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Leo Pescarolo
Leo Pescarolo (1935 – 24 May 2006) was an Italian film producer. The son of the actress Vera Vergani, Pescarolo entered the film industry at age 22, first as an assistant director of Gianni Franciolini and Mario Camerini, and later as a producer. He produced many films of Liliana Cavani, Giuliano Montaldo and almost all the works of Francesca Archibugi, as well as films by Federico Fellini, Francesco Rosi and Lars von Trier. In 1994 he won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Producer, for Archibugi's '' The Great Pumpkin'', and in 1997 he won the David di Donatello in the same category for ''The Truce''. Pescarolo was also a renowned gastronome, and he held a cooking column for a newspaper. Selected filmography * ''Galileo'' (1968) * ''What Have You Done to Solange?'' (1972) * ''Super Bitch'' (1973) * ''Giordano Bruno'' (1973) * ''Innocence and Desire'' (1974) * ''Autopsy'' (1975) * ''Tell Me You Do Everything for Me'' (1976) * ''Red Rings of Fear'' (1978) * '' Devil in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historically been home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Di Donatello
The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's ''David'', a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the ''Accademia del Cinema Italiano'' (The Academy of Italian Cinema). There are 26 award categories, as of 2021. The industry-voted awards are considered the Italian equivalent of the American Academy Awards and rank among top-tier awards such as the Premio Regia Televisiva for television, the Premio Ubu for stage performances, the Sanremo Music Festival, and the annual Venice Film Festival, which hosts the Golden Lion film award. History The David di Donatello film awards follow the same criteria as the American Academy Awards.) The ceremony was established in 1955 in order to honour the best of each year's Italian and foreign films, and first awarded in Rome on 5 July 1956. Similar prizes had already existed in Italy for about a decade, such as the Nastro d.'Gentro, but these were voted on by film critics and journalists. Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sleazy Uncle
''Lo zio indegno'' (internationally released as ''The Sleazy Uncle'') is a 1989 Italian comedy film directed by Franco Brusati. Vittorio Gassman was awarded a Nastro d'Argento Best Actor for his portrayal of Uncle Luca. Cast *Vittorio Gassman: Uncle Luca *Giancarlo Giannini: Riccardo *Andréa Ferréol: Teresa *Kim Rossi Stuart: Andrea *Beatrice Palme: La Chanteuse * Simona Cavallari: Marina *Stefania Sandrelli: Isabella *Caterina Boratto Caterina Boratto (15 March 1915 – 14 September 2010) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1936 and 1993. Life and career Born in Turin, Boratto studied at the Musical Lyceum in her hometown with the purpose of bec ... References External links * 1989 films Commedia all'italiana Films directed by Franco Brusati Italian comedy films 1989 comedy films 1980s Italian films {{1980s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mignon Has Come To Stay
''Mignon è partita'' (literally ''Mignon Has Left'', internationally released as ''Mignon Has Come to Stay'') is a 1988 Italian drama film directed by Francesca Archibugi. The film won five David di Donatello awards for Best New Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Stefania Sandrelli), Best Supporting Actor (Massimo Dapporto) and Best Sound. The film centers on a sophisticated young Parisian girl who is forced to move to Rome to live with her extended family after her father runs into criminal charges and her mother has a nervous breakdown. Cast *Stefania Sandrelli: Laura * Jean-Pierre Duriez: Federico *Massimo Dapporto: Aldo *Micheline Presle Micheline Presle (; born Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne; 22 August 1922) is a French actress. She was sometimes billed as Micheline Prelle. Starting in 1939, she starred in over 50 French and English language films that were made in H ...: Prof. Girelli * Céline Beauvallet: Mignon * Leonardo Ruta: Giorgio * Daniel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
''Gli occhiali d'oro'' (internationally released as ''The Gold Rimmed Glasses'') is a 1987 Italian drama film directed by Giuliano Montaldo, starring Philippe Noiret, Rupert Everett and Valeria Golino. Set in Ferrara and in a nearby seaside resort in 1938, the plot follows a Jewish student and a homosexual doctor who suffer persecution in Fascist Italy. The film is an adaptation of Giorgio Bassani's novel ''The Gold Rimmed Spectacles'' (''Gli occhiali d'oro''). It entered the main competition at the 1987 Venice Film Festival, where it won two Golden Osellas for Best Costume Design and Best Set Design. For his soundtrack Ennio Morricone won the David di Donatello for Best Score. Plot The corpse of a man, drowned in the river Po, is brought to shore by fishermen. The man's broken gold rimmed glasses lay stuck in the mud next to him. His story is told in flashback. Ferrara, 1938 – Doctor Athos Fadigati is a middle age otolaryngologist with a prosperous pediatric practice. Cult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devil In The Flesh (1986 Film)
''Devil in the Flesh'' (original title: ''Il diavolo in corpo'') is an Italian film released in 1986 and directed by Marco Bellocchio. An adaptation of Raymond Radiguet’s novel '' Le Diable au corps'', the film stars Federico Pitzalis as a high school student who falls in love with an older woman (played by Maruschka Detmers). Storyline An Italian high school student named Andrea becomes infatuated with Giulia, an older woman he sees outside his classroom window. Giulia's fiancé, a leftist radical, has been jailed and is currently on trial for political crimes. Andrea and Giulia meet and begin a sexual relationship, rendezvousing in her apartment. The situation becomes complicated when her fiancé's mother finds out about this and confronts Andrea's father. a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has treated Giulia in the past. The psychiatrist finds himself the target of Giulia's sexual advances, which he attributes to madness. As a passionate affair unfolds between Giulia and A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Rings Of Fear
''Red Rings of Fear'' ( it, Enigma rosso, german: Orgie des Todes, es, Tráfico de menores) is a 1978 giallo film directed by Alberto Negrin. Plot A detective investigates the killing of a teenage girl and turns his suspicions on three girlfriends of the victim, who dub themselves "The Inseparables." Production ''Red Rings of Fear'' is the third entry in a loosely linked series of film called the ''Schoolgirls in Peril'' trilogy, Mackenzie 2015 (0:07:35) a series of films based on the sexual exploits of young girls and their reaction to the adults. By 1974, audiences began to grow tired of the ''giallo'' genre and began having interest in other European genres such as the ''poliziotteschi'', urban cop thrillers that were influenced by American films such as ''Dirty Harry'' and '' The French Connection''. Mackenzie 2015 (0:18:05) Dallamano's second film in the ''Schoolgirls in Peril'' trilogy was ''What Have They Done to Your Daughters?'', a film with similar themes to the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tell Me You Do Everything For Me
''Tell Me You Do Everything for Me'' (Italian: ''Dimmi che fai tutto per me'') is a 1976 Italian comedy film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile and starring Johnny Dorelli, Pamela Villoresi and Jacques Dufilho.Chiti, Poppi & Pecorari p.242 Cast * Johnny Dorelli as Francesco Salmarani * Pamela Villoresi as Mary Mancini * Jacques Dufilho as 'Dodo' Spinacroce * Maria Grazia Spina as Paola Signorini - Francesco's lover * Nanni Svampa as Bonomelli aka il Biondino * Enzo Robutti as Felegatti * Ferdinando Murolo as Roberto Mancuso aka Robbie * Stefano Amato as Mino Salmarani * Francesco D'Adda as Caputo - The Police Commissioner's Assistant * Andréa Ferréol as Miriam Spinacroce * Pino Caruso Giuseppe Caruso (12 October 1934 – 7 March 2019), best known as Pino Caruso, was an Italian actor, author and television personality. Life and career Caruso was born in Palermo, Sicily and debuted as dramatic stage actor in his home town in ... as The Police Commissioner Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autopsy (1975 Film)
''Autopsy'' (original Italian title ''Macchie solari'', also known as ''The Victim'' and ''Corpse'') is a 1975 Italian giallo- horror film directed by Armando Crispino. It achieved a '' cult'' status for its truculent morgue scenes. The Italian title translates as ''Sunspots''. Plot During a rash of unusual suicides in Rome that scientists theorize are being caused by sunspots, a young female morgue doctor (Mimsy Farmer) is told by a priest that he thinks his sister was murdered, although he is being told it was suicide. They team up to investigate the cause of his sister's death. Cast * Mimsy Farmer: Simona Sana * Barry Primus: Father Paul Lenox * Ray Lovelock: Edgar * Carlo Cattaneo: Lello Sana * Angela Goodwin: Daniela * Gaby Wagner: Betty Lenox * Massimo Serato: Gianni Sana * Ernesto Colli: Ivo * Antonio Casale: Inspector Silvestri Critical reception Allmovie wrote, "This creepy whodunit ..offers a few chills but is ultimately unsatisfying." Marco Giusti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innocence And Desire
''Innocence and Desire'' ( it, Innocenza e turbamento) is a 1974 Italian commedia sexy all'italiana film directed by Massimo Dallamano. Plot A young seminarian is back to his family to reflect on the sincerity of his mystical vocation. Here, in a pleasant Sicilian province, he has to face several sexual temptations, even encouraged by his grandfather Don Salvatore, who suffers from satyriasis. When the grandfather dies, Carmela, his young stepmother, will definitively discourage the seminarian from his religious intentions. Cast * Lionel Stander: Salvatore Niscemi * Edwige Fenech: Carmela Paternò * Roberto Cenci: Tonino Niscemi * Vittorio Caprioli: Vincenzo Niscemi * Anna Maria Pescatori: Lola * Nerina Montagnani: Lola's maid * Enzo Andronico: Driver See also * List of Italian films of 1974 A list of films produced in Italy in 1974 (see 1974 in film): Notes Footnotes References * * * * External linksItalian films of 1974at the Internet Movie Databas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giordano Bruno (film)
''Giordano Bruno'' is a 1973 Italian biographical-drama film directed by Giuliano Montaldo. It was produced by Carlo Ponti. The film, which does not shy from presenting libidinous aspects of his behaviour, chronicles the last years of life of the philosopher Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), from the year 1592, when his ideas drew the attention of guardians of Roman Catholic doctrines, to his execution in 1600. Cast *Gian Maria Volonté: Giordano Bruno *Charlotte Rampling: Fosca *Renato Scarpa: Fra' Tragagliolo *Mathieu Carrière: Orsini *Hans Christian Blech: Sartori *Giuseppe Maffioli: Arsenalotto * Mark Burns: Bellarmino *Massimo Foschi: Fra Celestino *Paolo Bonacelli *José Quaglio *Corrado Gaipa Corrado Gaipa (13 March 1925 – 21 September 1989) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Gaipa was a well known actor of Italian cinema as well as dubbing voices. However, he was widely known for his role as Don Tommasino in ''The Godfather''. ... References External links * *A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Bitch
''Super Bitch'' ( it, Si può essere più bastardi dell'ispettore Cliff?, lit=Can anyone be more of a bastard than Inspector Cliff?) is a 1973 Italian-British ''poliziottesco'' film directed by Massimo Dallamano. It was released in England as ''Blue Movie Blackmail'', and in the U.S. as ''Mafia Junction''.Jones, Gareth (1973). "Blue Movie Blackmail "(Servizio di Scorta)"". Monthly Film Bulletin. London. 40 (468): 231–232. ISSN 0027-0407. Cast * Ivan Rassimov as Inspector Cliff Hoyst * Stephanie Beacham as Joann * Patricia Hayes as Mamma the Turk * Ettore Manni as Morrel * Luciano Catenacci as Gamble * Verna Harvey as Eva * Giacomo Rossi-Stuart as Marco * Cec Linder as the American Ambassador * Gareth Thomas as Trenchcoated Detective Production ''Super Bitch'' was shot in Safa Palatino in Rome and on location in London, Beirut Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
