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Andrea Guerra (composer)
Andrea Guerra is an Italian composer. He is noted for his film scores of ''Facing Windows'' (2003), ''Hotel Rwanda'' (2004), and ''The Pursuit of Happyness'' (2006). Biography Son of poet and screenwriter Tonino Guerra, Andrea Guerra was born in October 1961 in the northern Italian town of Santarcangelo di Romagna. After studying composition and arrangement under maestro Ettore Ballotta, he moved to Rome where he began his career composing music for nature documentaries. In succeeding years, he wrote several film scores for directors such as Ferzan Özpetek, Roberto Faenza, Giuseppe Bertolucci, and others. In 2015, he made his debut in Bollywood by composing the film score of the ''Dum Laga Ke Haisha''. In 2016, he composed the background score for the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer '' Fan''. Filmography Awards and nominations * European Film Awards 2005 - Best Composer (''Hotel Rwanda'') * Golden Satellite Awards 2005 - Best Original Song ("Million Voices", from the movie ''Hotel Rw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facing Windows
''Facing Windows'' (Italian: ''La finestra di fronte'') is a 2003 Italian movie directed by Ferzan Özpetek. Plot Giovanna ( Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and her husband Filippo (Filippo Nigro) have settled into life. They both have jobs that make them unhappy. She works in a poultry factory. He works the graveyard shift because he lacks seniority. They argue about money, sex, time and work... There is a subtle sense that this is a marriage whose love is dwindling fast, and that perhaps they are only going through the motions for the sake of their children. One morning, the two of them are walking home and cross paths with an elderly man (Massimo Girotti). He is suffering from transient global amnesia, remembering nothing about himself and his current situation, although recalling random episodes from his remote past. And despite Giovanna's protests, Filippo brings him back to their home for the night so that he can take him to the police the next morning in the hopes of unraveling the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Light Of Dawn
''First Light of Dawn'' ( it, Prime luci dell'alba ) is a 2000 Italian drama film written and directed by Lucio Gaudino. It was entered into the main competition at the 50th Berlin International Film Festival. For their performances, Gianmarco Tognazzi e Francesco Giuffrida were both nominated for Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor. Plot Cast * Laura Morante as Anna * Francesco Giuffrida as Saro * Gianmarco Tognazzi as Edo * Vittorio Ciorcalo as the doorman * Ninni Bruschetta as Mirko Zappalà * Francesca Chiarantonio as the doorman's daughter * Roberto Nobile Roberto Nobile (11 November 1947 – 30 July 2022) was an Italian actor. Selected filmography References External links * 1947 births 2022 deaths Italian male film actors Actors from Verona Italian male television actors 20t ... as Nino Procida See also List of Italian films of 2000 References External links * 2000 films Italian drama films 2000 drama films Films set in Sicily 2000s Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo
Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo are an Italian trio of comedians, actors, directors and screenwriters, composed of Aldo Baglio (; born 28 September 1958), Giovanni Storti (; born 20 February 1957) and Giacomo Poretti (; born 26 April 1956). Performing in cinema, theatre and television, they are among the most successful and widely known Italian comedians. Their humour is typically Milanese, involving scenes that develop from a simple idea, and that are often centred on stereotypical differences between Northern and Southern Italy. Biography Early Cataldo Baglio, better known simply as Aldo, was born in Palermo but grew up in Milan, where he met Giovanni Storti. The two both studied mime and dance at the School of Drama of the Teatro Arsenale of Milan. Giovanni graduated in 1977, and Aldo in 1978, and the two immediately took part in various cabaret shows including ''E domani?'' (1979) and ''Il suggestibile''" as well as performing in various television dramas, including ''Vac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Falaschi
Francesco Falaschi (born 6 August 1961) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He won the David di Donatello for Best Short Film for ''Quasi fratelli'' in 1999. He was nominated for a David di Donatello and a Silver Ribbon for Best New Director in 2003 for his first film ''I Am Emma''. Filmography *''Corti stellari'' – segment ''Furto con destrezza'' (1997) – short film *''Quasi fratelli'' (1998) – short film *''Adidabuma'' (1999) – short film *''I Am Emma'' (2002) *''Last Minute Marocco ''Last Minute Marocco'' is a 2007 Italian comedy film directed by Francesco Falaschi. Cast *Valerio Mastandrea as Sergio *Maria Grazia Cucinotta as Valeria *Daniele De Angelis as Valerio * Nicolas Vaporidis as Andrea * Lorenzo Balducci as Giacomo ...'' (2007) *'' Questo mondo è per te'' (2011) *'' As Needed'' (2018) *''Ho tutto il tempo che vuoi'' (2020) – short film References External links * 1961 births Living people Italian film directors Italian screenwrite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Am Emma
''I Am Emma'' ( it, Emma sono io) is a 2002 Italian comedy film directed by Francesco Falaschi. The movie was nominated for a David di Donatello and a Silver Ribbon for Best New Director in 2003. Cast *Cecilia Dazzi as Emma *Marco Giallini as Roberto *Pierfrancesco Favino as Carlo * Elda Alvignini as Marta * Nicola Siri as Daniele *Luigi Diberti Luigi Diberti (born 29 September 1939) is an Italian actor. He has appeared in more than 100 films and television shows since 1968. He starred in ''Magnificat'', which was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' Me ... as Marcello * Claudia Coli as Elisa * Federico Marinacci as Emilio References External links * 2002 films 2000s Italian-language films 2002 comedy films Italian comedy films Films directed by Francesco Falaschi Films set in Tuscany Films shot in Tuscany {{2000s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Soul Keeper
''The Soul Keeper'' ( it, Prendimi l'anima; french: L'âme en jeu) is a 2002 Italian-French-British romance-drama film directed by Roberto Faenza. It is loosely based on real life events of Russian psychoanalyst and physician Sabina Spielrein and notably on her therapeutic and sentimental relationship with fellow psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung. Plot Marie and Fraser, two young scholars, respectively French and Scottish, get to know each other while they are both in Moscow to research the life of the Russian psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein. The two researchers reconstruct Sabina's life together, starting with her hospitalisation in Zürich in 1904 for a serious form of hysteria. There the patient meets the young doctor Carl Gustav Jung, who, using the new methods of psychoanalysis developed by Freud, will be able to cure her. Sabina begins to take an interest in psychoanalysis herself, and begins an intense love affair with Jung. However, discovering that her beloved Carl, marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Torre
Roberta Torre (born 21 September 1962) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. In 1997 she won the Nastro d'argento for best new director with her first film, ''Tano da morire'' ("To Die for Tano"). The film entered the 54th Venice International Film Festival, winning the FEDIC Award, the Kodak Award and the Luigi De Laurentiis Award for best directorial debut film. The film also won two David di Donatello (for best score and best new director) and two other Nastro d'Argento for best score and best supporting role (an award given to the entire female cast). Selected filmography * '' To Die for Tano'' (1997) * ''Sud Side Stori'' (2000) * ''Il viaggio lungo di Arul, Rani e Vivetas'' (2002) * ''Angela'' (2002) * ''La malacanzone'' (2005) * ''Mare nero'' (2006) * '' Lost Kisses'' (2010) * ''Bloody Richard ''Bloody Richard'' ( it, Riccardo va all'inferno; ''Richard Goes to Hell'') is a 2017 Italian musical drama film directed by Roberta Torre, starring Massimo Ranieri and ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela (2002 Film)
''Angela'' is a 2002 Italian crime drama film written and directed by Roberta Torre. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight at the 55th Cannes Film Festival. For her performance in this film Donatella Finocchiaro won the Globo d'oro for best female newcomer. Cast * Donatella Finocchiaro as Angela * Andrea Di Stefano Andrea Di Stefano (born 15 December 1972) is an Italian actor and film director. Life and career Born in Rome, he moved to New York City to study acting at the Actors Studio. In the U.S. he played in ''Smile'', an independent movie directed by ... as Masino * as Saro * Erasmo Lobello as Mimmo * Matteo Gulino as Paolino * Toni Gambino as Santino * Giuseppe Pettinato as Raffaele Santangelo * Maria Mistretta as Minica * as Commissioner References External links * Italian crime drama films 2002 crime drama films 2002 films 2000s Italian films {{2000s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuele Crialese
Emanuele Crialese (born 27 May 1965) is an Italian screenwriter and film director. He is a native of Rome and studied filmmaking in New York City. Biography Emanuele Crialese was born on July 26, 1965 in Rome to Sicilian parents. He studied filmmaking at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, from where he graduated in 1995. During this time he made several short films including '' Heartless'' (1994). His first feature film, '' Once We Were Strangers'' (1997), was an Italian-American co-production, funded by a producer who had noticed Crialese during his apprenticeship in the United States. Between 1998 and 2000, Crialese worked in theater and on a drafting of a cinematic treatment of Ellis Island along with producer Robert Chartoff, the producer of ''Raging Bull'' and ''Rocky''. This was followed by the feature ''Respiro'' (2002) starring Valeria Golino. The film recounts an old Sicilian legend about the island of Lampedusa. Crialese won the Critics Week Grand Prize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Respiro
''Respiro'' is a 2002 Italian- French film written and directed by Emanuele Crialese and released in English-language markets in 2003. The film stars Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, and Francesco Casisa. In the Italian language, '' respiro'' means ''breath''. Plot Grazia, played by Golino, is a free-spirited mother of three married to shy fisherman Pietro (Vincenzo Amato) and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behaviour—one moment she is laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she is curled in a ball on her bed. Out of her earshot, the adult members of her extended family vaguely discuss sending her to a facility of some sort in Northern Italy. Grazia is closely shepherded by her oldest son Pasquale, played by Casisa. After Pietro puts down one of Grazia's dogs because he thinks it might be dangerous, impulsive Grazia sets all the stray dogs free in the town's makesh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semana Santa
Holy Week ( la, Hebdomada Sancta or , ; grc, Ἁγία καὶ Μεγάλη Ἑβδομάς, translit=Hagia kai Megale Hebdomas, lit=Holy and Great Week) is the most sacred week in the liturgical year in Christianity. In Eastern Churches, which includes Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Catholic and Eastern Lutheran traditions, Holy Week occurs the week after Lazarus Saturday and starts on the evening of Palm Sunday. In the denominations of the Western Christianity, which includes the Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, Moravianism, Anglicanism, Methodism and Reformed Christianity, it begins with Palm Sunday and concludes on Easter Sunday. For all Christian traditions it is a moveable observance. In Eastern Rite Churches, Holy Week starts after 40 days of Lent and two transitional days, namely Saturday of Lazarus (Lazarus Saturday) and Palm Sunday. In the Western Christian Churches, Holy Week falls on the last week of Lent or Sixth Lent Week. Holy Week begins with the commemoration o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empty Eyes (2001 Film)
''Empty Eyes'' ( it, Sole negli occhi) is a 2001 Italian crime-drama film directed by Andrea Porporati. Cast * Fabrizio Gifuni: Marco * Gianni Cavina: Father of Marco * Delia Boccardo: Mother of Marco * Valerio Mastandrea: Agent Rinaldi * Romuald Andrzej Klos Romuald ( la, Romualdus; 951 – traditionally 19 June, c. 1025/27 AD) was the founder of the Camaldolese order and a major figure in the eleventh-century "Renaissance of eremitical asceticism".John Howe, "The Awesome Hermit: The Symbolic ...: Mago Cilindro References External links * 2001 films Italian crime drama films 2001 crime drama films 2000s Italian films {{2000s-crime-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
