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I Banchieri Di Dio
''The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair'' ( it, I banchieri di Dio also known as ''The God's Bankers'') is an Italian drama film directed in 2002 by Giuseppe Ferrara. Plot The film tells the story of the scandal of Banco Ambrosiano, mainly related to the figure of Roberto Calvi. The Clearstream scandal exploded as a case full of intricate affairs involving the financial world, the Vatican, the Masonic Lodge P2, the Italian Secret Service, the Secret Intelligence Service, the Italian politics, the Mafia and the Banda della Magliana. The movie narrates in detail all these connections, trying to reconstruct events and plots. The film ends with the death of Calvi under the Blackfriars Bridge, in London, openly supporting the murder-hypothesis. Cast * Omero Antonutti as Roberto Calvi * Giancarlo Giannini as Flavio Carboni * Alessandro Gassman as Francesco Pazienza * Rutger Hauer as Bishop Paul Marcinkus * Pamela Villoresi as Clara Calvi * Vincenzo Peluso as Silvano Vittor * P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Calvi
Roberto Calvi (13 April 1920 – 17 June 1982) was an Italian banker, dubbed "God's Banker" () by the press because of his close association with the Holy See. He was a native of Milan and was chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, which collapsed in one of Italy's biggest political scandals. Calvi's death in London in June 1982 is a source of enduring controversy and was ruled a murder after two coroners' inquests and an independent investigation. Five people were acquitted in Rome in June 2007 of murdering Calvi. Popular speculation has linked the Vatican Bank, the Mafia, and the clandestine Propaganda Due to his death. Life and career Roberto Calvi's father was the manager of the Banca Commerciale Italiana. Calvi joined the bank after World War II, but he moved to Banco Ambrosiano, then Italy's second largest bank, in 1947. He married in 1952 and had two children. Soon he became the personal assistant of Carlo Alessandro Canesi, a leading figure and later president of Banco Ambrosia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sicilian Mafia
The Sicilian Mafia, also simply known as the Mafia and frequently referred to as Cosa nostra (, ; "our thing") by its members, is an Italian Mafia-terrorist-type organized crime syndicate and criminal society originating in the region of Sicily and dating to at least the 19th century. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organisational structure and code of conduct and honor and present themselves to the public under a common brand. The basic group is known as a "family", "clan", or ''cosca''. Each family claims sovereignty over a territory, usually a town or village or a neighbourhood (''borgata'') of a larger city, in which it operates its rackets. Its members call themselves " men of honour", although the public often refers to them as ''mafiosi''. By the 20th century, following wide-scale emigration from Sicily, mafiosi established gangs in North and South America which replicate the traditions and methods of their Sicilian ancestors. The Mafia's co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Moro Affair
''The Moro Affair'' ( it, Il caso Moro) is a 1986 Italian crime film directed by Giuseppe Ferrara about the kidnapping of Aldo Moro in 1978. Plot Italy, 1978. The days of the imprisonment of Aldo Moro, a Christian Democrat statesman kidnapped and murdered by the Red Brigades. A work discussed and contradictory that outshines the politician Moro to focus on the human drama. Cast * Gian Maria Volonté as Aldo Moro * Mattia Sbragia as 1st Brigadist * Bruno Zanin as 2nd Brigadist * Consuelo Ferrara as 3rd Brigadist * Enrica Maria Modugno as 4th Brigadist * Enrica Rosso as 5th Brigadist * Maurizio Donadoni as 6th Brigadist * Stefano Abbati as 7th Brigadist * Danilo Mattei as 8th Brigadist * Massimo Tedde as 9th Brigadist * Francesco Capitano as 10th Brigadist * Margarita Lozano as Nora Moro * Sergio Rubini as Giovanni Moro * Daniela De Silva as Maria Fida Moro * Emanuela Taschini as Anna Moro Release The film was released in Italy on 20 November 1986. References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Sindona
Michele Sindona (; 8 May 1920 – 22 March 1986) was an Italian banker and convicted felon. Known in banking circles as "The Shark", Sindona was a member of Propaganda Due (#0501), a secret lodge of Italian Freemasonry, and had clear connections to the Sicilian Mafia. He was fatally poisoned in prison while serving a life sentence for the murder of lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli. Early years Born at Patti, a small ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Messina (Sicily), to a Neapolitan father, a florist who specialized in funeral wreaths, . Libertà e giustizia. 9 ottobre 2009 and a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Licio Gelli
Licio Gelli (; April 21, 1919 – December 15, 2015) was an Italian financier. A Fascist volunteer in his youth, he is chiefly known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal. He was revealed in 1981 as being the Venerable Master of the clandestine masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2). Early life Gelli was born in Pistoia, Tuscany. During the 1930s, Gelli volunteered for the Blackshirts expeditionary forces sent by Mussolini in support of Francisco Franco's rebellion in the Spanish Civil War. He served as liaison officer between the Italian government and Nazi Germany. and participated in the Italian Social Republic with Giorgio Almirante, founder of the neofascist Italian Social Movement (MSI). After a sales job with the Italian mattress factory Permaflex, Gelli founded his own textile and importing company. Involvement in failed coup and fugitive years in Argentina In 1970, in the plans of the failed ''Golpe Borghese'', Gelli was tasked with arresting the Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camillo Milli
Camillo Migliori, best known as Camillo Milli (1 August 1929 – 20 January 2022) was an Italian stage, film and television actor. Life and career Born in Milan, Milli formed under Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, where he debuted in 1951 and where he was active until 1953. In the 1960s and in the 1970s he worked intensively with director Luigi Squarzina and at the Teatro Stabile in Genoa, specializing in the Carlo Goldoni repertoire. Milli was also active as a character actor in films, mainly cast in humorous roles, often as a sidekick of Paolo Villaggio. On television, he is best known for the role of Ugo Monti in the Canale 5 TV series '' CentoVetrine''. Milli died from COVID-19 complications on 20 January 2022, at the age of 92. Selected filmography * ''Girls of Today'' (1955) * ''The Mattei Affair'' (1972) * ''We Want the Colonels'' (1973) * ''Il domestico'' (1974) * '' In the Name of the Pope King'' (1977) * '' La locandiera'' (1980) * '' Il Marchese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Diogene
Franco Diogene (20 October 1947 – 27 May 2005) was an Italian actor and comedian. Life and career Born Concetto Francesco Diogene in Catania, he was the son of a Sicilian father and a Ligurian mother. At 5 years old, Diogene moved to Genoa with his family. In Genoa he completed his studies, and also started acting in a little theater of a parish. Since the early 1970s, he was one of the most active character actors in Italian cinema, often cast in humorous roles. He was also cast in several international productions, such as '' Midnight Express'', in a role of Turkish lawyer and ''The Name of the Rose'', mainly thanks to his foreign language skills. Diogene was also active as a stand-up comedian, and he was the organizer of the beauty contest "Miss Top Model Universe". Diogene died of a heart attack, aged 57 years old. Selected filmography * ''Due mafiosi contro Al Capone'' (1966) - Night club Announcer * ''Maria Rosa la guardona'' (1973) * ''Teresa the Thief'' (1973) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pier Paolo Capponi
Pier Paolo Capponi (9 June 1938 – 15 February 2018) was an Italian actor and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Subiaco, after his studies Capponi attended a theater school and later was chosen by director Vittorio De Seta for an important role in ''Un uomo a metà''. His film career was divided equally between ''auteur'' films (with, among others, Paolo e Vittorio Taviani, Valerio Zurlini, Gérard Corbiau, Francesco Rosi and Nelo Risi) and genre films, in which he was sometimes credited as Norman Clark. On the big screen with some regularity for a decade, after 1977 Capponi focused his appearances on TV series and on stage. Partial filmography * ''Our Man in Casablanca'' (1966) - Hermann von Heufen * '' Almost a Man'' (1966) - Ugo * ' (1966) - Man (uncredited) * ''King of Hearts'' (1966) - Un Officier Anglais * ''My Name Is Pecos'' (1966) - Joe Clane * '' Mister X'' (1967) - Mister X * '' The Subversives'' (1967) - Muzio * ''Frame Up'' (1968) - O'Neil * '' Black Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincenzo Peluso
This is a list of male actors from Italy, which generally includes those who have resided in Italy or have largely appeared in Italian film productions. This list includes all actors from :Italian male actors. Persons are listed alphabetically by surname. A * Michele Abruzzo (1904–1996) * Stefano Accorsi (born 1971) * Antonio Acqua *Giuseppe Addobbati * Gianni Agus * Antonio Albanese * Giorgio Albertazzi * Gigio Alberti *Guido Alberti * Giampiero Albertini * Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo *Antonio Allocca *Ernesto Almirante * Luigi Almirante * Roberto Alpi * Tullio Altamura * Gerardo Amato *Claudio Amendola *Ferruccio Amendola * Pino Ammendola * Giuseppe Anatrelli * Felice Andreasi * Oscar Andriani * Enzo Andronico * Nando Angelini * Franco Angrisano * Corrado Annicelli * Gabriele Antonini *Omero Antonutti * Renzo Arbore * Giorgio Ardisson *Lello Arena * Maurizio Arena * Henry Armetta *Andrea Aureli B * Salvatore Baccaro *Don Backy *Giancarlo Badessi *Carlo Bagno * Silv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Villoresi
Maria Pamela Villoresi (born 1 January 1957) is an Italian theatre, cinema and television actress. She has performed in more than 100 theatrical productions and in more than 30 films. Life and career The daughter of a cloth merchant of Prato and of a German mother, Pamela Villoresi began her artistic career following the acting lessons at the Teatro Metastasio in Prato. In 1975 Giorgio Strehler called her to be part of the theater company he started, Piccolo Teatro di Milano. Simultaneously she achieved great success with the television drama ''Marco Visconti'' and started a continuous career in cinema, in which she frequently had leading roles. In 1975 she posed nude as cover girl for ''Playmen''. In 1978 she won a Grolla d'oro for her role in Marco Bellocchio's '' Il gabbiano''. From 1990 she occasionally was a stage director and a TV presenter. In 2010 she ran in the Lazio regional election, supporting the center-right candidate Renata Polverini. She was not elected. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Marcinkus
Paul Casimir Marcinkus (; January 15, 1922 – February 20, 2006) was an American archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church and president of the Institute for the Works of Religion, commonly known as the Vatican Bank, from 1971 to 1989. Early life Marcinkus was born in Cicero, Illinois, the son of Lithuanian immigrants and the youngest of five children. His father worked as a window cleaner, among other occupations. After attending Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary and St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Paul was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Chicago on May 3, 1947, and served parish assignments with both St. Christina's and Holy Cross Church on the city's south side. By 1949, he had been appointed to the archdiocese's matrimonial tribunal, which processed applications to have marriages annulled. International career In 1950, Marcinkus began to fulfil special assignments for the Vatican and became friendly with Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Pazienza
Francesco Pazienza (born in 1946, Monteparano) is an Italian businessman, and former officer of the Italian military intelligence agency, SISMI. As of April 2007, he has been paroled to the community of Lerici, after serving many years in prison, including a 1993 conviction due to his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal, and a 1982 conviction for mishandling state secrets. Pazienza holds a degree in medicine from the University of Rome. He worked as a business consultant in France during the 1970s. In 1979 he was hired into SISMI, and became an assistant to SISMI director, General Giuseppe Santovito. Pazienza left the intelligence agency in wake of the Propaganda Due scandal that rocked the Italian political scene in 1981. The Banco Ambrosiano scandal, Roberto Calvi's "suicide," and charges of mishandling state secrets concerned with the 1980 Bologna bombing, made Pazienza a fugitive from Italian law. Eventually, Pazienza ended up in the United States. A first extradition reque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
