She therefore becomes a partisan relay: her life continues like this for six months but one day a German soldier kills his black cat for fun and that same night Agnese hits him by breaking his head with the butt of a machine gun and leaving him for dead. Agnese must escape and, consequently, become part of the clandestine life of the Resistance, becoming "mother Agnese": she prepares meals for partisans, checks that there are sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Stop On The Night Train
''Last Stop on the Night Train'' (), also released in English-speaking countries as ''The Night Train Murders'' and ''Late Night Trains'', is a 1975 Italian revenge horror film directed by Aldo Lado and starring Flavio Bucci, Macha Méril, and Irene Miracle. Based on the plots of Ingmar Bergman's ''The Virgin Spring'' (1960) and Wes Craven's '' The Last House on the Left'' (1972), the film follows two girls riding a train through Germany on Christmas Eve, who are brutalized by three criminals who eventually end up lodging in their parents' home. It gained notoriety when it was banned in the UK as a video nasty in the 1980s. Other alternate release titles include ''The New House on The Left'', ''Second House on The Left'', and ''Don't Ride on Late Night Trains''. Plot Two young women, Margaret and Lisa, are set to take the overnight train from Munich in Germany to stay with Lisa's parents in Italy for Christmas. However, the train is full and they are forced to sit in the corrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Generale Dorme In Piedi
''Il generale dorme in piedi'' (''The general sleeps standing up'') is a 1972 commedia all'italiana. It represents the directorial debut of Francesco Massaro and it is based on a novel with the same name written by Giuseppe D'Agata. It was filmed in Tunis, Rome and Florence. Cast *Ugo Tognazzi: Colonel Leone *Mariangela Melato: Lola * Franco Fabrizi: Captain Beltrani * Mario Scaccia: General Pigna * Stefano Satta Flores: Official * Checco Rissone: General Cicciolo * Gian Carlo Fusco: General Pasta *Daniele Vargas: Lt. Poli * Georges Wilson: General *Eros Pagni Eros Pagni (born 28 August 1939) is an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in La Spezia, at the age of 17, Pagni started attending the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome and then went back to Genoa and played rol ... * Flavio Bucci References External links * 1972 films Italian comedy-drama films 1972 comedy-drama films Commedia all'italiana Films shot in Tunisia Films dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lover Of The Great Bear
''Lover of the Great Bear'' (, , , also known as ''The Smugglers'') is a 1971 Italian-French-West German drama film directed by Valentino Orsini and starring Giuliano Gemma and Senta Berger. It is loosely based on the Polish novel ''Kochanek Wielkiej Niedźwiedzicy'' by Sergiusz Piasecki. Plot Cast *Giuliano Gemma as Vladek *Senta Berger as Fela * Bruno Cremer as Saska * Francesca Romana Coluzzi as Berna *Spiros Focás Spiros Focás (; 17 August 1937 – 10 November 2023) was a Greek actor. Life and career Spyros Fokas was born Spyridon Androutsopoulos in Patras on 17 August 1937. Focás made his first appearance in 1959. He first appeared in Andreas Lambr ... as Alfred * Nicoletta Machiavelli as Leonia * Flavio Bucci * Peter Capell * Alessandro Haber as Topo * Antonio Piovanelli as Ivan * Sybil Danning * Nazzareno Zamperla as Smuggler (uncredited) References External links * 1971 crime drama films 1971 films Italian crime drama films French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rai News24
Rai News 24 is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana. It is the company's all-news television channel, and is known for its 24-hour rolling news service and its live coverage of breaking news. History It was launched on 26 April 1999, at 6am. Until 19 May 2000, the channel broadcast live on weekdays only and re-aired previous recordings during the weekend. On 4 January 2017, the channel launched its own HD feed. Since 25 March 2022, during the Russo-Ukrainian war crisis, the channel has started broadcasting the news in the Ukrainian language, too. In the beginning, Rai News 24 was directed by . The channel experimented with solutions that were then unusual in Italy, integrating television, Network and digital technologies: the choice of multi-screen graphics, designed by Giuseppe Rogolino, was significant, as was the widespread use of connections in video conference with correspon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
