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As God Commands
''As God Commands'' ( it, Come Dio сomanda) is a 2008 Italian drama film directed by Gabriele Salvatores, based on novel of the same name by Niccolò Ammaniti. It was entered into the 31st Moscow International Film Festival. Cast * Filippo Timi as Rino Zena * Elio Germano as Quattro Formaggi * Alvaro Caleca as Cristiano Zena * Angelica Leo as Fabiana * Fabio De Luigi Fabio De Luigi (born 11 October 1967) is an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, film director, television presenter, and former basketball player. Biography Great-grandson of Tonino Guerra; has a son, Dino, born in 2007, and a daughter, Lola, ... as Trecca * Alessandro Mizzi as Uomo SUV * Corinna Agustoni as Maria Pirro * Alessandro Bressanello as Marchetta * Ludovica Di Rocco as Esmeralda * Valentina Sussi as Ragazza Centro Sociale * Andrea De Nori as Alex References External links * 2008 films 2008 drama films 2000s Italian-language films Italian drama films Films directed by Gabriele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
As God Commands (novel)
''As God Commands'' ( it, Come Dio comanda), also known as ''The Crossroads'', is a novel by Niccolò Ammaniti. In 2008, director Gabriele Salvatores adapted the novel into a film of the same name. Plot It tells the misadventure of Cristiano Zena, 13 year-old, and his father Rino in an Italian suburban area. Reception ''The Guardian'' described the novel as "overexplicit" and flipping "over into the truly grotesque". ''The New Yorker'' outlined the story of the novel as "grim but redemptive". The ''Los Angeles Times'' praised the novel "as gritty as it is suspenseful". ''As God Commands'' won the 2007 Strega Prize The Strega Prize ( it, Premio Strega ) is the most prestigious Italian literary award. It has been awarded annually since 1947 for the best work of prose fiction written in the Italian language by an author of any nationality and first published ... with 144/356 votes. References External links * 2006 Italian novels Strega Prize-winning works Arnoldo M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriele Salvatores
Gabriele Salvatores (born 30 July 1950) is an Italian Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter. Biography Born in Naples, Salvatores debuted as a theatre director in 1972, founding in Milan the Teatro dell'Elfo, for which he directed several avant-garde pieces until 1989. In that year, he directed his third feature film, ''Marrakech Express'', which was followed in 1990 by '' Turné''. Both films shared a group of actor-friends, including Diego Abatantuono and Fabrizio Bentivoglio, who will be present in many of his later movies. ''Turné'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. In 1991, Salvatores received international praise for '' Mediterraneo'', which won an Academy Award as best foreign film. It also won three David di Donatello, the most important award for Italian cinema, and a Silver Ribbon. In 1992, he released '' Puerto Escondido'', from the eponymous novel by Pino Cacucci, in which Abatantuono and Bentivoglio we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corinna Agustoni
Corinna or Korinna ( grc, Κόριννα, Korinna) was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Tanagra in Boeotia. Although ancient sources portray her as a contemporary of Pindar (born ), not all modern scholars accept the accuracy of this tradition. When she lived has been the subject of much debate since the early twentieth century, proposed dates ranging from the beginning of the fifth century to the late third century BC. Corinna's works survive only in fragments: three substantial sections of poems are preserved on second-century AD papyri from Egypt; several shorter pieces survive in quotations by ancient grammarians. They focus on local Boeotian legends, and are distinctive for their mythological innovations. Corinna's poetry often reworks well-known myths to include details not known from any other sources. Though respected in her hometown, Tanagra, and popular in ancient Rome, modern critics have often regarded her as parochial and dull; her poetry is nonetheless of interest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
