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Leonardo Benvenuti
Leonardo Benvenuti (8 September 1923 – 3 November 2000) also called Leo, was an Italian screenwriter. He wrote for more than 130 films between 1948 and 2000. He was born in Florence, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Once Upon a Time in America'' (1984) * '' All My Friends Part 2'' (1982) * ''Bianco, rosso e Verdone'' (1981) * ''Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen'' (1978) * '' Professor Kranz tedesco di Germania'' (1978) * '' My Friends'' (1975) * '' The Flower in His Mouth'' (1975) * '' Alfredo, Alfredo'' (1972) * ''Lo chiameremo Andrea'' (1972) * '' Between Miracles'' (1971) * '' Let's Have a Riot'' (1970) * '' Ghosts – Italian Style'' (1968) * '' Misunderstood'' (1966) * (1965) * '' A Question of Honour'' (1965) * '' Marriage Italian-Style'' (1964) * '' Kali Yug: Goddess of Vengeance'' (1963) * '' Shivers in Summer'' (1963) * '' Girl with a Suitcase'' (1961) * '' The Joy of Living'' (1961) * ''A Man of Straw'' (1958) * '' Guendalina'' (1957) * '' Fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence
Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence was a centre of Middle Ages, medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful House of Medici, Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The Florentine dialect forms the base of Italian language, standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghosts – Italian Style
''Ghosts – Italian Style'' () is a 1967 Italian comedy film directed by Renato Castellani. Plot Pasquale Lojacono and his wife Maria are very poor, and do not have a roof over their head. One day they are invited to live free in an apartment of a building, considered by tenants cursed, because there dwells the ghost of an old Spanish nobleman. The two, however, accept coexistence with the spirit. Cast * Sophia Loren as Maria Lojacono * Vittorio Gassman as Pasquale Lojacono * Mario Adorf as Alfredo Mariano * Aldo Giuffrè as Raffaele * Margaret Lee as Sayonara * Francis de Wolff as The Scotsman (as Francis De Wolffe) * Francesco Tensi as Professor Santanna * Augusta Merola as Anna * Piera Degli Esposti * Giovanni Tarallo * Nietta Zocchi * Valentino Macchi * Lucio Dalla as The Musician * Marcello Mastroianni Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (26 September 1924Come da lui stesso dichiarato a 1'10" dquesta intervista/ref> – 19 December 1996) was an Italian actor. He is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Ricordi
''House of Ricordi'' () is a 1954 French-Italian historical film, historical biographical melodrama film based on the early history of the Italian music publishing house Casa Ricordi. It is directed by Carmine Gallone and stars Märta Torén, Marcello Mastroianni and Micheline Presle. The Ricordi family's interactions with many of the great composers of the nineteenth century are portrayed. The film's sets were designed by Mario Chiari. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios and on location in Milan, Paris and Rome. Main cast * Roland Alexandre as Gioacchino Rossini * Myriam Bru as Luisa Lewis * Elisa Cegani as Giuseppina Strepponi * Andrea Checchi as Giulio Ricordi * Danièle Delorme as Maria * Gabriele Ferzetti as Giacomo Puccini * Fosco Giachetti as Giuseppe Verdi * Renzo Giovampietro as Tito Ricordi * Nadia Gray as Giulia Grisi * Roldano Lupi as Domenico Barbaja * Marcello Mastroianni as Gaetano Donizetti * Micheline Presle as Virginia Marchi * Maurice Ronet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amici Per La Pelle
''Friends for Life'' ( also known as ''Amis pour la vie'' in France) is a 1955 Italian and French comedy-drama film directed by Franco Rossi. It was nominated for "Best Film" at the 10th British Academy Film Awards. Plot Rome. Mario is a self-confident fourteen-year-old boy who is in eighth grade. One day a new pupil arrives in class, Franco, who is placed by the teacher in Mario's desk. Mario is initially hostile towards the newcomer, who immediately proves to be an intelligent boy and soon enters the good graces of his classmates and professors. After some time, however, the two boys begin to meet and make friends. Mario is the son of a ceramics entrepreneur, while Franco is the son of a diplomat, he lives in a hotel and drinks tomato juice for an aperitif. While Mario shows confidence in approaching the girls, Franco is hesitant and only after a certain insistence on Mario's part is it discovered that the child has a person in his heart and also confides in him where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fathers And Sons (1957 Film)
''Fathers and Sons'' ( and also known as ''A Tailor's Maid'') is a 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. The film comically depicts the joys and sorrows in five Roman families over several months. At the 7th Berlin International Film Festival Monicelli won the Silver Bear for Best Director award. Plot In Italy, in the 1950s, the lives of five families intersect. Vincenzo Corallo is a widowed tailor who has no control over his teenager daughter, Marcella, who skips school to go with her boyfriend, Sandro Bacci, to watch trials. Vincenzo's son, Carlo, is the master of the family who can't stand his sister's bad manners and wants to put her back on the right track. At the Baccis, the father, Vittorio, has problems with his eldest son, Vezio. In the same building, Guido and Giula Blasi are expecting their first child. Anxious, Guido contacts a nurse, Ines Santarelli, who offers him injections for his pregnant wife. Ines Santarelli, married to a zookeeper, is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guendalina (film)
''Guendalina'' is a 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Alberto Lattuada. It was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Jacqueline Sassard as Guendalina * Raf Mattioli as Oberdan * Sylva Koscina as Francesca, Guendalina's mother * Raf Vallone as Guido, Guendalina's father * Leda Gloria as Oberdan's mother * Lili Cerasoli as Bianchina * Fanny Landini * Loretta Capitoli * Leonardo Botta * Antonio Mambretti as Businessman * Flavia Solivani * Tonino Cianci * Enzo Cerusico as Postman * Giancarlo Cobelli as Barber * Decimo Cristiani * Carla Gravina * Stelio Candelli * Geronimo Meynier Geronimo Meynier (5 July 1941 – 23 January 2021) was an Italian film actor who starred in Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. He debuted in '' Amici per la pelle'' in 1955 at age 14. His last film was in 1968. The Italian actor Geronimo Me ... References External links * 1957 films 1950s Italian-language films 1957 comedy films Italian black-and-white films Films di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Man Of Straw
''A Man of Straw'' () is a 1958 Italian drama film directed by Pietro Germi. It was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Pietro Germi Pietro Germi (; 14 September 1914 – 5 December 1974) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor, noted for his development of the Italian neorealism, neorealist and genres. His 1961 film ''Divorce Italian Style'' earned him a Ac ... - Andrea * Franca Bettoia - Rita * Luisa Della Noce - Luisa * Edoardo Nevola - Giulio * Saro Urzì - Beppe * Romolo Giordani - Caporetto * Luciano Marin - Gino * Mirella Monti - Rita's mother * Renato Montalbano - Rita's boyfriend * Milly * Bruna Cealti * Anna Gruber * Ida Masetti * Marcella Rovena References External links * 1958 films 1950s Italian-language films 1958 drama films Films set in Rome Films directed by Pietro Germi Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli 1950s Italian films Italian drama films {{1950s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Joy Of Living (film)
''The Joy of Living'' (, ) is a 1961 Italian-French comedy film directed by René Clément. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Plot The story is set in Rome, in the year 1921. Ulisse (Alain Delon) enrolls in the Italian Fascist party because he cannot find any employment. The first task entrusted to him by the party leads Ulysses to the printer Fossati, where he's hired as an apprentice. This brings him into contact with a family of anarchists, who will turn him into a reluctant hero for love of the beautiful Franca ( Barbara Lass). However, at a time when he must make a decisive choice, Ulysses obeys neither the anarchists nor the fascists, and risks his life for a different idea of freedom. Cast * Alain Delon as Ulisse Cecconato * Barbara Lass as Franca Fossati * Gino Cervi as Olinto Fossati * Rina Morelli as Rosa Fossati * Carlo Pisacane as Grandfather "Fossati" * Paolo Stoppa as Hairdresser * Giampiero Littera as Turiddu * Didi Perego as Isabella * Nand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shivers In Summer
''Shivers in Summer'' () is a 1963 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring among others Vittorio Gassman. Cast * Vittorio Gassman - Captain Nardoni * Sandra Milo - Yvonne * Michèle Mercier - Gigi * Philippe Leroy - Manolo * Gabriella Giorgelli - Foschina * Graziella Galvani - Selena * Vittorio Congia - the Spanish cyclist * Livio Lorenzon - Luigi * Giampiero Littera - Franco * Umberto D'Orsi - The attorney * Mario Scaccia - Ugo * Renzo Palmer - Sandro * Enzo Garinei Enzo Garinei (4 May 1926 – 25 August 2022) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in nearly 80 films since 1949. He was also a professional voice artist, best remembered as the Italian voice of Sherman Hemsley in the American sitcom ''The Je ... - Peppe * Franco Abbina - Pippo * Corrado Olmi - Antonio External links * 1963 films 1963 comedy films Italian comedy films 1960s Italian-language films Italian black-and-white films Films directed by Luigi Zampa Films set in Tuscany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goddess Of Vengeance
''Kali Yug: Goddess of Vengeance'' ( and also known as ''Vengeance of Kali'') is a 1963 Italian fantasy film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Paul Guers. Cast * Paul Guers – Dr. Simon Palmer * Senta Berger – Catherine Talbot * Lex Barker – Maj. Ford * Sergio Fantoni – Ram Chand * Klaus Kinski – Saddhu * Ian Hunter – Robert Talbot * I. S. Johar – Gopal * Claudine Auger – Amrita * Joachim Hansen – Lt. Collins * Michael Medwin – Capt. Walsh * Roldano Lupi – Maharadja d'Hasnabad * Alfio Caltabiano Alfio Caltabiano (1932–2007) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.Curti p.25 Partial filmography * ''Il principe dalla maschera rossa'' (1955) * '' Messalina'' (1960) * ''La strada dei giganti'' (1960) * '' The Colossus of Rh ... – The Crie * Luciano Conversi – Kanchan * Paul Muller – Botanist Alamian References External links * 1963 films 1960s fantasy adventure films 1960s Italian-language films Italian fantasy ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marriage Italian-Style
''Marriage Italian Style'' ( ) is a 1964 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. The film was adapted by Leonardo Benvenuti, Renato Castellani, Piero De Bernardi, and Tonino Guerra from the play ''Filumena Marturano'' by Eduardo De Filippo. ''Filumena Marturano'' had previously been adapted as a 1950 Argentine film. Plot Set during the World War II era, the film follows a cynical but successful 28-year-old businessman named Domenico (Mastroianni), who, after meeting a naive 17-year-old country girl, Filumena (Loren), during a bombing outside a Neapolitan brothel, starts an on-again, off-again relationship spanning 22 years. From the very beginning, Filumena is deeply in love with Domenico, but her love is not reciprocated. After Filumena expresses her wish to be solely his woman, Domenico arranges a leased home for her, with Rosalie as a maid and Alfredo (Aldo Puglisi) as the butler, and arranges a job for h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
