''Picasso's Face'' ( it, Faccia di Picasso) is a
2000
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comedy film
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written, directed and starred by
Massimo Ceccherini
Massimo Ceccherini (born 23 May 1965) is an Italian actor, film director, comedian and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Florence, Ceccherini is the son of a plasterer, he seemed destined for the same profession, but his father was attracted to t ...
.
Plot
Massimo Ceccherini is looking for a plot for his new movie: the suggestions of the people around him are all the same and they indicate "less vulgarity" and "more gags". In the end, he just settles for a long series of homages, ranging from the Rocky film series to ''
Jaws
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Anatomy
* Jaw, an opposable articulated structure at the entrance of the mouth
** Mandible, the lower jaw
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Jaws (James Bond), a character in ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' and ''Moonraker''
* ...
'', redone in a
picaresque
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way.
Cast
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Massimo Ceccherini
Massimo Ceccherini (born 23 May 1965) is an Italian actor, film director, comedian and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Florence, Ceccherini is the son of a plasterer, he seemed destined for the same profession, but his father was attracted to t ...
as himself
*
Alessandro Paci
Alessandro Paci (born 21 December 1964) is an Italian actor, film director and comedian.
Biography
Tuscan comedian, debuted in the duo ''Duemendi'', with Massimo Ceccherini. He participated in the program ''Aria Fresca'', broadcast on Videomusi ...
as Himself
*
Marco Giallini
Marco Giallini (born 4 April 1963) is an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Giallini is the son of a housewife and a furnace labourer. After attending the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, he began acting on stag ...
as Producer
*
Bianca Guaccero as Samantha
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Pietro Fornaciari
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People
* Pietro I Candiano (c. 842–887), briefly the 16th Doge of Venice
* Pietro Tribuno (died 912), 17th Doge of Venice, from 887 to his death
* Pietro II Ca ...
as Fernando Capecchi
*
Chiara Conti Chiara is a word and place name of Italian origin, meaning "bright" or "clear", and may refer to:
People
* Chiara (name)
* Chiara da Montefalco, (1268–1308), an Augustinian nun and abbess
* Chiara (Italian singer) or Chiara Galiazzo (born 1986 ...
as Stefania Nobili
*
Yuliya Mayarchuk
Yuliya Mayarchuk ( uk, Ю́лія Маярчу́к), born in Mykolaiv, Ukraine (when it was part of the Soviet Union), is a Ukrainian actress.
She had the lead role in the 2000 movie ''Trasgredire'' by Tinto Brass.
Filmography
* 1999 : ''Sogn ...
as Ukraine Girl
*
Giovanni Veronesi
Giovanni Veronesi (born 1962) is an Italian film screenwriter, actor and director. Born in Prato, he is the brother of the writer Sandro Veronesi.
He started his career writing scripts for directors such as Francesco Nuti, Leonardo Pieraccio ...
as Priest
*
Vincenzo Salemme
Vincenzo Salemme (born 24 July 1957) is an Italian actor, playwright, director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Bacoli, Province of Naples, Salemme began his career in 1976, with the stage company of Tato Russo.
The following year h ...
as Himself
*
Andrea Balestri
Andrea Balestri (born 1 September 1963) is an Italian actor and singer.
Career
He is known as the Pinocchio in 1972 serial tv ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'', directed by Luigi Comencini, next to actors like Nino Manfredi, Franco and Ciccio, G ...
as
Pinocchio
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/ Himself
*
Christian Vieri
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Having been born in Italy, Vieri moved with his family to Australia as a child, before returning to Italy to pursue his p ...
as
Ivan Drago
Ivan Vasilyevich Drago (russian: Иван Васильевич Драго, ) is a Soviet-Russian fictional character from the ''Rocky'' film series. He first appears in the 1985 film '' Rocky IV'', in which he is the central antagonist and ri ...
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Italian comedy films
2000 comedy films
2000 films
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