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Marcello Mazzarella
Marcello Mazzarella (born 18 October 1963) is an Italian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films since 1990. Selected filmography References External links * 1963 births Living people People from Erice Italian male film actors {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erice
Erice (; scn, Èrici) is a historic town and ''comune'' in the province of Trapani, Sicily, in southern Italy. Geography The main town of Erice is located on top of Mount Erice, at around above sea level, overlooking the city of Trapani, the low western coast towards Marsala, the dramatic Punta del Saraceno and Capo San Vito to the north-east, and the Aegadian Islands on Sicily's north-western coast. Casa Santa forms part of Erice at the base of Mount Erice, immediately adjacent to Trapani. A cable car joins the upper and lower parts of Erice. The bordering municipalities are Buseto Palizzolo, Paceco, Trapani, Valderice and Custonaci. The hamlets (''frazioni'') are Ballata, Casa Santa, Crocefissello, Napola, Pizzolungo, Rigaletta, San Cusumano and Torretta. History The ancient Greek name of Erice was Eryx ( in Greek), and its foundation was associated with the eponymous Greek hero Eryx. It was not a Greek colony, as the Phoenicians founded it, but was largely Hellenized. ... [...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] |
Time Regained (film)
''Time Regained'' (french: Le Temps retrouvé) is a 1999 French drama film directed by the Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz (director), Raúl Ruiz. It is an adaptation of the 1927 final volume of the seven-volume series ''In Search of Lost Time'' by Marcel Proust. The plot is about the anonymous narrator of ''In Search of Lost Time'' who reflects on his past experiences while lying on his deathbed. The choice to develop the last volume of ''In Search of Lost Time'' allows the film to refer to the entire novel. For example, the film shows an episode of the first volume, ''Swann's Way'' (1913), usually referred to as "the lady in pink," as a flashback of ''Time Regained''. The film was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Much of the film is composed of flashbacks of Marcel's memories of the past. One leads to another in what Proust called involuntary memory triggered by sights, sounds, and smells from the present. The movie starts off with Marcel Proust on his deathbed. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Prefer The Sound Of The Sea
''I Prefer the Sound of the Sea'' ( it, Preferisco il rumore del mare, french: Je préfère le bruit de la mer) is a 2000 Italian-French drama film directed by Mimmo Calopresti. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. The title ''Preferisco il rumore del mare'' is a verse of Dino Campana. Rosario reads excerpts of Heart and works in a bookshop named ''Franti''. Cast * Silvio Orlando - Luigi * Michele Raso - Rosario * Fabrizia Sacchi - Serena * Paolo Cirio - Matteo * Mimmo Calopresti - Don Lorenzo * Andrea Occhipinti - Massimo * Enrica Rosso - Elisabetta * Marcello Mazzarella Marcello Mazzarella (born 18 October 1963) is an Italian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films since 1990. Selected filmography References External links * 1963 births Living people People from Erice Italian male film actors ... - Vincenzo * Eugenio Masciari - Cappabianca * Raffaella Lebboroni - Miriam * Palma Valentina Di Nunno - Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Placido Rizzotto (film)
Placido Rizzotto (; 2 January 1914 – 10 March 1948) was an Italian partisan, socialist peasant and trade union leader from Corleone, who was kidnapped and murdered by Sicilian Mafia boss Luciano Leggio on 10 March 1948. Before he was killed, Rizzotto was performing activist work with farm laborers, trying to help them take over unfarmed land on large estates in the area. A 12-year-old shepherd, Giuseppe Letizia, witnessed Rizzotto's murder and was killed the following day with a lethal injection, made by a Mafia doctor named Michele Navarra. In the 1960s, Leggio was acquitted twice of Rizzotto's murder due to lack of evidence. Discovery of body and aftermath Over 60 years after his death, remains were found on 7 July 2009, on a cliff in Rocca Busambra near Corleone, and on 9 March 2012, a DNA test, compared with one extracted from his father Carmelo Rizzotto, long dead and exhumed for this purpose, confirmed the identity of remains as being that of Placido Rizzotto following a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa P
Melissa Panarello (born 3 December 1985, in Catania, Italy), alias Melissa P., is an Italian writer. Biography Panarello grew up in the small Sicilian town of Aci Castello, near Catania in Italy. In 2003, she became famous for authoring the erotic novel, ''100 colpi di spazzola prima di andare a dormire'' (translated into English by Lawrence Venuti Lawrence Venuti (born 1953) is an American translation theorist, translation historian, and a translator from Italian language, Italian, French language, French, and Catalan language, Catalan. Career Born in Philadelphia, Venuti graduated from Te ... as ''One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed'', 2004). The novel, written in diary form, focuses on the narrator's extreme sexual life during her teenage years and is loosely based on the author's own experiences. She gave birth to her first child in October 2019. In December 2022, she got married and is expecting her second child. Books * * References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Bus (2007 Film)
''Night Bus'' ( it, Notturno bus) is a 2007 Italian noir-comedy film directed by Davide Marengo. A low-budget film, it became a sleeper box office hit. Plot Set in Rome, Davide Marengo's crime story revolves around two main characters, a female thief, Leila (Mezzogiorno), whose modus operandi of looting her victims is by administering drugs or seducing them, and a lonely bus driver, Franz (Mastandrea), who is up to his neck in debt. The real story advances when the duo happens to come into possession of a valuable microchip valued at 4 million euros. The film's plot comes across more twists as a pair of hardened criminals, Garafano (Pannofino) and Diolaiti (Citran), and a retired intelligence officer, Carlo Matera (Fantastichini), enter the scene. Cast * Giovanna Mezzogiorno as Leila Ronchi *Valerio Mastandrea as Franz *Ennio Fantastichini as Carlo Matera *Francesco Pannofino as Garofano *Roberto Citran as Diolaiti *Iaia Forte as Micia * Ivan Franek as Andrea *Marcello Mazzarel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sicilian Girl
''The Sicilian Girl'' ( it, La siciliana ribelle) is a 2008 cinema of Italy, Italian film directed by Marco Amenta. The film is inspired by the story of Rita Atria, a key witness in a major Sicilian Mafia, Mafia investigation in Sicily. Synopsis Beginning in 1985 in Balata, Sicily, the eleven-year-old Rita Mancuso witnessed the assassination of her beloved father Don Michele by a rival Mafia family. Six years later, her brother is killed by the Mafia as well. Determined to avenge the murders, she decides to break the Omertà, code of silence and goes to an anti-Mafia prosecutor in Palermo with her detailed diaries to be used as evidence. Being forced to flee her village, she is put into witness protection and transferred to a safe house in Rome. Reception For ''The Sicilian Girl'', Amenta received a David di Donatello nomination for David di Donatello for Best New Director, Best New Director. According to a ''New York Times'' movie review, the film is hobbled by sluggish direction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
School Is Over
''School Is Over'' ( it, La scuola è finita) is a 2010 Italian drama film directed by Valerio Jalongo. It was screened in competition at the 2010 Rome Film Festival and nominated for a Golden Marc'Aurelio Award. It was also nominated for the Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists in 2011. Cast *Valeria Golino as Daria Quarenghi *Vincenzo Amato as Aldo Talarico * Fulvio Forti as Alex Donadei *Antonella Ponziani as Serena Donadei *Marcello Mazzarella Marcello Mazzarella (born 18 October 1963) is an Italian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films since 1990. Selected filmography References External links * 1963 births Living people People from Erice Italian male film actors ... as Michele References External links * 2010 films Italian drama films 2010 drama films Italian high school films 2010s Italian films {{2010s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor (film)
''Viktor'' (russian: Виктор) is a 2014 crime thriller film written and directed by Philippe Martinez. Starring Gérard Depardieu and Elizabeth Hurley, the film premiered 2 September 2014 in Moscow and debuted in New York City on 24 October 2014. The project was filmed entirely in Russia and, being set in Moscow, it was filmed in locations in both Moscow and the Chechen capital of Grozny. Premise Former gangster Victor Lambert is a professional thief specializing in the theft of works of art. After serving prison time in France for an art heist, he returns to his Russian home to investigate the circumstances surrounding the brutal murder of his son Jeremy three months earlier. He enlists the assistance of his former accomplice Alexandra Ivanov. Cast Production London-based production company Saradan Media announced 15 May 2013, that Liz Hurley and Gérard Depardieu were about to begin filming an action film project in Russia under the working title of ''Turquoise'' and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Name Is Vendetta
''My Name Is Vendetta'' ( it, Il mio nome è vendetta) is a 2022 Italian crime action film directed by Cosimo Gomez. Cast Sequel In 2023, producer Iginio Straffi stated that he's producing a sequel. See also * List of Italian films of 2022 A list of Italian-produced and co-produced feature films released or scheduled for release in Italy in 2022. Films References {{Cinema of Italy 2022 Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of ... References External links * * 2022 films 2020s Italian-language films 2022 crime action films Films set in Milan Italian crime action films Italian films about revenge Italian-language films Netflix original films Films about the 'Ndrangheta 2020s Italian films Films set in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol {{2020s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Births
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the penumbral lunar eclipse and the annular solar eclipse, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee. * January 19 – Soviet spy Ghe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
