''The Barber of Rio'' (
Italian
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* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
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: ''Il barbiere di Rio'') is a 1996 Italian
comedy
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film directed by
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 ...
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Cast
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Diego Abatantuono
Diego Abatantuono (born 20 May 1955) is an Italian cinema and theatre actor, and screenwriter, three-time winner of the Nastro d'Argento.
Biography and career
Abatantuono was born in Milan to a father of Apulian origin and a mother from Como. T ...
as Matteo
*Zuleika Dos Santos as Giorginha
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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 19 ...
as Ugo
*Giuseppe Oristanio as Rocco
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Margaret Mazzantini
Margaret Mazzantini (; born 27 October 1961) is an Italian-Irish writer and actress. She became a film, television and stage actor, but is best known as a writer. Mazzantini began her acting career in 1980 starring in the cult horror classic '' ...
as Silvia
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Renata Fronzi as Angelina
*Dario Tata as Alex
*Claudio Bignone as Simone
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Antonio Petrocelli
Antonio Petrocelli (born 18 September 1953) is an Italian actor.
Partial filmography Film
* '' The Pool Hustlers'' (1982)
* '' The Eyes, the Mouth'' (1982)
* '' Secrets Secrets'' (1985)
* '' Il tenente dei carabinieri'' (1986)
* ''The Strangene ...
as the policeman
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Irene Grandi as Guardian angel
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Mauro Di Francesco
Mauro Di Francesco (born 17 May 1951) is an Italian actor, comedian and television personality.
Life and career
Born in Milan, Di Francesco started his career in the mid-1960s as a child actor appearing in some RAI miniseries. In the 1970s, he ...
, Nini Salerno and
Ugo Conti
Ugo Conti (born 30 March 1955) is an Italian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1982.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1955 births
Living people
Italian male film actors
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as Italians in Rio
References
External links
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1996 films
Films directed by Giovanni Veronesi
1990s Italian-language films
1996 comedy films
Italian comedy films
1990s Italian films
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