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Franco Rossi (director)
Franco Rossi (19 April 1919, Florence – 5 June 2000, Rome) was an Italian film screenwriter and director, mainly known for having directed the six-hour Italian-German-British-Swiss TV mini-series '' Quo Vadis?'' in 1985. Biography Rossi was born in Florence, Italy. He studied law and then began to work on theatre. He was assistant director of Mario Camerini, Luis Trenker, Renato Castellani, Aldo Vergano. Rossi made his debut as a director with the crime thriller '' I Falsari''. He went on to have his first success with ''Il seduttore'', starring by Alberto Sordi, and among Rossi's other films were '' The Woman in the Painting'' (''Amici per la pelle'', 1955), ''Odissea Nuda'' (1961), ''Three Nights of Love'' (1964), an episode of ''Le bambole'' (1965), and '' Porgi l'altra guancia'' with Bud Spencer in (1974). Rossi was one of the first established Italian film directors also doing work for television, being one of the three directors for the 1968 mini-series '' L'Odissea' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Le Bambole
''Le bambole'' (U.S. title: ''The Dolls'', UK title: ''Four Kinds of Love'') is a 1965 Italian comedy film in four segments; starring Nino Manfredi, Virna Lisi, Elke Sommer, and Mario Montuori. The four vignettes—The Telephone Call (La telefonata), Treatise on Eugenics (Il trattato di eugenetica), The Soup (La minestra), and Monsignor Cupid (Monsignor Cupido)—concern secrets of love and secret lovers. The fourth segment is based on a tale of Boccaccio's ''The Decameron''. Plot This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories. Cast * Nino Manfredi as Giorgio (segment "La telefornata") * Virna Lisi as Luisa (segment "La telefornata") * Elke Sommer as Ulla (segment "Il trattato di eugenetica") * Maurizio Arena as Massimo (segment "Il trattato di eugenetica) * Piero Focaccia as Valerio (segment "Il trattato di eugenetica) * Monica Vitti as Giovanna (segment "La minestra") * Gina Lollobrigida as Beatrice (segment "Monsignor Cupido") * Jean Sorel as Vincenzo ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Odyssey (1968 Miniseries)
''The Odyssey'' ( it, L'Odissea ) is an eight-episodes European TV miniseries broadcast on RAI (Italian state TV) in 1968 and based on Homer's ''Odyssey''. An Italian, Yugoslavian, German and French ( Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française) coproduction, it was directed by Franco Rossi, assisted by Piero Schivazappa and Mario Bava; the cast includes Bekim Fehmiu as Odysseus and Irene Papas as Penelope, Samson Burke as the Cyclops, as well as Barbara Bach as Nausicaa, and Gérard Herter. Several critics consider the series to be a masterful representation of the ancient world. __TOC__ Plot First episode: Telemaco and Penelope Athena, happy that King Ulysses is close to returning to his native island Ithaca, located to the west of Greece, under the guise of King Mentes, arrives in Ithaca to make sure that Ulysses' return is pleasant. Unfortunately it is not so: although welcomed with respect by the twenty year old Prince Telemachus, Mentes discovers that the palace of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caprice Italian Style
''Caprice Italian Style'' ( it, Capriccio all'italiana) is a 1968 Italian comedy film directed by six different directors, including Mario Monicelli and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The film starred both Totò and the comic duo Franco and Ciccio. Plot The film is composed of five episodes.In the first a German nanny behaves too rude and harsh with children, proposing to read comic social satire of Germany. The children are upset. In the second Toto is an old bourgeois who joins with a nice young girl. The girl follows the social models of the time, namely the "hippies" guys. Toto, however, is a man of the old school, and hates these young people who are considered by him dirty, ignorant and rude. But Toto soon comes in contact with them, and so plans a diabolical revenge against the youngsters. In the third a couple remains stuck in traffic in Rome. The woman, uncaring, intimates with violence her husband to look for a way out of traffic. She manages to exasperate the man who, after a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Una Rosa Per Tutti
''A Rose for Everyone'' ( it, Una rosa per tutti) is a 1967 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale. Cast *Claudia Cardinale : Rosa *Nino Manfredi : The doctor *Mario Adorf : Paolo * Lando Buzzanca : Lino * Akim Tamiroff : Basilio *Milton Rodrígues : Sergio * Célia Biar : Nilse *José Lewgoy : Floreal *Grande Otelo Grande Otelo (October 18, 1915 – November 26, 1993) was the stage name of Brazilian actor, comedian, singer, and composer Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata. Otelo was born in Uberlândia, and was orphaned as a child. He kept running away from ... References External links * 1965 films 1960s Italian-language films Commedia all'italiana Films directed by Franco Rossi Films scored by Luis Bacalov 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Streghe
''The Witches'' ( it, Le streghe) is a 1967 ''commedia all'italiana'' anthology film produced by Dino De Laurentiis in 1965. It consists of five comic stories, directed by Luchino Visconti, Franco Rossi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mauro Bolognini and Vittorio De Sica. Each story is about witches and features Silvana Mangano. This is one of De Laurentiis' more eclectic films. Clint Eastwood also makes an appearance in the final story. It was the last film starring Totò to be released in his lifetime. Segments "The Witch Burned Alive" A famous actress arrives in an Austrian chalet to spend an evening with friends. The woman is gotten drunk by the guests, and when she falls unconscious, friends remove her makeup to look at the imperfections of her face, always believed beautiful by her fans. "Civic Spirit" A man is wounded in a traffic accident. A woman stops the car and offers to take him to the hospital. The woman, however, only does this to pass the road traffic. When she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Complessi
''I complessi'' is a 1965 commedia all'italiana anthology film consisting of three episodes. Cast ;''Una giornata decisiva'' *Nino Manfredi: Quirino Raganelli *Ilaria Occhini: Gabriella * Riccardo Garrone: Alvaro Morandini *Umberto D'Orsi: Ernesto Segment directed by Dino Risi, written by Marcello Fondato, Ruggero Maccari and Dino Risi. ;''Il complesso della schiava nubiana'' *Ugo Tognazzi: prof. Gildo Beozi *Claudie Lange: Erminia *Paola Borboni: Baracchi-Croce, Beozi's assistant *Nanda Primavera: Beozi's Mother-in-law *Claudio Gora: Antiquary *Carletto Sposito: Massimo Tabusso Segment directed by Franco Rossi, written by Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Ettore Scola, Age & Scarpelli. ;''Guglielmo il dentone'' *Alberto Sordi: Guglielmo Bertone *Franco Fabrizi: Francesco Martello *Romolo Valli: Father Baldini *Armando Trovajoli: Himself *Lelio Luttazzi: Himself *Nanni Loy: Himself *Vincenzo Talarico: Himself * Alessandro Cutolo: Himself *Edy Campagnoli: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Infidelity
''High Infidelity'' ( it, Alta infedeltà) is a 1964 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli, Elio Petri, Franco Rossi and Luciano Salce. Cast ;"Scandaloso" segment * Nino Manfredi as Francesco * Fulvia Franco as Raffaella * John Phillip Law as Ronald * Eleanor Beacour * Vittorio La Paglia * Luigi Zerbinati ;"Peccato nel Pomeriggio" segment * Charles Aznavour as Giulio * Claire Bloom as Laura ;"La Sospirosa" segment * Monica Vitti as Gloria * Jean-Pierre Cassel as Tonino * Sergio Fantoni as Luigi ;"Gente Moderna" segment * Ugo Tognazzi as Cesare * Michèle Mercier as Clara * Bernard Blier Bernard Blier (11 January 1916 – 29 March 1989) was a French character actor. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father, a researcher at the Pasteur Institute, was posted at the time. Life and career His rotund features and ... as Sergio References External links * 1964 films 1964 comedy films Adultery in films 1960s Italian-language films Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Controsesso
''Controsesso'', internationally released as ''Countersex'', is a 1964 Italian anthology comedy film directed by Franco Rossi, Marco Ferreri and Renato Castellani. All the episodes have sex as main theme. The episode of Ferreri is considered by several critics as the masterpiece of the first Italian period of the director. Cast Cocaina di domenica * Nino Manfredi: Sandro Cioffi * Anna Maria Ferrero: Marcella * Renzo Marignano: boyfriend of Sandro's sister (directed by Franco Rossi, written by Cesare Zavattini, Piero De Bernardi and Leonardo Benvenuti) Il professore * Ugo Tognazzi: The professor * Elvira Paoloni: The grandmother (directed by Marco Ferreri, written by Rafael Azcona and Marco Ferreri) Una donna d'affari * Nino Manfredi: Andrea Spadini * Dolores Wettach: Giovanna * Umberto D'Orsi: Armando (directed by Renato Castellani, written by Tonino Guerra Antonio "Tonino" Guerra (16 March 1920 – 21 March 2012) was an Italian poet, writer and screenwriter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everyone's In Love
''Everyone's in Love'' ( it, Tutti innamorati) is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Giuseppe Orlandini. Cast * * Carlotta Barilli * Clara Bindi * Nando Bruno - Cesare * Memmo Carotenuto - Ferruccio * Grazia Colelli * Livia Cordaro * * Gabriele Ferzetti - Arturo * Ruggero Marchi - Ermanno Barberio * Marcello Mastroianni - Giovanni * Marisa Merlini - Jolanda * Orlando Pallamari * Polidor * Jacqueline Sassard - Allegra Barberio * Leopoldo Trieste - Cipriani References External links *''Everyone's in Love''at Variety Distribution Variety Distribution is an Italian-based film distribution company. It distributes Italian films worldwide, produced from the 1930s onward. History Variety Distribution (formerly Variety Film and Variety Communications) has been in the film p ... 1959 films 1959 comedy films 1950s Italian-language films Italian black-and-white films Films directed by Giuseppe Orlandini Films directed by Franco Rossi Italian comedy films 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amici Per La Pelle
''Friends for Life'' ( it, Amici per la pelle also known as ''Amis pour la vie'' in France) is a 1955 Italian and French comedy-drama film directed by Franco Rossi. It was nominated for "Best Film" at the 10th British Academy Film Awards. Plot Rome. Mario is a self-confident fourteen-year-old boy who is in eighth grade. One day a new pupil arrives in class, Franco, who is placed by the teacher in Mario's desk. Mario is initially hostile towards the newcomer, who immediately proves to be an intelligent boy and soon enters the good graces of his classmates and professors. After some time, however, the two boys begin to meet and make friends. Mario is the son of a ceramics entrepreneur, while Franco is the son of a diplomat, he lives in a hotel and drinks tomato juice for an aperitif. While Mario shows confidence in approaching the girls, Franco is hesitant and only after a certain insistence on Mario's part is it discovered that the child has a person in his heart and also co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Movie Database
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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