Vendetta (1995 Film)
''Vendetta'' is a 1995 Swedish film directed by Mikael Håfström and starring Stefan Sauk as the Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton and as his adversary Don Tommaso, Ennio Fantastichini. It was released to cinemas in Sweden on 10 February 1995. A television miniseries was filmed at the same time. It aired as six episodes of 50–60 minutes each. Plot Carl Hamilton is assigned to go to Sicily to free two Swedish businessmen who are held captive by a local villain named Don Tommaso. The Don wants a Swedish naval robot system in exchange for his hostages. In the beginning Hamilton acts merely as a negotiator, but when he cannot accept the demands of his counterpart, the situation escalates. Hamilton stands up against Don Tommaso, while abduction and murder becomes the language of negotiation. A classical vendetta is initiated, as narcotics from Colombia and the Italian intelligence community become involved. Cast * Stefan Sauk as commander Carl Hamilton, naval officer an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mikael Håfström
Jan Mikael Håfström is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the 2003 film ''Evil'', and the movie adaptation of Stephen King's short story '' 1408''. Early life Born in Lund, Sweden, Mikael Håfström studied film at the University of Stockholm and the School of Visual Arts. Career Håfström's 2003 film ''Evil'' was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards. His slasher film, ''Drowning Ghost'', screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Market. In 2005, Håfström directed '' Derailed'', which starred Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston. Håfström directed '' 1408'', a horror film based on the Stephen King short story of the same name and starring John Cusack, in 2007. He collaborated with Cusack again in ''Shanghai'', which premiered at the 2010 Shanghai International Film Festival. He directed '' The Rite'', an exorcism thriller film starring Anthony Hopkins, in 2011. His 2013 film, '' Escape Plan'', starred ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marika Lagercrantz
Marika Karin Louise Lagercrantz (born 12 July 1954) is a Swedish actress. Since 2011, she has been Sweden's cultural attaché at the Berlin embassy in Germany. Lagercrantz was born in Solna. She is the daughter of Olof Lagercrantz, granddaughter of Hans Ruin, sister of David Lagercrantz, and cousin of Lars and Johan Lönnroth. Lagercrantz got her start in acting at Vår teater, a Swedish children's theatre, at six years of age. She participated in season 10 of '' Stjärnorna på slottet'' which was broadcast on SVT. Filmography Television * '' Rapport till himlen'' (1994) * '' Folk med ångest'' (2021) References 1954 births Living people Swedish film actresses Swedish television actresses People from Solna Municipality Swedish diplomats Swedish expatriates in Germany Swedish women diplomats {{Sweden-actor-stub Marika Marika is a feminine given name of Polish, Greek, and Japanese origin. It has its origin in the Hungarian and Greek nickname for Maria, or i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1995 Action Drama Films
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1995 Crime Thriller Films
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1990s Crime Action Films
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1995 Films
File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strikes Kobe, Japan, killing 5,000-6,000 people; The Unabomber Manifesto is published in several U.S. newspapers; Gravestone, Gravestones mark the victims of the Srebrenica massacre near the end of the Bosnian War; Windows 95 is launched by Microsoft for Personal computer, PC; The first exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered; Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Space station Mir in a display of U.S.-Russian cooperation; The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is Oklahoma City bombing, bombed by Domestic terrorism in the United States, domestic terrorists, killing 168., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 O. J. Simpson murder case rect 200 0 400 200 Great Hanshin earthquake, Kobe earthquake rect 400 0 6 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Renato Carpentieri
Renato Carpentieri (born 2 April 1943) is an Italian actor, stage director and playwright. Life and career Born in Savignano Irpino, Avellino, Carpentieri studied architecture in Naples, where from 1965 to 1974 he was engaged in the organization and promotion of cultural events with the group Nuova Cultura. In 1975 he was co-founder of the stage company Teatro dei Mutamenti, in which he was active until 1980 as a director, an actor and a playwright. He made his film debut in 1990, almost fifty years old, in Gianni Amelio's '' Porte aperte''. In 1993 he won a Nastro d'Argento for best supporting actor for his performance in Gabriele Salvatores' '' Puerto Escondido''. Since 1995 he has been the artistic director of the Neapolitan stage company Libera Scena Ensemble. Partial filmography *'' Open Doors'' (1990) *''The Yes Man'' (1991) *''The Stolen Children'' (1992) *'' Puerto Escondido'' (1992) *''Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician'' (1992) *'' Sud'' (1993) *''Caro diario ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marcello Tusco
Marcello is a common masculine Italian given name. It is a variant of Marcellus. The Spanish and Portuguese version of the name is Marcelo, differing in having only one "l", while the Greek form is Markellos. Etymology The name originally means ''like a hammer''. It is originally the adjectival form of ''Marcus,'' which means ''hammer''; the -el suffix was in times of archaic Latin the adjectival form. People with given name * Marcello Abbado (1926–2020), Italian pianist * Marcello Boldrini (1890–1969), Italian statistician * Marcello Borges (born 1997), American soccer player * Marcello Caetano (1906–1980), Portuguese politician * Marcello Campolonghi (born 1975), Italian footballer * Marcello Castellini (born 1973), Italian footballer * Marcello Cerruti (1808–1896), Italian diplomat and politician * Marcello Ciorciolini (1922–2011), Italian director and screenwriter * Marcello Dudovich (1878–1962), Italian painter and illustrator * Marcello Fabbri (1923–2015 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ralf Wolter
Ralf Wolter (26 November 1926 – 14 October 2022) was a German stage and screen actor. Wolter appeared in nearly 220 films and television series in his over 60 years as a character actor. Life and career Wolter began his long career on the Berlin stage and in cabaret during the late 1940s. He made his first film appearance in ''Die Frauen des Herrn S.'' and quickly achieved prominence as an actor for comedic supporting roles. In 1961, he appeared as the baldheaded Soviet agent Borodenko in Billy Wilder's comedy ''One, Two, Three'' with James Cagney and Horst Buchholz. Another Hollywood film with Wolter in a supporting role was ''Cabaret'' (1972), where he played, alongside Liza Minnelli, the role of the neighbour Herr Ludwig, a publisher of pornographic books who later turns out to be a Nazi. In Germany, Wolter achieved his greatest fame as the eccentric but friendly trapper Sam Hawkens and as Hadschi Halef Omar in a number of highly successful Karl May film adaptations durin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Leonardo De Carmine
Leonardo is a masculine given name, the Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese equivalent of the English, German, and Dutch name, Leonard. People Notable people with the name include: * Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Italian Renaissance scientist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, and painter Artists * Leonardo Schulz Cardoso, Brazilian singer * Emival Eterno da Costa (born 1963), Brazilian singer known as Leonardo * Leonardo de Mango (1843–1930), Italian-born Turkish painter * Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974), American actor * Leonardo Pieraccioni (born 1965), Italian actor and director Athletes * Leonardo Araújo (born 1969), usually known as Leonardo, Brazilian World Cup-winning footballer, and former sporting director of Paris Saint Germain * Leonardo Fioravanti (born 1997), Italian surfer * Leonardo Lourenço Bastos (born 1975), Brazilian footballer * Leonardo Bittencourt, German footballer * Leonardo Bonucci (born 1987), Italian footballer * Leonardo Candi (born 1997), ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pasquale Anselmo
Pasquale Anselmo (born 14 April 1958) is an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Cosenza, Anselmo attended the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts and made light appearances on stage, film and television. He is better known as a voice dubber and he is the official Italian voice of Nicolas Cage. Other actors dubbed by Anselmo include John Turturro, David Koechner, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz, Woody Harrelson, Clark Gregg and more. Some of Anselmo's popular dubbing roles include Phil Coulson (portrayed by Clark Gregg) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Jimmy McGill (portrayed by Bob Odenkirk) in ''Better Call Saul'' and Vic Mackey (portrayed by Michael Chiklis) in ''The Shield''. In Anselmo's animated roles, he took over as the Italian voice of Waylon Smithers in ''The Simpsons'' since the death of Vittorio Amandola in 2010. He also dubbed Rico in the ''Madagascar'' franchise and Pepé the King Prawn in ''The Muppets'' since 2005. Filmography C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |