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Lidia Ravera
Lidia Ravera (born 6 February 1951 in Turin, Piedmont) is an Italian writer, journalist, essayist and screenwriter. Ravera has been a regular contributor to the italian edition of ''Cosmopolitan''. Her most popular novel, ''Porci con le ali'' ("''Winged Pigs''"), dealt with the disillusionment of her generation with the ideals of the late 1960s. In 1977 Ravera wrote a film adaptation of the book. Bibliography *''Porci con le ali'' (1976, with ) *''Ammazzare il tempo'' (1978) *''Bambino mio'' (1979) *''Bagna i fiori e aspettami'' (1986) *''Per funghi'' (1987) *''Se dico perdo l'America'' (1988) *''Voi grandi'' (1990) *''Tempi supplementari'' (1990) *''Due volte vent'anni'' (1992) *''In quale nascondiglio del cuore: lettera a un figlio adolescente'' (1993) *''Il paese di Eseap'' (1994) *''Sorelle'' ("Sisters", 1994) *''I compiti delle vacanze'' (1997) *''Nessuno al suo posto'' (1998) *''Maledetta gioventù'' (1999) *''Né giovani né vecchi'' (2000) *''Un lungo inverno fiorito e altre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is mainly on the western bank of the Po (river), Po River, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alps, Alpine arch and Superga Hill. The population of the city proper is 847,287 (31 January 2022) while the population of the urban area is estimated by Larger Urban Zones, Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD to have a population of 2.2 million. The city used to be a major European political centre. From 1563, it was the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, then of the Kingdom of Sardinia ruled by the House of Savoy, and the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piedmont
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Italian Literature
Italian literature is written in the Italian language, particularly within Italy. It may also refer to literature written by Italian people, Italians or in Languages of Italy, other languages spoken in Italy, often languages that are closely related to Italian language#History, modern Italian, including Regional Italian, regional varieties and vernacular dialects. Italian literature begins in the 12th century, when in different regions of the Italian Peninsula, peninsula the Italian vernacular started to be used in a literary manner. The ''Salv'a lo vescovo senato, Ritmo laurenziano'' is the first extant document of Italian literature. An early example of Italian literature is the tradition of vernacular lyric poetry performed in Occitan language, Occitan, which reached Italy by the end of the 12th century. In 1230, the Sicilian School became notable for being the first style in standard Italian. Dante Alighieri, one of the greatest of Italian poets, is notable for being the aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosmopolitan (magazine)
''Cosmopolitan'' is an American monthly fashion and entertainment magazine for women, first published based in New York City in March 1886 as a family magazine; it was later transformed into a literary magazine and, since 1965, has become a women's magazine. ''Cosmopolitan'' is one of the best-selling magazines and is directed mainly towards a female audience. Jessica Pels is the magazine's current editor-in-chief. Formerly titled ''The Cosmopolitan'' and often referred to as ''Cosmo'', throughout the years, ''Cosmopolitan'' has adapted its style and content. Its current incarnation was originally marketed as a woman's fashion magazine with articles on home, family, and cooking. Eventually, editor-in-chief Helen Gurley Brown changed its attention to more of a women empowerment magazine. Nowadays, its content includes articles discussing relationships, sex, health, careers, self-improvement, celebrities, fashion, horoscopes, and beauty. ''Cosmopolitan'' is published by New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pigs Have Wings (film)
''Pigs Have Wings'' ( it, Porci con le ali) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Paolo Pietrangeli and based on the book of the same name by Lidia Ravera and . It was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Franco Bianchi as Rocco * Lou Castel Lou Castel (born Ulv Quarzell; 28 May 1943) is a Swedish actor who became known through his work in Italian films. Life and career The son of a Swedish father and an Irish mother, Castel was born Ulv Quarzell in Bogotá, Colombia, where his fa ... as Marcello * Benedetta Fantoli * Susanna Javicoli as Carla, Marcello's wife * Marco Lucantoni * Cristiana Mancinelli as Antonia * Anna Nogara References External links * 1977 films 1970s Italian-language films 1977 drama films Films set in Rome Films directed by Paolo Pietrangeli Italian LGBT-related films 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porci Con Le Ali
''Pigs Have Wings'' ( it, Porci con le ali) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Paolo Pietrangeli and based on the book of the same name by Lidia Ravera and . It was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Franco Bianchi as Rocco * Lou Castel Lou Castel (born Ulv Quarzell; 28 May 1943) is a Swedish actor who became known through his work in Italian films. Life and career The son of a Swedish father and an Irish mother, Castel was born Ulv Quarzell in Bogotá, Colombia, where his fa ... as Marcello * Benedetta Fantoli * Susanna Javicoli as Carla, Marcello's wife * Marco Lucantoni * Cristiana Mancinelli as Antonia * Anna Nogara References External links * 1977 films 1970s Italian-language films 1977 drama films Films set in Rome Films directed by Paolo Pietrangeli Italian LGBT-related films 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fair Game (1988 Film)
''Fair Game'' ( it, Mamba) is a 1988 Italian thriller-horror film written and directed by Mario Orfini. Plot After being dumped by his girlfriend Eva, who was tired of his unrelentingly negative and sexist attitude, Gene decides to take revenge by killing her with a mamba, a venomous snake, into which he also injected hormones to increase its aggressiveness. Cast *Trudie Styler as Eva *Gregg Henry as Gene * Bill Moseley as Frank Production The film had a budget of 4.6 million dollars. Set design was made by Ferdinando Scarfiotti, while costumes were designed by Milena Canonero. It was shot between Los Angeles, Cinecittà and the Mojave Desert. To reproduce the movements of the mamba, Orfini used a steadicam Steadicam is a brand of camera stabilizer mounts for motion picture cameras invented by Garrett Brown and introduced in 1975 by Cinema Products Corporation. It was designed to isolate the camera from the camera operator's movement, keeping th ... technique. Rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
32 Dicembre
''32 dicembre'' (''32 December'') is a 1988 Cinema of Italy, Italian comedy film written and directed by Luciano De Crescenzo. It is loosely based on the De Crescenzo's novel ''Oi Dialogoi''. For his performance Enzo Cannavale won the Nastro d'Argento for Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor, best supporting actor. Cast *Luciano De Crescenzo: Psichiatra/ confessore/ astronomo *Caterina Boratto: Carlotta *Renato Scarpa: Oscar *Massimo Serato: Ferruccio Ceravolo *Enzo Cannavale: Alfonso Caputo *: brother of Alfonso *Silvio Ceccato: Cavalier Sanfilippo/Socrate *: Salvatore Coppola/Antistene *: Saverio Pezzullo/Aristippo *: Marlon Cacace/Diogene *Riccardo Cucciolla: General Emanuele Anselmi *: Antonietta Bisogno *: Adelina Bisogno *Vanessa Gravina: Mimma *Antonio Allocca: merciaio *: Peppe o' criminale *Riccardo Pazzaglia: cliente del bar See also *List of Italian films of 1988 References External links * 1988 films 1988 comedy films Italian comedy films 1980s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
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 prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Fusi (clarinetist)
Marco Fusi (1972) is an Italian clarinetist and composer, known for his collaborations with some of the leading names in the Italian cultural scene. Career In 2002, he founded the group Yesh Gvul, with whom he recorded two albums, ''Moon Waltz'' and ''Addio a Lugano'', distributed all over the world, with the collaboration of Moni Ovadia and Vladimir Denissenkov. With his ensemble cast has worked with institutions such as the Club Tenco Sanremo, Jeunesses musicales International and Fondazione Collegio San Carlo Marco Fusi has also worked as a solo artist in tandem with Vladimir Denissenkov. As composer Fusi has collaborated with journalist and presenter Antonio Lubrano, for which he wrote the music for the show Il Favoliere, represented with great success in a tour in Italian theaters and on Rai 2, the national Italian television channel, by the same Lubrano and Fusi. In 2008 and 2009 he was the protagonist of the show ''Refusnik Tango'', which was attended by importan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel '' Journey Through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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