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Rome
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Rome is a special comune and the capital of Italy. Rome also serves as the capital of the Lazio region, with 2,873,598 residents in 1,285 km2, it is also the countrys largest and most populated comune and fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. It is the center of the Metropolitan City of Rome, which has a population of 4.3 million residents, the city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio, along the shores of the Tiber. Romes history spans more than 2,500 years, while Roman mythology dates the founding of Rome at only around 753 BC, the site has been inhabited for much longer, making it one of the oldest continuously occupied sites in Europe. The citys early population originated from a mix of Latins, Etruscans and it was first called The Eternal City by the Roman poet Tibullus in the 1st century BC, and the expression was also taken up by Ovid, Virgil, and Livy. Rome is also called the Caput Mundi, due to that, Rome became first one of the major centres of the Italian Renaissance, and then the birthplace of both the Baroque style and Neoclassicism. Famous artists, painters, sculptors and architects made Rome the centre of their activity, in 1871 Rome became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, and in 1946 that of the Italian Republic. Rome has the status of a global city, Rome ranked in 2014 as the 14th-most-visited city in the world, 3rd most visited in the European Union, and the most popular tourist attraction in Italy. Its historic centre is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, monuments and museums such as the Vatican Museums and the Colosseum are among the worlds most visited tourist destinations with both locations receiving millions of tourists a year. Rome hosted the 1960 Summer Olympics and is the seat of United Nations Food, however, it is a possibility that the name Romulus was actually derived from Rome itself. As early as the 4th century, there have been alternate theories proposed on the origin of the name Roma. There is archaeological evidence of occupation of the Rome area from approximately 14,000 years ago. Evidence of stone tools, pottery and stone weapons attest to about 10,000 years of human presence, several excavations support the view that Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill built above the area of the future Roman Forum. Between the end of the age and the beginning of the Iron age. However, none of them had yet an urban quality, nowadays, there is a wide consensus that the city was gradually born through the aggregation of several villages around the largest one, placed above the Palatine. All these happenings, which according to the excavations took place more or less around the mid of the 8th century BC. Despite recent excavations at the Palatine hill, the view that Rome has been indeed founded with an act of will as the legend suggests in the middle of the 8th century BC remains a fringe hypothesis. Traditional stories handed down by the ancient Romans themselves explain the earliest history of their city in terms of legend and myth
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Italy
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Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a unitary parliamentary republic in Europe. Located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, San Marino, Italy covers an area of 301,338 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal and Mediterranean climate. Due to its shape, it is referred to in Italy as lo Stivale. With 61 million inhabitants, it is the fourth most populous EU member state, the Italic tribe known as the Latins formed the Roman Kingdom, which eventually became a republic that conquered and assimilated other nearby civilisations. The legacy of the Roman Empire is widespread and can be observed in the distribution of civilian law, republican governments, Christianity. The Renaissance began in Italy and spread to the rest of Europe, bringing a renewed interest in humanism, science, exploration, Italian culture flourished at this time, producing famous scholars, artists and polymaths such as Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Michelangelo and Machiavelli. The weakened sovereigns soon fell victim to conquest by European powers such as France, Spain and Austria. Despite being one of the victors in World War I, Italy entered a period of economic crisis and social turmoil. The subsequent participation in World War II on the Axis side ended in defeat, economic destruction. Today, Italy has the third largest economy in the Eurozone and it has a very high level of human development and is ranked sixth in the world for life expectancy. The country plays a prominent role in regional and global economic, military, cultural and diplomatic affairs, as a reflection of its cultural wealth, Italy is home to 51 World Heritage Sites, the most in the world, and is the fifth most visited country. The assumptions on the etymology of the name Italia are very numerous, according to one of the more common explanations, the term Italia, from Latin, Italia, was borrowed through Greek from the Oscan Víteliú, meaning land of young cattle. The bull was a symbol of the southern Italic tribes and was often depicted goring the Roman wolf as a defiant symbol of free Italy during the Social War. Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus states this account together with the legend that Italy was named after Italus, mentioned also by Aristotle and Thucydides. The name Italia originally applied only to a part of what is now Southern Italy – according to Antiochus of Syracuse, but by his time Oenotria and Italy had become synonymous, and the name also applied to most of Lucania as well. The Greeks gradually came to apply the name Italia to a larger region, excavations throughout Italy revealed a Neanderthal presence dating back to the Palaeolithic period, some 200,000 years ago, modern Humans arrived about 40,000 years ago. Other ancient Italian peoples of undetermined language families but of possible origins include the Rhaetian people and Cammuni. Also the Phoenicians established colonies on the coasts of Sardinia and Sicily, the Roman legacy has deeply influenced the Western civilisation, shaping most of the modern world
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The
Colosseum in Rome, built c. 70 – 80 AD, is considered one of the greatest works of
architecture and
engineering of ancient history.
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The
Iron Crown of Lombardy, for centuries symbol of the
Kings of Italy.
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Castel del Monte, built by German Emperor
Frederick II,
UNESCO World Heritage site
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Sapienza University of Rome
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The Sapienza University of Rome, also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, is a collegiate research university located in Rome, Italy. Formally known as Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, it is the largest European university by enrollments and one of the oldest in history, the University is also the most prestigious Italian university and also the best ranked in Southern Europe. The biggest part of the Italian ruling class studied at this University and he introduced a new tax on wine in order to raise funds for the university, the money was used to buy a palace which later housed the SantIvo alla Sapienza church. However, the Universitys days of splendour came to an end during the sack of Rome in 1527, when the studium was closed and the professors dispersed, Pope Paul III restored the university shortly after his ascension to the pontificate in 1534. In the 1650s the university known as Sapienza, meaning wisdom. University students were newly animated during the 19th-century Italian revival, in 1870, La Sapienza stopped being the papal university and became the university of the capital of Italy. In 1935 the new university campus, planned by Marcello Piacentini, was completed, Sapienza University has many campuses in Rome but its main campus is the Città Universitaria, which covers 439,000 m2 near the Roma Tiburtina Station. The university has satellite campuses outside Rome, the main of which is in Latina. In 2011 a project was launched to build a campus residence halls near Pietralata station. The Department of Philosophy is located in this building, since the 2011 reform, Sapienza University of Rome has eleven faculties and 65 departments. Today Sapienza, with 140,000 students and 8,000 among academic and technical, the university has significant research programmes in the fields of engineering, natural sciences, biomedical sciences and humanities. It offers 10 Masters Programmes taught entirely in English, as of the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Sapienza is positioned within the 151-200 group of universities and among the top 3% of universities in the world. In 2015, the Center for World University Rankings ranked the Sapienza University of Rome as the 112th in the world, in order to cope with the large demand for admission to the university courses, some faculties hold a series of entrance examinations. The entrance test often decides which candidates will have access to the undergraduate course, for some faculties, the entrance test is only a means through which the administration acknowledges the students level of preparation. Students that do not pass the test can still enroll in their chosen degree courses but have to pass an additional exam during their first year, the title of the speech would have been The Truth Makes Us Good and Goodness is Truth. Some students and professors protested in reaction to a 1990 speech that Pope Benedict XVI gave in which he, in their opinion, endorsed the actions of the church against Galileo in 1633
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Palazzo della Sapienza, former home of the University until 1935.
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Church of
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The new campus of Rome University, built in 1935 by
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Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
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The Centro sperimentale di cinematografia was established in 1935 in Italy and aims to promote the art and technique of cinematography and film. The center is the most important Italian institution for training, research and experimentation in the field of cinema, intended in its widest sense, of films, documentaries and it is a full member of the international CILECT network of film schools. Located near Cinecittà, the school trains its students using 35mm equipment over a 3-yr period, with only 6 places available per class, selection is highly competitive. Among its mentors are Piero Tosi, Giuseppe Rotunno and Giancarlo Giannini, archived from the original on June 5,2010
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The Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
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Un sacco bello
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Un sacco bello, internationally released as Fun Is Beautiful, is a 1980 Italian comedy film. The film, produced by Sergio Leone, marked the debut of Carlo Verdone, as well his debut as main actor. For this film Verdone won a special David di Donatello Awards, Carlo Verdone plays three roles in three episodes joined together. The Roman hick Enzo must by car with a friend to reach a party of friends outside of Italy. The post-hippie Ruggero returns to Rome from his father who believes that the guy has psychological problems, and so he calls home this home a priest, a teacher and a very problematic nephew. Mr. Mario then is going to change the mentality of the guy with the help of these people, in the hope that Ruggero. Finally the shy and awkward Leo find the love in a Spanish girl, in fact she is not alone and intends to recover an affair with her ex
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Fun Is Beautiful (Un sacco bello)
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Bianco, rosso e Verdone
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Bianco, rosso e Verdone is an 1981 Italian comedy film directed and starred by Carlo Verdone, playing three characters. It was produced by Sergio Leone, soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone and guest starred by Mario Brega, all scored in the Dollars trilogy. Three men leave to reach their voting places, Furio, a pedantic and chatterbox clerk living in Turin, is with his family on his way to Rome, so are half witted Mimmo with his diabetic grandmother. Pasquale, an Italian emigrant in Germany and married to a local woman, leaves alone with his Alfasud car to Matera. Theirs is a journey through Italian motorways. Furios wife Magda is on the edge of a breakdown because of his character. Mimmo is continuously mocked by his disabled but smart grandmother, pasquale, ignoring all current hardships of Italy, gets some theft in each stop. Magda, Mimmo and their relatives spend a night in the same motel, the woman is courted by Raul, a handsome man that follows them from the beginning. Mimmo is taken by a call-girl who works in the motel, hes so idiot to ignore her job and he mistakes her pubic hair with a fur underwear. Pasquales car eventually miss seats, windscreen and decorative wheel rims and they eventually get to their polling stations. Magda escapes with Raul while Furio is voting, mimmos grandma dies in the voting cabin and the scrutiners argue the validity of her vote while Mimmo is crying and screaming. Pasquale gives to the scrutiners his anger and he speaks a fictitious and unintelligible dialect, upon his misfortunes and hardships of Italy and uselessness of his vote. Verdones second movie, coming through his successful Fun is beautiful and he uses the same formula of the first work, as director and multi-role starring. The election day as background to mock the miseries and hardships of Italian society, the producer Sergio Leone was formerly afraid the character Furio would result hateful to viewers, so he was of an old aged and actual diabetic Lella Fabrizis performance. Hes latter agreed with Verdones choices, the obsessive, pedantic Furio character often falls in Verdones works, telling to be inspired by ones of his relatives. Russian actress Irina Sanpiter was chosen because of her big eyes and angelical. Pasquales dated character stereotypes the helpless Italian emigrant, emphasyzed by his untidy and old fashioned wear, garish car decoration, bianco, rosso e Verdone at the Internet Movie Database
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Sergio Leone
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Sergio Leone was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, credited as the inventor of the Spaghetti Western genre. Leones film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots. born in Rome, Leone was the son of the cinema pioneer Vincenzo Leone and the silent film actress Edvige Valcarenghi. During his schooldays, Leone was a classmate of his musical collaborator Ennio Morricone for a time. After watching his work on film sets, Leone began his own career in the film industry at the age of 18 after dropping out of law studies at the university. Working in Italian cinematography, he began as an assistant to Vittorio de Sica during the movie The Bicycle Thief in 1948, Leone began writing screenplays during the 1950s, primarily for the sword and sandal historical epics, popular at the time. When director Mario Bonnard fell ill during the production of the 1959 Italian epic The Last Days of Pompeii, starring Steve Reeves, Leone was asked to step in and complete the film. As a result, when the time came to make his directorial debut with The Colossus of Rhodes. His film A Fistful of Dollars was based upon Akira Kurosawas Edo-era samurai adventure Yojimbo, Leones film elicited a legal challenge from the Japanese director, though Kurosawas film was in turn probably based on the 1929 Dashiell Hammett novel, Red Harvest. A Fistful of Dollars is also notable for establishing Clint Eastwood as a star, until that time Eastwood had been an American television actor with few credited film roles. The look of A Fistful of Dollars was established by its Spanish locations, the film paid tribute to traditional American western films, but significantly departed from them in storyline, plot, characterization and mood. The characters were also morally ambiguous by appearing generously compassionate, or nakedly and brutally self-serving, relationships revolved around power and retributions were emotion-driven rather than conscience-driven. According to Christopher Fraylings book Something to do with Death, Leone knew a deal about the American Old West. It fascinated him as a child, which carried into his adulthood, the films featured innovative music scores by Ennio Morricone, who worked closely with Leone in devising the themes. Leone had a way of shooting scenes with Morricones music ongoing. In addition, Clint Eastwood stayed with the series, joined later by Eli Wallach, Lee van Cleef. Based on the success of The Man with No Name trilogy, the film was shot mostly in Almería, Spain and Cinecittà in Rome. It was also shot in Monument Valley, Utah. The film starred Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Once Upon a Time in the West emerged as a long, violent, dreamlike meditation upon the mythology of the American Old West, with many stylistic references to iconic western films
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Sergio Leone
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Paolo Sorrentino
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Paolo Sorrentino is an Italian film director and screenwriter. His first film as screenwriter, The Dust of Naples, was released in 1998 and he also began directing short movies, including Lamore non ha confini in 1998 and La notte lunga in 2001. His feature-length debut was One Man Up, for which he was awarded the Nastro DArgento prize and he achieved international recognition in 2004 for his thriller, The Consequences of Love. The film, which explores the mindset of a businessman being used as a pawn by the Mafia. Sorrentinos next feature, The Family Friend, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May and it tells the story of a malicious septuagenarian loan shark who develops a fixation with the beautiful daughter of one of his customers. Sorrentino made his debut with a cameo appearance in Nanni Morettis film The Caiman. Sorrentinos following film, Il Divo, is a biopic of Giulio Andreotti. The feature, which won the Prix du Jury at Cannes Film Festival, sees Sorrentino reunited with The Consequences of Love star Toni Servillo, in 2009, Sorrentino wrote the screenplay for a film version of Niccolò Ammanitis Ti prendo e ti porto via. This Must Be the Place marked the English-language feature debut of the Italian filmmaker, the film was co-written by Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello, and premiered in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. His 2013 film The Great Beauty won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in the 2014 Academy Awards and it won the BAFTA award for Best Film Not in the English Language in the 67th British Academy Film Awards. It also won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Palme dOr at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, the film also received several accolades at the 2013 European Film Awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Sorrentino. Youth is Sorrentinos second English-language film, and features Michael Caine as an orchestra conductor. It competed for the Palme dOr at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Sorrentino likes to work with the same team of filmmakers, often engaging cast and crew from his previous films. Lino Fiorito, who was the set designer for all Sorrentinos feature-length films until Il Divo
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Sorrentino in 2008
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The Great Beauty
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The Great Beauty is a 2013 Italian art drama film co-written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Filming took place in Rome starting on 9 August 2012 and it premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it was screened in competition for the Palme dOr. It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and at the 2013 Reykjavik European Film Festival, the film won Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, as well as the Golden Globe and the BAFTA award in the same category. It is a co-production between the Italian Medusa Film and Indigo Film and the French Babe Films, with support from Banca Popolare di Vicenza, Pathé, with a production budget of €9.2 million, the film has so far grossed over $24 million worldwide. The film opens with a quote from Célines Journey to the End of the Night, To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work and our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength. The main character is a socialite, Jep Gambardella, who once wrote a famous novel in his twenties, only to retire into a comfortable life writing cultural columns. After his 65th birthday party, he walks through the ruins and city streets, encountering the various characters, reflecting on his life, his first love, and sense of unfulfillment. 8/10. The critical consensus states, Dazzlingly ambitious, beautifully filmed, and thoroughly enthralling, the film holds a score of 86/100 on Metacritic based on 34 reviews, signifying universal acclaim. Robbie Collin at The Daily Telegraph awarded Sorrentinos film the maximum five stars and he likened it to Roberto Rossellinis Rome, Open City and Federico Fellinis La Dolce Vita in its ambition to record a period of Roman history on film. Rossellini covered the Nazi occupation of 1944, Fellini the seductive, Sorrentinos plan is to do the same for the Berlusconi era, he wrote. Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter stated Sorrentinos vision of chaos and disorder. Critics have also identified other purposefully explicit film homages, to Roma, 8½, Scolas Splendor, spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar named the film as one of the twelve best films of 2013, placing it second in his list. Various critics named the film as one of the best of 2013
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Fun Is Beautiful
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Un sacco bello, internationally released as Fun Is Beautiful, is a 1980 Italian comedy film. The film, produced by Sergio Leone, marked the debut of Carlo Verdone, as well his debut as main actor. For this film Verdone won a special David di Donatello Awards, Carlo Verdone plays three roles in three episodes joined together. The Roman hick Enzo must by car with a friend to reach a party of friends outside of Italy. The post-hippie Ruggero returns to Rome from his father who believes that the guy has psychological problems, and so he calls home this home a priest, a teacher and a very problematic nephew. Mr. Mario then is going to change the mentality of the guy with the help of these people, in the hope that Ruggero. Finally the shy and awkward Leo find the love in a Spanish girl, in fact she is not alone and intends to recover an affair with her ex
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Fun Is Beautiful (Un sacco bello)
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Talcum Powder (film)
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Talcum Powder is a 1982 Italian comedy film written, starring and directed by Carlo Verdone. The film received multiple David di Donatello awards in Italy for Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Score and it also won Silver Ribbons for Best Actress and for Best Score. Sergio Benvenuti is a shy seller of contracts for a Roman company of music, so he asks for help from a fellow named Nadia. But the two have never seen themselves, and so it takes a equivoc, when Nadia arrives for work at home of the arrested, meanwhile occupied by Sergio, she believes him to be a major womanizer. The misunderstandings one after another, until his real girlfriends father discovers all of Sergio and fills the barrel, forcing him to take his daughter as a bride at all costs
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Talcum Powder
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I due carabinieri
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I due carabinieri is a 1984 Italian crime comedy film directed by Carlo Verdone. Marino and Glauco enlist with the Carabinieri in order to change their lives, during training, they also find a third partner in Adalberto, sickly heir to an affluent family, also pursuing a law enforcement career in an effort to grow more independent. They share various adventures during different missions, typically handled with much clumsiness if still good will, harmony is recovered at the end, when Glauco saves the old friend and a group of boy scouts which had been taken hostage by a madman on the same train
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I due carabinieri
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Io e mia sorella
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Io e mia sorella is a 1987 Italian comedy film written, directed and starred by Carlo Verdone. For this film Elena Sofia Ricci was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress, the film also won a Silver Ribbon for best actress and a David di Donatello for Best Script. Serena and Carlo are happily married in Italy, but the arrival of his sister Silvia, in fact the woman, when was a young girl, went in Hungary and married an athlete with whom she had a son. But now the couple, when comes to Hungary for a made to dying mother of Carlo, discovers that Silvias husband had a serious accident. So its up to Carlo and Serena helping the poor Silvia to look after the baby
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Io e mia sorella (My sister and I)
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Al lupo al lupo
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Al lupo al lupo is a 1992 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Verdone. The film won two Nastro dArgento awards, for best script and best score, Gregorio and Livia are brother and sister, but the two do not know this. One day they learn that their father Vanni is disappeared, fled in an unknown place, Gregorio and Livia then put together their forces to find the parent and they discover that they have much in common. Carlo Verdone, Gregorio Sagonà Francesca Neri, Livia Sagonà Sergio Rubini, Vanni Sagonà Barry Morse, Mario Sagonà Maria Mercader, signora anziana Al lupo al lupo at the Internet Movie Database
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Al lupo al lupo
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A Flat for Three
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A Flat for Three, originally known as Posti in piedi in paradiso, is a 2012 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Verdone. The film won three Nastro dArgento Awards, for best comedy film, best actress and best supporting actor, the film was a box office success, grossing over 9 million euros. In Italy burden of the economic crisis three men in Rome, Ulisse, Fulvio and Domenico decide to rent an apartment together in order to live with their modest work, however the three encounter any difficulties that have forced them to always be one step away from starvation. At the end of the story the three, despite all the difficulties, able to have a little luck in their lives
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A Flat for Three (Posti in piedi in paradiso)
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Journey with Papa
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Journey with Papa is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Alberto Sordi. Armando does not spend time with his shy son Cristiano. This is the first occasion for years for the two to each other, Cristiano is a naif, idealist boy, while Armando is an egocentric. During the trip the two meet various people, amongst which a friend and his wife, who betrays her husband with Armando. Cristiano accidentally discovers the relationship, generating an uproar and causing Armando to lose an important deal and they also visit Cristianos mother and Armandos ex-wife, who lives with a writer and has caused decadence in the family. Armando then has a rupture with his young lover, who leaves him because of his egoism. Armando, having known of the encounter, at first seems to abruptly leave Cristiano on the road, Alberto Sordi as Armando DAmbrosi Carlo Verdone as Cristiano DAmbrosi Edi Angelillo as Soraya Canegatti Giuliana Calandra as Rita Canegatti Tiziana Pini as Federica Benedetti Ugo Bologna as Eng. Rinaldo Benedetti Angelo Infanti as Gianni Flora Carabella as Luciana DAmbrosi List of Italian films of 1982 Journey with Papa at the Internet Movie Database
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In viaggio con papà
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7 chili in 7 giorni
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7 chili in 7 giorni is a 1986 Italian comedy film directed by Luca Verdone. Silvano and Alfio are mediocre students who manage to snatch away a degree at the university where both studied medicine with absymal results. After a few years Silvano meets Alfio again, now running a beauty parlor fueled with the money of his neurotic wife, the operation is run hapazardly with several incidents, in the end Alfio suffers a nervous breakdown and goes catatonic. An English professor of Aesthetics convinces the duo that true beauty lies in generous proportions, as in the works of Tiziano, Giorgione, Alfio and Silvano then convert the villa in a trattoria where the best patrons are the same people who originally visited it for dieting purpouses
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7 chili in 7 giorni
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David di Donatello
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The David di Donatello Award, named after Donatellos David, is a film award presented each year for cinematic performances and production by Laccademia del Cinema Italiano. There are 24 categories as of 2006, Italy is also famed for its annual Venice Film Festival. It is the motion picture equivalent to the Academy Award for the cinema, Premio Regia Televisiva for television, the Premio Ubu for stage performances, and the Sanremo Music Festival for music. Following the same criteria of the Oscars, the David di Donatello Awards were established in 1955, created by a cultural club, the aim was to honour the best of each year’s Italian and foreign films. Similar prizes had already existed in Italy for about a decade, however, the Donatellos have been and are awarded by the people in the industry, screenwriters, performers, technicians, producers and so on. The presidents have successively been Italo Gemini, Eitel Monaco and Paolo Grassi, currently, it is presided over by Gian Luigi Rondi who has worked with the organization since its inception. The prizes are awarded primarily to Italian films, with a dedicated to foreign language films. In 2015, it was announced both the eligibility period and the award ceremony date would change in the coming years. In 2016, the ceremony was brought forward to April, for the 2017 ceremony, the eligibility period will be March-December 2016. For the 2018 edition, the eligibility period will be the 2017 solar year, the trophy is in the form of a gold David statuette replica of Donatellos famous sculpture, on a square malachite base with a gold plaque recording the award category, year and winner. The 1956 David by Bulgari, awarded to Gina Lollobrigida for Beautiful, journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies,4, Intellect, ISSN 2047-7368 David di Donatello Awards at Film Movement David di Donatello Awards at Internet Movie Database
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The Italian former President
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi shows the "David di Donatello" Award received at the occasion of the awards ceremony in 2005.
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Lucky and Zorba
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Lucky and Zorba is a 1998 Italian traditional animation film directed by Enzo DAlò, based on The Story of A Seagull and The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly by Luis Sepúlveda. The movie was dubbed in English and aired on Toon Disney during the early 2000s, in the coasts of Hamburg in Germany, a petrol ship sinks leaving a lot of petrol in the sea. She survives the accident but has trouble with flying and she flies over the city until she falls on a womans garden, right on top of her cat Zorba. Being disgusted by the petrol taste Zorba refuses to eat her, Kengah asks him three promises that he must do if she doesnt survive. The first one is that when she lays her egg he must not eat it, the one is that he must take care of it until it hatches. Zorba promises despite his hesitations, then he goes to find his friends to try to help save Kengah, Zorba gets his friends but when they arrive to save the seagull its too late. Under her wing they find her egg, so Zorba tells them about the promise, Zorba then forces himself to gently sit on the egg and hatch it. The egg soon hatches and the cats decide to name the newborn Lucky, Lucky lives with the cats believing to be a cat herself. Her belief soon disappears when YoYo, a red kitten jealous of Lucky because of all the attention and advantages she gets, tells her shes a bird. Lucky runs away and gets captured by Great Big Rats minions, the cats look for her all over the town until they found out that Great Big Rat has her captured. The cats build a big cheese and hide in it, YoYo however goes alone into the sewers and stops the rats before they can eat Lucky, but both of them end up captured. The cats cheese arrives just in time as the jump out and rescue Lucky. The cats throw Great Big Rat and his sidekick into the canals, Zorba and his friends then decide to teach Lucky how to fly. Lucky fails to fly until Zorba decides to teach her to fly as a seagull mother would. For this Zorba asks Bubulinas owner, a girl named Nina, to take them to a very high tower where Lucky could jump from the top and, according to her instincts. Lucky tells Zorba that she him, calling him by his name for the first time. The plan succeeds and Lucky starts flying, the Great Big Rat sees the commotion and becomes enraged that his plan failed. Before she leaves she grabs YoYo and brings him to Zorba, Lucky then says good-bye to Zorba
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Original theatrical poster
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Manual of Love
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Manual of Love is a 2005 Italian blockbuster romantic comedy film in four quartets. It was directed by Giovanni Veronesi, who made two sequels, Manuale damore 2 – Capitoli successivi in 2007, and Manuale damore 3 in 2011. The characters in the movie are all related in one way or another,2 David di Donatello Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress. Manual of Love at the Internet Movie Database Manual of Love at Rotten Tomatoes
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Manual of Love 2 is a 2007 Italian romantic comedy film in four quartets directed by Giovanni Veronesi. It is the sequel of Manual of Love and was followed by Manual of Love 3, the film is divided into four episodes, centered on the theme of love. Dario and Nicola, two men from Apulia, are involved in a car accident, both are taken to hospital suffering from paralysis of the legs, and there Nicola meets a beautiful nurse named Lucia. While Nicola continues his therapy, he finds that he loves Lucia more and more. Franco and Manuela have been married for a time. However, Franco has a low count, and this creates many complications for the couple. Given that in Italy the two cannot use artificial insemination, because the law prevents it, Franco and Manuela travel to Spain, Franco manages to make Manuela pregnant, and he hopes they will have a son. However, their unborn child proves to be a girl, lecce, Salento, Fosco and Filippo are two young men in love. However, Foscos father, a typical Italian southern man, does not tolerate his sons homosexuality, and disowns him. Fosco and Filippo, as well as having this problem, know that in Italy they cannot get married, or even take on the upbringing of a child, because the laws do not permit such things. After they have been fighting over issues, Fosco is beaten up by homophobes, and is soon visited in hospital by Filippo. Ernesto is a highly regarded waiter in an restaurant in Rome. He has a wife and children, although his life lacks passion, one day Ernesto meets Cecilia, an Argentinian girl who works in the restaurant as a dishwasher, and they fall in love. Ernesto is very fond of Cecilia, because he knows that she is suffering because she has been abandoned as a child by her father. Cecilia, delighted by their affair, involves Ernesto in wild late-night parties, but he has a heart attack. So the two decide to end their affair, while agreeing to remain friends
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Italians (film)
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Italians is a 2009 Italian comedy film written and directed by Giovanni Veronesi. For this film Paolo Buonvino won the Silver Ribbon for best score, the film also received three nominations at David di Donatello for best score, best sound and best special effects. First segment, Fortunato is a specialized in the transport of luxury vehicles, especially Ferrari, in Saudi Arabia. Tired of an away from home and in the process of retiring, he accompanies his successor. There he comes into contact with Vito Calzone, an exuberant Sicilian who lives in the Russian city, vandenheim Polina Sidikhina as Natalia Italians at the Internet Movie Database
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Vittorio De Sica
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Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Indeed, the critical success of Sciuscià and Bicycle Thieves helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Oscar. These two films generally are considered part of the canon of classic cinema, Bicycle Thieves was cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history. De Sicas acting was considered the highlight of the film, born into poverty in Sora, Lazio, he began his career as a theatre actor in the early 1920s and joined Tatiana Pavlovas theatre company in 1923. In 1933 he founded his own company with his wife Giuditta Rissone, the company performed mostly light comedies, but they also staged plays by Beaumarchais and worked with famous directors like Luchino Visconti. De Sica appeared in the British television series The Four Just Men and his passion for gambling was well known. Because of it, he often lost large sums of money, in 1937 Vittorio De Sica married the actress Giuditta Rissone, who gave birth to their daughter, Emi. In 1942, on the set of Un garibaldino al convento, he met Spanish actress Maria Mercader, after divorcing Rissone in France in 1954, he married Mercader in 1959 in Mexico, but this union was not considered valid under Italian law. In 1968 he obtained French citizenship and married Mercader in Paris, meanwhile, he had already had two sons with her, Manuel, in 1949, a musician, and Christian, in 1951, who would follow his fathers path as an actor and director. Although divorced, De Sica never parted from his first family and he led a double family life, with double celebrations on holidays. It is said that, at Christmas and on New Years Eve and his first wife agreed to keep up the facade of a marriage so as not to leave her daughter without a father. Vittorio De Sica died at 73 after a surgery at the Neuilly-sur-Seine hospital in Paris, Vittorio De Sica was given the Interfilm Grand Prix in 1971 by the Berlin International Film Festival. Miracolo a Milano Cannes Film Festival Palme DOr Winner Umberto D
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De Sica in 1959
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Vittorio Gassman
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Vittorio Gassman, Knight Grand Cross, OMRI, popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian theatre and film actor, as well as director. He was born in Genoa to a German father, Heinrich Gassmann, while still very young he moved to Rome, where he studied at the Accademia Nazionale dArte Drammatica. Gassmans debut was in Milan, in 1942, with Alda Borelli in Niccodemis Nemica, in 1946, he made his film debut in Preludio damore, while only one year later he appeared in five films. In 1948 he played in Riso amaro and it was with Luchino Viscontis company that Gassman achieved his mature successes, together with Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli and Paola Borboni. He played Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams Un tram che si chiama desiderio, as well as in As You Like It and he joined the Teatro Nazionale with Tommaso Salvini, Massimo Girotti, Arnoldo Foà to create a successful Peer Gynt. In 1956 Gassman played the role in a production of Othello. He was so well received by his acting in the series entitled Il Mattatore that Il Mattatore became the nickname that accompanied him for the rest of his life. Gassmans debut in the commedia allitaliana genre was rather accidental, in Mario Monicellis I soliti ignoti, famous movies featuring Gassman include, Il sorpasso, La Grande Guerra, I mostri, LArmata Brancaleone, Profumo di donna and Ceravamo tanto amati. He directed Adelchi, a work by Alessandro Manzoni. Gassman brought this production to half a million spectators, crossing Italy with his Teatro Popolare Itinerante and his productions have included many of the famous authors and playwrights of the 20th century, with repeated returns to the classics of Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky and the Greek tragicians. He also founded a school in Florence, which educated many of the more talented actors of the current generation of Italian thespians. In cinema, he worked both in Italy and abroad. He met and fell in love with American actress Shelley Winters while she was touring Europe with fiancé Farley Granger, when Winters was forced to return to Hollywood to fulfill contractual obligations, he followed her there and married her. With his natural charisma and his fluency in English he scored a number of roles in Hollywood, including Rhapsody with Elizabeth Taylor and The Glass Wall before returning to Italy and the theatre. While rehearsing Hamlet, he began an affair with Anna Maria Ferrero, his 16-year-old Ophelia and he and Winters were forced to work together on Mambo just as their marriage was unraveling, providing fodder for tabloids all over the world. He later voiced Mufasa in the Italian version of The Lion King, Gassman married three actresses, Nora Ricci, Shelley Winters, and Diletta DAndrea, by whom he had a son, Jacopo. In addition, he had an affair with actress Juliette Mayniel and he rendered them with the same professional skill that made him famous while reciting Dantes Divine Comedy. On 29 June 2000, Gassman died of an attack at his home in Rome
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Alberto Sordi
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Alberto Sordi, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian actor. He was also a director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films. Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician, Sordi enrolled in Milans dramatic arts academy but was kicked out because of his thick Roman accent, in the meantime he studied to be an opera singer, a bass. It was his accent and voice that would prove to be his trademark. In a career spanned seven decades, Sordi established himself as an icon of Italian cinema with his representative skills at both comedy and light drama. His movie career began in the late 1930s with bit parts, after the war he began working as a dubber for the Italian versions of Laurel and Hardy shorts, voicing Oliver Hardy. In 1959 he appeared in Monicellis The Great War, considered by many critics, the Hollywood Foreign Press recognized his abilities when he was awarded a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Il diavolo. Sordi acted alongside Britain’s David Niven in the World War II comedy The Best of Enemies and in 1965 he was in another highly regarded comedy, in 1969 he was a member of the jury at the 6th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1984, he directed and co-scripted Tutti dentro, in which he played a judge who has warrants for corruption served on ministers and businessmen. Alberto Sordi was really masterful in two roles, one being the one of the underdog, militating against injustices and prevarications. In 1985, he was a member of the jury at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival, Sordi died shortly before his eighty-third birthday following a heart attack. Sordi was also a big supporter of AS Roma football team, Sordi provided the voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian dubs of more than forty Laurel and Hardy films from 1939 to 1951. He also appeared as an actor in other Italian-language versions. 1938, Avventura a Vallechiara, directed by John G. by Marcello Marchesi, directed by Mario Mattòli 1944-1945, Un mondo di armonie, by Michele Galdieri 1945-1946, Soffia so. By Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini Soffia so,2, by Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini 1947-1948, E lui dice. In 1999, the city of Rome made him honorary mayor for a day to celebrate his eightieth birthday, at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor award for Detenuto in attesa di giudizio. At the 13th Moscow International Film Festival he won a Special Prize for I Know That You Know That I Know and he received honorary citizenship from Kansas City, Missouri, for his references to the city in the 1954 film Un americano a Roma. Alberto Sordi at the Internet Movie Database Geographical coordinates and pictures of his grave Alberto Sordi
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Alberto Sordi in the movie
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Raf Vallone
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Raffaele Raf Vallone was an Italian footballer and international film star. Born in Tropea, Calabria, the son of a lawyer, Vallone attended Liceo classico Cavour in Turin and he played professional football at a young age, playing in Serie A for Torino. He won the Coppa Italia with his team in season 1935–1936, during World War II, Vallone served with the Communist resistance. His first film appearance was as a sailor in We the Living, nevertheless, he was cast as a soldier competing with Vittorio Gassman for the love of Silvana Mangano in Riso amaro. The film became a neo-realist classic and Vallone was launched on an international career, in 2001 he published his autobiography, Lalfabeto della memoria, with Gremese. Vallone was married to actress Elena Varzi from 1952 until his death and they had three children, two of whom are actors, Eleonora Vallone and Saverio Vallone. He died in Rome on 31 October 2002
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Marcello Mastroianni
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Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, a small village in the Apennines in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, and grew up in Turin and Rome. He was the son of Ida and Ottone Mastroianni, who ran a shop. During World War II, after the division into Axis and Allied Italy, he was interned in a loosely guarded German prison camp, from which he escaped to hide in Venice. Mastroianni made his debut as an uncredited extra in Marionette when he was fourteen. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times, for Divorce Italian Style, A Special Day and Dark Eyes, Mastroianni, Dean Stockwell and Jack Lemmon are the only actors to have been twice awarded the Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival. Mastroianni won it in 1970 for The Pizza Triangle and in 1987 for Dark Eyes, Mastroianni starred alongside his daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, in Raúl Ruizs Three Lives and Only One Death in 1996. For this performance he won the Silver Wave Award at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival and his final film, Voyage to the Beginning of the World, was released posthumously. Mastroianni married Flora Carabella on August 12,1950 and they had one daughter together, Barbara, but eventually separated because of his affairs with younger women. Mastroiannis first serious relationship after the separation was with Faye Dunaway, Dunaway wanted to marry and have children, but Mastroianni, a Catholic, refused to divorce Carabella. In 1971, after three years of waiting for Mastroianni to change his mind, Dunaway left him, Mastroianni had a daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, with French actress Catherine Deneuve, who was nearly 20 years his junior and lived with him for four years in the 1970s. During that time, the couple made four movies together, It Only Happens to Others, La cagna, A Slightly Pregnant Man, according to People magazine, Mastroiannis other lovers included actresses Anouk Aimee, Ursula Andress, Claudia Cardinale and Lauren Hutton. Around 1976, he involved with Anna Maria Tatò, an author. They remained together until his death, Mastroianni died of pancreatic cancer on 19 December 1996 at the age of 72. Both of his daughters, as well as Deneuve and Tatò, were at his bedside, the Trevi Fountain in Rome, associated with his role in Fellinis La Dolce Vita, was symbolically turned off and draped in black as a tribute. At the 1997 Venice Film Festival, Chiara, Carabella and Deneuve tried to block the screening of Tatòs four-hour documentary, Marcello Mastroianni, the festival refused and the movie was shown. The three women reportedly tried to do the thing at Cannes. Tatò said Mastroianni had willed her all rights to his image. com
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Mastroianni in 1991
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Ugo Tognazzi
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Ugo Tognazzi was an Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter. Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a clerk for an insurance company. After his return to his city in 1936, he worked in a salami production plant. During World War II, he was inducted into the Army and his passion for theater and acting dates from his early years, and also during the conflict he organized shows for his fellow soldiers. In 1945, he moved to Milan, where he was enrolled in the company led by Wanda Osiris. A few years later, he formed his own musical revue company. In 1950, Tognazzi made his debut in I cadetti di Guascogna directed by Mario Mattoli. The following year, he met Raimondo Vianello, with whom he formed a comedy duo for the new-born RAI TV. Their shows, sometimes containing satirical material, were among the first to be censored on Italian television, after the successful role in The Fascist, directed by Luciano Salce, Tognazzi became one of the most renowned characters of the so-called Commedia allItaliana. Tognazzi also directed some of his films, including the 1967 film Il fischio al naso, the film was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. He was an actor in Italy, and starred in several important international films. Roger Vadim cast Tognazzi as Mark Hand, the Catchman, in Barbarella and he rescues Barbarella from the biting dolls she encounters, and after her rescue, he requests payment by asking her to make love with him. In 1981, he won the Best Male Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo and he is buried in the cemetery of Velletri. His sons Ricky Tognazzi and Gianmarco Tognazzi are cinema actors and he was also the father of the Norwegian film director and film producer Thomas Robsahm. His daughter Maria Sole Tognazzi is, like Ricky, a film director, Il mantenuto Il fischio al naso Sissignore Cattivi pensieri I viaggiatori della sera Ugo Tognazzi at the Internet Movie Database
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Franco Nero
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Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero, better known by his stage name Franco Nero, is an Italian actor. He is best known for his role as the title character in Sergio Corbuccis Spaghetti Western film Django. Since then, he has performed leading and supporting roles in a variety of films, including The Bible. In 2012, Nero made a appearance in Quentin Tarantinos Django Unchained. Nero is known for his ties to the Redgrave family, and has had a relationship with Vanessa. Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero was born in San Prospero Parmense, the son of an officer in the Carabinieri. He grew up in Bedonia and in Milan and he studied briefly at the Economy and Trade faculty of the local university, before leaving to study at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano. Neros first film role was a part in Pelle viva. In 1966 from Django he went on to appear in eight films released that year including Texas, Adios. In 1967, he appeared in Camelot as Lancelot, where he met his longtime romantic partner, following this he appeared in the mafia film Il giorno della civetta opposite Claudia Cardinale released in 1968. He has appeared in over 150 films, and has written, produced and starred in one, more recently, he starred in Hungarian director Koltay Gábors Honfoglalás in 1996, in Li chiamarono. Briganti. by Pasquale Squitieri and subsequently in Koltays Sacra Corona in 2001, in 2009 he played an eccentric author called Mario Puzzo in Mord ist mein Geschäft, Liebling. In 2010, Nero appeared in the film Letters to Juliet with Redgrave, in 2011 he appeared as a guest star on the season 13 premiere episode of Law and Order SVU. His character, although Italian, was based on Dominique Strauss-Kahn, in the same year, he received a star on the Italian Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2012, Nero made a appearance in the film Django Unchained in one scene alongside Jamie Foxx. In the scene Nero plays the original Django, an Italian Mandingo Fighter manager, Neros Django then questions Foxxs Django about how his name is spelt, and asks him to spell it, referencing a scene from Neros role as Django in the original Django film. Upon learning that their names are spelt the way, Neros Django says I know to Foxxs Django. His romantic involvement with British actress Vanessa Redgrave began in 1966 when they met on the set of Camelot, in 1969, they had a son, Carlo Gabriel Redgrave Sparanero, a screenwriter and director
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Franco Nero, August 2008
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Nino Manfredi
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Saturnino Nino Manfredi was one of the most prominent Italian actors in the commedia allitaliana genre. He was also a film and stage director, a screenwriter, a playwright, a comedian, a singer, an author, a radio and television presenter and a voice actor. During his career he won awards, including six David di Donatello awards, six Nastro dArgento awards. Manfredi was born in Castro dei Volsci, Frosinone into a family of farmers. In October 1945 he graduated in law with a thesis in criminal law, without practicing the profession. Manfredi made his stage debut in 1947, working in plays directed by Luigi Squarzina. The same year, he entered the Maltagliati-Gassman stage company, mostly acting in dramatic roles, in 1948 he entered the company of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano under Giorgio Strehler, playing in tragedies such as Romeo and Juliet and The Storm. The same year he started working on radio as a comedian, in 1949 he made his film debut in the melodrama Monastero di Santa Chiara. In 1952 he worked with Eduardo De Filippo in Tre atti unici, along with Tino Buazzelli, Paolo Panelli, the same year he entered the revue company of the Nava sisters, and started working as a voice actor and a dubber. In 1955 he took part to his first high-profile films, The Bachelor by Antonio Pietrangeli, in 1958 Manfredi got his first film roles as main actor. The same year he formed a company with Delia Scala and Paolo Panelli. The success immediately got him a contract with Dino De Laurentiis which he dropped one year to be free to choose his favorite projects. In 1962 Manfredi enjoyed a larger success playing the title role in the stage musical Rugantino, with which he toured also in Canada, Usa. The same year he directed the critically apprecciated segment Lavventura di un soldato in the anthology film Of Wayward Love, in 1969, with Nellanno del Signore, he started a fruitful collaboration with the director Luigi Magni. In the same period he started collaborating, often uncredited, to the screenplays of his films, in 1972 he got a major television success playing Geppetto in the Luigi Comencinis adaptation The Adventures of Pinocchio. Following his last film as director and two hit films starred alongside Renato Pozzetto, in the 1980s Manfredi significantly slowed his cinema activities. In 1983 he debuted as author with the book Proverbi e altre cose romanesche, while in 1984 he signed his first work as playwright and stage director, in 1990 he received a David di Donatello career award. In 1992, after having first accepted to be a candidate at the elections with the Pannella List, in 1993, during the shooting of Un commissario a Roma, he suffered a hypoxia which compromised his memory functions
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Manfredi and
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L'amore difficile (1962)
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C'eravamo tanto amati (1974)
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Manfredi in 1990
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Giancarlo Giannini
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Giancarlo Giannini is an Italian actor and voice-over artist. Giannini was born in La Spezia, Liguria, Italy and he studied at the Accademia Nazionale dArte Drammatica in Rome, and made his film debut in a small part in I criminali della metropoli in 1965. He appeared in supporting roles in Anzio and The Secret of Santa Vittoria, in 1971, he appeared in E le stelle stanno a guardare, a television adaptation of A. J. Cronins novel, The Stars Look Down. In 1976, he starred in Seven Beauties, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and he dubbed Jack Nicholsons voice in the Italian release of both The Shining and Batman, he is the official Italian dubber of Al Pacino. His fluency in English has brought him a number of featured roles in Hollywood productions and he also appeared in Man on Fire. Gianninis best-known starring roles have been in films directed by Lina Wertmüller, in addition to Swept Away and Seven Beauties, he also appeared in The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, A Night Full of Rain, and Francesca e Nunziata. He played the role of the father, Alberto Aragón. He played the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV in the 2000 Dune miniseries, in 2002, he starred in the horror film Darkness. Perhaps his best-known recent role is as French agent René Mathis in the 21st and 22nd James Bond films, Casino Royale and he has a son, Adriano Giannini, who is also an actor and dubber. In 2002, Adriano reprised his father Giancarlos role in the remake of Swept Away, in 2009, Giannini received a star on the Italian Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. E le stelle stanno a guardare as Arthur Barras Sins Frank Herberts Dune as Emperor Shaddam IV Giancarlo Giannini at the Internet Movie Database
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Giannini in 2009
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Giancarlo Giannini (r) on the set of
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Adriano Celentano
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Adriano Celentano is an Italian singer, composer, producer, comedian, actor, film director and TV host. He is dubbed as the Molleggiato because of his dancing, Celentano very often is credited as the author of both the music and lyrics of his songs. Due to his career and great successes both in Italy and in the rest of the world, he is considered one of the pillars of Italian music. Celentano is also recognized for being particularly perceptive to the changes in the music business and he is credited for having introduced rock and roll in Italy – a genre that exercised great appeal on young people of that time. Celentano is also an actor and has acted in about 40 films, Celentano was born in Milan at 14 Via Cristoforo Gluck, about which he later wrote the famous song Il ragazzo della via Gluck. His parents were from Foggia, in Apulia, and had moved north for work, heavily influenced by Elvis Presley and the 1950s rock and roll scene as well as American actor Jerry Lewis, Celentano started playing in a rock and roll band with Giorgio Gaber and Enzo Jannacci. He first appeared on screen in Ragazzi del Juke-Box a 1959 Italian musical film directed by Lucio Fulci, in 1960 Federico Fellini casted him as a rock and roll singer in his film La Dolce Vita. As a film director he frequently casted Ornella Muti, Eleonora Giorgi and he and Mori have three children, Rosita, Giacomo and Rosalinda Celentano, most notable to worldwide audiences for playing Satan in Mel Gibsons The Passion of the Christ. Celentano also hosted several Italian television shows, Celentano has retained his popularity in Italy for over 50 years, selling millions of records and appearing in numerous TV shows and movies. In the latter respect, he has also been a creator of a genre, with his characteristic walking. For the most part, his films were successful, indeed in the 1970s and part of the 1980s. As an actor, critics point to Serafino, directed by Pietro Germi and he has released forty albums, comprising twenty nine studio albums, three live albums, and eight compilations. Celentano has been a vegetarian since 2005 and a defender of animal rights. A football fan, Celentano is a well-known Inter Milan supporter and his last concert-event, after 18 years without live performances, was broadcast on Mediaset channel Canale 5, with over 9 million viewers
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Celentano in 2009 with
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Massimo Troisi
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Massimo Troisi was an Italian actor, film director, and poet. He is best known for his role as Mario Ruoppolo in the 1994 film Il Postino, Troisi was born into a large family in San Giorgio a Cremano, a town near Naples. His father was a train engineer, some of his family experiences were later told in his first movies. After high school, Troisi wrote some inspired by his favourite author, Pier Paolo Pasolini. Troisi started his career as a cabaret showman in 1972, as a member of the comic trio called I Saraceni and, later. His mates were De Caro and Arena and they gained national fame on the radio and increased it consistently from 1977 onwards eventually becoming TV stars with the shows Non Stop, La sberla and Luna Park. Troisi soon gained the status of leader of the trio and he was noted for his use of facial mimicry and of apparently confused speech—in these he drew inspiration from such famous figures of Neapolitan comedy as Totò, and Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo. Troisi wrote, directed, and starred in his first film and he achieved wide success and critical praise, establishing himself as one of the most talented new Italian directors of the 1980s. Like his second movie, Ricomincio da tre is centered on the love life of a Neapolitan character, partly inspired by Troisis youth. Scusate il ritardo, similar to the one, was released in 1983. After some small acting roles, in 1987 Troisi directed Le vie del Signore sono finite, the movie won a Silver Ribbon for best screenplay. In the following years, he starred alongside Marcello Mastroianni, in Ettore Scolas Splendor, Che ora è. and his last movie as director was Pensavo fosse amore, invece era un calesse, again centering on the everyday difficulties of love between a man and a woman. Troisi came to fame through the success of Il Postino. Troisi died in 1994 of an attack in his sisters house in Ostia twelve hours after the main filming on Il Postino had finished. It was reported that he postponed surgery to complete the film and he was posthumously nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role. He is one of seven actors to be posthumously nominated for an acting Academy Award. A good friend of the musician and singer Pino Daniele, he wrote lyrics for his music or adapted his poetry for it. Eduardo De Filippo, father of Neapolitan theatre of the 20th century, said of him that he was an actor of the future
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Francesco Nuti
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Francesco Nuti is an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter. Born in Prato, Nuti began his career as an actor in the late 1970s. In 1988 he also participated in the Sanremo Festival with the song Sarà per te, in 1992 he sang with Mietta in Lasciamoci respirare, written by singer-songwriter Biagio Antonacci. The 1990s were however a period of decline for the Tuscan director, with poorly successful movies such as OcchioPinocchio, Mr. Fifteen Balls, Io amo Andrea and Caruso, in the following years Nuti also started to suffer from depression and alcoholism. Just before returning to direct a movie, on 2 September 2006 he was admitted to the hospital Policlinico Umberto I in Rome, after a severe fall
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Roberto Benigni
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Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. He co-wrote, directed and acted in the 1997 film Life Is Beautiful, which garnered him the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He also portrayed Inspector Clouseaus son in Son of the Pink Panther and has collaborated with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch in three of his films, Down by Law, Night on Earth and Coffee and Cigarettes. Benigni was born in Manciano La Misericordia, the son of Isolina Papini, a maker, and Luigi Benigni, a bricklayer, carpenter. He was raised Catholic and served as a boy, he still considers himself a believer. His first experiences as an actor took place in 1971. During that autumn he moved to Rome where he took part in experimental theatre shows. In 1975, Benigni had his first theatrical success with Cioni Mario di Gaspare fu Giulia, written by Giuseppe Bertolucci. Benigni became famous in Italy in the 1970s for a series called Onda Libera, on RAI2, produced by Renzo Arbore. A great scandal for the time, the series was suspended due to censorship and his first film was 1977s Berlinguer, I Love You, also by Bertolucci. His popularity increased with Laltra domenica, another TV show of Arbores in which Benigni portrayed a film critic who never watches the films hes asked to review. Bernardo Bertolucci then cast him in a speechless role as a window upholsterer in the film La Luna which had limited American distribution due to its subject matter. In 1980 he met Cesenate actress Nicoletta Braschi, who was to become his wife and it was an unprecedented act, given that until that moment Italian politicians were proverbially serious and formal. Benigni was censored again in the 1980s for calling Pope John Paul II something impolite during an important live TV show, Benignis first film as director was Tu mi turbi in 1983. This film was also his first collaboration with Braschi, in 1984, he played in Non ci resta che piangere with comic actor Massimo Troisi. The story was a fable in which the protagonists are suddenly back in time to the 15th century. They start looking for Christopher Columbus in order to him from discovering the Americas. Beginning in 1986, Benigni starred in three films by American director Jim Jarmusch, in Down By Law he played Bob, an innocent foreigner living in the United States, convicted of manslaughter, whose irrepressible good humour and optimism help him to escape and find love
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Benigni receiving a prize in
Terni, February 2006
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Benigni and wife
Nicoletta Braschi at the
1998 Cannes Film Festival.
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Paolo Villaggio
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Paolo Villaggio is an Italian actor, voice actor, writer, director and comedian. He has written books, usually of satirical character. He has also acted in roles, and has appeared in several movies. Paolo Villaggio was born in Genoa, with a twin brother and his father was Ettore Villaggio, a surveyor originally from Palermo. His mother, Maria, originally from Venice, was a language teacher, Villaggio attended the classic school Liceo ginnasio Andrea Doria and initially studied Law, but did not complete his degree. His jobs included being a clerk for the Italsider steel works, which inspired his character Il ragioniere Fantozzi Ugo, maurizio Costanzo discovered his artistic potential and in 1967 he advised Villaggio to play in a cabaret in Rome. In 1971 the publishing house Rizzoli released the book Fantozzi, a collection of these stories, the first book received the Gogol Prize in Moscow and led to his 1975 appearance in the film Fantozzi, directed by Luciano Salce. The films success led to a sequel, Il secondo tragico Fantozzi, with the director in the following year, in which Fantozzi delivered his most famous line. è una cagata pazzesca, or roughly For me The Battleship Kotemkin is a load of crap. Villaggio has played in numerous comedies and he has been directed by Federico Fellini, with Roberto Benigni), Lina Wertmüller, by Ermanno Olmi, by Mario Monicelli, and by Gabriele Salvatores. He has received several awards, including the David di Donatello, the Nastro dArgento. Villaggio continued writing while acting in films and he moved to the Mondadori publishing house in 1994. He published Fantozzi saluta e se ne va, Vita morte e di un pezzo di merda,7 grammi in 70 anni and his latest. He also acted in plays, playing Arpagone in LAvare of Molière in 1996. In 1996 he also led the news bulletin Striscia la notizia. More recently, he participated in the television fiction Carabinieri, in which he played the role of a tramp who often helped the police to solve crimes, with fellow Genoan Fabrizio De André, Villaggio wrote two songs, Carlo Martello torna dalla battaglia di Poitiers and Il fannullone. Ugo Fantozzi, Caro direttore ti scrivo, lettere del tragicomico ragioniere Fantozzi saluta e se ne va, le ultime lettere del rag
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Paolo Villaggio in 2007
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Nanni Moretti
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Giovanni Nanni Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. The Palme dOr winner in 2001, in 2012 he was the President of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival, Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol, Italy, to Roman parents who were both teachers. His father was the late epigraphist Luigi Moretti, an influential Greek teacher at Sapienza University of Rome, while growing up he discovered his two passions, the cinema and water polo. Having finished his studies he pursued a career as a producer and his brother is the renowned literary scholar Franco Moretti. In 1976, Giovannis first feature film Io sono un autarchico was released, in 1978 he produced the movie Ecce Bombo, which tells the story of a student having problems with his entourage. It was screened at the Cannes Festival, Sogni doro won the Silver Lion at the 38th Venice International Film Festival. La messa è finita won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival and he may be best known for his films Caro diario and La stanza del figlio, the latter of which won the Palme dOr at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Moretti has used certain actors several times in his films, generally playing minor roles and his father Luigi appears in 6 films, Dario Cantarelli and Mauro Fabretti in 5, Antonio Petrocelli in 4. Actors he has used in major roles include Silvio Orlando, who appears in 5 films and Laura Morante. Having played waterpolo in the B division of the Italian championship and his other work has not been widely seen outside Europe, but within his country Moretti is known as a maker of wryly humorous and eccentric films, usually starring himself. His most recent role was in the film Mia Madre Moretti is also an outspoken political leftist, Il caimano is in part about Berlusconis controversies, in one of the three portraits of the Italian prime minister Moretti himself plays Berlusconi. Aprile also deals with Italys political situation and Morettis views on it and his 2011 film We Have a Pope screened In Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. He lives in Rome, having been resident since birth, where he is co-owner of a movie theater. The short film, Il Giorno della prima di Close Up, shows Moretti at his theatre attempting to encourage patrons to attend the day of Abbas Kiarostamis film. In his words, I remember the shirts that said Thank God Im an atheist, Im not a believer and Im sorry. His 2015 film Mia Madre was selected to compete for the Palme dOr at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. I. C. A, conversations avec Nanni Moretti, Paris,2008, Editions des Cahiers du cinéma. The Cinema of Nanni Moretti, Wallflower,2004, interview with Nanni Moretti with his own thoughts on his films, filmlinc. com, accessed 12 December 2014. Nanni Moretti at the Internet Movie Database
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Nanni Moretti at the
2011 Cannes Film Festival.
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Sergio Castellitto
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Sergio Castellitto is an Italian actor, film director, and screenwriter. Sergio Castellitto was born in Rome in 1953, at the Teatro di Genova he starred in the roles of Tuzenbach in Chekhovs Three Sisters and Jean in Strindbergs Miss Julie, both under the direction of Otomar Krejka. In the coming years, he starred in such theatrical productions as Linfelicità senza desideri. He also appeared in Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon, during his years in the theatre, he worked alongside many famous actors, including Luigi Squarzina, Aldo Trionfo, and Enzo Muzii. Castellitto began his career in 1983 beside Marcello Mastroianni and Michel Piccoli in The General of the Dead Army by Luciano Tovoli. He interpreted many films like Sembra morto. ma è solo svenuto directed by Felice Farina, Piccoli equivoci by Ricky Tognazzi and he became more famous with the films The Great Pumpkin by Francesca Archibugi and The Star Maker by Giuseppe Tornatore. In the late 1980s, Castellitto appeared in several Italian television miniseries, including Un siciliano in Sicilia, Cinque storie inquietanti, Piazza Navona, Cinéma and he also appeared in the miniseries Victoire, ou la douleur des femmes. Success arrived with the films La famiglia, Lultimo bacio, Caterina in the Big City, My Mothers Smile, Mostly Martha, other films that he interpreted include Il regista di matrimoni by Marco Bellocchio and La stella che non cè by Gianni Amelio. In France Castellitto played the lead opposite Jeanne Balibar in Jacques Rivettes Va savoir. His most recent accomplishment as actor has been in his role as Padre Pio, Miracle Man, the first film that he directed is Libero Burro, followed by Dont Move. He played the role of the antagonist, King Miraz, in the film The Chronicles of Narnia and his most recent film as director was Twice Born, which played at the Toronto Film Festival, where it was not well received by much of the English speaking press. Most recently, Castellitto appeared in the television series In Treatment in the role of Giovanni, Castellitto is married to Margaret Mazzantini with four children
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Sergio Castellitto
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Giulio Scarpati
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Giulio Scarpati is an Italian actor. Born in Rome, pretty active on stage, after several small film roles Scarpati had his role in 1991 as Marco. In 1994 he won a David di Donatello for best actor for his performance in Alessandro Di Robilants Law of Courage, Scarpati later obtained a large popularity with the role of Lele Martini in the Rai Uno television series Un medico in famiglia. Scarpati is married with the stage director Nora Venturini and has a son, Edoardo, and he also writes the sports column Tribuna d’onore for the newspaper La Repubblica. Ask for the Moon The Raffle Who Wants to Kill Sara, gangsters Mario, Maria and Mario Law of Courage Who Killed Pasolini. Penniless Hearts Bits and Pieces Resurrection A luci spente Official website Giulio Scarpati at the Internet Movie Database
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Giulio Scarpati
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Fabrizio Bentivoglio
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Fabrizio Bentivoglio is an Italian cinema and theatre actor and a screenwriter. Fabrizio Bentivoglio was born in Milan, after only one season in the juvenile team of Inter, he left his sporting career because of an injury to his left knee and attended the school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. He debuted on stage acting in Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare, continuing his studies in medicine, he then moved to Rome. With Dario de Luca and in association with Studio Universal he founded the Tipota Movie Company, with the band Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel he has staged the show La guerra vista dalla luna. He has also filmed the short film Típota and has completed a tour performing his own songs, the soundtrack of Eternity and a Day by Theo Angelopoulos contains the track The Poet, with Bentivoglios voice
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Fabrizio Bentivoglio in 2011
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