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The Father And The Foreigner
''The Father and the Foreigner'' ( it, Il padre e lo straniero) is a 2010 Italian drama film directed by Ricky Tognazzi. It is based on the novel ''Crime Novel'' by Giancarlo De Cataldo. Plot Diego (Alessandro Gassman), an employee from Rome with a disabled son, meets Walid (Amr Waked), a rich Syrian businessman whose son is also handicapped. From their shared suffering blooms quite an unusual friendship, and the two dads start spending time together at Turkish baths, luxury shopping sprees, and meeting a mysterious sister in law named Zaira (Nadine Labaki). With a private jet, they head to Syria to see the plot of land Walid purchased for his son. Once back from that short and rather unusual trip, the pain preventing Diego and his wife to enjoy some passionate moments starts fading away, while Walid disappears following terrorist allegations. Tailed by the Secret Service in a suffocating and ambiguous Rome, Diego sets out looking for the man, uncovering a shockingly sad truth. ...
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Ricky Tognazzi
Ricky Tognazzi (born Riccardo Tognazzi; ; 1 May 1955) is an Italian actor and film director. He has appeared in 50 films and television shows since 1963. His film '' The Escort'' was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. In 1991, he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival for his film ''Ultra''. Five years later, his film '' Strangled Lives'' won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. He is the son of film actor and director Ugo Tognazzi and the half-brother of actor Gianmarco Tognazzi and film director Maria Sole Tognazzi. In 2016, he appeared as an out-of touch variety show host in the music video for "''Tutti Frutti''" by English rock band New Order. He's an outspoken atheist, even if he admires some religious figures such as Saint Thomas, Pope John XXIII and Pope Francis. Selected filmography Director * ''Little Misunderstandings'' (1989) * ''Ultra'' (1991) * '' The Escort'' (1993) * '' ...
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Nadine Labaki
Nadine Labaki ( ar, نادين لبكي ''Nādīn Labikī''; born February 18, 1974) is a Lebanese actress, director and activist. Labaki first came into the spotlight as an actress in the early 2000s. Her film-making career began in 2007 after the release of her debut film, ''Caramel'', which premiered at the Cannes 2007 Film Festival. She is known for demonstrating everyday aspects of Lebanese life and covering a range of political issues such as war, poverty, and feminism. She is the first female Arab director to be nominated for an Oscar in the category for Best Foreign Language Film for Capernaum (2018). Early life Labaki was born in Baabdat, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon, to a Maronite family to Antoine and Antoinette Labaki. Her father is an engineer while her mother is a homemaker. She spent the first seventeen years of her life living in a war-torn environment, until 1991 when the civil war in Lebanon had ended. Early in life, she learned the art of storytelling f ...
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2010 Drama Films
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Films Directed By Ricky Tognazzi
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ...
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Italian Drama Films
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2010 Films
In the year 2010, there was a dramatic increase and prominence in the use of 3D-technology in filmmaking after the success of ''Avatar'' in the format, with releases such as '' Alice in Wonderland'', '' Clash of the Titans'', '' Jackass 3D'', all animated films, with numerous other titles being released in 3D formats. 20th Century Fox celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2010. Evaluation of the year In his article highlighting the best movies of 2010, Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' said: "At times it feels as if we’re living in something of a cinematic golden age, but one that’s altogether different from earlier halcyon days. Where some celebrate the former genius of the system to explain an earlier day’s proliferation of fine movies, now the system is something of a blunderer that often flings itself into follies or even crushes inspiration under its weight, but sometimes gets carried away, for reasons good or bad, and hands surprising control of vast resources over to ar ...
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Movies About Immigration To Italy
The filmography on immigration in Italy is a phenomenon started with the arrival of the first migratory flows in Italy, since the 1990s. Italian films 1988 - 1999 * Emir Kusturica, '' Time of the Gypsies'' (United Kingdom/Italy/Yugoslavia, 1988) * Michele Placido, '' Pummarò'' (Italy, 1990) * Marcello Bivona, '' Clandestini nella città'' (Italy/Tunisia, 1992) * Claudio Fragasso, '' Teste rasate'' (Italy, 1993) * Gianni Amelio, '' Lamerica'' (Italy/France/Switzerland, 1994) * Maurizio Zaccaro, '' Article 2'' – L’Articolo 2 - (Italy, 1994) * Renzo Martinelli, '' The Waterbaby - Sarahsarà'' (Italy, 1994) * Various directors, ''Intolerance'' (Italy, 1996) * Carlo Mazzacurati, ''Vesna va veloce'' (Italy/France, 1996) * Matteo Garrone, '' Terra di mezzo'' (Italy, 1996) * Massimo Martelli, '' Pole pole'' (Italy, 1996) * Rachid Benhadj, '' Another Country in My Eyes : The Tree of Hanging Destinies - L’albero dei destini sospesi'' (Italy, 1997) * Bernardo Bertolucci, ''Besieg ...
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Emanuele Salce
Emanuele is the Italian form of Manuel. People with the name include: * Carlo Emanuele Buscaglia (1915–1944), Italian aviator * Emanuele Basile (1949–1980), captain of Carabinieri * Emanuele Belardi (born 1977), Italian football player * Emanuele Calaiò (born 1982), Italian football player * Emanuele Canonica (born 1971), Italian professional golfer * Emanuele Chiapasco (1930–2021), Italian baseball player and entrepreneur * Emanuele Crialese (born 1965), Italian film screenwriter and director * Emanuele d'Astorga (1681–1736), Italian composer * Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta (1869–1931), eldest son of Amadeo I of Spain * Emanuele Filiberto, Prince of Venice and Piedmont (born 1972), member of the House of Savoy * Emanuele Filippini (born 1973), Italian football player * Emanuele Gianturco (1857–1907), Italian legal scholar and politician * Emanuele Idini (born 1970), retired freestyle swimmer * Emanuele Luzzati (1921–2007), Italian painter, production desi ...
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Mohamed Zouaoui
Mohamed Zouaoui ( ar, محمد الزواوي), is a Tunisian-born actor living in Italy. In 2004 he made his first appearance on the television miniseries ''Posso chiamarti amore?''. He also acted in ''Nassiryia - Per non dimenticare'' (''Nasiriyah - Lest we forget''), ''Capri'', and ''RIS Delitti Imperfetti'' (''Scientific Investigations Unit: Imperfect Crimes''). In 2007, he acted in the miniseries ''Liberi di giocare''. His cinema debut was the 2008 film ''L'ultimo pulcinella'', directed by Maurizio Scapparo. In 2009 he starred in ''I mostri oggi'', and in 2010 appeared in ''The Father and the Foreigner''. In 2010 he acted in ''I fiori di Kirkuk'', directed by Fariborz Kamkari. For this role he earned several awards, including the "Golden Globe" 2011 Globo d'Oro for Best New Actor. In 2012 he starred in the independent film Carta Bianca, by Colombian director Andreas Maldonado, a film based on a true story. Between 2014 and 2016 Zouaoui takes part in several projects includ ...
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Leo Gullotta
Salvatore Leopoldo "Leo" Gullotta (born 9 January 1946) is an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian and writer. Biography Born in Catania and the last of six children, Gullotta started his career as an extra in Teatro Massimo Bellini. In his long career as actor, Gullotta has starred in about 100 films and has participated in numerous shows and drama series for television. In 1987 he won his first David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor for his role in '' Il Camorrista'' by Giuseppe Tornatore, and later worked with Tornatore four more times. In 1997 and 2000 he won two more David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor, for the Maurizio Zaccaro films '' Il carniere'' and '' Un uomo perbene''. He has also won two Silver Ribbon for Best supporting Actor, in 1984 for '' Mi manda Picone'' by Nanni Loy and in 2001 for ''Vajont'' by Renzo Martinelli. Gullotta has starred in many theatrical plays and dramas, and was part of the theater company "Il Bagaglino". He won the Flaiano Pr ...
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Kseniya Rappoport
Kseniya Aleksandrovna Rappoport (russian: link=no, Ксе́ния Алекса́ндровна Раппопо́рт; born 25 March 1974) is a Russian actress. She graduated in 2000 from Saint Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Arts and was immediately invited to join the Maly Drama Theatre. She played Nina Zarechnaya in ''The Seagull'', Elena in ''Uncle Vania'', and Sonia in '' La doppia ora''. She has appeared in films and TV series such as '' Streets of Broken Lights'', ''Baron'', ''Anna Karenina'', ''Nicholas II'' (Germany), ''The Russian Bride'', ''National Security Agent'', '' Empire under Attack'', ''Calendula Flowers'', ''Prokofiev'' (Germany), '' Get Thee Out'', '' Criminal Petersburg'', ''Homicide'', and ''I Pay Up Front'' and ''My Wife's Romance'' (France). She starred in the Italian films ''La sconosciuta'' (''The Unknown Woman''; 2006), L'uomo che ama (2008) and in the Golden Lion nominated movie '' La doppia ora'' (2009), for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Act ...
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Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It is a unitary republic that consists of 14 governorates (subdivisions), and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest. Cyprus lies to the west across the Mediterranean Sea. A country of fertile plains, high mountains, and deserts, Syria is home to diverse ethnic and religious groups, including the majority Syrian Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens, Assyrians, Armenians, Circassians, Albanians, and Greeks. Religious groups include Muslims, Christians, Alawites, Druze, and Yazidis. The capital and largest city of Syria is Damascus. Arabs are the largest ethnic group, and Mu ...
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