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Ignazio Balsamo
Ignazio Balsamo (25 October 1912 – 7 August 1994) was an Italian film and stage actor. Life and career Born in Catania, Balsamo began his career on stage, being part of several Sicilian language theatrical companies. Discovered by Pietro Germi, who offered him a role of weight in the film '' In the Name of the Law'', following the success of the film Balsamo moved to Rome where he had a long film career as a character actor, mainly cast in roles of Sicilian criminals and villains. He also worked as a production coordinator and a production runner for the companies Fortunia Film and Romana Film. Balsamo was also author of two plays in Sicilian language, ''Casa Cantoniera'' and ''Tila di ragnu''. Selected filmography * '' In the Name of the Law'' (1949) - Francesco Messana * ''Outlaw Girl'' (1950) - Ciro Sollima * '' The Fighting Men'' (1950) - Antonio Schepisi * '' Il caimano del Piave'' (1951) - Sergente siciliano al fronte * '' Behind Closed Shutters'' (1951) - Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Ragazzo Che Sorride
''Il ragazzo che sorride'' (Italian for ''The boy who smiles'') is a 1969 Italian "musicarello" film directed by Aldo Grimaldi and starring Al Bano and Susanna Martinková.Daniele Magni, ''Cuori matti - Dizionario dei musicarelli anni '60'', Bloodbuster Edizioni, 2012. . Cast * Al Bano as Giorgio * Susanna Martinková as Livia * Rocky Roberts as Himself * Nino Taranto as Filippo Leccisi former professor * Antonella Steni as Tilde, Filippo's wife * Yvonne Sanson as Livia's mother * Riccardo Garrone as Livia's father * Francesco Mulé as Undertaker's establishment owner * Franco Ressel as Mine owner * Fiorenzo Fiorentini as House-painter * Franco Scandurra as Scandini * Giacomo Furia as Barman * Umberto Raho as Dr. Scholler * Ignazio Balsamo as Assistant of engineer * Carlo Taranto as Hotel concierge * Nino Terzo as Male nurse Locations Entire shooting in Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addio, Figlio Mio!
''Addio, figlio mio!'' ("Farewell, my son!") is a 1953 Italian melodrama film written and directed by Giuseppe Guarino.A. Albertazzi (31 May 1954). "Addio, figlio mio! - Recensione". ''Intermezzo'', 9/10. Plot Italy, World War II. Giorgio, second lieutenant of aviation, receives the order to leave for Africa with his flock. His girlfriend Elsa accompanies him to Livorno and the interruption of the railway line forces them to stop at the hotel, for what will be their only night of love. A few months later, Elsa's mother dies and she, who discovers she is expecting a baby, decides to move to Rome to escape the rumors of the country. In Rome, as a guest of a friend, she found a job as a dresser in a nightclub. Here she receives the attention of an engineer, Riccardo De Angelis, who hires her as an employee in her office. Meanwhile, the news arrives that Giorgio is reported missing and Riccardo, who has become acquainted with the child, decides to marry Elsa. The life of the three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Policarpo (film)
''Policarpo'' ( it, Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura) is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Soldati. It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Policarpo De 'Tappetti is a modest ministerial employee of Umbertine Rome: he is precise and diligent, but his excesses of zeal attract him the antipathy of Cavalier Cesare Pancarano di Rondò, his severe office manager, as well as aristocratic aristocrat convinced that he is related to the reigning Savoy dynasty, which is why he spends good money on complex genealogical research in order to ascertain its veracity. The respective families of the two meet by chance while walking on the Pincio, and the son of Pancarano di Rondò, Gerolamo, falls in love with Celeste, the young and pretty daughter of Polycarp; in front of her insistent court that Gegè of her, a fatuous and superficial character of her, the girl appears rather perplexed, but she agrees to become engaged to him at the insistence of her parents, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cavalier In Devil's Castle
''Cavalier in Devil's Castle'' ( it, Il cavaliere del castello maledetto), also known as ''The Cavaliers of Devil's Castle'', is a 1959 Italian swashbuckler film written and directed by Mario Costa and starring Massimo Serato, Irène Tunc and Luisella Boni. Plot Ugone di Collefeltro has succeeded through a stratagem to imprison his uncle, Count Oliviero, legitimate lord of the fief of Valgrande, and is now trying to obtain from him a document in which the count declares to give him his rights. But the count refuses to sign such a declaration. Then Ugone calls Countess Isabella, daughter of Oliviero, back to her castle, with the intention of marrying her, thus becoming the legitimate owner of the fief. Cast * Massimo Serato as Captain Ugone di Collefeltro * Irène Tunc as Marquise Fiamma * Luisella Boni as Countess Isabella * Pierre Cressoy as Astolfo * Livio Lorenzon as Guidobaldo Fortebraccio * Maria Sima as Violante * Carlo Tamberlani as Conte Oliviero * Aldo Bufi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrivano I Dollari!
''Arrivano i dollari!'' (i. e. "The dollars are coming!") is a 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Costa and starring Alberto Sordi, Nino Taranto and Isa Miranda. Plot Arduino Pasti, poor left Italy and search fortune in South Africa, at his dead left a good Inheritance for own five nephews in Italy. Giuseppe Pasti and his brother Alfonso think every tricks for achieve maximum amount and for that try to make a fake good impression to widow of uncle Arduino and female notary. Cast *Alberto Sordi as Count Alfonso Pasti *Nino Taranto as Giuseppe Pasti *Isa Miranda as Caterina Marchetti *Mario Riva as Cesaretto Pasti *Riccardo Billi as Michelino Pasti * as Hélène Marigny * as Piero Pasti *Turi Pandolfini as Alfonso's Butler * as Lola * Diana Dei as Clara *Ignazio Balsamo as Ernesto *Rosita Pisano as Rosina *Natale Cirino Natale Cirino (5 February 1894 – 29 May 1962) was an Italian stage and film actor. Life and career Born in Catania, Cirino sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andalusia Express
''Andalusia Express'' (Italian:''Il mondo sarà nostro'', Spanish:''El expreso de Andalucía'') is a 1956 Italian-Spanish drama film directed by Francisco Rovira Beleta and starring Jorge Mistral, Marisa de Leza and Mara Berni. Synopsis A former retired athlete, a law student and a petty criminal come together to plan and perpetrate the theft of some jewelry transported in the Andalusian express mail van. Cast * Jorge Mistral as Jorge Andrade * Marisa de Leza as Lola * Mara Berni as Silvia Ríos * Vicente Parra as Miguel Hernández * Ignazio Balsamo as Rubio * Carlos Casaravilla as Carlos Salinas * Antonio Casas as Inspector * Natale Cirino * Franco Sineri * Flora Marrone * José Calvo as Arturo * Ricardo Turia * Marcelino Ornat * José Castro * Marcela Yurfa * Manuel Aroca * Salvador Soler Marí * María del Carmen Morales * José Ramón Giner as Cliente de las gafas * José Luis López Vázquez as Pretendiente de Lola * Piero Signorelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White Angel (1955 Film)
''L'angelo bianco'' (internationally released as ''The White Angel'') is a 1955 Italian melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. It is the sequel of '' Nobody's Children'' (1951). According to the author Louis Bayman, this couple of films "sealed director Raffaello Matarazzo's reputation as king of the Italian melodramatists". The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti. Cast *Amedeo Nazzari as Guido Carani *Yvonne Sanson as Lina Marcolin / Luisa Fanti *Enrico Olivieri as Bruno Carani *Enrica Dyrell as Elena Carani *Alberto Farnese as Poldo * Flora Lillo as Flora *Philippe Hersent as Mario La Torre *Nerio Bernardi as avvocato Rossi *Virgilio Riento as dottor Marini *Olga Solbelli as madre superiora *Ignazio Balsamo as poliziotto *Franca Parisi as cameriera *Emilio Cigoli as direttore della prigione *Rina Franchetti as prigioniera *Silvana Jachino as prigioniera *Paola Quattrini Paola Quattrini (born 9 March 1944) is an Italian actress. Career S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buonanotte
Diego Mario Buonanotte Rende (; born 19 April 1988) is an Argentine naturalized Chilean footballer who plays for Peruvian club Sporting Cristal as an attacking midfielder and winger. He began his career with River Plate, where he won the Apertura in 2008, and later played in Spain with Málaga and Granada. Buonanotte was part of the Argentine squad that won the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics. Club career River Plate Born in Teodelina, Santa Fe, Buonanotte made his professional debut as a 17-year-old on 9 April 2006, in the 3–1 win against Instituto. On 7 October 2007, only one week after his first game, he scored his first goal at senior level. Buonanotte was picked by coach Daniel Passarella to start in the derby against Boca Juniors. River Plate won 2–0, with Buonanotte playing a key role in the victory. He was named by ''World Soccer'' magazine as one of the '50 most exciting teenagers in the world game'. Buonanotte was part of the 2008 Apertura winning team. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Happened At The Police Station
''It Happened at the Police Station'' (Italian: ''Accadde al commissariato'') is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring Nino Taranto, Alberto Sordi and Walter Chiari.Lanzoni p.18 Cast * Nino Taranto as Police Commissioner * Alberto Sordi as Alberto Tadini * Walter Chiari as Luigi Giovetti * Lucia Bosè as Stefania Rocca, wife of Luigi * Riccardo Billi as Riccardo, 1st tram driver * Mario Riva as 2nd tram driver * Carlo Dapporto as Antonio Badimenti * Lauretta Masiero as Silvana Moretti * Mara Berni as Arnalda Bazzini * Turi Pandolfini as Cannizzaro, the old man * Mario Abbate as Lucio Davila, the singer * Bruna Corrà as Street walker * Natale Cirino as Marshal (Italy), Marshal Cannavò * Andreina Paul as The maid * Carlo Romano as Thief's victim * Anna Campori as The woman protesting against the strike * Alberto Sorrentino as Comic actor * Ignazio Balsamo as Taxi driver * Teresa Werlen as Enrichetta Biagioli * Pie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuore Di Mamma
''Cuore di mamma'' (also known as ''Mother's Heart'') is a 1969 Italian comedy drama film directed by Salvatore Samperi. Cast * Philippe Leroy: Andrea Franti * Beba Loncar: Magda Franti * Carla Gravina: Lorenza Garroni * Yorgo Voyagis: Carlo * Paolo Graziosi: Mariano * Rina Franchetti: Berta * Nicoletta Rizzi Nicoletta Rizzi (1 January 1940 – 17 January 2010) was an Italian television, stage and film actress. Life Rizzi was born in Milan in 1940. She was mainly active on television, where she was best known for the title role in the television se ...: Eleonora Production The character played by Carla Gravina has three children played by Mauro Gravina, Monica Gravina and Massimiliano Ferendeles. In real life Mauro and Monica are siblings, but they aren't Carla Gravina's relatives. References External links * 1969 films Films directed by Salvatore Samperi Italian comedy-drama films Films scored by Ennio Morricone 1969 comedy-drama films 1960s Italian films { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letter From Naples
''Letter from Naples'' (Italian: ''Lettera napoletana'') is a 1954 Italian musical melodrama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Giacomo Rondinella, Virna Lisi and Otello Toso. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfredo Montori. It was shot on location in Naples. Plot In Naples, Don Gaetano's company has Alvaro Ramirez as a partner, who is secretly in love with his secretary Laura. Among the various employees is Franco, in love, also secretly, with the boss's daughter, Anna. Only Carluccio, a nice worker, knows of the affair between Franco and Don Gaetano's daughter. At a party the two boys kiss, but Alvaro suspects something and tells his lover that the marriage between the two does not want it at all, because this would mean that Franco, a former delivery boy, would become the master. To make money, he convinces his lover to take some money to give for a shady turnover, but the motorcycle with the money is captured off the coast of Salerno. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genoese Dragnet
''Genoese Dragnet'' ( it, Processo contro ignoti) is a 1952 Italian crime-melodrama film. The movie relates the story of Michele, a man accused of murdering a kidnapped girl and his fight to prove his innocence. Plot Genoa. Two wealthy spouses have their little daughter kidnapped. The kidnappers ask for a ransom of twenty million: the father makes the payment but the girl is not released. The searches start and in a short time it turns out that her child died of suffocation. The outrage of public opinion initiates the investigation, but it takes many months before the arrest of the alleged culprit, a mechanic of a garage who cannot justify his sudden enrichment. After an intense interrogation, he admits to having driven the vehicle in which the child was taken to the kidnappers' lair, while totally ignoring the purpose of the mission. For fear he did not report the leader of the gang, who gave him part of the ransom before fleeing. He is sent for trial and, during the trial th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |