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Mimmo Poli
Mimmo Poli (born Domenico Poli, April 11, 1920 – April 4, 1986) was an Italian film character actor. Career Poli was one of the best known and most active characters of Italian cinema; in his thirty-five-year career, he appeared in over 200 films. He started from a young age by treading the stages and reciting in Roman dialect. In 1951 he had a small part in the film '' Toto and the King of Rome'' directed by Mario Monicelli. Federico Fellini. He played characters such as bartenderd, a docker, a prisoner in the films of the ''Monnezza ''to those of Bernardo Bertolucci. Notable films Poli appears in include ''The Overcoat'' (1952) by Alberto Lattuada; ''Toto in Color'' (1952) by Steno; '' Termini Station'' (1953) by Vittorio De Sica; '' Beat the Devil'' by John Huston; ''Nights of Cabiria'' (1956) by Federico Fellini; ''Poor, But Handsome'' (1956) by Dino Risi; '' You're on Your Own'' (1959) by Mauro Bolognini; '' Totò, Peppino e... la dolce vita'' (1961) by Sergio Corbucc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highest Pressure
''Altissima pressione'' () is a 1965 Italian musicarello comedy film directed by Enzo Trapani. Cast *Dino as Roberto *Gianni Morandi * Rosemary Dexter as Serenella * Fabrizio Capucci *Lucio Dalla * Nicola Di Bari * Micaela Esdra as Lia * Lilly Bistrattin as Gianna * Anna Maria Checchi as Laura *Léa Nanni as Daniela * Maria Grazia Spina as Presentatrice * Gianluca Amadio as Sandro * Mauro Bronchi as Fausto * Roberto Palmieri as Gigi *Mimmo Poli as Il salumiere *Françoise Hardy as herself Plot A young and penniless songwriter named Roberto convinces a friend's father to invest into a new club. As this is done, the Caciotta Club gets created. Critics The film got 4,5/10 on IMDb, and per Google Google LLC (, ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial ..., the film was liked by 60% of it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nights Of Cabiria
''Nights of Cabiria'' () is a 1957 drama film co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. The film features Giulietta Masina as Cabiria, a sex worker living in Rome. The cast also features François Périer and Amedeo Nazzari. The film is based on a story by Fellini, who expanded it into a screenplay along with his co-writers Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Pier Paolo Pasolini. In addition to the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for Giulietta Masina, ''Nights of Cabiria'' won the 1958 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This marked the second consecutive year that both Italy and Fellini won the award, following the previous year’s win for ''La Strada'', which also featured Masina. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978". The film is widely considered to be one of Fellini's be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Licenza Premio
''Licenza premio'' is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Nino Taranto and Carlo Croccolo. Plot Italy, early 1950s. Two troopers, Domenico, Neapolitan, and Pinozzo, Piedmontese, are sent on a special mission: they must lead to Rome a mare of their lieutenant, who will participate in the international horse show. Cast * Nino Taranto: Domenico Errichiello *Carlo Croccolo: Pinozzo Molliconi *Virgilio Riento: Enrico * Lilia Landi: Maria Luisa *Nerio Bernardi: Count Carlo *Rossana Rory: Paola *Marcella Rovena: Zingara *Pietro Tordi: Zingaro * Virginia Belmont: Gilda Release The film was released in Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ... on September 8, 1951 Notes External links * 1951 films 1950s Italian-language films Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna (1951 Film)
''Anna'' is a 1951 Italian melodrama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as '' Bitter Rice'': Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who becomes a nun, Raf Vallone as Andrea, the rich man who loves her, and Vittorio Gassman as Vittorio, the wicked waiter who sets Anna on a dangerous path. Silvana Mangano's real sister, Patrizia Mangano, acts as Anna's sister in the film. Sophia Loren has a small uncredited role as a nightclub assistant. Future film directors Franco Brusati and Dino Risi co-wrote the script. The film features the songs " Non Dimenticar" and " El Negro Zumbón", a baião popularised in the US as "Anna" and recorded much later by Pink Martini. Plot A man (Vallone) suffers a car accident. He's taken to hospital, where Sister Anna (Mangano) takes care of him. The man is the reason Anna became a nun. She remembers the days she was leading a life of sin as a night club singer. Reception ''Anna'' is one of the greatest box office successes of I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Due Marescialli Pernacchia
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] |
Big Deal After 20 Years
''Big Deal After 20 Years'' () is a 1985 Italian comedy film directed by Amanzio Todini. It is the sequel to ''Big Deal on Madonna Street'' and ''Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti''. Plot After several years spent in prison for a hit gone wrong, Tiberio is released to find a profoundly changed Rome. He goes home to find his wife Teresa now living with a house painter who pays her rent in exchange for his wife's "company." When he tries to retrieve his camera equipment, with which he hopes to begin a new career, he learns that Teresa sold it to pay for his lawyer. When he attempts to reconcile with his wife, he is brutally thrown out of the house by her new man. Tiberio sleeps inside an abandoned car in the junkyard in front of his old house. Meanwhile, Tiberio's adult son Brunino has returned from Milan and immediately interrupts his father's outdated robbery attempts. Now fully resigned to resuming his old business, Tiberio goes to visit his old friend Ferribotte, now working at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco And Ciccio
Franco and Ciccio (, ) were a comic comedy duo formed by Italian actors Franco Franchi (1928–1992) and Ciccio Ingrassia (1922–2003), particularly popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Their collaboration began in 1954 in the theatre field, and ended with Franchi's death in 1992. The two made their cinema debuts in 1960 with the film ''Appuntamento a Ischia''. They remained active until 1984 when their last film together, ''Kaos (film), Kaos'', was shot, although there were some interruptions in 1973 and from 1975 to 1980. Together, they appeared in 112 films. Considered at the time as protagonists of B movies, they were subsequently reevaluated by critics for their comedy and creative abilities, becoming the subject of study. The huge success with the public is evidenced by the box office earnings, which in the 1960s, represented 10% of the annual box office earnings in Italy. History Both born in Palermo, Sicily, their collaboration began in 1954 in the theatre field, and ended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement with films such as ''Rome, Open City'' (1945), '' Paisan'' (1946), and '' Germany, Year Zero'' (1948). He is also known for his films starring his then wife Ingrid Bergman, '' Stromboli'' (1950), '' Europe '51'' (1952), '' Journey to Italy'' (1954), ''Fear'' (1954) and '' Joan of Arc at the Stake'' (1954). Early life Rossellini was born in Rome. His mother, Elettra (née Bellan), was a housewife born in Rovigo, Veneto, and his father, Angiolo Giuseppe "Peppino" Rossellini, who owned a construction firm, was born in Rome from a family originally from Pisa, Tuscany. He lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had his first Roman hotel in 1922 when Fascism obtained power in Italy. Rossellini's father built the first cinema in Rome, the "Barberin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanina Vanini (film)
''Vanina Vanini'', also known as ''The Betrayer'', is a 1961 Italy, Italian drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. It is based on Stendhal's 1829 novella Vanina Vanini, of the same name. Plot Cast *Sandra Milo ... Vanina Vanini *Laurent Terzieff ... Pietro Missirilli *Martine Carol ... Contessa Vitelleschi *Paolo Stoppa... Asdrubale Vanini *Isabelle Corey ... Clelia *Antonio Pierfederici ... Livio Savelli *Olimpia Cavalli ... chambermaid *Nerio Bernardi ... Cardinal Savelli *Mimmo Poli ... executioner *Jean Gruault ... castrato *Claudia Bava *Leonardo Botta ... confessor *Nando Cicero ... Saverio Pontini *Attilio Dottesio *Carlo Gazzabini *Enrico Glori *Evar Maran *Leonardo Severini *Nando Tamberlani External links * Review of film at Variety 1961 films Italian historical drama films 1960s Italian-language films 1960s historical drama films Films set in Rome Films directed by Roberto Rossellini Films based on works by Stendhal Films set in the 1820s 1961 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Corbucci
Sergio Corbucci (; 6 December 1926 – 1 December 1990) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and Film producer, producer. He was one of the main exponents of the Spaghetti Western genre during the 1960s and 1970s, with his most notable works including the original Django (1966 film), ''Django'', ''Navajo Joe'', ''The Great Silence'', The Mercenary (film), ''The Mercenary'', and Compañeros (film), ''Compañeros''. He also had a successful career directing comedies. Corbucci is sometimes referred to as "the other Sergio", referring to fellow Spaghetti Western director Sergio Leone. Early life Corbucci was born in Rome in 1926. He had a younger brother Bruno Corbucci, Bruno (1931-1996), also a filmmaker. He originally studied economics at university, before working as a film critic. For a period after World War II, he wrote for Stars and Stripes (newspaper), ''Stars and Stripes''. Career Early work Corbucci made his directorial debut in 1951 with ''Salvate mia figlia''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauro Bolognini
Mauro Bolognini (28 June 1922 – 14 May 2001) was an Italian film and stage director. Early years Bolognini was born in Pistoia, in the Tuscany region of Italy. After earning a master's degree in architecture at the University of Florence, Bolognini enrolled at the (Italian National Film Academy) in Rome, where he studied stage design. After graduation, he became interested in film direction and set out to work as an assistant to directors Luigi Zampa in Italy, and Yves Allégret and Jean Delannoy in France. Film and television Bolognini began directing his own feature films in the 1953 with the film '. He received his first international success with ''Wild Love (film), Wild Love'' (''Gli innamorati''). His other notable films of the 1950s and early 1960s include ''Young Husbands'' (''Giovani mariti''), ''Bad Girls Don't Cry, The Big Night'' (''La notte brava''), ''From a Roman Balcony'' (''La giornata balorda''), and the Marcello Mastroianni-Claudia Cardinale starrer ''Il b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
