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Lino Troisi
Lino Troisi (4 May 1932 - 4 May 1998) was an Italian stage, film, television and voice actor. Life and career Born in Maddaloni, Troisi grew up in Rome, where he studied acting at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico. He was mainly active in theatre, in which he worked with Giorgio Strehler, Klaus Michael Grüber and Luca Ronconi, among others. He was also active in films and on television, and was also a voice actor and a dubber. He died of cancer, at the age of 66. Selected filmography * ''Day by Day, Desperately'', directed by Alfredo Giannetti (1961) * ''Tony Arzenta'', directed by Duccio Tessari (1973) * ''The Murri Affair'', directed by Mauro Bolognini (1974) * ''Gambling City'', directed by Sergio Martino (1975) * ''I'm Starting from Three'', directed by Massimo Troisi (1981) * ''Honey (1981 film), Honey'', directed by Gianfranco Angelucci (1981) * ''Sciopèn'', directed by Luciano Odorisio (1982) * ''Il ras del quartiere'', directed by Carlo Van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maddaloni
Maddaloni (Neapolitan language, Campanian: ) is a town and ''comune'' of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta, about southeast of Caserta, with stations on the railways from Caserta to Benevento and from Caserta to Naples. Main sights The city is at the base of one of the Tifata hills, the towers of its medieval castle and the Church of Saint Michael, San Michele crowning the heights above. The fine old palace of the House of Carafa, Caraffa family (once dukes of Maddaloni), the old college now named after Giordano Bruno, and the institute for the sons of soldiers are the main points of interest. The gothic architecture, Gothic church of Santa Margherita has a series of 15th-century frescoes. The church of the Annunziata has a series of early 17th century paintings that decorate the rich wooden ceiling by the Florentine painter Giovanni Balducci. The Church of Corpus Domini has many interesting paintings and a beautiful altar by Vanvitelli. The town has two museums, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm Starting From Three
''I'm Starting from Three'' () is a 1981 Italian comedy film directed by, co-written by, and starring Massimo Troisi in his film debut. The film was awarded with two David di Donatello awards for Best Film and Best Actor. Plot Gaetano is a shy Neapolitan boy who lives in a southern-Italian city with his family: one brother, one sister, his mother and his father, an extremely Catholic man who has lost his right hand, and confides in a miracle by Madonna of the swords to get it back. Tired and bored about the excessive provincialism of his "entourage", and his alienating job in a food factory, Gaetano decides to hitch-hike to the more modern and cosmopolitan city of Florence. There he meets a beautiful girl, Marta, and they fall in love. Gaetano sets at Marta's and is later joined by his old friend Lello, a clumsy and rotund boy, albeit very funny in his friendship with the protagonist. One night at Marta's, while reading a manuscript, Marta reveals to be pregnant, and she's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giancarlo Giannini
Giancarlo Giannini (; born 1 August 1942) is an Italian actor and voice actor. He won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in '' Love and Anarchy'' (1973) and received an Academy Award nomination for '' Seven Beauties'' (1975). He is also a four-time recipient of the David di Donatello Award for Best Actor. Giannini began his career on stage, starring in Franco Zeffirelli's productions of ''Romeo and Juliet'' and ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. After appearing predominantly on television throughout the early 1960s, he had his first lead role in a film in '' Rita the Mosquito'' (1965), the first of many collaborations with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller. He rose to international stardom through Wertmüller's '' The Seduction of Mimi'' (1972), ''Love and Anarchy'' (1973), ''Swept Away'' (1974), culminating in his Oscar-nominated turn in ''Seven Beauties'' (1975). His other films include ''The Innocent'' (1976), ''Lili Marleen'' (1980), ''New York Sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Tornatore
Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the directors who brought critical acclaim back to Italian cinema.Katz, Ephraim, "Italy," ''The Film Encyclopedia'' (New York: HarperResource, 2001), pp. 682-685. In a career spanning over 30 years he is best known for directing and writing drama films such as ''Everybody's Fine (1990 film), Everybody's Fine'', ''The Legend of 1900'', ''Malèna (film), Malèna'', ''Baarìa (film), Baarìa'' and ''The Best Offer''. His most noted film is ''Cinema Paradiso'', for which Tornatore won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has also directed several advertising campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana. Tornatore is also known for his long-standing association with composer Ennio Morricone, who composed music for thirteen Tornatore feature films since 1988. Life and career Born in Bagheria, near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at leas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Professor (1986 Film)
''The Professor'' (Italian: ''Il camorrista'') is a 1986 Italian noir-crime drama directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. His film debut, it is based on the true story of the Italian crime boss Raffaele Cutolo, and adapted from the novel by Giuseppe Marrazzo. The international version is shorter than the original Italian release. Plot In 1963, the young man Franco, kills a boy who had harassed his sister Rosaria, and ends up in prison. Over the space of 10 years in Poggioreale prison in Naples, he becomes known as Oh Professor 'e Vesuviano'' (Raffaele Cutolo in real life), a powerful, feared and respected figure. With his friends Alfredo Canale and Pasquale Zara "the animal", he creates the criminal organization "Camorra Riformata". All run of the Professor prison cell, the organization grows and spreads until in the 70s it clashes with the old families of the Camorra, starting the War of the Camorra that will bleed all of South Italy in the 1970s and 1980s. ;The earth trembles In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Ferrara
Giuseppe Ferrara (15 July 1932 – 25 June 2016) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Biography Born in Castelfiorentino, near Florence, he founded at the high school an innovative film club, which proposes and critically analyzes Italian neorealism, neorealism movies; since then he showed a character of "novelty", often considered as "subversive". He graduated from the University of Florence with a thesis on the "New Italian Cinema", Ferrara then moved to Rome to attend the directing course at the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia, Experimental Centre of Cinematography and degreed in 1959, but hardly managed to find interesting opportunities, also because of his rather ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Hundred Days In Palermo
''One Hundred Days in Palermo'' () is a 1984 non-fiction film directed by Giuseppe Ferrara and written by Giuseppe Tornatore. The film dramatizes the last hundred days in the life of Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the Carabinieri General and prefect of Palermo who was murdered along with his wife and bodyguard for his anti-mafia activities. Cast * Lino Ventura as General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa * Giuliana De Sio as Emanuela Setti Carraro * Lino Troisi as Pio La Torre * Stefano Satta Flores as Captain Fontana * Arnoldo Foà as Virginio Rognoni * Andrea Aureli * Accursio Di Leo * Adalberto Maria Merli Adalberto Maria Merli (born 14 January 1938) is an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Rome, Merli is active on film and television and he has appeared in over 27 films since 1965. He had his breakout role in the 1968 RAI televisi ... External links * *''Cent jours à Palerme''presented bwww.cinemovies.fr*presented bItalian Yahoo! Cinema 1984 films 1980s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Vanzina
Carlo Vanzina (13 March 1951 – 8 July 2018) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. Vanzina was born in Rome, the son of Maria Teresa Nati and film director Stefano Vanzina and brother of Enrico Vanzina. Many of his projects were made for Italian television with English-speaking actors, and in turn these films received English-language home video releases in America. He frequently worked with models-turned-actresses such as Renee Simonsen, Carole Bouquet, Carol Alt, Lauren Hutton, and Elle Macpherson. Two of his films, '' Eccezzziunale... veramente'' (1982) and '' Vacanze di Natale'' (1983), were shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. imdb.com; accessed 15 April 2015. Filmography *''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Ras Del Quartiere
''Il ras del quartiere'' () is a 1983 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Vanzina. Cast *Diego Abatantuono as Domingo * Isabella Ferrari as Veronica Gatti *Lino Troisi as Tarcisio Gatti *Daniel Stephen as Orson *Antonio Allocca Antonio Allocca (24 June 1937 – 31 December 2013) was an Italian character actor. Life and career Born in Portici, Naples, Allocca debuted on stage in 1956, then in 1958, he worked with Eduardo De Filippo at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan ... as the Brigadier *Gianni Cajafa as the janitor *Gianni Ansaldi as Arturo Beccalossi *Lara Nakszyński as Lola * Mauro Di Francesco as Jena References External links * 1983 films Films directed by Carlo Vanzina 1980s Italian-language films 1983 comedy films Italian comedy films 1980s Italian films {{1980s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciano Odorisio
Luciano Orodisio (born 7 March 1942 in Chieti) is an Italian actor, screenwriter, and film and television director. Filmography Actor * ''Uccideva a freddo'', directed by Guido Celano (1966) (Italian) * '' Il seme dell'uomo'', directed by Marco Ferreri (1969) Screenwriter Film * ''L'educatore autorizzato'', directed by Luciano Odorisio (1980) * ''Sciopèn'', directed by Luciano Odorisio (1982) * ''Il momento magico'', directed by Luciano Odorisio (1984) * '' La monaca di Monza'', directed by Luciano Odorisio (1987) * ''Via Paradiso'', directed by Luciano Odorisio (1988) * '' Ne parliamo lunedì'', directed by Luciano Odorisio (1990) Television * ''Mio figlio'', directed by Luciano Odorisio (2005) * '' Io e mio figlio - Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi'', directed by Luciano Odorisio (2010) Director Film * ''L'educatore autorizzato'' (1980) * ''Sciopèn ''Sciopèn'' (also known as ''Chopin'') is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Luciano Odorisio. The film e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sciopèn
''Sciopèn'' (also known as ''Chopin'') is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Luciano Odorisio. The film entered the competition at the 39th Venice Film Festival, in which it won the Silver Lion for best first work. Odorisio was awarded best new director at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, while Tino Schirinzi won a Silver Ribbon for best supporting actor. Plot In Abruzzo, in the town of Chieti, a group of friends, workers with the passion of classical music, try to rebuild a historic city orchestra, which no longer exists. The final concert provides only compositions the famous composer Frédéric Chopin, and the citizens of Chieti seem willing to finance the project. However, The mayor and local officials are skeptical because they think only of their own interests. So the project soon failed, but the workers come back from defeat with a smile. Cast *Michele Placido: Francesco Maria Vitale * Giuliana De Sio: Marta Vitale *Adalberto Maria Merli: Andr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
