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Sandro Petraglia
Sandro Petraglia (; born 19 April 1947) is an Italian screenwriter. He began his career in the early 1970s as a film critic, writing for the May 68 Beginning in May 1968, a period of civil unrest occurred throughout France, lasting some seven weeks and punctuated by demonstrations, general strikes, as well as the occupation of universities and factories. At the height of events, which h ...–inspired film magazine ''Ombre rosse''. During this time, Petraglia first met with his future screenwriting collaborator Stefano Rulli. Filmography Film Television Awards and nominations References External links * 1947 births Living people Writers from Rome Italian male screenwriters David di Donatello winners Nastro d'Argento winners Ciak d'oro winners {{Italy-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
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School (film)
''La scuola'' (also known as ''School'') is a 1995 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Daniele Luchetti. It is loosely based on two books by Domenico Starnone, ''Ex Cattedra'' and ''Sottobanco''. The film was awarded with the David di Donatello for Best Film. Plot In a grammar school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day of school before the summer holidays. Professor Vivaldi, Italian literature teacher, before the end bitterly remembers what happened in that year and he wonders what will happen to those young students that he cared for as children from their first day of school. But they've paid him off in a somewhat offensive way, given that, as the professor has noted, today's youth are in most cases changed, drifters and without a sense of civic duty. Cast *Silvio Orlando: professor Vivaldi * Anna Galiena: professoressa Majello *Fabrizio Bentivoglio: professor Sperone *Antonio Petrocelli: professor Cirrotta * Anita Zagaria: professoressa Gana *Roberto Nobile: pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanzo Criminale
''Romanzo criminale'' (; "Criminal Novel") is an Italian-language film released in 2005, directed by Michele Placido, a criminal drama, it was highly acclaimed and won 15 awards. It is based on Giancarlo De Cataldo's 2002 novel, which is in turn inspired by the Banda della Magliana true story. The Magliana gang was one of the most powerful Italian criminal associations, dominating Rome's drug, gambling and other kinds of crime activities from the early 1970s to 1992 (death of Enrico De Pedis). The gang's affiliates start their career kidnapping rich people, drug dealing (hashish, cocaine, heroin, etc.) from the 1970s they started working with the Italian secret service, fascists, terrorists, the Sicilian Mafia, Camorra and many more. Some gang members are still alive, as inmates of an Italian prison, or justice collaborators. The film is something of a showcase for a number of Italy's leading young film and television actors, notably Favino, who won a Donatello award for his pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide
''Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide'' ( it, Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti) is a 2005 Italian drama film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. The film concerns undocumented migration to Italy via the Mediterranean Sea. Plot A young Italian boy accidentally falls overboard while yachting with his father on the Mediterranean. He is rescued by a boatload of undocumented immigrants attempting to reach Italy by sailing across the Mediterranean. On the ship, he is befriended by a young Romanian man and his sister. The film follows the relationship of the Italian boy with the Romanian once they reach the Italian shores. Cast * Alessio Boni - Bruno * Michela Cescon - Lucia * Rodolfo Corsato - Popi * Matteo Gadola - Sandro * Ester Hazan - Alina * Vlad Alexandru Toma - Radu * Marcello Prayer - Tore * Giovanni Martorana - Barracano * Simona Solder - Maura * Andrea Tidona - Padre Celso * Adriana Asti Awards * Prix François Chalais, 2005 Cannes Film Festival * Nastro d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Keys To The House
''The Keys to the House'' ( it, Le chiavi di casa) is an Italian 2004 dramatic family film based on the story ''Born Twice'' (Italian title: ''Nati due volte'') telling the story of a young father meeting his handicapped son for the first time and attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager. The film was directed by Gianni Amelio. Plot Gianni (Kim Rossi Stuart) has left his handicapped son Paolo ( Andrea Rossi) in the care of others since his birth. He has not been able to cope with Paolo’s mother’s death in childbirth or that Paolo has not developed like other children because of his handicap. Paolo is now fifteen and is about to meet his father for the first time. Gianni has been asked by his son's caretakers to bring him to a Berlin hospital for yearly tests and check-ups. According to their doctor, the "shock" of meeting his father could help Paolo in his treatment. When Gianni boards the night train on which Paolo is already travelling, it is Gianni who is i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Best Of Youth
''The Best of Youth'' ( it, La meglio gioventù) is a 2003 Italian historical drama film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana and written by Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli. A family saga set in Italy from 1966 through 2003, it chronicles the life of the middle-class Carati family, focusing primarily on brothers Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio) and Matteo (Alessio Boni) as their life paths separate during youth, encompassing major political and social events in post–World War II Italian history. Originally conceived as a Rai television miniseries, it premiered at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prize Un Certain Regard. It was then given a theatrical release in Italy as two 3-hour films (titled ''Act I'' and ''Act II''), before being aired with broader success on Rai 1 in a slightly longer four-episode television version later that year. In the U.S., the film was released by Miramax in its theatrical version. The title of the film, an ungrammatical rendition of ''La mig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domenica (2001 Film)
''Domenica'' (also known as ''Sunday'') is a 2001 Italian drama film directed by Wilma Labate. It entered the "Panorama" section at the 51st Berlin International Film Festival. Plot Naples. Inspector Sciarra, afflicted by an incurable disease and on the eve of retirement, has the task of accompanying Domenica - a 12-year-old orphan - to the morgue to recognize the body of her rapist. His rapist, in fact, commits suicide in the police by jumping out of the window, and this recognition would help the police to avoid problems. It is the commissioner himself who asks Inspector Sciarra to track down the girl, who lives by tricks and wandering around the city. After several attempts, Inspector Sciarra spends an afternoon with Domenica at, at the end of the day. both will realize that they have been used and that a deep emotional bond has been established between them. Cast * Domenica Giuliano as Domenica *Claudio Amendola as Inspector Sciarra *Annabella Sciorra as Betibù *Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Lover
''The Lost Lover'' ( it, L'amante perduto), is a 1999 Italian-British drama film directed by Roberto Faenza. Cast * Ciarán Hinds : Adam * Juliet Aubrey : Asya * Stuart Bunce : Gabriel * Clara Bryant : Dafi * Erick Vazquez : Na'im * Juliet Aubrey: Asya * Cyrus Elias : Herlich * Edoardo Moscone : Yigal * Phyllida Law Phyllida Ann Law (born 8 May 1932) is a British actress, known for her numerous roles in film and television. Early life Law was born in Glasgow, the daughter of Meg "Mego" and William Law, a journalist. Prior to the Second World War, her fath ... : The grandmother * Ahamed Abu Salun : Naim's father * Abed Zuabi : Hamid * Ariel Horowitz : Rabbi References External links * 1999 films 1999 drama films Films directed by Roberto Faenza English-language Italian films 1990s English-language films 1990s Italian films English-language drama films {{1990s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Teachers
''Little Teachers'' ( it, I piccoli maestri) is a 1998 Italian war drama film written and directed by Daniele Luchetti. Based on the novel ''I piccoli maestri'' by Luigi Meneghello, it entered the main competition at the 55th Venice International Film Festival. Plot Autumn of 1943: a group of university students from Vicenza opposes the Nazi invasion by joining the partisans at the plateau of the Sette Comuni. Soon, however, the youngsters realize that they are unable to face the horrors of war and receive the support of a worker, a sailor, a sergeant of the alpini and their esteemed professor, Toni Giuriolo. Cast * Stefano Accorsi as Gigi * Stefania Montorsi as Simonetta * Giorgio Pasotti as Enrico * Diego Gianesini as Lelio * Filippo Sandon as Bene * Marco Paolini Marco Paolini (born March 5, 1956) is an Italian stage actor, theatre director, dramaturge and author. Personal background Paolini is the son of a railroad engineer and a housewife from Belluno, I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguri Professore
''Auguri professore'' (''Good Luck Professor'') is a List of Italian films of 1997, 1997 Cinema of Italy, Italian comedy drama film directed by Riccardo Milani. Plot The film is set in a school near Rome, and in a small mountain village of Abruzzo. The boys of the grammar school where teaches Professor Vincenzo Lipari, Italian teacher, are in serious crisis. The crisis, however, is not only that of a typical young adolescent: it is a real collective crisis that pushes young students to not studying, and caring of life, to believe in false ideals, and to get lost in the vortex of ignorance, that will not get them in any future. Vincenzo Lipari tries to help the guys, but also he is a frustrated like them, because they can not even organize a program of Italian lessons of the year. And so the man, trying to understand the new requirements youth, recalls his early school years: past, when teachers did not have to ask pupils to behave well in school, because it was all the opposite. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Truce (1997 Film)
''The Truce'' ( it, La Tregua) is a 1997 film directed by Francesco Rosi, written by Tonino Guerra, based on Primo Levi's memoir, ''The Truce''. The film deals with Primo Levi's experiences returning to Italy in 1945 after the Red Army liberated the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. This was Rosi's final film before his death in 2015. Plot Although liberated on January 27, 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until October 19 of that year. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of Italian former prisoners of war from the Italian Army in Russia. His long railway journey home to Turin took him on a circuitous route from Poland, through Russia, Romania, Hungary, Austria and Germany. Cast * John Turturro - Primo Levi * Rade Šerbedžija - The Greek (Morda Naum) * Massimo Ghini - Cesare * Stefano Dionisi - Daniele * Teco Celio - Col. Rovi * Roberto Citran - Unver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianna Ucrìa
''Marianna Ucrìa'' is a 1997 Italian drama film directed by Roberto Faenza. It was entered into the 20th Moscow International Film Festival. Plot In Sicily, in the first half of the eighteenth century, the twelve-year-old Marianna Ucrìa was taken by her grandfather to watch a hanging, in the hope that the show could make her recover from silence. But all is in vain. Marianna does not speak and does not hear. She is thus induced by her mother to marry her uncle Pietro and, when she reaches sixteen, she has already given birth to three children. Having become a young woman, she welcomes the visit of Grass, a French instructor who initiates her to sign language and introduces her to the Enlightenment philosophical ideas that move around Europe. When her husband dies, Marianna finds herself having to manage her life and relationships with others. She thus demonstrates that she has acquired a strong personality that allows her to govern relationships with easement and an important ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
