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The Prize (2017 Film)
''The Prize'' (''Il premio'') is a 2017 Italian film directed by Alessandro Gassman. Plot Giovanni Passamonte, a writer, is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is about to embark on a one-week road trip to Stockholm to receive the prize when his personal assistant, Rinaldo, injures his back and can no longer drive him there. His son Oreste, a personal trainer who had arrived that morning to crash at his father's place after an argument with his wife Barbara, is recruited to replace Rinaldo. Lucrezia, Giovanni's daughter by another woman, invites herself to the trip to document it as part of her online blog. The trip becomes a turning point for the four characters: Giovanni is nostalgic and lamenting a lack of inspiration. He is secretly planning a big surprise at the award ceremony (but ultimately changes his mind) and decides to interfere and improve the lives of his three companions. His eccentricity is the cause of the trip and often results in comedic moments througho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Gassman
Alessandro Gassmann (born 24 February 1965) is an Italian actor and film director. Early life Gassmann was born in Rome, Italy, the son of Italian actor Vittorio Gassman and French actress Juliette Mayniel. He is of German, Jewish and French descent. Career He debuted at 17 in the autobiographical film ''Di padre in figlio'', written and directed with his father, under whose tutoring he later studied in the Theatre Workshop of Florence. Among his theatrical activity, he was noted for his playing in Pier Paolo Pasolini's '' Affabulazione'' (1984). In 1996 he began an artistic partnership with his friend Gianmarco Tognazzi with whom he co-acted in popular movies like ''Uomini senza donne'', ''Facciamo festa'', ''Teste di cocco'', ''Lovest'', '' I miei più cari amici'' and ''Natale a Beverly Hills'', in the theatrical version of '' Some Like It Hot'' and as dubbers of the Disney cartoon ''Eldorado''. In 1997 he won international acclaim with Ferzan Özpetek's '' Hamam''. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gigi Proietti
Luigi "Gigi" Proietti (2 November 1940 – 2 November 2020) was an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, musician, singer and television presenter. Early life He was born in Rome to Romano Proietti, originally from Umbria, and Giovanna Ceci, a housewife. During his youth he was keen on singing and on playing guitar, piano, accordion and double bass in several Roman nightclubs. He enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the La Sapienza University, where he attended the mimicry courses of the University Theatre Centre held by Giancarlo Cobelli, who immediately noticed his talent as a musician and booked him for an avantgarde play. Career Acting After several stage works, in 1966 Proietti debuted both in cinema, in ''Pleasant Nights'', and on television, in the TV series ''I grandi camaleonti''. His first personal success came in 1971, when he replaced Domenico Modugno in the stage musical ''Alleluja brava gente'' by Garinei & Giovannini, starring alongside Renato Rascel. In 1974, after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocco Papaleo
Rocco Antonio Papaleo (born 16 August 1958) is an Italian actor, film director and singer. Born in Lauria (Basilicata), he moved to Rome to study math at university but left soon to attend the theatre school. He made his theatrical debut in 1985 acting ''Sussurri rapidi'' by Salvatore Di Mattia. In 1989, he made his first cinema appearance in ''Senza Pelle'', directed by Alessandro D'Alatri and appeared in the television series ''Classe di ferro''. He is known for his long collaboration with director Leonardo Pieraccioni. He also starred in films like '' Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess'' (2009) by Hiroshi Nishitani and '' What a Beautiful Day'' (2010) by Gennaro Nunziante. He made his debut as a film director in ''Basilicata coast to coast'' (2010), winning a Nastro d'Argento and a David di Donatello award for Best New Director. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Foglietta
Anna Foglietta (born 3 April 1979) is an Italian actress. She has appeared in the films ''Escort in Love'' and ''Ex – Amici come prima!''. She has also appeared in several television series such as ''Distretto di Polizia'' and ''The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (TV series), The Mafia Kills Only in Summer''. Biography Foglietta was born and raised in Rome from a family of Naples, Neapolitan origins. She won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress, with ''Un giorno all'improvviso (2018 film), Un giorno all'improvviso''. Selected filmography References External links * Living people Italian film actresses Italian television actresses 1979 births Actresses from Rome Nastro d'Argento winners People of Campanian descent 21st-century Italian actresses {{italy-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matilda De Angelis
Matilda De Angelis (born 11 September 1995) is an Italian actress and singer. Her credits include the films ''Italian Race'' and '' Rose Island'', and the television miniseries '' The Law According to Lidia Poët'', and ''The Undoing''. Career She started playing guitar and violin at the age of thirteen. She attended the '' liceo scientifico'' "Enrico Fermi" in Bologna. In 2011, De Angelis began singing in the band Rumba de Bodas. The band also recorded an album, ''Karnaval Fou'', which was released in 2014. In 2015, she was noticed by director Matteo Rovere, who cast her as the lead in his film ''Italian Race'' (2016). According to De Angelis, Rovere «saw some of my pictures on Facebook and he wanted to meet me because they were searching for the leading role in this new film and the director didn't want to get a professional actress because he needed a specific dialect from a specific region in Italy (Emilia Romagna). So, I went to the audition and after, he told me: "You hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Zitelli
Marco may refer to: People * Marco (given name), people with the given name Marco * Marco (actor) (born 1977), South Korean model and actor * Georg Marco (1863–1923), Romanian chess player of German origin * Tomás Marco (born 1942), Spanish composer and writer on music Places * Marco, Ceará, Brazil, a municipality * Marco, New Zealand, a locality in the Taranaki Region * Marco, Indiana, United States, an unincorporated town * Marco, Missouri, United States, an unincorporated community * Marco Island, Florida, United States, a city and an island Science and technology * Mars Cube One (MarCO), a pair of small satellites which fly by Mars in 2018 * MARCO, a macrophage receptor protein that in humans is encoded by the MARCO gene * Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARCO) * Marco, the official window manager of MATE Arts and entertainment * '' Marco: 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother'', a 1976 Japanese anime series, directed by Isao Takahata * ''Marco'' (film), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 In Film
2017 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of films released, and notable deaths in 2017. Evaluation of the year Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' observed that for 2017, "the most important event in the world of movies was the revelation, in ''The New York Times'' and ''The New Yorker'', of sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein, and the resulting liberation of the long-stifled voices of the people who had been abused by him or other powerful figures in the movie business, and, for that matter, in other arts and industries, too." He emphasizes that in effect, " at's missing from the year-end list, and from the era in movies, isn't only the unmade work by these filmmakers but the artistry and the careers of cast and crew members who would have been in their unrealized films." Highest-grossing films The top films released in 2017 by worldwide gross are as follows: '' Star Wars: The Last Jedi'', ''Beauty and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Blanc
Enrica Bianchi Colombatto (born 23 July 1942), usually known by her stagename of Erika Blanc, is an Italian actress. Career Her most notable role was as the first fictional character Emmanuelle in '' Io, Emmanuelle'' (1969). Blanc starred in several cult European horror films, including '' The Third Eye'' (1966), ''Kill, Baby, Kill'' (1966), '' So Sweet... So Perverse'' (1969), ''The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave'' (1971), ''The Devil's Nightmare'' (1971), '' The Red Headed Corpse'' (1972) and ''Mark of the Devil Part II'' (1973). Her other film credits include roles in '' Django Shoots First'' (1966), '' Long Arm of the Godfather'' (1972), ''Tony Arzenta'' (1973), '' The Stranger and the Gunfighter'' (1974), ''Eye of the Cat'' (1976) and '' Dream of a Summer Night'' (1983). She recently returned to films with small but intense roles under the direction of Turkish-born director Ferzan Özpetek, acting as Antonia's mother in '' Le fate ignoranti'' (2001), and as the sensit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Jonasson
Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide for both males and females, cognate to Andreas, Andrej and Andrew. Origin of the name The name derives from the Greek word ἀνήρ (''anēr''), genitive ἀνδρός (''andrós''), that refers to man as opposed to woman (whereas ''man'' in the sense of ''human being'' is ἄνθρωπος, ''ánthropos''). The original male Greek name, ''Andréas'', represents the hypocoristic, with endearment functions, of male Greek names composed with the ''andr-'' prefix, like Androgeos (''man of the earth''), Androcles (''man of glory''), Andronikos (''man of victory''). In the year 2006, it was the third most popular name in Italy with 3.1% of newborns. It is one of the Italian male names ending in ''a'', with others being Elia (Elias), Enea (Aeneas), Luca (Lucas), Mattia (Matthias), Nicola (Nicholas), Tobia (Tobias). In recent and past times it has also been used on occasion as a female name in Italy and in Spain, where it is consid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenia Tempesta
''Eugenia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It has a worldwide, although highly uneven, distribution in tropical and subtropical regions. The bulk of the approximately 1,100 species occur in the New World tropics, especially in the northern Andes, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic Forest (coastal forests) of eastern Brazil. Other centers of diversity include New Caledonia and Madagascar. Many of the species that occur in the Old World have received a new classification into the genus '' Syzygium''. All species are woody evergreen trees and shrubs. Several are grown as ornamental plants for their attractive glossy foliage, and a few produce edible fruit that are eaten fresh or used in jams and jellies. Taxonomy The genus was named in honor of Prince Eugene of Savoy. Many species new to science have been and are in the process of being described from these regions. For example, 37 new species of ''Eugenia'' have been described from Mesoameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elda Alvigini
Elda is a city and municipality located in the province of Alicante, Spain. , it has a total population of 55,618 inhabitants, ranking as the 7th most populous city in the province. Elda joins together with the town of Petrer to form a conurbation with over 85,000 inhabitants. The river Vinalopó flows through the urban area of Elda. Elda is known for its footwear industry, in particular for women's shoes. Tourist sites include the Footwear Museum, the Archaeological Museum, the ''Torre del Homenaje del castillo'' (a tower dating from the 12th century), ''Castelar'' Square, Count of ''Coloma'' Palace, the Town Hall and the church of ''Santa Ana''. It also celebrates the important festival of '' Moros y Cristianos'' Sport CD Eldense is based in the city. People *Elia Barceló, the writer, was born here in 1957 *Ana Oncina the illustrator, was born here in 1989 *Isabel Ortuño, handballer, was born here in 1982 *Pedrito Rico, singer, actor and dancer *Alba Rico, Spanish singer a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
