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Andrea Balestri
Andrea Balestri (born 1 September 1963) is an Italian actor and singer. Career He is known as the Pinocchio in 1972 serial tv ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'', directed by Luigi Comencini, next to actors like Nino Manfredi, Franco and Ciccio, Gina Lollobrigida and the great actor and director Vittorio De Sica as the ''Judge''. After the great success on TV, Balestri continued he acting career working on other movies as '' Torino nera'', directed by Carlo Lizzani, with Bud Spencer and Domenico Santoro the Lucignoloin ''Pinocchio'', the children movie '' Kid il monello del West'', that won the Giffoni Film Festival as the best adaptation in 1976, and '' Furia nera'', directed by Demofilo Fidani. During last years he took part to several TV programs to tell his cinema experience and acted in two short films. He also took part in a cameo on movie '' Faccia di Picasso'' directed by Massimo Ceccherini, in which he played “the only real Pinocchio”. He is very often guest aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pisa
Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the city contains more than twenty other historic churches, several medieval palaces, and bridges across the Arno. Much of the city's architecture was financed from its history as one of the Italian maritime republics. The city is also home to the University of Pisa, which has a history going back to the 12th century, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, founded by Napoleon in 1810, and its offshoot, the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies.Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa Information statistics History |
Giffoni Film Festival
The Giffoni International Film Festival is an Italian children's film festival which takes place annually in Giffoni Valle Piana, Campania. It began in 1971. The Giffoni International Film Festival typically has around 100,000 guests and has had events in other countries, such as the Giffoni Hollywood Film Festival in the United States. History The Giffoni Film Festival was founded in 1971 by Claudio Gubitosi, and is hosted in Giffoni Valle Piana, Campania. As earlier editions has limited budgets and a small number of films, the festival began to bring in films from Northern Europe and Soviet Union. During the 1980s the amount of children's films increased and films coming from France, Albania, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Canada, Iran, Australia, Poland and New Zealand were imported. In 1982, François Truffaut attended the festival and wrote " all the film festivals Giffoni is the most necessary". In the following years, Robert De Niro, Sergio Leone, Michelangelo Antonioni, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Births
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the penumbral lunar eclipse and the annular solar eclipse, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee. * January 19 – Soviet spy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiorenzo Carpi
Fiorenzo Carpi (19 October 1918 – 21 May 1997) was an Italian composer and pianist, probably best known for the "Pinocchio" theme. Biography Born in Milan as Fiorenzo Carpi De Resmini, in 1945 he graduated at the Milan Conservatory, pupil of Arrigo Pedrollo and Giorgio Federico Ghedini; then he was a stable member of Piccolo Teatro di Milano since its founding (1947). He also collaborated with the Nobel laureate playwright Dario Fo on all his plays between 1953 and 1967, then sporadically until Carpi's death in 1997. Fo's 1997 play ''Il diavolo con le zinne'' ('' The Devil with Boobs'') featured an homage to Carpi following his death. Carpi was a prolific film score composer, well known for his long collaboration with the director Luigi Comencini. In 1981 he won the David di Donatello for Best Score for Comencini's '' Voltati Eugenio''. He also composed numerous pop songs, television scores, commercial jingles, symphonic and chamber opera works. Selected filmography * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Vecchioni
Roberto Vecchioni (born 25 June 1943) is an Italian singer-songwriter, singer-lyricist, lyricist, teacher and writer. Biography Vecchioni was born in Carate Brianza, Province of Monza and Brianza, to a Neapolitan family . In 1968 he graduated in Classical Literature at the Catholic University of Milan, where he subsequently worked for two years as assistant lecturer of History of Religion. Later he was appointed professor of literature and history at a Milanese High School, an activity that he continued for almost thirty years and that would influence several of his songs. His career in the Italian music industry began in the late 1960s as songwriter for Italian pop stars such as Ornella Vanoni, Gigliola Cinquetti, Mina, Iva Zanicchi and the band Nuovi Angeli. Vecchioni's first solo album, ''Parabola'' was released in 1971. In 1973 he took part in the Sanremo Festival with "L'uomo che si gioca il cielo a dadi". His 1974 LP, '' Il re non si diverte'', won the Best Year's Alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picasso's Face
''Picasso's Face'' ( it, Faccia di Picasso) is a 2000 comedy film written, directed and starred by Massimo Ceccherini. Plot Massimo Ceccherini is looking for a plot for his new movie: the suggestions of the people around him are all the same and they indicate "less vulgarity" and "more gags". In the end, he just settles for a long series of homages, ranging from the Rocky film series to ''Jaws'', redone in a picaresque way. Cast * Massimo Ceccherini as himself * Alessandro Paci as Himself * Marco Giallini as Producer * Bianca Guaccero as Samantha * Pietro Fornaciari as Fernando Capecchi * Chiara Conti as Stefania Nobili * Yuliya Mayarchuk as Ukraine Girl * Giovanni Veronesi as Priest * Vincenzo Salemme as Himself * Andrea Balestri as Pinocchio / Himself * Christian Vieri as Ivan Drago Ivan Vasilyevich Drago (russian: Иван Васильевич Драго, ) is a Soviet-Russian fictional character from the ''Rocky'' film series. He first appears in the 1985 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Turin
''Black Turin'' ( it, Torino nera) is a 1972 crime film directed by Carlo Lizzani. The film received mixed reviews, but was commercially successful. Cast * Bud Spencer: Rosario Rao * Françoise Fabian: Lucia Rao * Marcel Bozzuffi: Fridda * Guido Leontini: Trotta * Vittorio Duse: Camarata * Nicola Di Bari: Mancuso * Andrea Balestri: Raffaele Rao * Domenico Santoro: Mino Rao * Saro Urzì: Jaco * Gigi Ballista: Marinotti * Maria Baxa: Nascarella Release ''Black Turin'' was released in Italy as ''Torino nera'' on 25 September 1972 where it was distributed by MGM. The film grossed a total of 858,820,000 Italian lire The lira (; plural lire) was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002. It was first introduced by the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy in 1807 at par with the French franc, and was subsequently adopted by the different states that would eventually f ... domestically. It was released in Paris on 28 November 1973 under the title ''La vengeance du sicilien''. Notes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Comencini
Cristina Comencini (; born 8 May 1956) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and novelist. Biography She is one of four daughters of Italian film director Luigi Comencini. She attended with her sisters the Lycée français Chateaubriand (Rome).A.http://www.franceculture.com/emission-a-plus-d-un-titre-litterature-cristina-comencini-essais-jerome-thomas-2011-03-10.html. B.http://www.africultures.com/php/index.php?nav=personne&no=14299. Cristina Comencini's 2005 film ''The Beast in the Heart'', based on her own novel ''La bestia nel cuore'', was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Her upcoming film ''When the Night'', also based on her own novel and published in the United States by Other Press, is scheduled to compete in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September. She is mother of former Minister of Economic Development, Carlo Calenda. Filmography * 1989: ''Zoo'' * 1993: ''La fine è nota'' * 1996: '' Va' dove ti por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Ceccherini
Massimo Ceccherini (born 23 May 1965) is an Italian actor, film director, comedian and screenwriter. Biography Born in Florence, Ceccherini is the son of a plasterer, he seemed destined for the same profession, but his father was attracted to the world of entertainment. Ceccherini made his first television appearance in the program ''La Corrida'' and for years pursued a musical career with his friend Alessandro Paci. He became known to television viewers in the cabaret show ''Videomusic'', ''Aria Fresca'', conducted by a young Carlo Conti. In the meantime he got his first part in a film, '''' directed by [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faccia Di Picasso
''Picasso's Face'' ( it, Faccia di Picasso) is a 2000 comedy film written, directed and starred by Massimo Ceccherini. Plot Massimo Ceccherini is looking for a plot for his new movie: the suggestions of the people around him are all the same and they indicate "less vulgarity" and "more gags". In the end, he just settles for a long series of homages, ranging from the Rocky film series to ''Jaws'', redone in a picaresque way. Cast * Massimo Ceccherini as himself * Alessandro Paci as Himself * Marco Giallini as Producer * Bianca Guaccero as Samantha * Pietro Fornaciari as Fernando Capecchi * Chiara Conti as Stefania Nobili * Yuliya Mayarchuk as Ukraine Girl * Giovanni Veronesi as Priest * Vincenzo Salemme as Himself * Andrea Balestri as Pinocchio / Himself * Christian Vieri as Ivan Drago Ivan Vasilyevich Drago (russian: Иван Васильевич Драго, ) is a Soviet-Russian fictional character from the ''Rocky'' film series. He first appears in the 1985 fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameo Appearance
A cameo role, also called a cameo appearance and often shortened to just cameo (), is a brief appearance of a well-known person in a work of the performing arts. These roles are generally small, many of them non-speaking ones, and are commonly either appearances in a work in which they hold some special significance (such as actors from an original movie appearing in its remake) or renowned people making uncredited appearances. Short appearances by celebrities, film directors, politicians, athletes or musicians are common. A crew member of the movie or show playing a minor role can be referred to as a cameo role as well, such as Alfred Hitchcock's frequent cameos. Concept Originally, in the 1920s, a "cameo role" meant "a small character part that stands out from the other minor parts". The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' connects this with the meaning "a short literary sketch or portrait", which is based on the literal meaning of " cameo", a miniature carving on a gemstone. Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
