''One Man Up'' ( it, L'uomo in più) is a 2001

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. It entered the "Cinema del presente" section at the 58th Venice International Film Festival. It marked the directorial debut of

Paolo Sorrentino Paolo Sorrentino (; born 31 May 1970) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and writer. His 2013 film ''The Great Beauty'' won the Academy Awards, Academy Award, the Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe, and the British Academy of Film and Te ...

, who was awarded

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. The film also won the

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for the script and the Grolla d'oro to actor

Toni Servillo Marco Antonio Servillo (), known as Toni Servillo, is an Italian actor and theatrical director. He has won the European Film Award for Best Actor twice, in 2008 for both '' Gomorrah'' and ''Il Divo'' and in 2013 for ''The Great Beauty'', as wel ...

Plot

Set during the eighties, the film charts the decline of two men both named Antonio Pisapia who lead entirely separate yet strangely parallel lives. One is a pop singer who finds himself washed up after a sex scandal ends his run of success; the other a football hero whose playing career is abruptly cut short by injury.

Cast

- Antonio "Tony" Pisapia * Andrea Renzi - Antonio Pisapia *

Nello Mascia Nello Mascia (born 28 December 1946) is an Italian actor. He has appeared in more than forty films since 1971. Selected filmography References External links * 1946 births Living people Italian male film actors {{Italy-film ...

- Il Molosso *

Ninni Bruschetta Ninni Bruschetta (born Antonino Bruschetta on 6 January 1962) is an Italian actor, film and stage director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Messina, in 1983 Bruschetta co-founded with Maurizio Puglisi "Nutrimenti terrestri", a stag ...

- Genny *

Angela Goodwin Angela Goodwin (born Angela Bucci, 1 August 1925 – 25 March 2016), was an Italian stage, film and television actress. Life and career Born in Rome, Goodwin was the daughter of an Italian-American father, and spent her youth in the US where s ...

- Mother of Tony *

Roberto De Francesco The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, hono ...

- Gigi Moscati *

Peppe Lanzetta Peppe Lanzetta (born 6 February 1956) is an Italian actor. He appeared in more than twenty films since 1985. Filmography References External links * * 1956 births Living people Italian male film actors {{Italy-film-actor-stub ...

- Salvatore

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* 2001 films 2001 comedy-drama films Films directed by Paolo Sorrentino Italian association football films Italian comedy-drama films 2001 directorial debut films 2001 comedy films 2001 drama films Films set in 1980 Films set in 1984 Films about singers Films with screenplays by Paolo Sorrentino 2000s Italian films {{2000s-comedy-drama-film-stub

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