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Toni Bertorelli
Toni Bertorelli (18 March 1948 – 26 May 2017) was an Italian actor. He performed in over sixty films. Biography Bertorelli was born in Barge, Piedmont, Italy. Bertorelli began his acting career in 1969 working with his friend Carlo Cecchi. He starred in early 1980s movies, but gained more popularity in the 1990s, starring in Mario Martone's ''Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician'' and Marco Tullio Giordana's ''Who Killed Pasolini?'' During the 2000s, Bertorelli worked with directors like Nanni Moretti, Marco Bellocchio and Mel Gibson. In 2016, he played the role of Cardinal Caltanissetta in Paolo Sorrentino's short series ''The Young Pope ''The Young Pope'' is a drama television series created and directed by Paolo Sorrentino for Sky Atlantic, HBO, and Canal+. The series stars Jude Law as the disruptive Pope Pius XIII and Diane Keaton as his confidante, Sister Mary, in a Vatica ...''. Bertorelli died on 26 May 2017, at the age of 69, after a long illness. Filmography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barge, Piedmont
Barge is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southwest of Turin and about northwest of Cuneo. The population numbered 7,589 as of 30 November 2019. Barge borders the following municipalities: Bagnolo Piemonte, Cardè, Cavour, Envie, Ostana, Paesana, Revello, Sanfront, and Villafranca Piemonte. Geography The town is situated at the foot of the Cottian Alps, near Monviso and more precisely, in a basin at the foot of Mount Bracco and Mount Medìa. The inhabited centre is crossed by two streams (Chiappera and Infernotto), which join to form a third one, the Ghiandone, which joins the river Po near Staffarda. Barge lies about 360-390 metres above sea level. Name The name Barge is thought to derive from the ancient word 'barga', whose meaning is debated. According to one view, it means "shelter" or "hut". Others maintain it is to be linked to the ancient root *berg-/*barg-/*breg-/*brig- with the meaning of "elevated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny The Partisan
''Il partigiano Johnny'', internationally released as ''Johnny the Partisan'', is a 2000 Italian war drama film set in the Second World War and directed by Guido Chiesa. It is based on the novel of the same name by Beppe Fenoglio. The film entered the competition at the 57th Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the Children and Cinema Award. Plot Johnny, a university student with a passion for English literature, deserts the Italian Army in Rome after the September 1943 Badoglio Proclamation, and returns home to Alba. He initially takes refuge in a villa in the hills, where he devotes himself to his studies. After the death of a friend, he decides to take action. He leaves the city and joins the first partisan formation he meets, the "Reds", led by Biondo. He doesn't share their communist ideology, only their desire to fight the Fascists. Left alone after the group has dispersed under a German attack, he manages to reach a formation of the Badogliani, also call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Caiman
''The Caiman'' ( it, Il caimano, referring to the caiman) is a 2006 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Nanni Moretti and starring Silvio Orlando and Margherita Buy. Focusing on Silvio Berlusconi's vicissitudes, it was released just before the beginning of the 2006 elections, in which Berlusconi lost. It was one of the most successful films of 2006 in Italy. It was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Opening with a wedding between two young Communists, officiated by a CP functionary, under the poster of Mao-Tse Tung, the bride suddenly spears the man and escapes, chased by the police. This is the end of 'Cataratte'/'Cataracts', a 10-year-old action B-movie projected in an open-air cinema in honor of Bruno Bonomo (Silvio Orlando), a cockeyed film producer, who did some trash movies starring his wife Paola (Margherita Buy) in the 1970s. He also has two young sons loved by him and his wife. During this homage, a young woman presents him the script of a movie she wa ... [...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] |
Pontormo – Un Amore Eretico
Jacopo Carucci (May 24, 1494 – January 2, 1557), usually known as ''Jacopo da Pontormo'', ''Jacopo Pontormo'', or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a profound stylistic shift from the calm perspectival regularity that characterized the art of the Florentine Renaissance. He is famous for his use of twining poses, coupled with ambiguous perspective; his figures often seem to float in an uncertain environment, unhampered by the forces of gravity. Biography and early work Jacopo Carucci was born at Pontorme, near Empoli, to Bartolomeo di Jacopo di Martino Carrucci and Alessandra di Pasquale di Zanobi. Vasari relates how the orphaned boy, "young, melancholy, and lonely", was shuttled around as a young apprentice: Pontormo painted in and around Florence, often supported by Medici patronage. A foray to Rome, largely to see Michelangelo's work, influenced his later style. Haunted faces and elongate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annas
Annas (also Ananus or Ananias;Goodman, Martin, "Rome & Jerusalem", Penguin Books, p.12 (2007) , ; grc-x-koine, Ἅννας, ; 23/22 BC – death date unknown, probably around AD 40) was appointed by the Roman legate Quirinius as the first High Priest of the newly formed Roman province of Judaea in AD 6 – just after the Romans had deposed Archelaus, Ethnarch of Judaea, thereby putting Judaea directly under Roman rule. Annas appears in the Gospels and Passion plays as a high priest before whom Jesus is brought for judgment, prior to being brought before Pontius Pilate. The sacerdotal family The terms of Annas, Caiaphas, and the five brothers are: Ananus (or Annas), son of Seth (6–15) Annas officially served as High Priest for ten years (AD 6–15), when at the age of 36 he was deposed by the procurator Valerius Gratus. Yet while having been officially removed from office, he remained as one of the nation's most influential political and social individuals, aided greatly by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Passion Of The Christ
''The Passion of the Christ'' is a 2004 American epic biblical drama film produced, directed and co-written by Mel Gibson and starring Jim Caviezel as Jesus of Nazareth, Maia Morgenstern as Mary, mother of Jesus, and Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalene. It depicts the Passion of Jesus largely according to the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. It also draws on pious accounts such as the Friday of Sorrows, along with other devotional writings, such as the reputed visions attributed to Anne Catherine Emmerich.Father John O'Malley ''A Movie, a Mystic, a Spiritual Tradition'' ''America'', March 15, 2004 ''Jesus and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ'' by Kathleen E. Corley, Robert Leslie Webb. 2004. . pp. 160–161.''Mel Gibson's Passion and philosophy'' by Jorge J. E. Gracia. 2004. . p. 145.''Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia'' edited by Philip C. Dimare. 2011. . p. 909. As per the title, the film primarily covers the final 12 hours before Jesus Christ's death, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Now Or Never (2003 Film)
''Now or Never'' ( it, Ora o mai più) is a 2003 Italian coming of age comedy-drama film written and directed by Lucio Pellegrini. Plot David is a model student in the last year of the physics faculty at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa; he practically lives in a parallel reality, made up of books and arguments on the highest systems, without any contact with everyday reality. Everything changes when, a few minutes before his last exam, he participates in a student collective to follow the unknown Viola, after the latter had given him a flyer: the exam skips, and with it most of David's certainties. The boy immediately falls in love with Viola, but he is also a good friend of Luca, Viola's boyfriend. The events lead David to participate in the occupation of a social center, and even in pseudo-subversive actions to the point of catapulting the entire group of dissidents in the midst of the violence that shook Genoa in 2001 on the occasion of the G8 summit. Cast * Jacopo Bonvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Mother's Smile
''My Mother's Smile'' is a 2002 Italian film directed by Marco Bellocchio. The original Italian title is ''L'ora di religione (Il sorriso di mia madre)'' ("The Hour of Religion (My Mother's Smile)"). Summary The film tells the story of a man whose "martyred" mother is in the process of canonization. She had been killed by her insane son, Egidio, while she slept. However, since this death would not count as "martyrdom", and would not qualify her for sainthood, the family is claiming she had been awake, begging her son to stop blaspheming, and that she had forgiven him before she died. The story is told from the perspective of her son Ernesto, a well-known painter and an atheist. The film portrays a colorful fresco so hypocritical to Catholicism today, showing how hard it still creeps into our lives, even against our will (as the protagonist shows). He often remembers for the delivery of a blasphemy explicit narrative tension at maximum (for this reason in Italy it was rated not suit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light Of My Eyes
''Luce dei miei occhi'' (internationally released as ''Light of My Eyes'') is a 2001 Italian romance-drama film directed by Giuseppe Piccioni. The film entered the 58th Venice International Film Festival, where Luigi Lo Cascio and Sandra Ceccarelli were awarded with the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively. Cast *Luigi Lo Cascio: Antonio *Sandra Ceccarelli: Maria *Silvio Orlando: Saverio *Barbara Valente: Lisa *Toni Bertorelli: Mario *Valeria Sabel Valeria Sabel (7 April 1928 – 18 August 2009) was an Italian actress. She appeared in more than sixty films from 1964 to 2009. In '' Godfather III'' she played the role of ''Sister Vincenza''. Selected filmography References External ...: Old woman References External links * 2001 films Italian drama films Films scored by Ludovico Einaudi Films directed by Giuseppe Piccioni 2000s Italian films {{2000s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Words Of My Father
''The Words of My Father'' ( it, Le parole di mio padre) is a 2001 Italian drama film directed by Francesca Comencini. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Fabrizio Rongione - Zeno Cosini * Chiara Mastroianni - Ada * Mimmo Calopresti - Giovanni Malfenti * Claudia Coli - Alberta * Viola Graziosi - Augusta * Toni Bertorelli Toni Bertorelli (18 March 1948 – 26 May 2017) was an Italian actor. He performed in over sixty films. Biography Bertorelli was born in Barge, Piedmont, Italy. Bertorelli began his acting career in 1969 working with his friend Carlo Cecchi. H ... - Zeno's father * Camille Dugay Comencini - Anna References External links * 2001 films 2001 drama films Italian drama films 2000s Italian-language films Films directed by Francesca Comencini Films scored by Ludovico Einaudi 2000s Italian films {{2000s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Son's Room
''The Son's Room'' ( it, La stanza del figlio) is a 2001 Italian film directed, written and produced by Nanni Moretti. It depicts the psychological effects on a family and their life after the death of their son. It was filmed in and around the city of Ancona, with a cast led by Moretti, Laura Morante and Jasmine Trinca. The film competed at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and received positive reviews. It won numerous awards, including the Palme d'Or and the David di Donatello for Best Film. Plot In Ancona, Giovanni is a therapist, whose 17-year-old son Andrea is accused of stealing a rare ammonite fossil from his school. Andrea is suspended and protests his innocence, but later confesses to his mother Paola he and his friend stole it as a prank, and intended to return it before it broke. Giovanni and Andrea make plans to go jogging together, but Giovanni is called to the distant home of a patient who is severely distressed about a possible cancer diagnosis. Instead, Andrea goes s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
