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Aurora Quattrocchi
Aurora "Rori" Quattrocchi (born 18 March 1943) is an Italian television, stage and film actress. Life and career Born in Matulji (at the time part of the Kingdom of Italy with the name Mattuglie) where her Sicilian father was serving as an army officer, at 5 years old Quattrocchi lost her mother and went to live in Palermo with her aunt and uncle. She started her career on stage in the 1970s, and made her film debut in 1989, in Marco Risi's '' Forever Mary''. Among Quattrocchi's best known roles, there are Fortunata in '' Golden Door'', which got her a Chlotrudis Award nomination, and the mother in ''Nostalgia'', for which Quattrocchi got David di Donatello and Nastro d'Argento nominations as bet supporting actress. Quattrocchi was awarded the International Starlight Cinema Award for her career at the 79th Venice International Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' Forever Mary'' directed by Marco Risi (1989) * ''Boys on the Outside'', directed by Marco Risi (1990) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matulji
Matulji ( it, Mattuglie) is a municipality in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia. It is located west of the city of Rijeka, north of the town of Opatija, and it borders Slovenia. Municipality There are a total of 11,246 inhabitants in the municipality, in the following settlements: * Brdce, population 67 * Bregi, population 700 * Brešca, population 159 * Jurdani, population 651 * Jušići, population 861 * Kućeli, population 455 * Lipa, population 129 * Male Mune, population 103 * Mali Brgud, population 134 * Matulji, population 3,731 * Mihotići, population 1,050 * Mučići, population 362 * Pasjak, population 140 * Permani, population 102 * Rukavac, population 854 * Rupa, population 349 * Ružići, population 123 * Šapjane, population 188 * Vele Mune, population 122 * Veli Brgud, population 485 * Zaluki, population 73 * Zvoneće, population 279 * Žejane, population 130 In the 2011 census, 90.87% were Croats. Transport The municipality is of great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurelio Grimaldi
Aurelio Grimaldi (born 22 November 1957) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. His film '' The Whores'' was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' Ragazzi fuori'' (1990) * '' The Rebel'' (1993) * '' The Whores'' (1994) * ''The Man-Eater ''The Man-Eater'' is a short adventure novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, written in May 1915, originally as a movie treatment. His working title for the piece was ''Ben, King of Beasts''. ''The Man-Eater'' is one of Burrough's rarer ...'' (1999) References External links * 1957 births Living people People from Modica Italian film directors Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters Film people from Sicily {{Italy-film-director-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] |
Paolo Benvenuti
Paolo Benvenuti (born 30 January 1946) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. Life and career Born in Pisa, before being interested in cinema Benvenuti was active as a painter and a graphic artist. In the late 1960s he started filming shorts, documentaries and experimental films. He made his feature film debut in 1988, with ''The Kiss of Judas'', which he also produced and which was screened at the 45th Venice International Film Festival in the Critics' Week section. His cinema is generally characterized by a rigorous and sophisticated style, influenced by paintings and by classical drama theatre. His black-and-white historical drama film '' Gostanza da Libbiano'' won the Special Jury Prize at the 2000 Locarno International Film Festival. Filmography * ''The Kiss of Judas'' (1988) * '' Confortorio'' (1992) * '' Tiburzi'' (1996) * '' Gostanza da Libbiano'' (2000) * ''Secret File ''Secret File'' ( it, Segreti di Stato) is a 2003 Italian historical drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret File
''Secret File'' ( it, Segreti di Stato) is a 2003 Italian historical drama film written and directed by Paolo Benvenuti. It depicts a fictional investigation about the Portella della Ginestra massacre. It was entered into the main competition at the 60th Venice International Film Festival. Cast Cast * David Coco as Gaspare Pisciotta *Antonio Catania as The Lawyer *Sergio Graziani as The Professor * Aldo Puglisi as Perito Settore *Francesco Guzzo as Cacaova See also * List of Italian films of 2003 A list of films produced in Italy in 2003 (see 2003 in film): See also * 2003 in Italy * 2003 in Italian television External linksItalian films of 2003at the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Italian Films Of 2003 2003 Films Italian ... References External links * Italian drama films 2003 drama films 2003 films Italian films based on actual events Films set in Sicily Films directed by Paolo Benvenuti Films about the Sicilian Mafia 2000s Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nati Stanchi
''Nati stanchi'' (a.k.a. ''Born Tired'') is a 2002 Italian comedy film co-written by and starring the comic duo Ficarra e Picone. Plot Salvo and Valentino are two happy Sicilian friends, who do not want to work, because they know that if they find a permanent job, their girlfriends will ask them to marry them. Salvo and Valentino, however, when discover that there is a competition from a librarian in Milan, pretend to prepare for the exam and leave with the trump, encouraging parents and girlfriends. The two hope not to pass the test, and they are very happy, spending the days having fun in the Lombard city, also making very poor figures from the "South". When the two return to Sicily, they discover with great amazement and sadness that they managed to pass the test, because they wrote the test answers at random! Cast See also * List of Italian films of 2002 References External links * 2002 films 2000s buddy comedy films Italian buddy comedy films Films set in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Gugliotta
Sandra Gugliotta (born July 13, 1969, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film director, screenplay writer, and producer. According to film critic Joel Poblete, who writes for ''Mabuse,'' a cinema magazine, Sandra Gugliotta is one of the members of the so-called "New Argentina Cinema" which began c. 1998. . ''Mabuse Film Magazine,'' "El cine argentino está muy vital," July 11, 2006. Filmography Directing * '' Noches áticas'' (1995) * '''' (2002) aka ''A Lucky Day'' * '' Las Vidas posibles ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Día De Suerte
''A Lucky Day'' ( es, Un día de suerte) is a 2002 Argentine-Italian drama film directed by Sandra Gugliotta, in her feature film debut, and written by Gugliotta and Marcelo Schapces. In Argentina it's also known as ''Lo que buscas es amor''. The executive producer was Marcelo Schapces, and it was produced by Sandra Gugliotta and Fernando Merinero. It stars Valentina Bassi as Elsa. The theme of this docudrama is the economic turmoil and unemployment among the young population during the Argentinian economic crisis (1999-2002). The film won two awards at the Berlin International Film Festival, winning also the Caligari Film Award and the Don Quixote Award. Plot In 2000, Elsa (Valentina Bassi), a 25-year-old woman who barely makes a living as a promotional girl on the streets in Buenos Aires, commits minor crimes, like stealing from her boss' wallet, in order to survive. As a promotional girl, she does what can be considered humiliating work: handing out flyers for "anti-stress" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emidio Greco
Emidio Greco (20 October 1938 – 22 December 2012) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, best known for the 1974 film ''Morel's Invention''. Life and career Born in Leporano, in the province of Taranto, Greco moved in Turin as a child. In 1964 he graduated at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, then, two years later, he started an activity as documentarist for RAI TV. In 1971 he attended Roberto Rossellini accompanying him in Chile for a filmed interview with Salvador Allende. In 1974 Greco made his directorial debut in a feature film with ''Morel's Invention'' that, well-received from critics, marked him as a real promise in Italian art cinema. His second film, ''Ehrengard'', filmed in 1982, would be released just in 2002 due to the bankruptcy of the producers; from then he directed six more films, mainly literary works adaptations. In 1991 he was awarded with a Nastro d'Argento award for best screenplay for the film '' Una storia semplice''. In 2004 Greco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Council Of Egypt
''The Council of Egypt'' ( it, Il consiglio d'Egitto) is a 2002 Italian drama film directed by Emidio Greco. It is based on the novel with the same name written by Leonardo Sciascia. It premiered at the 2002 Montreal World Film Festival, in which it entered the main competition. The film was awarded with a Nastro d'Argento for best scenography. Cast * Silvio Orlando: Don Giuseppe Vella * Tommaso Ragno: Layer Francesco Paolo Di Blasi * Renato Carpentieri: Monsignor Ayroldi * Antonio Catania: Don Saverio Zarbo * Marine Delterme: Countess Regalpetra * Leopoldo Trieste: Father Salvatore * Giancarlo Giannini Giancarlo Giannini (born 1 August 1942) is an Italian actor and voice actor. He won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''Love and Anarchy'' (1973) and received an Academy Award nomination for ''Seven Beauties' ...: Narrator (voice) References External links * 2002 films Italian drama films Films based on Italian novels Films direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malèna (film)
''Malèna'' is a 2000 erotic comedy-drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore from a story by Luciano Vincenzoni. It stars Monica Bellucci and Giuseppe Sulfaro. The film won the Grand Prix at the 2001 Cabourg Film Festival. At the 73rd Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Cinematography and Best Original Score. Plot On June 10, 1940, in the fictional small Sicilian town of Castelcutò, a teenage boy named Renato Amoroso experiences three major events: the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini announces that Italy is entering World War II; he receives a new bike; he sees for the first time, together with his friends, the beautiful and sensual Maddalena "Malèna" Bonsignore Scordìa, who is the most desired young woman in town. Her husband Antonino "Nino" is in the armed forces fighting the British in Africa and she lives alone. Because of her physical appearance and her solitary status, she is an object of lust for all the town's men and of hatred for its wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Tullio Giordana
Marco Tullio Giordana (born 1 October 1950) is an Italian Film director, director and screenwriter. Biography Born in Milan, during the 1970s he approaches the cinema by collaborating on the screenplay of Roberto Faenza's 1977 documentary ''Forza Italia!'', while his debut behind the camera comes two years later, in 1979 with the feature film To Love the Damned, presented at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and winner of the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. In 1981, he made an ambitious project, ''The Fall of the Rebel Angels (film), The Fall of the Rebel Angels'', presented at the 38th Venice International Film Festival. In 1996 he participated with other directors, Gianni Amelio, Marco Risi, Alessandro D'Alatri and Mario Martone in the RAI and UNICEF project ''Beyond childhood - Five directors for UNICEF''. In 2000 he returned to the 57th Venice International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival with ''One Hundred Steps'', a film of denunciation on the life and death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
