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Ugo Pirro
Ugo Pirro (April 20, 1920 – January 18, 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and novelist. Biography Born Ugo Mattone in Battipaglia, near Salerno, he debuted as screenwriter for director Carlo Lizzani ('' Attention! Bandits!'', 1951, and '' The Hunchback of Rome'', 1960). His screenplays of the 1970s include films ''Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion'' and '' The Garden of the Finzi-Continis'', which both won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, with Pirro being nominated for Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay respectively as a part of separate writing duos. Pirro was also a literature author, his most notable works being '' The Camp Followers'' (1956), set in the Italian occupation of Greece during World War II, and '' Celluloide'', adapted for cinema by Lizzani in 1996. Pirro died in Rome in 2008. Works Films *'' Attention! Bandits!'' (1951) *'' Empty Eyes'' (1953) * '' Songs of Italy'' (1955) *'' The Wolves'' (1956) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celluloide
''Celluloide'' is a 1996 Italian historical drama film directed by Carlo Lizzani from a screenplay by Furio Scarpelli, Ugo Pirro and Lizzani, based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Pirro. It stars Giancarlo Giannini, Massimo Ghini, Anna Falchi, and Lina Sastri. Plot The story revolves around the difficult production of Roberto Rossellini's film ''Rome, Open City'' (1945). Cast *Giancarlo Giannini as Sergio Amidei * Massimo Ghini as Roberto Rossellini * Anna Falchi as Maria Michi * Lina Sastri as Anna Magnani * Massimo Dapporto as Giuseppe Amato * Antonello Fassari as Aldo Fabrizi *Milva as The Countess *Christopher Walken as US Officer Rod E. Geiger * Massimo Ciavarro as Massimo Serato *Francesca Ventura as Jone Tuzi, the script supervisor *Francesco Siciliano as Federico Fellini Giuliano Montaldo has an uncredited cameo as Civalleri, one of the film's early financers. Production The film was a passion project of Lizzani's, who tried to get it financed since 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis (film)
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La Garçonnière
LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second most populous city in the United States of America. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note *"L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure 8'' (album) * ''L.A.'' (EP), by Teddy Thompson *'' L.A. (Light Album)'', a Beach Boys album * "L.A." (Neil Young song), 1973 * The La's, an English rock band * L.A. Reid, a prominent music producer * Yung L.A., a rapper * Lady A, an American country music trio * "L.A." (Amy Macdonald song), 2007 *"La", a song by Australian-Israeli singer-songwriter Old Man River *''La'', a Les Gordon album Other media * l(a, a poem by E. E. Cummings * La (Tarzan), fictional queen of the lost city of Opar (Tarzan) *'' Lá'', later known as Lá Nua, an Irish language newspaper * La7, an Italian television channel *LucasArts, an American video game developer and publisher * Liber Annuus, academic journal Business, organizations, and governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerasella
''Cerasella'' is a 1959 Italy, Italian teen film, teen comedy film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. It is loosely inspired by the lyrics of the song "Cerasella (song), Cerasella". Cast *Claudia Mori: Cerasella *Terence Hill, Mario Girotti: Bruno *Luigi De Filippo: Alfredo *Alessandra Panaro: Nora *Carlo Croccolo: Giuseppe Marzano *Piera Farfarella: Nannina *Fausto Cigliano: The Singer *Mario Carotenuto: Father of Bruno *Lia Zoppelli: Mother of Nora *Luigi Pavese: General Bruno Coscia References External links * 1959 films 1959 comedy films Italian comedy films Films directed by Raffaello Matarazzo Films with screenplays by Ugo Pirro Films set in Naples 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Most Wonderful Moment
''The Most Wonderful Moment'' () is a 1957 Italian drama film directed by Luciano Emmer. This drama deals with natural childbirth, and was described as "clinically pure, informative, edifying and, on occasion, tenderly dramatic". Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried that marriage will affect his career, she prepares for the upcoming childbirth. Plot In the maternity ward of a large Roman hospital, we witness the secret love between the young doctor Pietro Valeri and the nurse Luisa Morelli. Pietro has difficulty in making a career and hesitates to marry Luisa as he does not know what future he could offer her. The situation seems to get worse when Luisa realizes she is expecting a baby. Pietro, always irresolute, seems to be in favor of a clandestine abortion, a solution that the girl refuses to consider. Luisa leaves the hospital and moves to her former colleague Margherita, who has set up on her own as a midwife. Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'amore Più Bello
''L'amore più bello'' (''The most beautiful love'', also known as ''L'uomo dai calzoni corti'') is a 1958 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Glauco Pellegrini. Plot Salvatore escapes from the orphanage of Caltanissetta to find the mother he never knew. Before finding her in Venice he will live several adventures in Naples, Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ... and Milan. Cast * : Salvatore D'Esposito * Eduardo De Filippo: Gennaro * Memmo Carotenuto: Nando * Francisco Rabal: Mario * Julia Martínez: Gina * Irene Cefaro: Estella * Alida Valli: Carolina References External links * 1958 films 1950s road comedy-drama films Films directed by Glauco Pellegrini Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli Films with screenplays by Ugo Pirro Italian road comedy-dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wolves (1956 Film)
''The Wolves'' () is a 1956 Italian neorealistic drama film directed by Giuseppe De Santis. Plot In a small mountain village in Abruzzo, near L'Aquila, two young wolf hunters—Ricuccio and Giovanni—arrive in hopes to collect 20,000 lire prizes for every wolf they can kill. Ricuccio finds himself charmed and entranced by the beautiful commoner, Teresa. She happens to be the wife of Giovanni and the two share a young son. The hunters risk their lives daily in the snow during the wolf hunts, only making it riskier because they are in constant conflict over Ricuccio's obvious attraction to Teresa. After Giovanni is killed by a wolf pack while insisting on trying to capture a wolf by himself in order to collect a potential 60,000 lire selling price from a zoo, Ricuccio accompanies Teresa while they attempt to collect the bounties owed to the hunters. While the two bond, Teresa nevertheless rejects Ricuccio's marriage proposal. Afterward, Ricuccio becomes amorous with the daughte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songs Of Italy
''Songs of Italy'' () is a 1955 Italian musical film directed by Domenico Paolella and starring Marco Vicario, Rossana Podestà and Silvana Pampanini. It was shot in Ferraniacolor. This film was one of several musicarelli directed by Paolella. Cast * Marco Vicario * Rossana Podestà * Silvana Pampanini * Fausto Tozzi * Anna Maria Ferrero * Tamara Lees * Giorgio De Lullo * Dante Maggio * Irène Galter * Lyla Rocco * Roberto Risso * Carlo Sposito * Armida De Pasquali * Italia Dini * Sandra Francis * Gisella Monaldi * Mercedes Mozart Reception An Italian review of the time characterises some episodes of the film as 'weak' and the overall dubbing Dubbing (also known as re-recording and mixing) is a post-production process used in filmmaking and the video production process where supplementary recordings (known as doubles) are lip-synced and "mixed" with original production audio to cr ... of the songs as 'sometimes unhappy'. References Bibliograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empty Eyes (1953 Film)
''Empty Eyes'' () is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli. It stars Gabriele Ferzetti. 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." Plot Celestina, a young country girl from Castelluccio di Norcia, naive, inexperienced, ignorant, after having lost both parents goes to Rome to work as a maid at the house of a middle-class couple who are moving to a newly built neighborhood. Here she makes the acquaintance of Fernando, a plumber who courts her insistently. Sometime after her, her brothers visit her to tell her that they have sold her house and that they are emigrating to Australia in search of work. Celestina finds herself completely alone in a world unknown to her. She fired, she is hired by a retired couple where Fernando tracks her down, but she rejects him. Here she meets a police officer w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the Geography of Greece, mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, spanning List of islands of Greece, thousands of islands and nine Geographic regions of Greece, traditional geographic regions. It has a population of over 10 million. Athens is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Greece is considered the cradle of Western culture, Western civilisation and the birthplace of Athenian democracy, democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major History of science in cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Camp Followers
''The Camp Followers'' () is a 1965 Italian World War II film directed by Valerio Zurlini and starring Anna Karina. Based on a 1956 novel by Ugo Pirro, it tells the story of a young lieutenant in the Italian Army who in 1942 is ordered to take a lorryload of Greek prostitutes from starving Athens under Axis occupation to entertain the Italian troops fighting Partisans in Albania. The film was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Silver Prize. Plot In 1942, disheartened at the starvation and disease in Athens, Lieutenant Martino of the Italian Army requests a posting elsewhere. He finds himself, with a Sergeant Castagnoli, in charge of a lorry containing twelve prostitutes who he has to deliver up country to various military establishments. This is not what he joined the army for, nor does he see how it will contribute to victory. On the way, they are obliged to accept a Major Alessi as a passenger. An unpleasant character, he outranks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
