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Enzo Robutti
Enzo Robutti (24 October 1933 – 13 February 2022) was an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, playwright, and writer. Life and career Born in Bologna, Robutti attended the drama school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, and debuted on stage in the theatrical company of Vittorio Gassman in ''Irma la dolce''. He got his early successes as a stand-up comedian and a cabaret author at the "Derby Club" in Milan. Robutti was also very active as a character film actor, often cast in comedies in roles of hysterical, chorelical characters. He often worked with Pasquale Festa Campanile. Selected filmography * ''Outlaws of Love'' (1963) * '' Il profeta'' (1968) - Alberto * ''Sardinia Kidnapped'' (1968) * ''Fermate il mondo... voglio scendere!'' (1970) - Martora * ''La torta in cielo'' (1970) * ''Il merlo maschio'' (1971) * ''Without Family'' (1972) - Malato * '' The Hassled Hooker'' (1972) - Manca - Turrisi assistant in Rome * ''Decameron nº 3 - Le più belle donne del Boccaccio'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rugantino (film)
''Rugantino'' is a 1973 Italian comedy film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile. It is based on the stage musical with the same name by Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini. Plot summary Rome, 1800. Rugantino is a fool in love that rages eternal, though he is very unlucky in love stories and fruitful occasions. In fact, he is denounced for trying to rob the elderly uncle of his inheritance, apparently believing that he's dying and Rugantino sentenced to public torture of a squire. Rugantino is in love with young married Rosetta, whom she appears to love because of his innocence and ineptitude. The young man is then accused of murdering a Roman nobleman and sentenced to death. His fate is sealed, and after spending a few days in jail, Rugantino is beheaded. Cast *Adriano Celentano: Rugantino *Claudia Mori: Rosetta *Renzo Palmer: cardinal Severini *Maria Grazia Spina: Donna Marta Capitelli *Sergio Tofano: Marquis Michele Sacconi *Toni Ucci: Don Niccolò Capitelli *Paolo Stoppa: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beati I Ricchi
''Beati i ricchi'' (''Blessed Are the Rich'') is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and directed by Salvatore Samperi. Cast * Paolo Villaggio as Augusto * Lino Toffolo as Geremia * Sylva Koscina as the Countess * Piero Vida as the Priest * Eugene Walter as the Mayor * Enzo Robutti as Bank Manager * Gigi Ballista as the Commendatore * Neda Arnerić as Miss Barti * Enrica Bonaccorti as Adele * Olga Bisera Bisera Vukotić ( sr-Cyrl, Бисера Вукотић; born 26 May 1944), known professionally as Olga Bisera, is a Yugoslav-born Italian film actress and producer. She was born in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She entered the Drama Arts Aca ... References External links * 1972 films Italian comedy films 1972 comedy films Films directed by Salvatore Samperi Films scored by Luis Bacalov 1970s Italian-language films 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wifemistress
''Wifemistress'' ( it, Mogliamante) is a 1977 Italian romantic movie directed by Marco Vicario. Plot Ever since her husband pronounced her frigid on the night of their wedding, Antonia DeAngelis (Laura Antonelli) has been bedridden. When her husband disappears, she sets off in his horse and buggy on his route to find out what happened to him. She learns about her husband's business, his passions, his political writing, his mistresses, and his indifference to the peasants on her family's land. Her growing knowledge about her husband's life causes her own passions to stir, and she takes over her husband's business, his habits, his thoughts, and even his mistress. She begins an affair with a young foreign doctor, improves the conditions of the peasants, and publishes her husband's writings. In reality, a murder charge has forced Luigi into hiding directly across the street from his own home, where he watches Antonia become his sexual and social equal from behind the slats of a bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The American Friend
''The American Friend'' (german: Der amerikanische Freund) is a 1977 neo-noir film by Wim Wenders, adapted from the 1974 novel ''Ripley's Game'' by Patricia Highsmith. The film features Dennis Hopper as career criminal Tom Ripley and Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann, a terminally ill picture framer whom Ripley coerces into becoming an assassin. The film uses an unusual "natural" language concept: Zimmermann speaks German with his family and his doctor, but English with Ripley and while visiting Paris. Plot Tom Ripley (Dennis Hopper) is a wealthy American living in Hamburg, Germany. He is involved in an artwork forgery scheme, in which he appears at auctions to bid on forged paintings produced by an accomplice to drive up the price. At one of these auctions, he is introduced to Jonathan Zimmermann (Bruno Ganz), a picture framer who is dying of leukemia. Zimmermann refuses to shake Ripley's hand when introduced, coldly saying "I've heard of you" before walking away. A French crimin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plot Of Fear
''Plot of Fear'' ( it, ...e tanta paura, links=no/ ''Too Much Fear''), also known as ''Bloody Peanuts'', is an Italian giallo movie directed in 1976 by Paolo Cavara. The film also includes a well-known animated erotic insert directed by Gibba in which, as said by Marco Giusti, "the great Gibba broke out in all kinds of sado-masochistic excess". Plot Inspector Lomenzo investigates a series of murders committed against wealthy people. The inspector's sole lead is that the murderer is in the habit of leaving illustrations of the Struwwelpeter at the crime scene. Cast * Corinne Cléry as Jeanne * Tom Skerritt as Chief Inspector * Michele Placido as Inspector Gaspare Lomenzo * Eli Wallach as Pietro Riccio * John Steiner as Hoffmann * Jacques Herlin as Pandolfi * Greta Vaillant as Laura Falconieri * Quinto Parmeggiani as Angelo Scanavini See also * List of Italian films of 1976 A list of films produced in Italy in 1976 (see 1976 in film): References Footnotes Sourc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sturmtruppen (film)
''Sturmtruppen'' is a 1976 comedy film directed by Salvatore Samperi. It is based on the homonymous ''Sturmtruppen'' comic books created by Bonvi. Cast *Renato Pozzetto as Rookie *Lino Toffolo as Rookie *Cochi Ponzoni as General *Teo Teocoli as Captain *Felice Andreasi as Sergeant / The Pope *Massimo Boldi as Rookie *Corinne Cléry as The Actress, The Wife, The Woman at the Villa *Jean-Pierre Marielle as The Unknown Soldier *Umberto Smaila as The Cook *Bonvi as The Prisoner Production ''Strumtruppen'' is a film based on a comic book series written by Bonvi about the conflict in the trenches of World War II from the point of view of the German army. The comic series originally appeared in 1968. The idea to adapt Bonvi's scripts to a film came from producers Ermanno Donati and Luigi Carpentieri who had recently produced another popular Italian production set in World War II, ''Salon Kitty''. The two got in touch with Bonvi through screenwriter Vittorio Vighi. Filming was initia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tell Me You Do Everything For Me
''Tell Me You Do Everything for Me'' (Italian: ''Dimmi che fai tutto per me'') is a 1976 Italian comedy film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile and starring Johnny Dorelli, Pamela Villoresi and Jacques Dufilho.Chiti, Poppi & Pecorari p.242 Cast * Johnny Dorelli as Francesco Salmarani * Pamela Villoresi as Mary Mancini * Jacques Dufilho as 'Dodo' Spinacroce * Maria Grazia Spina as Paola Signorini - Francesco's lover * Nanni Svampa as Bonomelli aka il Biondino * Enzo Robutti as Felegatti * Ferdinando Murolo as Roberto Mancuso aka Robbie * Stefano Amato as Mino Salmarani * Francesco D'Adda as Caputo - The Police Commissioner's Assistant * Andréa Ferréol as Miriam Spinacroce * Pino Caruso Giuseppe Caruso (12 October 1934 – 7 March 2019), best known as Pino Caruso, was an Italian actor, author and television personality. Life and career Caruso was born in Palermo, Sicily and debuted as dramatic stage actor in his home town in ... as The Police Commissioner Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuore Di Cane
''Cuore di cane'' (german: Warum bellt Herr Bobikow?, International title - ''Dog's Heart'') is a 1976 joint Italian-German comedy film directed by Alberto Lattuada based on a novel ''Heart of a Dog'' by Mikhail Bulgakov adapted by Mario Gallo. Screenplay by Alberto Lattuada with Viveca Melander. Composer - Piero Piccioni, editor - Sergio Montanari. Cinematography by Lamberto Caimi. Production companies - Corona Filmproduktion, Filmalpha, distribution by Constantin Film. Runtime - 113 min. Cast * Max von Sydow as ''Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski'' * Eleonora Giorgi as ''Zina'' * Mario Adorf as ''Dr. Bormenthàl'' * Gina Rovere as ''Darja'' * Cochi Ponzoni as ''Poligràph Poligràphovic Bobikow'' * Vadim Glowna as ''Schwonder'' * Rena Niehaus as ''Zoja'' * Enzo Robutti as ''Il commissario'' * Violetta Chiarini as ''Vjazemskaja'' * Amerigo Tot as ''Il portiere'' * Vlado Stegar * Ilona Staller as ''Natasa'' * Giuliano Petrelli as ''Sarovkjam'' * Jean-Claude V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down The Ancient Staircase
''Down the Ancient Staircase'' ( it, Per le antiche scale) is a 1975 Italian-French drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. Cast * Marcello Mastroianni - Professor Bonaccorsi * Françoise Fabian - Anna Bersani * Marthe Keller - Bianca * Barbara Bouchet - Carla * Pierre Blaise - Tonio * Maria Teresa Albani * Maria Michi * Paolo Pacino * Silvano Tranquilli - Professor Rospigliosi * Charles Fawcett - Doctor Sfameni * Enzo Robutti * Ferruccio De Ceresa - Fascist Official in train * Lucia Bosé - Francesca * Adriana Asti Adriana Asti (born 30 April 1931) is an Italian stage, film, and voice actress. Biography On stage, she starred in ''Saint Joan'' by George Bernard Shaw, ''Happy Days'' by Samuel Beckett, ''The Mistress of the Inn'' by Carlo Goldoni, and ''Three ... - Gianna Plot In Italy, in 1930, Professor Bonaccorsi, renowned psychiatrist, conducts research on madness in the asylum where he works as a doctor in Tuscany. He has three mistresses: Bianca, his assistant; Carla, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conviene Far Bene L'amore
''Conviene far bene l'amore'' (internationally released as ''The Sex Machine'' and ''Love and Energy'') is a 1975 sci-fi - sexy comedy film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile. The film is based on a novel with the same name written by the same Campanile. Cast * Gigi Proietti: Prof. Enrico Coppola * Agostina Belli: Francesca Renzi * Eleonora Giorgi: Piera * Christian De Sica: Daniele Venturoli * Mario Scaccia: Mons. Alberoni * Adriana Asti: Irene Nobili * Franco Agostini: Dr. Spina * Monica Strebel: Angela * Quinto Parmeggiani: De Renzi * Gino Pernice: Coppola's Assistant * Mario Pisu: Minister * Franco Angrisano: Hotel Director * Enzo Robutti: Matteis * Oreste Lionello: Driver * Aldo Reggiani * Pietro Tordi Pietro Tordi (12 July 1906 – 14 December 1990) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1942 and 1988. He was born in Florence, Italy. Selected filmography * '' Doctor Antonio'' (1937) - L'altro conspiratore * '' Don C ... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Lumacone
''Il lumacone'' (''The Big Snail'') is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Paolo Cavara.Achille Valdata (15 January 1975). "Amore e spaghetti". ''La Stampa''. p. 7. Cast * Turi Ferro as Gianni Rodinò * Agostina Belli as Elisa * Ninetto Davoli as Ginetto * Francesco Mulè as Pietro * Gabriella Giorgelli as Paola * Isa Danieli as Carmela * Fioretta Mari as Teresa * Liù Bosisio as The lodger * Franca Alma Moretti as Giorgina * Tuccio Musumeci as The usher * Gianfranco Barra as The doorman * Giorgio Bixio as Don Mauro * Franco Bracardi Franco Bracardi (16 May 1937 – 27 February 2005) was an Italian actor, composer, pianist and stand-up comedian. Born in Rome, during the first half of the fifties Bracardi began working as a jazz pianist in night clubs. In 1960 he became the p ... as Giorgina's client References External links * Italian comedy-drama films Films directed by Paolo Cavara Films set in Rome 1974 comedy-drama films 1974 films Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |