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Vincere
''Vincere'' (in English, 'To Win') is a 2009 Italian biographical historical drama film based on the life of Benito Mussolini's first wife, Ida Dalser. It stars Giovanna Mezzogiorno as Dalser and Filippo Timi as Mussolini. It was filmed under the direction of Marco Bellocchio, who also wrote the screenplay with Daniela Ceselli, and it was released 22 May 2009 in Italy. It was the only Italian film in competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. It won four Silver Hugos at the Chicago International Film Festival (Best Actor (Filippo Timi), Best Actress (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), Best Director and Best Cinematography (Daniele Ciprì). and won four Silver Ribbon (Actress (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), Cinematography, Editing and Art Direction). Giovanna Mezzogiorno was rewarded with the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress 2010. Plot The film opens in 1907, with Ida Dalser watching a speech by the young journalist and socialist Benito Mussolini. She immediately fall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Bellocchio
Marco Bellocchio (; born 9 November 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. Life and career Born in Bobbio, near Piacenza, Marco Bellocchio had a strict Catholic upbringing – his father was a lawyer, his mother a schoolteacher. He began studying philosophy in Milan but then decided to enter film school, first at the Dramatic Art Academy of Milan, then the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, and later at thSlade School of Fine Artin London. His first film, ''Fists in the Pocket'' (''I pugni in tasca'', winner of the Silver Sail at the 1965 Festival del film Locarno), was funded by family members and shot on family property in 1965. Films Bellocchio's films include ''China Is Near'' (1967), ''Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina'' (''Slap the Monster on Page One'') (1972), ''Nel Nome del Padre'' (''In the name of the Father'' – a satire on a Catholic boarding school that shares affinities with Lindsay Anderson's ''If....'') (1972), ''Victory March ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Giovanna Mezzogiorno (; born 9 November 1974) is an Italian theatre and film actress. Early life Mezzogiorno was born in Rome, 9 November 1974, a daughter of actors Vittorio Mezzogiorno and Cecilia Sacchi. She grew up watching her parents on set. At first, she wanted to become a ballerina, and studied dancing for 13 years. After her father's death when she was 19, Mezzogiorno moved to Paris, where she attended the stages by Ariane Mnouchkine and worked for two years at the Peter Brook Workshop. She made her stage debut with the role of Ofelia in ''Qui est là'', based on Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''. The play toured various European cities. She received the Premio Coppola-Prati 1996, the jury was presided over by theatre critic Franco Quadri. One year later, she made her film debut in ''Il viaggio della sposa'' (The Bride's Journey), written by and starring Sergio Rubini. Mezzogiorno was awarded the Targa d'Argento as the New Talent in Italian Cinema, she was also given the Groll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago International Film Festival
The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every fall. Founded in 1964 by Michael Kutza, it is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America. Its logo is a stark, black and white close up of the composite eyes of early film actresses Theda Bara, Pola Negri, and Mae Murray, set as repeated frames in a strip of film. In 2010, the 46th Chicago International Film Festival presented 150 films from more than 50 countries. The Festival's program is composed of many different sections, including the International Competition, New Directors Competition, Docufest, Black Perspectives, Cinema of the Americas, and Reel Women. Its main venue is the AMC River East 21 Theatre in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, although it has dropped that venue during the most recent festival as of 2023 (59th), instead using the AMC Newcity 14. International Connections Program The International Connections Program was created in 2003 in order to ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corrado Invernizzi
Corrado Invernizzi (born 25 April 1965) is an Italian actor. Biography In movies, he appeared in ''Vincere'' as a psychiatrist and in '' Kidnapped'' as Judge Carboni (both directed by Marco Bellocchio). Both debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by the New York Film Festival. He worked twice with James Mangold, in '' Ford v. Ferrari'' where he played Franco Gozzi (Enzo Ferrari's right hand) and in ''Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny'' where he was Luigi, the pilot who helps to save the archeologist and his team. He appeared in '' Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy'' directed by Marco Tullio Giordana as judge Pietro Calogero. In theater, he appeared in ''The Coast of Utopia'' by Tom Stoppard also directed by Marco Tullio Giordana, in the role of literary critic Belinskij. The play received the Ubu Awards, the Le Maschere Awards and the Critic's Award in 2012. In 2010, he worked with the Beijing Opera under Patrick Sommier in the play ''Water Margin'' by Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fausto Russo Alesi
Fausto Russo Alesi (born 13 October 1973) is an Italian actor and theatre director. Biography Born in Palermo, Russo Alesi moved to Milan to study acting, graduating in 1996 from the Paolo Grassi Drama School. He worked for several years at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, where he was directed by Luca Ronconi in various works. Parallel to his stage activity, he takes his first steps in the world of cinema: he is noticed by Marco Bellocchio, who engages him for his films ''Vincere'', ''Blood of My Blood'', '' Sweet Dreams'', '' The Traitor'', ''Exterior Night ''Exterior Night'' () is a 2022 Italian-language drama film co-written and directed by Marco Bellocchio based on the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro. The film is the second feature by Bellocchio based on the Moro case after ''Good Morning, Ni ...'' and '' Kidnapped''. Selected filmography Film References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Russo Alesi, Fausto 1973 births Living people Male actors from Palermo Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Fascism
Italian fascism (), also called classical fascism and Fascism, is the original fascist ideology, which Giovanni Gentile and Benito Mussolini developed in Italy. The ideology of Italian fascism is associated with a series of political parties led by Mussolini: the National Fascist Party (PNF), which governed the Kingdom of Italy from 1922 until 1943, and the Republican Fascist Party (PFR), which governed the Italian Social Republic from 1943 to 1945. Italian fascism also is associated with the post–war Italian Social Movement (MSI) and later Italian Neo-fascism, neo-fascist political organisations. Italian fascism originated from ideological combinations of ultranationalism and Italian nationalism, national syndicalism and revolutionary nationalism, and from the militarism of Italian irredentism to regain "lost overseas territories of Italy" deemed necessary to restore Italian nationalist pride.Aristotle A. Kallis. ''Fascist ideology: territory and expansionism in Italy and Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filippo Timi
Filippo Timi (born 27 February 1974) is an Italian actor, director and writer. Biography Acting Career Filippo Timi was born in Perugia, he studied acting in Bologna. Filippo Timi as a cinema actor was discovered by a prominent Italian underground director Tonino De Bernardi. Timi debuted in De Bernardi's 1999 movie ''Appassionata'' which was selected for Venice Film Festival. After ''Appassionata'', he played in De Bernardi's ''Rosatigre'' (2000) and ''Farelavita'' (2001), both of which have become classics of Italian underground cinema. Despite his stuttering and partial blindness he became a star of the big screen including a wide range of activities as author and entrepreneur for TV, cinema, theatre, magazines and musical shows. Timi won the ‘Best Actor under 30’ prize at the 2004 UBU Awards, the most valuable accolade for Italian theatre, onstage he has been Orpheus, Danton, Perceval, Cupid, Hamlet and Satan, playing three different roles in Henrik Ibsen's ''A Doll' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benito Albino Mussolini
Ida Irene Dalser (20 August 1880 – 3 December 1937) was the first wife of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Early life Ida Dalser was born in Sopramonte, a village near Trento (Trient), which was then within the borders of the County of Tyrol in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The daughter of the town mayor, she was sent to Paris to study cosmetic medicine. When she returned, she moved to Milan, where she opened a French-style beauty salon. Marriage and motherhood It is unclear whether Ida Dalser first met young Benito Mussolini in Trento, where he had found his first job as a journalist in 1909, or in Milan, where he had moved soon afterwards. The two started a relationship, and when Mussolini was refused work on the basis of his fervent socialist political activity, she financed him with the revenues of her beautician job. According to some sources, they married in 1914, and in 1915 she had a son, Benito Albino Mussolini. Though Fascist agents sought to erase all trace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who, upon assuming office as Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister, became the dictator of Fascist Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until Fall of the Fascist regime in Italy, his overthrow in 1943. He was also of Italian fascism from the establishment of the Italian Fasces of Combat in 1919, until Death of Benito Mussolini, his summary execution in 1945. He founded and led the National Fascist Party (PNF). As a dictator and founder of fascism, Mussolini inspired the List of fascist movements, international spread of fascism during the interwar period. Mussolini was originally a socialist politician and journalist at the Avanti! (newspaper), ''Avanti!'' newspaper. In 1912, he became a member of the National Directorate of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), but was expelled for advocating military intervention in World War I. In 1914, Mussolini founded a newspaper, ''Il P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ida Dalser
Ida Irene Dalser (20 August 1880 – 3 December 1937) was the first wife of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Early life Ida Dalser was born in Sopramonte, a village near Trento (Trient), which was then within the borders of the County of Tyrol in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The daughter of the town mayor, she was sent to Paris to study cosmetic medicine. When she returned, she moved to Milan, where she opened a French-style beauty salon. Marriage and motherhood It is unclear whether Ida Dalser first met young Benito Mussolini in Trento, where he had found his first job as a journalist in 1909, or in Milan, where he had moved soon afterwards. The two started a relationship, and when Mussolini was refused work on the basis of his fervent socialist political activity, she financed him with the revenues of her beautician job. According to some sources, they married in 1914, and in 1915 she had a son, Benito Albino Mussolini. Though Fascist agents sought to erase all trac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Cannes Film Festival
The 62nd Cannes Film Festival took place from 13 May to 24 May 2009. French actress Isabelle Huppert served as jury president for the main competition. Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film ''The White Ribbon''. The festival opened with ''Up (2009 film), Up'' by Pete Docter, marking the first time that an animated film opened the festival, and closed with ''Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky'' by Jan Kounen. American filmmaker Clint Eastwood became the second recipient of the Palme d'Or, Honorary Palme d'Or. Juries Main competition The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2009 Official Selection: * Isabelle Huppert, French actress - Jury President * Asia Argento, Italian actress * Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkish filmmaker * James Gray (film director), James Gray, American director * Hanif Kureishi, British screenwriter * Lee Chang-dong, South Korean director * Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Society Of Film Critics Award For Best Actress
The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress is an annual award given by the National Society of Film Critics to honour the best leading actress of the year. Winners 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Multiple awards ;3 wins * Vanessa Redgrave (1969, 1984, 1985) *Liv Ullmann (1968, 1973, 1974) ;2 wins * Cate Blanchett (2013, 2022) * Julie Christie (1997, 2007) * Sally Hawkins (2008, 2017) * Sissy Spacek (1976, 1980) * Reese Witherspoon Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress and producer. She is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Reese Witherspoon, various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Aw ... (1999, 2005) See also * National Board of Review Award for Best Actress * New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress * Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress References {{Reflist National Society of Film Critics Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
