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Reflections In A Dark Sky
''Reflections in a Dark Sky'' (Italian: ''Riflessi in un cielo scuro'') is a 1991 Italian drama film written and directed by Salvatore Maira. Cast * Françoise Fabian as Valeria * Anna Kanakis as Chim * Valerie Perrine as Caterina * Peter Stormare as Carlo * Maurizio Donadoni as Mario * Brigitte Christensen as Sister Angela * Stefano Madia as Friend of Chim * Bettina Giovannini as Alice * Vittorio Mezzogiorno Vittorio Mezzogiorno (16 December 1941 – 7 January 1994) was an Italian actor. Biography Mezzogiorno was born in Cercola, the youngest of seven children. His older brother Vincenzo, who wanted to become a director, introduced him to the th ... References External links * 1991 films Italian drama films 1991 drama films 1990s Italian films {{1990s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvatore Maira , a common diminutive of ''Salvatore''
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Salvatore may refer to: * Salvatore (name), a given name and surname, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * "Salvatore", a song by Lana Del Rey, on her 2015 album ''Honeymoon'' * Salvatore (band), a Norwegian instrumental rock band * '' Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams'', a 2020 film by Luca Guadagnino See also * San Salvatore (other) * Salvatori * Salvator (other), a Latin word meaning ''savior'' * Salvador (other), a Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese word meaning ''savior'' * Salvo (other) A salvo is the simultaneous discharge of artillery or firearms. Salvo may also refer to: People and fictional characters *Salvo (surname), a list of people and fictional characters named Salvo, De Salvo, DeSalvo, Di Salvo or DiSalvo *Salvo (given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurizio Donadoni
Maurizio Donadoni (born 7 January 1958) is an Italian film, stage and television actor. Born in Bergamo, Donadoni started his career on stage in the late 1970s, working among others with Luca Ronconi and Gabriele Lavia. He made his film debut in 1982, working mainly with young directors, but also collaborating with established directors such as Marco Ferreri, Marco Bellocchio and Marco Tullio Giordana. He is also active on television, appearing in a number of series and TV-movies of some success. Selected filmography * ''The Story of Piera '' (1983) * ''Chewingum'' (1984) * ''The Future Is Woman '' (1984) * ''I Love You (1986 film), I Love You'' (1986) * ''The Moro Affair'' (1986) * ''Sweets from a Stranger (film), Sweets from a Stranger'' (1987) * ''A Violent Life'' (1990) * ''Reflections in a Dark Sky'' (1991) * ''Who Wants to Kill Sara?'' (1992) * ''An Eyewitness Account'' (1997) * ''In Love and War (2001 film), In Love and War'' (2001) * ''My Mother's Smile'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Drama Films
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1991 Films
The year 1991 in film involved numerous significant events. Important films released this year included '' The Silence of the Lambs'', '' Beauty and the Beast'', '' Thelma & Louise'', '' JFK'' and '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day''. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1991 by worldwide gross are as follows: Events *February 14 – '' The Silence of the Lambs'' is released and becomes only the third film after '' It Happened One Night'' (1934) and '' One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (1975) to win the top five categories at the Academy Awards: Best Picture; Best Director ( Jonathan Demme); Best Actor (Anthony Hopkins); Best Actress ( Jodie Foster); and Best Adapted Screenplay ( Ted Tally). It is also the first, and to date only, Best Picture winner widely considered to be a horror film. * March 20 - Frank Mancuso Sr. leaves as the head of Paramount Pictures. * July 1 - Brandon Tartikoff is appointed as chairman of Paramount Pictures. * July 3 – '' Termin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorio Mezzogiorno
Vittorio Mezzogiorno (16 December 1941 – 7 January 1994) was an Italian actor. Biography Mezzogiorno was born in Cercola, the youngest of seven children. His older brother Vincenzo, who wanted to become a director, introduced him to the theatre. At 18, Mezzogiorno enrolled at the university and began medical studies before choosing law. Then he had his first experience as an actor at the Teatro S. theatre where he recited texts by Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco. Desiring to improve his diction he spent long nights exercising his voice with extracts of the Penal Code. In 1962, at age 21, he played Estragon in '' Waiting for Godot'' at the "Piccolo Teatro" of Naples. In 1966–1967, he joined the troupe of Eduardo De Filippo and obtained his university diploma. In 1969, he met actress Cecilia Sacchi.''The Magic Baton: Toscanini's Life for Music'', éditions Kessinger LLC, 2007 Their collaboration quickly turned to a romantic relationship and they were married on 14 Octo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettina Giovannini
Bettina, also spelled Betina, is a female name predominantly found in the Italian and German languages. This name has various interpreted meanings and origins. In Italian, Bettina originated as a diminutive of the names Elisabetta and Benedetta. Benedetta is the Italian feminine form of Benedict, meaning "Blessed," while Elisabetta is the Italian form of Elizabeth, which itself comes from the Hebrew name Elisheva or Elisheba, meaning "my God is an oath". The name has several variations, including Bettine, and though it is a diminutive itself, it can be shortened to Betty, Bette, Ina, or Tina. People * Bettina d'Andrea (1311–1335), Italian legal scholar and professor * Bettina Aptheker (born 1944), American political activist, feminist professor and author * Bettina Arndt (born 1949), Australian writer, commentator and sex therapist * Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859), German writer and novelist * Bettina Banoun (born 1972), Norwegian tax lawyer and actor * Bettina Bäumer (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Madia
Stefano Madia (31 December 1954 – 16 December 2004) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in twelve films between 1978 and 1993. At the 1979 Cannes Film Festival he won the award for Best Supporting Actor, for Vittorio Gassman's film '' Dear Father''. He is the father of Italian minister Marianna Madia Maria Anna "Marianna" Madia (; born 5 September 1980) is an Italian politician of the Democratic Party (Italy), Democratic Party and a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 2008. She was Minister of Public Administration and Simplific .... Filmography References External links * 1954 births 2004 deaths 20th-century Italian male actors Italian male film actors Male actors from Rome Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor winners {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigitte Christensen
Brigitte is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Brigitte Amm, German rower * Brigitte Bardot (born 1934), French actress and singer * Brigitte Becue (born 1972), Belgian breaststroke swimmer * Brigitte Bierlein (born 1949), Austrian jurist and politician * Brigitte Engerer (1952–2012), French pianist * Brigitte Fronzek (1952-2021) German SPD politician and mayor of Elmshorn from 1996 to 2013 * Brigitte Fossey (born 1946), French actress * Brigitte Foster-Hylton (born 1974), Jamaican hurdling athlete * Brigitte Gabriel, Lebanese-American activist and founder of hate group ACT * Brigitte Girardin (born 1953), French diplomat and politician * Brigitte Haentjens, French-born Canadian theatre director * Brigitte Hamann (1940–2016), German-Austrian historian * Brigitte Laganière (born 1996), Canadian ice hockey player * Brigitte Lahaie (born 1955), French porn actress * Brigitte Lin (born 1954), Taiwanese actress * Brigitte Macron (born 1953), Emman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Stormare
Rolf Peter Ingvar Stormare (; Birth name, né Storm, 27 August 1953) is a Swedish actor. He played Prince Hamlet, Hamlet for Ingmar Bergman, Gaear Grimsrud in the film ''Fargo (1996 film), Fargo'' (1996) and List of Prison Break characters#John Abruzzi, John Abruzzi in the television series ''Prison Break'' (2005–2007). He has appeared in films including ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' (1997), ''Playing God (1997 film), Playing God'' (1997), ''The Big Lebowski'' (1998), ''Armageddon (1998 film), Armageddon'' (1998), ''8mm (film), 8mm ''(1999), ''Dancer in the Dark'' (2000), ''Windtalkers'' (2002), ''Minority Report (film), Minority Report'' (2002), ''Bad Boys II'' (2003), ''Constantine (film), Constantine'' (2005), and ''22 Jump Street'' (2014), and the video games ''Destiny (video game), Destiny'' (2014), ''Until Dawn'' (2015), and ''Destiny 2'' (2017). Early life Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm was born in Kumla, Sweden, on August 27, 1953. His family moved to Arbrå. He atten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Franciosa
Massimo Franciosa (23 July 1924 – 30 March 1998) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for more than 70 films between 1955 and 1991. He also directed nine films between 1963 and 1971. He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay for '' The Four Days of Naples'' in 1964. Selected filmography * '' Wild Love'' (1955) * ''Poor, But Handsome'' (1957) * '' Ladro lui, ladra lei'' (1958) * '' Everyone's in Love'' (1959) * '' Ferdinando I, re di Napoli'' (1959) * '' The Magistrate'' (1959) * '' The Assassin'' (1961) * ''La bellezza di Ippolita'' (1962) * '' The Four Days of Naples'' (1962) * ''The Leopard'' (1963) * '' White Voices'' (1964) * '' Three Nights of Love'' (1964) * ''El Greco'' (1966) * '' Last Moments'' (1974) * '' The Voyage'' (1974) * ''I'm Photogenic ''I'm Photogenic'' () is a 1980 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. It was screened out of competition at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Italy, early 1980s. Antonio Barozzi (Rena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie Perrine
Valerie Ritchie Perrine (born September 3, 1943) is a retired American actress. For her role as Honey Bruce in the 1974 film '' Lenny'', she won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other film appearances include ''Superman'' (1978), '' The Electric Horseman'' (1979), and ''Superman II'' (1980). Early life Perrine was born in Galveston, Texas, as the daughter of Winifred "Renee" (nee McGinley), a dancer who appeared in '' Earl Carroll's Vanities'', and Kenneth I. Perrine, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. Kenneth I. Perrine was the grandson of Alfred Perrine of Wallkill, N.Y., a descendant of Staten Island Huguenot Daniel Perrin. The Perrine family dates its ancestry to the French family of Perrin, which intermarried with other Normans dating back to William the Conqueror in 1066. Her mother was Scottish (of Irish descent), from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Kanakis
Anna Kanakis (; 1 February 1962 – 19 November 2023) was an Italian actress, novelist, model and beauty pageant titleholder. Life and career Born in Messina from a Greek father from Crete and a Sicilian mother, in 1977 Kanakis was Miss Italy at 15 years old, being the younger winner at the time. In 1981, she entered the Miss Universe competition. Kanakis worked in cinema as early as 1980, being mainly active in comedy films. In later years, her career transitioned to television, where she had leading roles in series and TV-movies. Starting from ''You're So Mine When You Sleep'', a 2010 novel about George Sand's life, Kanakis specialized in historical novels. Her last work was ''Don't judge me'' ("Non giudicarmi"), a novel about the life events of Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen. Kanakis also had a brief political experience as national leader of Culture and Entertainment in the Democratic Union for the Republic. Personal life and death In 1981, Kanakis married the composer Clau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
