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Ernesto Colli
Ernesto Colli (16 May 1940 – 19 November 1982) was an Italian film, television and stage actor. Life and career Born in Biella, Colli graduated from liceo classico, then he started acting in some amateur dramatics and starred in two lost Super 8 films. After one year of university he decided to abandon his studies to enroll the Fersen drama school in Rome. A real life friend of Vittorio Gassman, Colli often acted alongside him, especially on stage, and he made his film debut playing a small role in the Gassman's film '' The Devil in Love''. He then appeared in a large number of movies and TV-series, even if usually in character roles. He was a character actor who acted actively especially during the seventies. Equipped with a particularly disturbing face, Ernesto Colli always recited customized roles for him, from the crazy to the delinquent and from the possessed to the weird man; probably the films where he had a most significant part wa''The Pleasure Shop on 7th Avenue' ... [...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] |
La Califfa
''La califfa'' (English: ''Lady Caliph'') is a 1970 Franco-Italian social drama film written and directed by Alberto Bevilacqua. It was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. Plot In the Emilia province of Italy, out of solidarity with the workers fired from another failed company, the workers occupy the factory of self-made industrialist Annibale Doberdò. In dealing with the situation, he starts negotiations. An employee, the beautiful and fiery Irene, nicknamed '' Califfa'', whose worker-husband was killed during a demonstration, meets with Doberdò. He wants to induce the strikers back to work and they show uncertainty between the directives of their union and the incitements to violence by extremists. Irene becomes Doberdò's lover and asks the workers to listen to the industrialist's proposals for renewal of working terms and worker participation in the factory management. The riots, however, continue. The industrialist's stance is badly received by other employers. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Suspect (1975 Film)
''The Suspect'' ( it, Il sospetto) is a 1975 Italian thriller-drama film directed by Francesco Maselli. Plot Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization, so Emilio is sent on a mission in the area of Turin, to put out of harm whistleblowers. Cast *Gian Maria Volonté: Emilio *Annie Girardot: Teresa *Renato Salvatori: Gavino Pintus *Gabriele Lavia: Giacomo La Rosa *Bruno Corazzari: Tommaso Lenzini *Felice Andreasi: Alessandri *Antonio Casale: Resta *Pietro Biondi: OVRA Agent *Franco Balducci Franco Balducci (23 November 1922 – 7 June 2001) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 75 films between 1947 and 1978. He was born in Umbria, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Bullet for Stefano'' (1947) - Giacomo * ''Tempesta su Parig ...: Funzionario References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Suspect, The (1975 film) 1975 films 1970s thriller drama films Italian t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autopsy (1975 Film)
''Autopsy'' (original Italian title ''Macchie solari'', also known as ''The Victim'' and ''Corpse'') is a 1975 Italian giallo- horror film directed by Armando Crispino. It achieved a '' cult'' status for its truculent morgue scenes. The Italian title translates as ''Sunspots''. Plot During a rash of unusual suicides in Rome that scientists theorize are being caused by sunspots, a young female morgue doctor (Mimsy Farmer) is told by a priest that he thinks his sister was murdered, although he is being told it was suicide. They team up to investigate the cause of his sister's death. Cast * Mimsy Farmer: Simona Sana * Barry Primus: Father Paul Lenox * Ray Lovelock: Edgar * Carlo Cattaneo: Lello Sana * Angela Goodwin: Daniela * Gaby Wagner: Betty Lenox * Massimo Serato: Gianni Sana * Ernesto Colli: Ivo * Antonio Casale: Inspector Silvestri Critical reception Allmovie wrote, "This creepy whodunit ..offers a few chills but is ultimately unsatisfying." Marco Giusti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Antichrist (film)
''The Antichrist'' ( it, L'anticristo), also released as ''The Tempter'', is a 1974 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Alberto De Martino and starring Carla Gravina, Mel Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy, Umberto Orsini, Alida Valli, Remo Girone, Anita Strindberg, and George Coulouris. The musical score was composed by Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai. It is widely regarded as a cash-in on ''The Exorcist'', a similarly-themed and widely-successful American film released the previous year. It is considered a cult film. Plot Ippolita, the adult daughter of wealthy Rome aristocrat Massimo Oderisi, has been paraplegic since a car accident at age 12 that also killed her mother. Doctors have diagnosed the paralysis as psychosomatic A somatic symptom disorder, formerly known as a somatoform disorder,(2013) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claretta And Ben
''Claretta and Ben'' ( it, Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?) is a 1974 Italian comedy film directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro. Plot Gino Pistone, manager of a provincial company, makes ends meet as best he can. The company is dissolved by the lead actress and he, to reunite it, has a stroke of genius: to stage the story of Benito Mussolini and his latest lover, Claretta Petacci. The idea works, and Pistone identifies himself too much in the role of Mussolini. Cast * Ugo Tognazzi as Gino Pistone * Bernadette Lafont as Sandra Pensotti * Felice Andreasi as Peppino Lo Taglio * Ernesto Colli as Remengo * Franco Fabrizi as Franco De Rosa * Lia Tanzi as Ornella Fiocchi * Gigi Ballista as friend of Gino * Luigi Leoni as Carlo Maria * Germano Longo as Burino * Ettore Mattia as Falabrino * Rossana Di Lorenzo as Adriana * Quinto Parmeggiani as Chimiste * Pietro Tordi as Naples actor * Gianfranco Barra as client See also * List of Italian films of 1974 A list of films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Hours Of Violence
''Seven Hours of Violence'' ( it, Sette ore di violenza per una soluzione imprevista) is a 1973 Italian crime-thriller film. It marked the directorial debut by Michele Massimo Tarantini. Cast * George Hilton as George Anderson * Rosemary Dexter as Helen Karlatis * Giampiero Albertini as Inspector Athanasiadis * Steffen Zacharias as Fastikopulos * Ernesto Colli as Tomassian * Claudio Nicastro as Kavafris * Gianni Musy as Mchael Papadopoulos * Greta Vayan Greta Vaillant (born Josette Vaillant In Rennes, Brittany, France; 1 January 1942 – 7 April 2000) was a French actress and author. She was sometimes credited as Greta Vayan and Gretta Vaillont. Vaillant made her film debut in 1968, as main actr ... as Greta Bapadopulos * Iwao Yoshioka as Chinese thug * George Wang as Chinese thug References External links * 1973 films 1970s Italian-language films Films directed by Michele Massimo Tarantini Italian crime thriller films 1970s crime thriller films Films scored b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White Mafia
''Hospitals: The White Mafia'' ( it, Bisturi, la mafia bianca) is a 1973 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Enrico Maria Salerno and Gabriele Ferzetti. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Gabriele Ferzetti * Senta Berger * Enrico Maria Salerno * Claudio Gora * Claudio Nicastro * Tina Lattanzi * Enzo Garinei * Gino Pernice * Antonella Steni * Luciano Salce * Sandro Dori * Ernesto Colli * Ezio Sancrotti * Luciano Rossi Luciano Rossi (28 November 1934 – 29 May 2005) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 67 films between 1966 and 1987. He was born and died in Rome, Italy. Partial filmography * ''Ten Italians for One German'' (1962) - German Soldier ... * Fausto Tommei References External links * 1973 films 1970s Italian-language films 1973 drama films Films directed by Luigi Zampa Films set in hospitals Medical-themed films Films scored by Riz Ortolani Italian drama films 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torso (1973 Film)
''Torso'' ( it, I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale, lit=The Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence) is a 1973 Italian ''giallo'' film directed by Sergio Martino. Plot In Perugia, the murder of several university students leads to a manhunt for a masked killer with a psychosexual disorder who uses red-and-black foulards to strangle his female victims before mutilating their bodies. When a wealthy student named Dani vaguely recalls having seen someone wearing such a scarf, she becomes the target of the mystery killer and, at her philandering uncle's suggestion, invites three of her girlfriends (two of them, lipstick lesbians) to stay with her at her family's remote country villa in Tagliacozzo. However, the isolated cliffside villa offers no protection from the killer, who has meanwhile run over the blackmailing street vendor he buys his scarves from. A local peeping tom and then Dani's impotent stalker (who wears a similar red-and-black scarf to the killer's) go up to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Infamous Column
''The Infamous Column'' ( it, La colonna infame, also known as ''Pillar of Shame'') is a 1973 Italian historical drama film directed by Nelo Risi. Plot It is 1630, and a devastating plague has descended upon the city of Milan. Guglielmo Piazza and Giacomo Mora are depicted as two city's artisans (really only Mora, a barber, was an artisan while Piazza was a sanity officer). One day a woman accuses Piazza of being an ''untore'' (i.e. a ''greaser''): a spreader of disease by anointing walls and furnitures with a pestiferous ointment. According to a superstitious belief held by the people, these ''untori'' were in league with the Devil, and were responsible for the spread of the pestilence. Immediately the Church and the Inquisition scapegoat the two artisans for the outbreak, and subject them to trial by torture, despite the protests of Cardinal Borromeo. Innocent victims of a panic which has gripped the populace, Piazza and Mora are found guilty of the imaginary crime of smearin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winged Devils
''Winged Devils'' (Italian: ''Forza "G"'', literally ''"G" Force'') is a 1972 Italian adventure-comedy film directed by Duccio Tessari. Cast *Riccardo Salvino: Lt. Gianni Orlando *Pino Colizzi: Cpt. Bergamini *Mico Cundari: Lt. Muschin *Ernesto Colli: Lt. Ernesto Del Prete *Barbara Bouchet: Karin *Miranda Campa: Ernesto's Mother *Anita Strindberg: Gianni's Friend *Magda Konopka: Gianni's Friend *Giancarlo Prete : Lt. Pettarin *Duccio Tessari : De Santis *Dori Ghezzi Dori Ghezzi (born 30 March 1946) is an Italian singer who was active as a recording artist between 1966 and 1989. In the 1970s, Ghezzi worked mainly in a duo with American singer Wess, and the couple represented Italy in the 1975 Eurovision Song ... References External links * 1972 films Italian adventure films 1970s adventure films 1970s Italian-language films Films directed by Duccio Tessari Films scored by Ennio Morricone Italian aviation films 1970s Italian films {{adventure-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |