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Madman At War
''Madman at War'' ( it, Scemo di guerra, french: Le fou de guerre) is a 1985 Italian-French comedy film directed by Dino Risi. It was entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. Plot At the beginning of World War II a young Italian psychiatrist is sent to troops in Libya. When he learns that his commander is a madman he tries to protect the subordinates from harm. Cast * Coluche as Oscar Pilli * Beppe Grillo as Marcello Lupi * Bernard Blier as Belucci * Fabio Testi as Boda * Claudio Bisio as Pintus * Gianni Franco as Cerioni * Franco Diogene (credited as Francesco Diogene) as Nitti * Sandro Ghiani as Puddu * Guido Nicheli as Rossi * Tiziana Altieri as Fatma * Geoffrey Copleston Gerald Geoffrey Copleston (18 March 1921 – 1999) was an English actor, voice actor, and translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The Englis ... as the German commander References External li ...
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Dino Risi
Dino Risi (23 December 1916 – 7 June 2008) was an Italian film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of ''commedia all'italiana''. Biography Risi was born in Milan. He had an older brother, Fernando, a cinematographer, and a younger brother, Nelo Risi, Nelo (1920–2015), a director and writer. At the age of twelve, Risi became an orphan and was looked after by relatives and friends of his family.Italian director Dino Risi dies
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He studied medicine but refused to become a psychiatrist, as his parents wished Risi started his career in Film, cinema as an assistant director to cinema figures such as Mario Soldati and Alberto Lattuada. Later he began directing his own films ...
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Claudio Bisio
Claudio Bisio (; born 19 March 1957) is an Italian actor, presenter, voice actor, comedian, and writer. Early life Bisio was born in Novi Ligure, Piedmont, and raised in Milan, Lombardy. He attended '' scientific lyceum Luigi Cremona'' of Milan and graduated from drama school of Piccolo Teatro of Milan. Career Bisio started his career as theatre actor performing classical and modern drama; he began his movie career in 1983 with ''Come dire...'' (''How to say''). His first major appearance on TV was in 1998 during ''Zanzibar'', an Italian TV show. He has been the presenter of ''Zelig'', an Italian sketch comedy, for 13 years (in 1997 and from 2000 to 2012). In 2009, he played in '' Ex'' and gained a David di Donatello nomination for best supporting actor. In 2010 he was the protagonist of '' Benvenuti al Sud'' (''Welcome to the South'') and ''Maschi contro femmine'' (''Males vs Females'') and in 2011 of ''Benvenuti al Nord'' (''Welcome to the North'') and ''Femmine contro ...
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Films Directed By Dino Risi
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ...
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1980s Italian-language Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. ...
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1980s French-language Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. ...
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Italian Comedy Films
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French Comedy Films
French comedy films are comedy films produced in France. Comedy is the most popular French genre in cinema. Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque. Characteristics of French comedy films French comedy films are very often social comedies, which differs largely from American comedies."La comédie française se différencie ..par son aspect social, une lutte des classes généralement absente des comédies américaines." . Social comedy Culture shock, in several French comedies, oftentimes contain several 'clichés', which include: * Religion – ''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' in the 1970s, and ''Serial (Bad) Weddings'' in the 2010s * Social background – ''Life Is a Long Quiet River'' in the 1980s, and ''The Intouchables'' in the 2010s * Difference of life between two places – '' Welcome to the Land of ch'tis'' in the ...
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1985 Comedy Films
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights. * January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. * January 15 – Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule. * January 20 – Ronald Reagan is privately sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. * January 27 – The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is formed, in Tehran. * January 28 – The charity single record "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa. February * February 4 – The border between Gibraltar and Spain re ...
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1985 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1985 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1985 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Context The year was considered an unsuccessful one for film. Despite a record number of film releases, many films failed at the box office, and ticket sales were down 17% compared with 1984. Industry executives believed the problem, in part, was a lack of original concepts. Films about fantasy and magic failed, as audiences leaned towards science-fiction. Janet Maslin said the fault for this lay partly with Steven Spielberg, who had created such a successful template with films like '' E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' and ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' that many fantasy films had imitated them. There was also a saturation of youth-oriented films targeted at those under 18. Executi ...
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Geoffrey Copleston
Gerald Geoffrey Copleston (18 March 1921 – 1999) was an English actor, voice actor, and translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transl ... who worked primarily in Italian genre cinema. He appeared in more than one hundred films beginning in 1956, many of which were English-language dubs of European films. Filmography Live-action roles Partial dubbing roles References External links * 1921 births 1999 deaths English male film actors British expatriates in Italy Place of death missing Male actors from Manchester {{UK-actor-stub ...
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Tiziana Altieri
Tiziana is an Italian feminine given name. The masculine form is Tiziano. Notable people with the name include: *Flavia Titiana, Roman empress who ruled in 193 AD *Tiziana Alagia (born 1973), Italian long-distance runner *Tiziana Cantone, an Italian victim of cyberbullying *Paola Tiziana Cruciani (born 1958), Italian actress, comedian and playwright *Tiziana Domínguez (born 1985), Spanish fashion designer and artist *Tiziana Lauri (born 1959), Italian ballerina *Tiziana Lodato (born 1976), Italian film, stage and television actress *Tiziana Nisini (born 1975), Italian politician *Tiziana D'Orio (born 1964), Italian football midfielder *Tiziana Pini (born 1958), Italian actress and television personality *Tiziana Realini (born 1984), Swiss Olympic equestrian *Tiziana Rivale (born 1960), Italian singer *Tiziana Scandaletti, Italian soprano *Tiziana Terranova Tiziana Terranova (Trapani-Sicily, 1967) is an Italian theorist and activist whose work focuses on the effects of info ...
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Guido Nicheli
Guido Nicheli (24 July 1934 – 28 October 2007) was an Italian actor. Selected filmography * '' Cattivi pensieri'' (1976) * '' Il padrone e l'operaio'' (1976) - Guido * '' Saxofone'' (1979) - Guido - friend of Fiorenza * '' Una vacanza bestiale'' (1981) * '' Eccezzziunale... veramente'' (1982) - Uomo snob * '' Il sommergibile più pazzo del mondo'' (1982) - Il generale americano * ''Viuuulentemente mia'' (1982) - Rodolfo aka Rudy * '' Si ringrazia la regione Puglia per averci fornito i milanesi'' (1982) - Ambrogio il barista * '' Sapore di mare'' (1983) - Marito di Adriana * ''Vacanze di Natale'' (1983) - Donatone * '' Summer Games'' (1984) - Gino Carimati aka Nogi * '' Domani mi sposo'' (1984) - Gastone * '' Scemo di guerra'' (1985) - Rossi * ''Yuppies'' (1986) - Company Owner * '' Professione of Wine'' (1986, TV Series) - Giangi * '' Montecarlo Gran Casinò'' (1987) - Ambrogio Colombo * '' Tutti in palestra'' (1987, TV Mini-Series) - Adamo (1987) * '' I ragazzi della 3ª C' ...
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