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Massimo Venturiello
Massimo Venturiello (born 4 August 1957) is an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Roccadaspide, Province of Salerno, in 1982 Venturiello graduated at the Silvio D'Amico Academy of dramatic Arts in Rome and the same year he made his stage debut in an adaptation of William Shakespeare's ''Titus Andronicus'' directed by Gabriele Lavia. From then, he started an intense theatrical activity, which includes experimental and avant-garde works and a long collaboration with the director Giampiero Solari. Particularly, Venturiello was critically acclaimed for his performances in ''The Rose Tattoo'', alongside Valeria Moriconi, and in ''Masaniello'' directed by . Also active in films and on television, he is well known for the role of Rudy in Gabriele Salvatores' ''Marrakech Express''. As a voice actor, Venturiello performed the Italian voice of Gary Oldman as Sirius Black in his first three appearances in the '' Harry Potter'' film franchise and as Commissioner James Gordon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roccadaspide
Roccadaspide (Campanian: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. Geography The town is located in the north-west side of Cilento, not too far from Paestum and in the Calore River The Calore Irpino or Calore Beneventano or Calore river is a river in southwestern Italy. It rises from ''Colle Finestra'' ( above sea level), a mountain saddle between Monte Acellica and the Terminio sub-group in the Monti Picentini, sub-range o ... Valley. References External links Official website Cities and towns in Campania Localities of Cilento {{Campania-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batman Begins
''Batman Begins'' is a 2005 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan and written by Nolan and David S. Goyer. The film is based on the DC Comics character Batman, it stars Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne / Batman, with Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe, and Morgan Freeman in supporting roles. The film reboots the ''Batman'' film series, telling the origin story of Bruce Wayne from the death of his parents to his journey to become Batman and his fight to stop Ra's al Ghul and the Scarecrow from plunging Gotham City into chaos. After ''Batman & Robin'' was panned by critics and underperformed at the box office, Warner Bros. Pictures cancelled future ''Batman'' films, including Joel Schumacher's planned ''Batman Unchained.'' Between 1998 and 2003, several filmmakers collaborated with Warner Bros. in attempting to reboot the franchise. After the studio rejected a ''Batman'' origin story reboot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hades (Disney)
The following are fictional characters from Disney's 1997 film ''Hercules'' and from the derived TV series. These productions are adaptations of Greek mythology, very different from the classical versions. Hercules Hercules is the title character of the franchise. He is based on the mythological Heracles, most known under the Roman spelling Hercules. In the original movie, Josh Keaton voiced Hercules as a teenager, while Tate Donovan was the hero as an adult, and Roger Bart was Hercules' singing voice in the song " Go the Distance". His appearance is a handsome young man, with orange hair, eyebrows and wide blue eyes. All elbows and knees, Hercules is represented as an overgrown gangly youth who doesn't know his own strength goes about inadvertently destroying things or humiliating himself. As a gawky and awkward teenager, Hercules is depicted as tall and thin, with broad, but stooped shoulders, extraordinarily long arms and legs, huge hands and pigeon-toed feet, a long skin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Peccato E La Vergogna
''Il peccato e la vergogna'' is an Italian television series. Cast * Manuela Arcuri: Carmen Tabacchi Fontamara (seasons 1-2) * Marisa Berenson: Elena Fontamara (episode 1-3) * Gabriel Garko: Nito Valdi (seasons 1-2) * Francesco Testi: Giancarlo Fontamara (seasons 1-2) * Victoria Larchenko: Elisa Fontamara (episode 1-5) * Stefano Santospago: Francesco Fontamara (season 1) * Eros Galbiati: Giulio Fontamara (episode 1-3) * Giuliana De Sio: Bigiù (episode 1-5) * Rosa Pianeta: Mina Tabacchi (seasons 1-2) * Martine Brochard: Sylvie (season 1-2) * Massimo Venturiello: Dilmo Duranti (season 1) * Eva Grimaldi: Liliana (episode 4-5) * Valeria Milillo: Piera (episode 3-6) * Bruno Eyron: colonnello Kruger (episode 5) * Laura Torrisi: Ortensia Pizzo (episode 6) * Luka Tartaglia: Otello * Rosalinda Celentano: Maria Pia Torricelli (episode 6) * Alfredo Pea: Professor Gilsenti (episode 1-3) * Isa Gallinelli: Meraviglia (episode 1-5) * Adriana Russo: Teresina (episode 1-5) * Giovanni Scif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intelligence – Servizi & Segreti
''Intelligence – Servizi & segreti'' is an Italian action television series produced by Taodue comprising six 95-minute episodes aired in 2009. The filming took place over 36 months, cost €20M, and employed 500 stuntmen, 1000 cars and other vehicles, and 300 helicopters. The locations included Yemen, Tunisia, Syria, Romania and Switzerland.DVDs and liner notes published by Taodue (2009). Plot Background Marco Tancredi (Raoul Bova) is an ex-parachutist from the Italian special forces who retired into civil life traumatised by his disastrous final mission in Yemen. A psychiatrist Lidia Lenti (Irene Ferri) has helped him recover from his mental scars. He marries her and begins a new life. Episodes 1 and 2 His life is turned upsided down when Lidia is killed in what appears to be a tragic accident during an armed hold-up. Tancredi is unconvinced by the circumstances and begins an investigation. He learns that Lidia had been working for the Italian anti-terrorist department, whose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Capo Dei Capi
''Il Capo dei Capi'' (''The Boss of the Bosses'') is a six-part Italian miniseries which debuted on Canale 5 between October and November 2007. It tells the story of Salvatore Riina, alias ''Totò u Curtu'' (Totò the Short), a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily. Riina is played by Palermo-born actor, Claudio Gioè, and the series was directed by Alexis Sweet and Enzo Monteleone. The series is inspired from the eponymous book-inquiry of and Attilio Bolzoni. It was broadcast in the UK in the spring of 2013 on the Sky Arts channel, retitled ''Corleone'' and split into 12 one-hour episodes. Plot First episode (1943–1958) Palermo, 15 January 1993. Cosa Nostra 'superboss' Salvatore Riina has been arrested after 23 years, and receives a visit in prison from his childhood friend, Biagio Schirò, triggering a flashback. In 1943, as a 13 years old boy, Riina is working in the fields around the town of Corleone when he finds a buried bomb. His father decides to take the bomb hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Land (film)
''Our Land'' ( it, La terra, also known as ''The Earth'') is a 2006 Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Sergio Rubini. The film was nominated for seven David di Donatello awards (including best film and best director), and for three Nastro d'Argento awards. Plot summary Luigi Di Santo is a respectable teacher in Milan, where he lives his family, with a bad past in Apulia. One day he is called to Mesagne to deal with family problems. One of his three brothers does not want to surrender his farm in the country to a local developer who wants to build a large out-of-town shopping mall on the land. Another of the brothers, Michele, is desperate for his brother to sell the farm, because he has big debts and does not want to compromise his political career. Finally, the third and youngest of the brothers, Aldo, manages a retreat for disabled people in the country, and looks absolutely harmless. On the night of the Good Friday procession, the developer is shot dead in the to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietato Ai Minori
''Vietato ai minori'' (''Forbidden to Minors'') is a 1992 Italian comedy film directed by Maurizio Ponzi. Plot Officially landed on the Isle of Elba to make a documentary for Rai 1, a crew is actually there to shoot a porn film. The film has to be starred by the diva Edith Costello and by the young actor Salvatore, who is unaware that he had been hired to shoot hardcore scenes. When Salvatore will discover the truth, problems will begin. Cast * Alessandro Haber as Scalpo * Mariella Valentini as Edith Costello * Massimo Venturiello as Thomas Parker * Sabrina Ferilli as Barbara * Angelo Orlando as Arnolds * Nicola Pistoia as Juan * Paco Reconti as Salvatore * Gina Rovere as Ada * Lidia Biondi Lidia Biondi (3 February 1941 – 14 June 2016), often credited as Lydia Biondi, was an Italian film and television actress who appeared in more than 40 Italian and foreign films since the 1960s. Her international film credits included ''Eat Pray ... as Talent agent See als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wicked (1991 Film)
''Cattiva'' (internationally released as ''The Wicked'') is a 1991 Italian drama film directed by Carlo Lizzani. The film is loosely based on real life events of Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology, and of Sabina Spielrein. For this film Giuliana De Sio was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Actress. Plot In the early twentieth century, the young Italian-born Emilia Schmidt leads a comfortable life in Switzerland, with her husband and little son Ludwig, but shows from time to time signs of mental imbalance. She is admitted to a luxurious clinic in Zürich, where she receives the diagnosis of schizophrenia due to her behavior, thus being defined as "wicked". However, Professor Gustav, a young assistant to the clinic's head physician, Professor Brokner, becomes passionate about her case; using the innovative research of Dr. Sigmund Freud, he is able to partially cure her. This allows Emilia to leave the clinic, not completely cured, but released from her neuros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Strangeness Of Life
''Strana la vita'', internationally released as ''The Strangeness of Life'', is a 1987 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. It is based on a novel by Giovanni Pascutto. Cast * Diego Abatantuono: Dario * Monica Guerritore: Anna * Domiziana Giordano: Silvia * Amanda Sandrelli: Ester * Massimo Venturiello: Mario * Lina Sastri: Nora * Felice Andreasi: father of Nora * Maria Monti: mother of Anna * Nick Novecento: Giacomino * Anita Laurenzi: mother of Nora * 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 Mil ...: a patient References External links * 1987 films 1987 comedy-drama films Films directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci Italian comedy-drama films Films scored by Nicola Piovani 1980s Italian films 1980s Italian-language films {{19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Morning, Babylon
''Good Morning, Babylon'' ( it, Buongiorno Babilonia) is a 1987 drama film written and directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, starring Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Greta Scacchi, Désirée Nosbusch, Omero Antonutti, and Charles Dance. The film follows the story of two Italian brothers who emigrate to America and find work as set designers for D.W. Griffith's silent film epic ''Intolerance'' (1916). The French-Italian co-production was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. It was a critical and financial hit in its native country, winning a Nastro d'Argento for Best Costume Design with an additional nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Plot Two Tuscan brothers, Nicola and Andrea Bonanno, come from a long line of artisans and church restorers. In 1911, they find themselves out of work without any real prospects. Hoping to find their fortunes elsewhere, they emigrate to the United States. Initially forced into precarious jobs, the two young man manage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
