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Stefano Madia
Stefano Madia (31 December 1954 – 16 December 2004) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in twelve films between 1978 and 1993. At the 1979 Cannes Film Festival he won the award for Best Supporting Actor, for Vittorio Gassman's film '' Dear Father''. He is the father of Italian minister Marianna Madia Maria Anna "Marianna" Madia (; born 5 September 1980) is an Italian politician of the Democratic Party and a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 2008. She was Minister of Public Administration and Simplification from 22 February 201 .... Filmography References External links * 1954 births 2004 deaths 20th-century Italian male actors Italian male film actors Male actors from Rome Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor winners {{Italy-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dear Father (1979 Film)
''Dear Father'' ( it, Caro papà) is a 1979 Italian drama film directed by Dino Risi. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, where Stefano Madia won the award for Best Supporting Actor. Cast * Vittorio Gassman - Albino Millozza * Andrée Lachapelle - Giulia Millozza * Aurore Clément - Margot * Stefano Madia - Marco Millozza * Julien Guiomar - Parrella * Joanne Côté - Laura * Antonio Maimone - Enrico * Andrew Lord Miller - James * Piero Del Papa - Duilio * Mario Verdon - Ugo * Don Arrès - Marco * Gérard Arthur - Rodolfo * Sergio Ciulli - Gianni * Clara Colosimo Clara Colosimo (23 May 1922 – 15 June 1994) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 65 films between 1968 and 1991. Selected filmography * ''Alfredo, Alfredo'' (1972) * '' Sex Pot'' (1975) * '' Il mostro'' (1977) * '' Zanna Bianca e ... - Myrta * Nguyen Duong Don - Pierre References External links * 1979 films 1979 drama films Italian drama films 1970s Italian-language f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
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1979 Cannes Film Festival
The 32nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 10 to 24 May 1979. The Palme d'Or went to ''Apocalypse Now'' by Francis Ford Coppola, which was screened as a work in progress, and '' Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)'' by Volker Schlöndorff. The festival opened with ''Hair'', directed by Miloš Forman and closed with '' À nous deux'', directed by Claude Lelouch. Françoise Sagan, the President of the Jury raised a controversy as she complained that Robert Favre Le Bret, director of the Festival, had stepped out of his role and had put pressure on the jury for the choice of Coppola's film, while she had defended ''The Tin Drum'' to the last minute of the competition. Finally the Palme d'Or was given to both films. Jury The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1979 feature film competition: Feature films *Françoise Sagan (France) Jury President *Sergio Amidei (Italy) * Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud (Switzerland) *Luis García Berlanga (Spain) *Maurice Bessy (France) *Paul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman (; born Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000), popularly known as , was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors, whose career includes both important productions as well as dozens of ''divertissements''. Biography Early life Gassmann was born in Genoa to a German father, Heinrich Gassmann (an engineer from Karlsruhe), and a Jewish mother, Luisa Ambron, born in Pisa. While still very young, he moved to Rome, where he studied at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts. Gassman suffered from bipolar disorder. Career Gassman's debut was in Milan, in 1942, with Alda Borelli in Niccodemi's ''La Nemica'' (theatre). He then moved to Rome and acted at the ''Teatro Eliseo'' joining Tino Carraro and Ernesto Calindri in a team that remained famous for some time; with them he acted in a range of plays from bourgeois comedy to sophisticated intellectual theatre. In 1946, he made his film debut i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianna Madia
Maria Anna "Marianna" Madia (; born 5 September 1980) is an Italian politician of the Democratic Party and a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 2008. She was Minister of Public Administration and Simplification from 22 February 2014Roncone, FabrizioVada per carina, raccomandata no" ''Corriere della Sera''. 1 March 2008. to 1 June 2018 (Renzi Cabinet and Gentiloni Cabinet). Biography Madia was born in Rome in 1980. Her family came from Calabria and settled in Rome. Her great-grandfather, Titta Madia, was a lawyer, journalist, and Fascist and MSI member of the Chamber of Deputies. Her father was the politician, journalist and actor Stefano Madia. She studied at Lycée français Chateaubriand in Rome. She studied at the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, specializing in political science. In June 2013 she married Mario Gianani, a television and film producer. They have twins, Francesco and Margherita, born on 8 April 2014. She considers herself a practisin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto (film)
''Ernesto'' is a 1979 film directed by Salvatore Samperi and starring Martin Halm. The movie is loosely based on Umberto Saba's novel of the same name. Plot In Trieste, Austria-Hungary (Italy after the end of World War I) in 1911, Ernesto ( Martin Halm) is a 17-year-old boy who lives with his widowed mother in the home of his violin-loving Jewish uncle and works in an office at a routine job. He espouses socialist views largely to cause his uncle distress. He discovers his homosexuality when he meets a stableboy (Michele Placido), who is not identified by name. They become infatuated with each other and have an intense sexual relationship, which develops against a realistic depiction of the social setting. Ernesto loses his job when his sexual behavior is discovered and reveals to his mother his same-sex relationship, which he continues to view as shameful. He is dishonest with his same-sex partner, and their relationship ends when Ernesto begins to visit a prostitute for sex. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life Is Beautiful (1979 Film)
''Life Is Beautiful'' ( it, La vita è bella, russian: Жизнь прекрасна, Zhizn prekrasna, also known as ''Betrayed'') is a 1979 Italian-Soviet romantic drama directed by Grigory Chukhray. Plot The action takes place in an unnamed country (in foreign versions of the film the country is Portugal during Salazar's reign), ruled by a military junta which violently suppresses any free thought. Antonio Murillo is a former military pilot who was dismissed from the army for refusing to sink a ship loaded with refugees. Now he drives a taxi and periodically becomes a witness to the despotism of the authorities. His girlfriend Mary, waitress, is a member of an underground movement fighting against the dictatorship. Antonio, for all his dislike of the junta is not interested in politics, his dream is to save money and to become a pilot again, and to own a private plane. But once he drives a man on his taxi, who turns out to be on the side of the opposition. This causes him to come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savage Breed
''Savage Breed'' ( it, Razza selvaggia) is a 1980 Italian drama film directed by Pasquale Squitieri. It was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. Cast * Saverio Marconi as Mario Gargiulo * Stefano Madia as Umberto Saraceni * Imma Piro as Michelina * Simona Mariani as Anna Saraceni * Enzo Cannavale as Don Peppino * Cristina Donadio as Giuliana * Angelo Infanti as Carlo Esposito * Victoria Zinny * Manuel Laghi * Geoffrey Copleston Gerald Geoffrey Copleston (18 March 1921 – 1999) was an English actor, voice actor, and translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The Englis ... References External links * 1980 films 1980 drama films Italian drama films 1980s Italian-language films Films directed by Pasquale Squitieri 1980s Italian films {{1980s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil's Honey
''The Devil's Honey'' ( it, Il miele del diavolo), aka ''Dangerous Obsession'' is a 1986 Italian erotic drama film directed by Lucio Fulci. It is one of his last major films to be released. Plot Johnny and Jessica are two young lovers embroiled in the throes of wild passion. Johnny is a musician obsessed with sex and carries the protesting but breathless Jessica along with his erotic charm. The film opens at a recording studio where Johnny calls Jessica into the booth after taking a break playing his saxophone and sexually fondles her before other techs arrive and Jessica is forced to leave. Meanwhile, Dr. Wendell Simpson is a surgeon with marital problems. He never makes love to his unhappy wife Carol and is obsessed with his work at the hospital. Carol has recently discovered that Simpson makes regular visits to prostitutes during and after work. He visits a call girl named Anna at a local hotel, where after fondling her and having quick but unsatisfying sex, he forces her to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camping Del Terrore
''Body Count'' ( it, Camping del terrore) is a 1986 Italian slasher film directed by Ruggero Deodato. The film is about a group of vacationing teenagers who enter an abandoned camp site that was formerly an Indian burial ground. One by one, the kids begin to be killed off. The film was initially to be made by Alessandro Capone, but directing was taken over by Deodato during production. The film's script was changed on set by screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti while production was troubled by weather in the Abruzzi region. Retrospective reviews of the film have commented that it was derivative of American slasher films of the era. Plot A gang of vacationing teenagers drive out to an abandoned campsite that was shut down years before, due to the murder of a young couple that occurred there. The area was formerly an old Indian burial ground and is believed to be haunted by the spirit of an Indian shaman. One by one, the kids are killed off in gruesome ways, whom they believe to be th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Palermo Connection
''Dimenticare Palermo'' (''Forgetting Palermo'') is a 1989 Italian political thriller film starring James Belushi, directed by Francesco Rosi and co-written by Gore Vidal. The film was released under the title ''The Palermo Connection'' in North America. The script is based on the Prix Goncourt winning novel '' Oublier Palerme'' (1966) by French author Edmonde Charles-Roux. Plot Carmine Bonavia is candidate for mayor of New York City on the issue of drug legalization. During the campaign he gets married and travels to his ancestral home of Sicily, for the honeymoon. In the hotel in Palermo he meets a Sicilian prince who has been confined there for years because he crossed the mafia. He discovers the beauties of the Italian island but is also framed by men of power, for a crime he did not commit. He discovers that those men will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business, and is forced to decide between joining them or going to prison. Cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
