Francesco Massaro
Francesco Massaro (born 1935) is an Italian director and screenwriter. Born in Padua, Massaro started his career as assistant director of Luchino Visconti's ''The Leopard''. In the 1960s, he began to collaborate with eminent directors such as Pietro Germi, Dino Risi and Lucio Fulci. He made his debut as a director in 1972, with the commedia all'italiana ''Il generale dorme in piedi'', then directed a number of comedy films and TV series with good success. Filmography * ''Il generale dorme in piedi'' (1972) * '' La banca di Monate'' (1976) * ''Il lupo e l'agnello'' (1980) * '' I carabbinieri'' (1981) * '' Miracoloni'' (1981) * ''Al bar dello sport ''Al bar dello sport'' (''At the Bar Sport'') is a 1983 Italian comedy film directed by Francesco Massaro. Plot Misadventures of Lino, a penniless Apulian immigrant in Turin, after he won 1.3 billion lire at Totocalcio. Cast * Lino Banfi: ...'' (1983) * '' Domani mi sposo'' (1984) * '' Private Affairs'' (1987) References ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Padua
Padua ( ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua. The city lies on the banks of the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza, and has a population of 207,694 as of 2025. It is also the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE) which has a population of around 2,600,000. Besides the Bacchiglione, the Brenta River, which once ran through the city, still touches the northern districts. Its agricultural setting is the Venetian Plain. To the city's south west lies the Euganean Hills, Euganaean Hills, which feature in poems by Lucan, Martial, Petrarch, Ugo Foscolo, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Padua has two UNESCO World Heritage List entries: its Botanical Garden of Padua, Botanical Garden, which is the world's oldest, and its 14th-century frescoes, situated in Padua's fourteenth-centu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Italian Screenwriters
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Film People From Padua
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. Etymology and alternative terms The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including "picture", "picture show", "moving picture", "photoplay", and "flick". The most common term in the United States is "movie", while in Europe, "film" is preferred. Archaic terms include "animated pictures" and "animated photography". "Flick" is, in general a slang term, first recorded in 1926. It originates in the verb flicker, owing to the flickering appearance of early films. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1935 Births
Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's Colonial empire, colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to successfully complete a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance of . * January 13 – A plebiscite in the Saar (League of Nations), Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany. * January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company. February * February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly (game), Monopoly in the United States. * February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in the United States. * February 15 – The discovery and clinical developme ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Private Affairs (1987 Film)
''Ti presento un'amica'' (internationally released as ''Private Affairs'' and ''Quite by Chance'') is a 1987 romantic comedy film directed by Francesco Massaro. At the time of the release, it was referred as a "typical example of average film that in Italy seems to have completely disappeared".G.C. Dansi, ''Ciak si gira'', March 8, 1988 The film has a longer version of 180 minutes. Cast *Giuliana De Sio as Nagra *Michele Placido as Lionello *Kate Capshaw as Brunetta *David Naughton as Mauro *Luca Barbareschi as Claudio *Carolina Rosi as Marina *Sergio Fantoni Sergio Fantoni (7 August 1930 – 17 April 2020) was an Italian actor, voice actor, playwright and director. Biography Fantoni was born in Rome to the actor Cesare Fantoni. He began his career appearing in films, radio dramas, television and t ... as Io Speckler * Lina Polito References External links * 1987 films Italian comedy-drama films English-language Italian films 1987 comedy-drama films Films directed b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Domani Mi Sposo
''Domani mi sposo'' (also known as '' Tomorrow I'm Getting Married'') is a 1984 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Francesco Massaro. Plot Last twenty-four hours before the marriage for the troubled, tempted, overwhelmed by events Arturo. Cast * Jerry Calà: Arturo Righetti * Isabella Ferrari: Susy * Milly Carlucci: Simona * Karina Huff: Rita * Guido Nicheli: Gastone * Claudio Bisio Claudio Bisio (; born 19 March 1957) is an Italian actor, presenter, comedian, voice actor, showman, director, cabaret performer and writer. Early life Bisio was born in Novi Ligure, Piedmont, and raised in Milan, Lombardy. He attended '' sc ...: Attilio aka Volver References External links * 1984 films Italian romantic comedy films 1980s Italian-language films 1984 romantic comedy films Films directed by Francesco Massaro 1980s Italian films Italian-language romantic comedy films {{1980s-romantic-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Al Bar Dello Sport
''Al bar dello sport'' (''At the Bar Sport'') is a 1983 Italian comedy film directed by Francesco Massaro. Plot Misadventures of Lino, a penniless Apulian immigrant in Turin, after he won 1.3 billion lire at Totocalcio. Cast * Lino Banfi: Lino * Jerry Calà: Parola * Mara Venier: Rossana * : Felice * : Bianca * Pino Ammendola: Gaetano * Sergio Vastano: Ciccio * Enzo Andronico: Mr. Andronico * Maurizio Mauri : Leo * Annie Belle : Martine, a French prostitute * Andrea Ciccolella : Marcolino, Lino's nephew * * Leonardo Cassio : Don Raffaele * Enzo Andronico : Mr. Andronico, the fishmonger * : Notary Magalini * Ennio Antonelli Ennio Antonelli (born 18 November 1936) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was president of the Pontifical Council for the Family from 2008 to 2012. He has been a bishop since 1982, serving as bishop of Gubbio from 1982 to 1988, ... : Don Raffaele's henchman * : Don Raffaele's henchman References External links * It ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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I Carabbinieri
I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''i'' (pronounced ), plural ''ies''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the "long I" sound, pronounced . In most other languages, its name matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative () in Egyptian, but was reassigned to (as in English "yes") by Semites because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent , the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words. The Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician ''yodh'' as their letter ''iota'' () to represent , the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represent ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (; 2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976) was an Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter. He was one of the fathers of Italian neorealism, cinematic neorealism, but later moved towards luxurious, sweeping epics dealing with themes of beauty, decadence, death, and European history, especially the decay of the nobility and the bourgeoisie. Critic Jonathan Jones (journalist), Jonathan Jones wrote that “no one did as much to shape Italian cinema as Luchino Visconti.” Born into a Milanese Visconti di Modrone, noble family with close ties to the artistic world, Visconti began his career in France as an assistant director to Jean Renoir. His 1943 directorial debut, , was condemned by the Fascist Italy (1922–1943), Fascist regime for its unvarnished depictions of working-class characters, but is today renowned as a pioneering work of Italian cinema, generally regarded as the first neorealist film. During Wor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Il Lupo E L'agnello
''Il lupo e l'agnello'' (''The Wolf and the Lamb''), also known as ''Le Coucou'', is a 1980 Italian-French comedy film directed by Francesco Massaro. Plot Leo is a victim of constant complaints by his family, with his wife, Ivana, his two daughters, Ursula and Suni and her stepmother, Fanny, treating him like the dog house. A criminal nicknamed "Cuckoo", following a bloody robbery, finds refuge in Leon's house, and under the threat of a gun he will be able to cease reprimands and vexations against Leon. Cast * Tomas Milian: "Cuckoo" * Michel Serrault: Leon De Paris * Ombretta Colli: Ivana * Laura Adani: Fanny * Giacomo Furia: Inspector * Giuliana Calandra: Miss De Luca * Daniele Vargas: Colonel De Luca * Patrizia Webley Patrizia Webley (born and sometimes credited as Patrizia De Rossi, 1 December 1950) is an Italian actress. She acted mainly in horror films and erotic films. Career She began her career as an actress in Italian erotic comedies in 1975 with the ...: Sonia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |