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Orazio Orlando
Orazio Orlando (14 June 1933 – 18 December 1990) was an Italian film, stage and television actor. Life and career Born in Naples, Orlando attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome for two seasons, in 1953-54 and in 1954-55, without graduating. He made his debut at 18, with the stage company of Renzo Ricci, along with Giorgio Albertazzi and Anna Proclemer. His first important participation was in Shakespeare's ''King Lear'', in 1955. In 1958 he began his television career in the role of Tybalt in a successful adaptation of ''Romeo and Juliet''; he took part in a great number of films, TV-series and television movies, but became popular in 1973 thanks to the interpretation of the Commissioner Solmi, in the television series ''Qui squadra mobile''. He is best remembered for his film roles in Elio Petri's ''Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion'' (1970) and ''Property Is No Longer a Theft'' (1973), Pupi Avati's ''Help Me Dream'' (1981) and Alberto Bevilacqua's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. Its province-level municipality is the third-most populous metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 3,115,320 residents, and its metropolitan area stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately 20 miles. Founded by Greeks in the first millennium BC, Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in the world. In the eighth century BC, a colony known as Parthenope ( grc, Παρθενόπη) was established on the Pizzofalcone hill. In the sixth century BC, it was refounded as Neápolis. The city was an important part of Magna Graecia, played a major role in the merging of Greek and Roman society, and was a significant cultural centre under the Romans. Naples served a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Donna Delle Meraviglie
''La donna delle meraviglie'' (US title: ''Woman of Wonders'') is a 1985 Italian film directed by Alberto Bevilacqua and based on a novel with the same name by him. It entered the competition at the 1985 Venice International Film Festival. Cast *Ben Gazzara as Alberto *Lina Sastri as Luisa *Claudia Cardinale as Maura *Orazio Orlando as Ulisse *Flavio Bucci as Astolfo *Fabrizio Bentivoglio Fabrizio Bentivoglio (born 4 January 1957) is an Italian cinema and theatre actor and screenwriter. Biography Fabrizio Bentivoglio was born in Milan (his father is Venetian). After only one season in the juvenile team of Inter, he left his spor ... as Gianni References External links * 1985 films Italian romantic drama films 1980s Italian-language films Films directed by Alberto Bevilacqua Films based on Italian novels Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli 1980s Italian films {{1980s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Italia S'è Rotta
''L'Italia s'è rotta'' ("Italy is broken") is a 1976 Italian comedy film directed by Steno. Plot The two Sicilian Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. With them there is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work but, for a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution. Cast *Dalila Di Lazzaro: Domenica Chiaregato *Mario Scarpetta: Antonio Mancuso *Teo Teocoli: Peppe Truzzoliti *Enrico Montesano: Roman robber *Mario Carotenuto: Cavalier Amedeo Zerolli *Alberto Lionello: Domenica's uncle *Franca Valeri: Countess Giovanna *Duilio Del Prete: Censor *Orazio Orlando: Oronzo *Clelia Matania: Peppe's mother * Carla Calò: Antonio's mother *Sergio Di Pinto Sergio may refer to: * Sergio (given name), for people with the given name Sergio * Sergio (carbonado), the largest rough diamond ever found * ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evil Thoughts
''Evil Thoughts'', (Italian title: ''Cattivi pensieri'', also known as ''Who Mislaid My Wife?'') is a 1976 Italian comedy film written, directed and starred by Ugo Tognazzi. Plot The Milanese lawyer Mario Marani (Tognazzi), due to fog at the airport, is forced to return home because his flight was canceled. At home he finds his wife Francesca half asleep and realizes that a person is hiding in the closet of shotguns. Convinced that he is the lover of Francesca, he closes the utility room and the next morning he departs with his wife for work purposes, continuing to mull over the alleged infidelity of his wife. Cast *Ugo Tognazzi: Mario Marani *Edwige Fenech: Francesca Marani *Paolo Bonacelli: Antonio Marani *Piero Mazzarella: portinaio * Yanti Somer: Paola * Mara Venier: Miss Bocconi * Luc Merenda: Recrosio *Veruschka: lover of Mario * Laura Bonaparte: lover of Recrosio * Mircha Carven: Lorenzo Macchi *Orazio Orlando: lawyer Borderò *Massimo Serato: Carlo Bocconi * Pietro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flower In His Mouth
''The Flower in His Mouth'' ( it, Gente di rispetto) is a 1975 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Jennifer O'Neill. Plot Teacher Elena Bardi transfers herself from Sondrio in a Sicilian town, where she is harassed by a man without anyone intervening. The next morning he is found executed. Elena finds lodging with a lawyer named Bellocampo, who is an enigmatic landowner who knows all the unmentionable secrets of the city. At school Elena clashes with the difficulties of school evasion, while her non-conformism prevents her from tying up with her colleagues, except with Professor Belcore, with whom she starts a relationship, which he does not dare to make public. One day Bellocampo leads her to the poor neighborhoods of the city where school evasion originates and informs her that the degradation could be eliminated with the approval of a law firm in Parliament. When she is the victim of a second aggression whose executioners are also found dead, Elena reali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Perfume Of The Lady In Black
''The Perfume of the Lady in Black'' ( it, Il profumo della signora in nero) is a 1974 giallo-horror film directed by Francesco Barilli. The film had nothing to do with the similarly-titled novel by Gaston Leroux. Plot Silvia (Mimsy Farmer) is a successful manager at a chemical laboratory. With her boyfriend Roberto (Maurizio Bonuglia), she visits some African-Italian friends including Andy (Jho Jenkins). Andy explains that witchcraft, curses and human sacrifice are all commonplace in African cultures. Roberto claims there are human sacrificial groups all over the world, including in Europe. Soon afterwards, Silvia begins to experience a series of hallucinations and memories. Some of the memories include Silvia's mother ( Renata Zamengo) first sitting in a chair and putting on perfume in a black dress, and another memory of the mother having sex with a man that is not Silvia's father. Silvia's mother died by apparently jumping off a balcony when Silvia was younger. Intermixed wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Policewoman (film)
''La poliziotta'' (internationally released as ''Policewoman'') is a 1974 Italian comedy film directed by Steno. For this film Mariangela Melato was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Actress. Plot In Milan, the young policewoman Gianna discovers an ecological scandal involving an honorable local deputy, and has to face the hypocrisy and the corruption which plague the police and the society of the time. Cast *Mariangela Melato as Giovanna 'Gianna' Abbastanzi * Orazio Orlando as Magistrate Ruggero Patanè * Mario Carotenuto as Police Chief Marcellini * Renato Pozzetto as Claudio Ravassi *Alberto Lionello as Tarcisio Monti * Armando Brancia as Senator Giuseppe Brembani * Renato Scarpa as Pharmacist Camillotti * Gianfranco Barra as Dr. Gargiulo * Umberto Smaila as Son of the Mayor * Alvaro Vitali as Fantuzzi * Pia Velsi as Giovanna's mother See also * List of Italian films of 1974 A list of films produced in Italy in 1974 (see 1974 in film): Notes F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovers And Other Relatives
''Lovers and Other Relatives'', also known as ''Peccato veniale'' and ''Venial Sin'', is a 1974 Italian comedy film directed by Salvatore Samperi. It was shot in Forte dei Marmi. ''Corriere della Sera'', 22 April 2012. Cast * : Laura * : Renzo * Alessandro Momo: Sandro * |
Sono Stato Io
''Sono stato io'' (internationally released as ''It Was I'') is a 1973 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada. For his role Giancarlo Giannini was awarded as best actor at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. Cast *Giancarlo Giannini: Biagio Solise * Silvia Monti: Jacqueline *Hiram Keller: Il Kid *Orazio Orlando: Il Commissario * Patricia Chiti: Gloria Strozzi *Georges Wilson: Il pubblico ministero * Giuseppe Maffioli: L'avvocato Difensore * Piero Chiara: Il Presidente Della Corte * Nino Pavese: Il Cavalier Armando Toluzzi *Ely Galleani Ely Galleani (born 24 April 1953), sometimes credited as Justine Gall and Ely Gall, is a retired Italian film actress. Born in Alassio as Federica Elisabetta De Galleani, daughter of an Italian count and of a Polish woman of Lithuanian origin, G ...: L'autostoppista References External links * 1973 films Films directed by Alberto Lattuada 1973 comedy-drama films Italian comedy-drama films Commedia all'it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Pinocchio (1972 Miniseries)
''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' ( it, Le avventure di Pinocchio) is a 1972 Italian five-part miniseries directed by Luigi Comencini, which originally aired weekly on Rai 1 between April 8 and May 6, 1972. Based on Carlo Collodi's 1883 novel with the same name, the miniseries received a large critical success, and had an average of twenty-one and a half million viewers during its first airing. All the episodes together make up 280 minutes of runtime. An extended cut of the series, totaling 320 minutes of runtime divided into six episodes, first aired in France on Première chaîne de l'ORTF between December 19 and December 31, 1972. Also, a 135-minute edit of the miniseries was released as a theatrical film in Italy on December 21, 1972, and later released in other countries. Plot In rolls, a wagon promoting a Marionette spectacle, out Geppetto to see what has rolled up, seeing the Marionettes, Geppetto gets an idea to make a puppet to earn him a crust of bread and a cup of wine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gli Ordini Sono Ordini
''Gli ordini sono ordini'' ("''Orders Are Orders''") is a 1972 Italian comedy film directed by Franco Giraldi. Plot Giorgia is an unhappy housewife tired of her marriage to her husband Amedeo, when she begins to hear a voice that orders her to perform out of the ordinary and transgressive actions. One day the voice orders her to go to the seafront and make love with a lifeguard. Confessed the betrayal to her husband, he puts her out of the house. Giorgia thus finds herself alone and has to reorganize her life. After visiting her mother, who advises her to return with her husband, she goes to live in a hotel instead. Here he meets Nancy, a researcher who works for an important record company, who takes care of recording traditional music with her own recorder. Giorgia later meets the artist Mario Pasini, falls in love with him, but soon their relationship also begins to creak and she hears her voice. On top of that Mario cheats on her with Nancy. Giorgia then abandons the two, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ripped Off
''Ripped Off'' (also known as ''The Boxer'' and ''Un uomo dalla pelle dura'') is a 1972 American/Italian crime film directed by Franco Prosperi and starring Robert Blake and Ernest Borgnine. Plot A young boxer is framed for murdering his crooked manager. His only option is to escape from jail and find the real murderer himself. Cast * Robert Blake: Teddy "Cherokee" Wilcox * Catherine Spaak: Claire Wilson * Ernest Borgnine: Captain Perkins * Tomas Milian: The Stranger * Gabriele Ferzetti: Nick da Catarina * Orazio Orlando Orazio Orlando (14 June 1933 – 18 December 1990) was an Italian film, stage and television actor. Life and career Born in Naples, Orlando attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome for two seasons, in 1953-54 and in 1954-55, without ...: Mike Durell External links * 1972 films 1972 crime films American boxing films Italian independent films American independent films Troma Entertainment films Films set in the United States Italia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
