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Amici Miei – Come Tutto Ebbe Inizio
''Amici miei – Come tutto ebbe inizio'' () is a 2011 Italian comedy film directed by Neri Parenti. The film is meant to be a tribute to Mario Monicelli's classic comedy '' My Friends'' (1975) and its two sequels, and it is set in 15th-century Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany Regions of Italy, region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilan .... The main plot of the film is based on an Italian Renaissance '' novella'' known as ''Novella del Grasso legnaiuolo'' ("Tale of the Fat Carpenter"). Cast References External links * 2011 films Films directed by Neri Parenti 2010s Italian-language films 2011 comedy films Italian comedy films Films set in Florence Films shot in Tuscany Films shot in Rome Films set in the 1480s Films set in the 15th century 2010s Italian films {{2010s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neri Parenti
Neri Parenti (born 26 April 1950, in Florence) is an Italian film director and writer. He is known for comedy films, including the series starring Paolo Villaggio playing the character Ugo Fantozzi, and a later series of '' cinepanettoni'' - zany comedy films scheduled for release during the Christmas period. Biography After graduating in political science, he dedicated his career to filmmaking. He became a pupil and assistant of Pasquale Festa Campanile from 1972 to 1979, and also worked for Salvatore Samperi, Steno and Giorgio Capitani. In 1979 he directed his first film, '' The Face with Two Left Feet'', an ironic and comical parody of '' Saturday Night Fever'' with John Travolta, which had been a hit two years earlier. A year later he met the film actor and director Paolo Villaggio, who was then filming ''Fantozzi contro tutti''. Villaggio developed an esteem for Parenti and decided to leave the director's chair to join forces with him. The result was very positive and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Monicelli
Mario Alberto Ettore Monicelli (; 16 May 1915 – 29 November 2010) was an Italian film director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the ''Commedia all'Italiana'' (Comedy Italian style). He was nominated six times for an Oscar, and was awarded the Golden Lion for his career. Biography The early times Monicelli was born in Rome to a well-do family from Ostiglia,. a ''comune'' in the province of Mantua, in the Northern Italian region of Lombardy, as the second of five children of Tomaso Monicelli, a journalist, and Maria Carreri, a housewife. His older half-brother, Giorgio (whose mother was actress Elisa Severi), worked as writer and translator. An older brother, Franco, was a journalist. Raised in Rome, Viareggio (Tuscany) and Milan,.. Monicelli lived a carefree youth, and many of the cinematic jokes he later shot in ''Amici Miei'' ( My Friends) were inspired by his own experiences during his youth in Tuscany. In Milan, he finished his third year of high school a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Ariani
Giorgio Ariani (26 May 1941 – 5 March 2016) was an Italian stand-up comedian, actor and voice actor. Life and career Born in Ferrara, Ariani grew up in Florence and started his career as a comedian in regional cabaret clubs.Roberto Poppi. ''Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori''. Gremese 1998. pp. 26-27. He became first known thanks to the participation to several RAI variety shows such as ''Supersera'' and ''Ci pensiamo lunedì''. He was also active in films, particularly in the early 1980s. In his late years Ariani directed a drama school in Campi Bisenzio. He died, aged 74, after a long illness. He was married and had three children. References External links * Actors from Ferrara 1941 births 2016 deaths Italian male stage actors Italian male film actors Italian male comedians Italian male voice actors 20th-century Italian male actors 20th-century Italian comedians 21st-century Italian male actors 21st-century Italian comedians Male actors from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Paci
Alessandro Paci (born 21 December 1964) is an Italian actor, film director and comedian. Biography Tuscan comedian, debuted in the duo ''Duemendi'', with Massimo Ceccherini. He participated in the program ''Aria Fresca'', broadcast on Videomusic (and then on TMC2) in the mid-nineties, playing an improbable bouncer, and ironically on his physique, and he has also brought on stage a comic adaptation of the fable of Pinocchio, and ''Fermi tutti, questo è uno spettacolo'', where he performed with his friend and colleague Massimo Ceccherini: the DVD of the show which became the theater's best-selling DVD of Italy. Filmography Film *''Welcome to Home Gori'' (1990) *''The Party's Over'' (1991) *'' Amami'' (1993) *'' Bonus malus'' (1993) *''Dear Goddamned Friends'' (1994) *'' Il grande Fausto'' (1995) *'' Return to Home Gori'' (1996) *''Albergo Roma'' (1996) *'' Stressati'' (1997) *''Lucignolo'' (1999) *''Picasso's Face'' (2000) *'' Andata e ritorno'' (2003) *''Tutti all'attacco'' (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ainett Stephens
Ainett Stephens (born 28 January 1982) is a Venezuelan model (person), model, and television personality. Biography In 2000, she was among the ten semi-finalists of the Miss Venezuela beauty contest and subsequently posed for a calendar and the benefits of which went to the people of the Amazon Rainforest. After beginning a career as an underwear model in South America, she arrived in Italy in 2004. In late 2005 she made a nude calendar for the men magazine ''Fox Uomo'' (for year 2006). She hosted three seasons (2005, 2006 and 2007) of ''Real TV (Italy), Real TV'' aired by Italia 1. In 2006 she played the role of ''Black Cat'' in early evening quiz show ''Mercante in fiera'' hosted by Pino Insegno on Italia 1 and in the same period she posed again for a nude calendar (for year 2007) for the sports magazine ''Controcampo''. In March 2007 she hosted, with Daniele Bossari, the television quiz ''Azzardo'' aired by Italia 1. In 2008 she hosted, along with Taiyo Yamanouchi, the 3rd sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eros Pagni
Eros Pagni (born 28 August 1939) is an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in La Spezia, at the age of 17, Pagni started attending the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome and then went back to Genoa and played roles in works by William Shakespeare, Molière, Eugene O'Neill, Luigi Pirandello and more. As a film actor, Pagni has appeared in more than 30 films since 1964. He is well known for his role in Dario Argento's ''Deep Red'' and for his collaboration with Lina Wertmüller in films such as ''Love and Anarchy'', '' Swept Away'' and '' All Screwed Up''. He received with all the cast of Ettore Scola's '' The Dinner'' the Nastro d'Argento Award for Best Supporting Actor. Occasionally, Pagni is also a voice actor. He is notable for having dubbed actors like Aldo Ray in ''The Green Berets'', R. Lee Ermey in '' Full Metal Jacket'' and Christopher Lee in '' Gremlins 2: The New Batch'' and animated characters such as Judge Claude Frollo from ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiara Francini
Chiara Francini (born 20 December 1976 in Florence) is an Italian actress and author. Biography Born in , she graduated in with a thesis in literary . After her graduation, she underwent a three-year theatre course in |
Pamela Villoresi
Maria Pamela Villoresi (born 1 January 1957) is an Italian theatre, cinema and television actress. She has performed in more than 100 theatrical productions and in more than 30 films. Life and career The daughter of a cloth merchant of Prato and of a German mother, Pamela Villoresi began her artistic career following the acting lessons at the Teatro Metastasio in Prato. In 1975 Giorgio Strehler called her to be part of the theater company he started, Piccolo Teatro di Milano. Simultaneously she achieved great success with the television drama ''Marco Visconti'' and started a continuous career in cinema, in which she frequently had leading roles. In 1975 she posed nude as cover girl for ''Playmen''. In 1978 she won a Grolla d'oro for her role in Marco Bellocchio's '' Il gabbiano''. From 1990 she occasionally was a stage director and a TV presenter. In 2010 she ran in the Lazio regional election, supporting the center-right candidate Renata Polverini. She was not elected. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo De' Medici
Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (; 1 January 1449 – 8 April 1492) was an Italian statesman, banker, ''de facto'' ruler of the Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (''Lorenzo il Magnifico'' ) by contemporary Florentines, he was a magnate, diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets. As a patron, he is best known for his sponsorship of artists such as Botticelli and Michelangelo. He held the balance of power within the Italic League, an alliance of states that stabilized political conditions on the Italian peninsula for decades, and his life coincided with the mature phase of the Italian Renaissance and the Golden Age of Florence. On the foreign policy front, Lorenzo manifested a clear plan to stem the territorial ambitions of Pope Sixtus IV, in the name of the balance of the Italian League of 1454. For these reasons, Lorenzo was the subject of the Pazzi conspi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novella
A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most short stories. The English word ''novella'' derives from the Italian ''novella'' meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) facts. Definition The Italian term is a feminine of ''novello'', which means ''new'', similarly to the English word ''news''. Merriam-Webster defines a novella as "a work of fiction intermediate in length and complexity between a short story and a novel". No official definition exists regarding the number of pages or words necessary for a story to be considered a novella, a short story or a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association defines a novella's word count to be between 17,500 and 40,000 words. History The novella as a literary genre began developing in the Italian literature of the early Renaissance, principally Giovanni Boccaccio, author of ''The Decameron'' (1353). ''The Decameron'' featured 100 tales (named nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Repubblica
''la Repubblica'' (; the Republic) is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (now known as GEDI Gruppo Editoriale) and led by Eugenio Scalfari, Carlo Caracciolo and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Born as a leftist newspaper, it has since moderated to a milder centre-left political stance, and moved further to the centre after the appointment of Maurizio Molinari as editor. History Foundation ''la Repubblica'' was founded by Eugenio Scalfari, previously director of the weekly magazine ''L'Espresso''. The publisher Carlo Caracciolo and Mondadori had invested 2.3 billion lire (half each) and a break-even point was calculated at 150,000 copies. Scalfari invited a few trusted colleagues: Gianni Rocca, then Giorgio Bocca, Sandro Viola, Mario Pirani, Miriam Mafai, Barbara Spinelli, Natalia Aspesi and Giuseppe Turani. The cartoons were the prerogative of Giorgio Forattini until 1999. Early years The newspaper first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corriere Della Sera
The ''Corriere della Sera'' (; en, "Evening Courier") is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average daily circulation of 410,242 copies in December 2015. First published on 5 March 1876, ''Corriere della Sera'' is one of Italy's oldest newspapers and is Italy's most read newspaper. Its masthead has remained unchanged since its first edition in 1876. It reached a circulation of over 1 million under editor and co-owner Luigi Albertini, between 1900 and 1925. He was a strong opponent of socialism, of clericalism, and of Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti who was willing to compromise with those forces. Albertini's opposition to the Fascist regime forced the other co-owners to oust him in 1925. Today its main competitors are Rome's ''la Repubblica'' and Turin's '' La Stampa''. History and profile ''Corriere della Sera'' was first published on Sunday 5 March 1876 by Eugenio Torelli Viollier. In 1899 the paper began to offer a weekly illustrated supplement, ''La D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
