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Giovanni Falcone (film)
''Giovanni Falcone'' is a 1993 Italian biographical drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Ferrara. It is based on real life events of the prosecuting magistrate Giovanni Falcone who was killed by mafia in 1992. Cast * Michele Placido as Giovanni Falcone * Anna Bonaiuto as Francesca Morvillo * Giancarlo Giannini as Paolo Borsellino * Massimo Bonetti as Ninni Cassarà * Nello Riviè as Rocco Chinnici * Gianni Musy as Tommaso Buscetta * Marco Leto as Antonino Caponnetto * Paolo De Giorgio as Calogero Zucchetto * Antonio Cantafora as Totò Inzerillo * Pietro Biondi as the "Dottore" (Bruno Contrada) * Nino D'Agata as Totuccio Contorno * Fabrizio Gifuni as Roberto Antiochia * Gianfranco Barra as Vincenzo Geraci * Roberto Nobile as Judge Di Pisa * Arnaldo Ninchi as Salvo Lima * Giampiero Bianchi as Claudio Martelli * Giovanni Pallavicino as Vito Ciancimino * Luigi Angelillo as Ignazio Salvo * Francesco Bellomo as Francesco Marino Mannoia * Ivana Monti as Marcelle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Ferrara
Giuseppe Ferrara (15 July 1932 – 25 June 2016) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Biography Born in Castelfiorentino, near , he founded at the high school an innovative film club, which proposes and critically analyzes neorealism movies; since then he showed a character of "novelty", often considered as "subversive". He graduated from the |
Nello Riviè
Nello as a name may refer to: *Nello Carrara (1900–1993), Italian physicist and founder of the Electromagnetic Wave Research Institute *Nello Celio (1914–1995), Swiss politician representing Canton Ticino *Nello Ciaccheri (1893–1971), Italian cyclist competing at the 1924 Summer Olympics *Nello Cristianini (born 1968), Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bristol *Nello Di Costanzo (born 1961), Italian football manager and former player *Nello Falaschi (1913–1986), American football player in the National Football League *Nello Lauredi (1924–2001), former professional French road bicycle racer *Nello Musumeci (born 1955), Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Islands *Nello Pagani (1911–2003), Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver *Nello Pazzafini (1933–1997), Italian actor who appeared in gladiator movies and Spaghetti Westerns *Nello Rosselli (1900–1937), Italian Socialist leader and historian *N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabrizio Gifuni
Fabrizio Gifuni (born 16 July 1966) is an Italian stage, film and television actor. He won two Silver Ribbons and a David di Donatello Award. Life and career Born in Rome, the son of the politician Gaetano, Gifuni enrolled at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1992. He made his film debut in 1996, in ''La bruttina stagionata''. Two years later he had his breakout role as Pelaia in Gianni Amelio's '' The Way We Laughed'', then in 1999 he received a nomination for Best Actor at the David di Donatello for his performance in '' A Love''. In 2002 Gifuni was appointed EFP Shooting Star at the Berlin International Film Festival for his performance in Giuseppe Bertolucci's '' Probably Love''. In 2003 thanks to his performance in ''The Best of Youth'' he received her second nomination for David di Donatello and won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor along with the rest of the male cast. He received a third nomination for David di Donatello in 2012, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvatore Contorno
Salvatore Contorno (; born 28 May 1946), called Totuccio, is a former member of the Sicilian Mafia who turned into a state witness (''pentito'') against Cosa Nostra in October 1984, following the example of Tommaso Buscetta. He gave detailed accounts of the inner-workings of the Sicilian Mafia. His testimonies were crucial in the Maxi Trial against the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo and the Pizza Connection trial in New York City in the mid 1980s. Early Mafia career Contorno was born in Palermo. His father Antonino had been a mafioso from the later dissolved Corso Calatafimi Mafia family. Salvatore Contorno was a godson of Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco, who would go on to become the secretary of the Sicilian Mafia Commission. In 1975, the butcher ''Totuccio'' Contorno was initiated in the Santa Maria di Gesù Mafia family in Palermo, then led by Stefano Bontade, an influential member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission and a close ally of Ciaschiteddu. Contorno and Bontade used to be hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino D'Agata
Antonino "Nino" D'Agata (8 October 1955 – 20 August 2021) was an Italian film and television actor, and a voice actor in the Italian version of ''The Simpsons''. Filmography * ''Giovanni Falcone'' (1993) * ''Rapporti impropri'' (1999) * '' L'ultimo bacio'' (2001) * ''Prima classe'' (2003) * '' Le conseguenze dell'amore'' (2004) * ''Non vi sedete troppo'' (2005) * ''Mai dove dovremmo essere'' (2005) * ''Nuovomondo'' (2006) * '' Il sangue dei vinti'' (2008) * ''Nero infinito'' (2013) * ''La trattativa ''The State-Mafia Pact'' (original title: ''La trattativa'') is a 2014 Italian documentary film written and directed by Sabina Guzzanti, who also starred in the film. The storyline is about the State-Mafia Pact, the negotiation between Italian S ...'' (2014) * ''Il ministro'' (2016) References External links * 1955 births 2021 deaths Actors from Catania Italian male film actors Italian male voice actors Italian male television actors 20th-century Italian male actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Contrada
Bruno Contrada (born September 2, 1931 in Naples, Italy) is the former police chief of Palermo and deputy director of the civil intelligence service SISDE who was arrested based on revelations of former Sicilian Mafiosi turned pentiti, Gaspare Mutolo and Giuseppe Marchese. Biography Contrada was born in Naples. He entered the Italian police in 1958, and in 1973 he received the command of the judiciary police in Palermo. In 1982 he moved to SISDE with the responsibility of the offices in Sicily and Sardinia. In 1986 he was called to Rome in the Operational Division of the SISDE directory. In 1992, together with Italian Police head Arturo Parisi, he had a secret meeting with antimafia judge Paolo Borsellino under the direction of the then Minister of Interiors, Nicola Mancino. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Biondi
Pietro Biondi (born 13 October 1939) is an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Spoleto, Biondi has appeared in over 12 films and 14 television shows. He has also made numerous appearances on stage. As a voice actor, Biondi is best known for providing the Italian voice of Andy Sipowicz (portrayed by Dennis Franz) in the television show ''NYPD Blue'' as well as Caleb Nichol (portrayed by Alan Dale) in the Italian dub of ''The O.C.''. He has also dubbed actors which include Christopher Plummer, Harvey Keitel, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Walter Matthau and J. T. Walsh in some of their work. Personal life Biondi is married to actress and voice actress Rita Di Lernia. Filmography Cinema * ''We Want the Colonels'' (1973) - Professor Pube * ''The Assassination of Matteotti'' (1973) - Filippo Filippelli * '' The Suspect'' (1975) - Officer of the OVRA * '' Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison'' (1977) * ''Together?'' (1979) - Berto * '' Three Brothers'' (1981) - 1st Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvatore Inzerillo
Salvatore Inzerillo (; 20 August 1944 – 11 May 1981) was an Italian member of the Sicilian Mafia, also known as Totuccio (a diminutive for Salvatore). He rose to be a powerful boss of Palermo's Passo di Rigano family. A prolific heroin trafficker, he was killed in May 1981 by the Corleonesi of Totò Riina in the Second Mafia War who opposed the established Palermo Mafia families of which Inzerillo was one of the main proponents. Early life Inzerillo was born in Palermo. He married his cousin, Giuseppa Di Maggio, the daughter of his mother's brother, Rosario Di Maggiothe boss of the Passo di Rigano Mafia family.Arlacchi, ''Mafia Business'', pp. 199-200 Through a string of marriages the Inzerillos were related to the Di Maggio and Spatola families in Palermo and the Gambinos in New York.Sterling, ''Octopus'', pp. 199-200. He had two sons, Giuseppe and Giovanni. Inzerillo was a close ally of Stefano Bontade and Gaetano Badalamenti and a relative of the New York City Mafia boss C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Cantafora
Antonio Cantafora (born 2 February 1944), also known professionally as Michael Coby, is an Italian film and television actor. Life and career Born in Crotone (Calabria) Cantafora studied acting with Alessandro Fersen, then he made his film debut in 1967. Thanks to a vague resemblance to the actor Terence Hill, in the seventies he starred with Paul L. Smith in a brief series of successful action-comedy films that reprise the Bud Spencer-Terence Hill style. Later Cantafora continued his career mainly as character actor, working with prominent directors such as Federico Fellini, Jerzy Skolimowski, Bruno Barreto, Alberto Lattuada, Mauro Bolognini. Partial filmography * ''The Dirty Outlaws'' (1967) - (uncredited) * ''Lo stato d'assedio'' (1969) - Umberto * ''Ombre roventi'' (1970) * ''And God Said to Cain'' (1970) - Dick Acombar * ''Shoot Joe, and Shoot Again'' (1971) - Jack's Man * '' Black Killer'' (1971) - Ramon O'Hara * ''Baron Blood'' (1972) - Peter Kleist * ''Decameron proi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo De Giorgio
Paolo is both a given name and a surname, the Italian form of the name Paul. Notable people with the name include: People with the given name Paolo Art *Paolo Alboni (1671–1734), Italian painter *Paolo Abbate (1884–1973), Italian-American sculptor *Paolo Antonio Barbieri (1603–1649), Italian painter *Paolo Buggiani (born 1933), Italian contemporary artist *Paolo Carosone (born 1941), Italian painter and sculptor *Paolo Moranda Cavazzola (1486–1522), Italian painter *Paolo Farinati (c. 1524–c. 1606), Italian painter *Paolo Fiammingo (c. 1540–1596), Flemish painter *Paolo Domenico Finoglia (c. 1590–1645), Italian painter *Paolo Grilli (1857–1952), Italian sculptor and painter *Paolo de Matteis (1662–1728), Italian painter *Paolo Monaldi, Italian painter *Paolo Pagani (1655–1716), Italian painter *Paolo Persico (c. 1729–1796), Italian sculptor *Paolo Pino (1534–1565), Italian painter *Paolo Gerolamo Piola (1666–1724), Italian painter *Paolo Porpora (1617– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonino Caponnetto
Antonino Caponnetto (5 September 1920 – 6 December 2002) was an Italian Antimafia magistrate. Biography Caponnetto was born in Caltanissetta in 1920. His career began in 1954 in Florence, but he became famous only in 1983, after Rocco Chinnici's assassination, when he took over his job in Palermo. Under his lead, the Antimafia pool of magistrates came to organise the first grand trial against the Mafia. The pool included magistrates such as Chinnici, Paolo Borsellino, Giovanni Falcone, Giuseppe Di Lello and Leonardo Guarnotta. He retired in 1990, and engaged himself since then in political activities supporting legality and social justice. In 1999 he organised the first "Legality meeting", an annual event that gathers journalists, magistrates and civil associations. The meetings are still held today. He died from natural causes in 2002 in Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Leto
Marco Leto (18 January 1931 – 21 April 2016) was an Italian film and television director and screenwriter. Born in Rome, Leto started his career in the 1950s as an assistant director in a large number of films. In 1965 he started a collaboration with RAI TV, for which he directed several serials and TV movies. After signing some screenplays, Leto made his film directorial debut in 1973, with the critically appreciated ''Black Holiday''. In the following years he kept active both in cinema and in television. Selected filmography * ''Black Holiday ''Black Holiday'' ( it, La villeggiatura) is a 1973 Italian political drama film directed by Marco Leto and starring Adolfo Celi. Cast * Adolfo Celi as Commissioner Rizzuto * Adalberto Maria Merli as Franco Rossini * John Steiner as Scagnett ...'' (1973) * '' Al piacere di rivederla'' (1976) References External links * * 1931 births 2016 deaths Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters Italian televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |