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Corrado Fortuna
Corrado Fortuna (born 31 March 1978) is an Italian actor and director. Career Born in Palermo, Fortuna debuted in 2002 with the title role in the film ''My Name Is Tanino'', directed by Paolo Virzi, with whom he then worked as assistant director on the film ''Caterina in the Big City'' in 2003. In the same year, he played the title role in an autobiographical drama film that marked the directorial debut by singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, ''Lost Love''. Thanks to his performance in ''My Name Is Tanino'' and ''Lost Love'', in 2004 Fortuna won the "Guglielmo Biraghi" prize awarded by Italian Film Journalists Union. In the same year, he had a role in the film Alla luce del sole (the biography of Father Pino Puglisi, a priest murdered by the Mafia), directed by Roberto Faenza with Luca Zingaretti. In 2009 Fortuna returned to the cinema to star in Baaria, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. In 2012 he had a small role in the film To Rome with Love directed by Woody Allen. In 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palermo, Sicily
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is in the northwest of the island of Sicily, by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The city was founded in 734 BC by the Phoenicians as ("flower"). Palermo then became a possession of Carthage. Two Greek colonies were established, known collectively as ; the Carthaginians used this name on their coins after the 5th centuryBC. As , the town became part of the Roman Republic and Empire for over a thousand years. From 831 to 1072 the city was under Arab rule in the Emirate of Sicily when the city became the capital of Sicily for the first time. During this time the city was known as . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Allen
Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning films. He began his career writing material for television in the 1950s, mainly ''Your Show of Shows'' (1950–1954) working alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Neil Simon. He also published several books featuring short stories and wrote humor pieces for ''The New Yorker''. In the early 1960s, he performed as a stand-up comedian in Greenwich Village alongside Lenny Bruce, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, and Joan Rivers. There he developed a monologue style (rather than traditional jokes) and the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish. He released three comedy albums during the mid to late 1960s, earning a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album nomination for his 1964 comedy album entitled simply '' Woody Allen''. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Mattino Ha L'oro In Bocca
''The Early Bird Catches the Worm'' ( it, Il mattino ha l'oro in bocca) is a 2008 Italian drama film directed by Francesco Patierno, based on autobiographical book ''Il giocatore (ogni scomessa e un debito)'' by Marco Baldini. Cast *Elio Germano as Marco Baldini *Laura Chiatti as Cristiana *Martina Stella as Cristina *Carlo Monni as Marco's father *Raffaella Lebboroni as Marco's Mother *Corrado Fortuna as Rosario Fiorello *Donato Placido as Giggetto *Dario Vergassola as Claudio Cecchetto *Gianmarco Tognazzi as Danny *Umberto Orsini as Zio Lino *Chiara Francini Chiara Francini (born 20 December 1976 in Florence) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Bisceglia
Christian Bisceglia (born 18 November 1967) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was born in a small town near Milan, but he is '' Messinese'' of adoption. Biography In 2019, he shoots in English, directed in collaboration with the director Ascanio Malgarini, the film ''Cruel Peter'', a horror film set in his Messina. The film premiered at the Ancient theatre of Taormina on the occasion of the annual Taormina Film Fest. The director, is ever more active in the United States, and the movie will be released in US cinemas (and on demand) in 2020, distributed by Vertical Entertainment. Selected filmography * '' Agente matrimoniale'' (2006) * ''The Haunting of Helena ''The Haunting of Helena'' (also known as ''Fairytale'' in other countries) is a 2012 Italian supernatural horror film, written and directed by Christian Bisceglia and filmed in Italy. The film stars Harriet MacMasters-Green and Sabrina Jolie Pere ...'' (2012) * '' Cruel Peter'' (2019) References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caterina Va In Città
''Caterina va in città'' (English title: ''Caterina in the Big City'') is a 2003 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Paolo Virzì and written by Virzì and Francesco Bruni. Plot Caterina ( Alice Teghil) is the 13-year-old only child of Giancarlo Iacovoni (Sergio Castellitto), an aspiring novelist and teacher of accounting at a country school in an area north of Rome that one character describes as "hillbilly country." In spite of his often lucid assessments of modern society, Iacovoni is a typically burned-out teacher whom his job (perhaps among other, undisclosed personal experiences) has imbued with bitterness and social resentment, with a sheer lack of perspective concerning human relations, and with an overbearing, holier-than-thou demeanor that is a major plot point throughout the movie. He relocates his daughter Caterina and his timid, long-suffering wife Agata (Margherita Buy) to his birthplace, Rome, after having finally secured a long-coveted teaching position. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perduto Amor
''Lost Love'' ( it, Perdutoamor, also spelled ''Perduto amor'') is a 2003 Italian autobiographical drama film. It marked the directorial debut of singer-songwriter Franco Battiato. For this film Battiato won the Nastro d'Argento for best new director. Cast * Corrado Fortuna as Ettore *Donatella Finocchiaro as Mary *Anna Maria Gherardi as Augusta *Lucia Sardo as Nerina * Ninni Bruschetta as Luigi *Tiziana Lodato as "La Vivace" * Gabriele Ferzetti as Tommaso Pasini *Nicole Grimaudo as Raffaella *Rada Rassimov as Clara Pasini *Luca Vitrano as Ettore as a child * Manlio Sgalambro as Martino Alliata *Elisabetta Sgarbi as Elisabetta Gaia * Francesco De Gregori as Francesco D 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 Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Virzì
Paolo Virzì (; born 4 March 1964) is an Italian film director, writer and producer. Early life and work Virzì was born in Livorno, Italy in 1964, as the son of a Sicily#Demographics, Sicilian police officer in the Carabinieri and a former singer. After spending his early childhood in Turin in the north of Italy, Virzì's family moved back to Livorno where he grew up in the working class area of "Le Sorgenti". As a small boy, he started to cultivate his lifelong passion for literature: Mark Twain and Charles Dickens were among his favourite authors and their classic "coming of age" novels would later serve as a model for his screenplays. As a teenager, Virzì's versatility was already in evidence as he threw himself into writing, directing and acting in plays for drama companies in Livorno. He formed an artistic partnership with his schoolmate Francesco Bruni (screenwriter), Francesco Bruni, who would later become his trusted co-screenwriter. For a time, Paolo attended Literatu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldini & Castoldi
Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore is an Italian publishing house, founded in 1897 and located under the arcades of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan. Baldini & Castoldi changed its name to Dalai Editore in 2011, and "Baldini & Castoldi" became a series of Dalai Editore. The company has published several successful authors. History Founder members were Ettore Baldini, Antenore Castoldi, Alceste Borella and the poet Gian Pietro Lucini, who had acquired the small publishing house Galli and Omodei and then renamed it as Baldini & Castoldi. At his foundation, it had a registered capital of 60,000 lire.''La fabbrica del libro'', Issue 2, Arte tipografica, 1996. Among the first successful authors there were Antonio Fogazzaro, Gerolamo Rovetta, Neera (Anna Zuccari), Salvator Gotta and Guido da Verona; particularly da Verona was the most commercially successful Italian writer between 1914 and 1939. Timeline In 1940 the management was renewed with the arrival of Enrico Castoldi that op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Giorno Sarai Un Posto Bellissimo
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. It is the world's largest and most familiar international organization. The UN is headquartered on international territory in New York City, and has other main offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna, and The Hague (home to the International Court of Justice). The UN was established after World War II with the aim of preventing future world wars, succeeding the League of Nations, which was characterized as ineffective. On 25 April 1945, 50 governments met in San Francisco for a conference and started drafting the UN Charter, which was adopted on 25 June 1945 and took effect on 24 October 1945, when the UN began operations. Pursuant to the Charter, the organization's objectives include maintaining international pea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
