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Mimmo Poli
Mimmo Poli (born Domenico Poli, April 11, 1920 – April 4, 1986) was an Italian film character actor. Career He was one of the best known and most active characters of Italian cinema; in his thirty-five-year career he boasted an immense filmography having appeared in over 200 films. He started from a young age by treading the stages and reciting in Roman dialect. In 1951 he had a small part in the film ''Toto and the King of Rome'' directed by Mario Monicelli. Since then he became a very special face, loved both by Totò and by Federico Fellini. He appears everywhere, where you need a bartender, a docker, a prisoner, from the films of the '' Monnezza '' to those of Bernardo Bertolucci. Among the most relevant films: ''The Overcoat'' (1952) by Alberto Lattuada; ''Toto in Color'' (1952) by Steno; '' Termini Station'' (1953) by Vittorio De Sica; '' Beat the Devil'' by John Huston; ''Nights of Cabiria'' (1956) by Federico Fellini; ''Poveri ma belli'' (1956) by Dino Risi; '' A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highest Pressure
''Altissima pressione'' (''Highest Pressure'') is a 1965 Italian "musicarello" film directed by Enzo Trapani. Cast * Dino as Roberto *Gianni Morandi *Rosemary Dexter as Serenella *Fabrizio Capucci * Lucio Dalla *Nicola Di Bari * Micaela Esdra as Lia * Lilly Bistrattin as Gianna * Anna Maria Checchi as Laura * Léa Nanni as Daniela *Maria Grazia Spina as Presentatrice * Gianluca Amadio as Sandro * Mauro Bronchi as Fausto * Roberto Palmieri as Gigi *Mimmo Poli Mimmo Poli (born Domenico Poli, April 11, 1920 – April 4, 1986) was an Italian film character actor. Career He was one of the best known and most active characters of Italian cinema; in his thirty-five-year career he boasted an immense film ... as Il salumiere External links * 1965 films 1960s Italian-language films 1965 musical comedy films Films scored by Ennio Morricone Musicarelli 1960s Italian films {{musical-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nights Of Cabiria
''Nights of Cabiria'' ( it, Le notti di Cabiria) is a 1957 drama film co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. It stars Giulietta Masina as Cabiria, a prostitute living in Rome. The cast also features François Périer and Amedeo Nazzari. The film is based on a story by Fellini, who expanded into a screenplay along with his co-writers Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Besides the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for Giulietta Masina, ''Nights of Cabiria'' won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This was the second straight year Italy and Fellini won this Academy Award, having won for ''La Strada'', which also starred Masina. Plot Prostitute Cabiria and her lover Giorgio playfully chase each other through a field and up to the bank of a river. Oblivious to Giorgio's criminal intentions, Cabiria stands close to the edge of the water, before being pushed in to the river, and having her purse and money stolen. She is quickly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Licenza Premio
''Licenza premio'' is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Nino Taranto and Carlo Croccolo. Plot Italy, early 1950s. Two troopers, Domenico, Neapolitan, and Pinozzo, Piedmontese, are sent on a special mission: they must lead to Rome a mare of their lieutenant, who will participate in the international horse show. Cast *Nino Taranto: Domenico Errichiello *Carlo Croccolo: Pinozzo Molliconi *Virgilio Riento: Enrico *Lilia Landi: Maria Luisa *Nerio Bernardi: Count Carlo *Rossana Rory: Paola *Marcella Rovena: Zingara *Pietro Tordi: Zingaro *Virginia Belmont: Gilda Release The film was released in 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 re ... on September 8, 1951 Notes External links * 1951 films 1950s Italian-language films Italian come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna (1951 Film)
''Anna'' is a 1951 Italian melodrama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as ''Bitter Rice'': Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who becomes a nun, Raf Vallone as Andrea, the rich man who loves her, and Vittorio Gassman as Vittorio, the wicked waiter who sets Anna on a dangerous path. Silvana Mangano's real sister, Patrizia Mangano, acts as Anna's sister in the film. Sophia Loren has a small uncredited role as a nightclub assistant. Future film directors Franco Brusati and Dino Risi co-wrote the script. The film features the songs "Non Dimenticar" and "El Negro Zumbón", a baião popularised in the US as "Anna" and recorded much later by Pink Martini. Plot A man (Vallone) suffers a car accident. He's taken to hospital, where Sister Anna (Mangano) takes care of him. The man is the reason Anna became a nun. She remembers the days she was leading a life of sin as a night club singer. Reception ''Anna'' is one of the greatest box office successes of Italia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Due Marescialli Pernacchia
I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''i'' (pronounced ), plural '' ies''. History In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative () in Egyptian, but was reassigned to (as in English "yes") by Semites, because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent , the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words. The Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician ''yodh'' as their letter ''iota'' () to represent , the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represent and this use persists in the languages that descended from Latin. The modern letter ' j' originated as a variation of 'i', and both were used interchangeably for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Deal After 20 Years
''Big Deal After 20 Years'' ( it, I soliti ignoti vent'anni dopo) is a 1985 Italian comedy film directed by Amanzio Todini. It is the sequel to ''Big Deal on Madonna Street'' and ''Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti''. Plot After several years spent in prison for a hit gone wrong, Tiberio is released to find a profoundly changed Rome. He goes home to find his wife Teresa now living with a house painter who pays her rent in exchange for his wife's "company." When he tries to retrieve his camera equipment, with which he hopes to begin a new career, he learns that Teresa sold it to pay for his lawyer. When he attempts to reconcile with his wife, he is brutally thrown out of the house by her new man. Tiberio sleeps inside an abandoned car in the junkyard in front of his old house. Meanwhile, Tiberio's adult son Brunino has returned from Milan and immediately interrupts his father's outdated robbery attempts. Now fully resigned to resuming his old business, Tiberio goes to visit his old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco And Ciccio
Franco () and Ciccio () were a comic comedy duo formed by Italian actors Franco Franchi (1928–1992) and Ciccio Ingrassia (1922–2003), particularly popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Their collaboration began in 1954 in the theater field, and ended with Franchi's death in 1992. The two made their cinema debuts in 1960 with the film ''Appuntamento a Ischia''. They remained active until 1984 when their last film together, ''Kaos'', was shot, although there were some interruptions in 1973 and from 1975 to 1980. Together, they appeared in 112 films. Considered at the time as protagonists of B movies, they were subsequently reevaluated by critics for their comedy and creative abilities, becoming the subject of study. The huge success with the public is evidenced by the box office earnings, which in the 1960s, represented 10% of the annual box office earnings in Italy. History Both born in Palermo, Sicily, their collaboration began in 1954 in the theater field, and ended with Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement with films such as ''Rome, Open City'' (1945), ''Paisan'' (1946), and ''Germany, Year Zero'' (1948). Early life Rossellini was born in Rome. His mother, Elettra (née Bellan), was a housewife born in Rovigo, Veneto, and his father, Angiolo Giuseppe "Peppino" Rossellini, who owned a construction firm, was born in Rome from a family originally from Pisa, Tuscany. His mother was of partial French descent, from immigrants who had arrived in Italy during the Napoleonic Wars. He lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had his first Roman hotel in 1922 when Fascism obtained power in Italy. Rossellini's father built the first cinema in Rome, the "Barberini", a theatre where movies could be projected, granting his son an unlimited free pass; the young R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanina Vanini (film)
''Vanina Vanini'' also known as ''The Betrayer'' is a 1961 Italian drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. It is based on Stendhal's 1829 novella of the same name. Plot Cast *Sandra Milo ... Vanina Vanini *Laurent Terzieff ... Pietro Missirilli *Martine Carol ... Contessa Vitelleschi *Paolo Stoppa... Asdrubale Vanini *Isabelle Corey ... Clelia *Antonio Pierfederici ... Livio Savelli *Olimpia Cavalli ... La femme de chambre *Nerio Bernardi ... Cardinal Savelli *Mimmo Poli ... Il boia *Claudia Bava *Leonardo Botta ... Le confesseur *Nando Cicero ... Saverio Pontini *Attilio Dottesio *Carlo Gazzabini *Enrico Glori *Jean Gruault ... Le castrat *Evar Maran *Leonardo Severini *Nando Tamberlani Nando Tamberlani (1896–1967) was an Italian film actor. A character actor in Italian cinema of the postwar era, he was the brother of actor Carlo Tamberlani. Another brother Ermete Tamberlani was also an actor. He appeared in a number of peplum ... External links * Review o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Corbucci
Sergio Corbucci (; 6 December 1926 – 1 December 1990) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed both very violent Spaghetti Westerns and bloodless Bud Spencer and Terence Hill action comedies. He is the older brother of screenwriter and film director Bruno Corbucci. Biography Early career Corbucci was born in Rome. He started his career by directing mostly low-budget sword and sandal movies. Among his first Spaghetti Westerns were the films ''Grand Canyon Massacre'' (1964), which he co-directed (under the pseudonym, Stanley Corbett) with Albert Band, as well as '' Minnesota Clay'' (1964), his first solo directed Spaghetti Western. Corbucci's first commercial success was with the cult Spaghetti Western '' Django'', starring Franco Nero, the leading man in many of his movies. He would later collaborate with Franco Nero on two other Spaghetti Westerns, ''Il Mercenario'' or '' The Mercenary'' (a.k.a. ''A Professional Gun'') (1968) - where Nero pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauro Bolognini
Mauro Bolognini (28 June 1922 – 14 May 2001) was an Italian film and stage director of literate sensibility, known for his masterly handling of period subject matter. Early years Bolognini was born in Pistoia, in the Tuscany region of Italy. After earning a master's degree in architecture at the University of Florence, Bolognini enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Italian National Film Academy) in Rome, where he studied stage design. After graduation, he became interested in film direction and set out to work as an assistant to directors Luigi Zampa in Italy, and Yves Allégret and Jean Delannoy in France. Film and television Bolognini began directing his own feature films in the mid-1950s, and received his first international success with '' Wild Love'' (''Gli innamorati''). His other notable films of the 1950s and early 1960s include ''Young Husbands'' (''Giovani mariti''), '' The Big Night'' (''La notte brava''), '' From a Roman Balcony'' (''La giornata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
