Pietro Valsecchi

Pietro Valsecchi

Birth : 1953-06-14, Crema, Lombardy, Italy

History

Pietro Valsecchi (born 14 June 1953 in Crema, Italy) is an Italian film and television producer. In 1991, he and Camilla Nesbitt founded the Italian production company Taodue. In 1995, he won the David di Donatello for Best Producer for his film Un eroe borghese. In 2016, he won the Nastro d'argento for best producer, with Quo Vado?, Chiamatemi Francesco and Don't Be Bad. Source: Article "Pietro Valsecchi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Pietro Valsecchi

Movies

Employee of the Month
Producer
Vincent, a civil servant, has always enjoyed the benefits of his family's status. When the government votes on a massive savings plan, Vincent is pushed out. When he is transferred to the North Pole, he meets Eva and finds love. It's time for him to choose.
Yara
Story
The murder of 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio shocks the little town of Brembate di Sopra, Italy. To bring the culprit to justice, prosecutor Letizia Ruggeri has only a bit of DNA without a database to compare it to. Based on a true story.
Yara
Producer
The murder of 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio shocks the little town of Brembate di Sopra, Italy. To bring the culprit to justice, prosecutor Letizia Ruggeri has only a bit of DNA without a database to compare it to. Based on a true story.
Tolo Tolo
Producer
Checco is a young Apulian entrepreneur dreamer who has opened a sushi restaurant in his Apulia. However, after one month, the restaurant went bankrupt and he chose to emigrate to Africa to escape from debt. Here he adapts to being a waiter in a resort in Kenya, but at the outbreak of a civil war he decides to embark on a stowaway trip on a boat for migrants to Europe and chooses to do it with his African friends. However, he would not like to return to Italy, but rather to go to Liechtenstein where banking secrecy is in force and there is a lower tax burden than in Italy.
Nothing to Hide
Producer
To spice up a dinner party, old friends agree to share every private message that pops up on their phones -- with disastrous results.
Renata Fonte - Una Donna Contro Tutti
Writer
Renata Fonte - Una Donna Contro Tutti
Producer
La scorta di Borsellino - Emanuela Loi
Writer
La scorta di Borsellino - Emanuela Loi
Producer
Delitto di mafia - Mario Francese
Writer
Delitto di mafia - Mario Francese
Producer
A testa alta - Libero Grassi
Writer
A testa alta - Libero Grassi
Producer
The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare
Producer
Three life-long friends struggle with an early middle-age crisis as they start to try to get a job for the first time. An ironic quest to avoid becoming an adult and accept responsibilities.
Where Am I Going?
Producer
Checco is 39 and lived his entire life with his parents. He loves his job where he does nothing the whole day, until something happens that will change his behavior and his life forever...
Call Me Francis
Story
Biopic about Jorge Maria Bergoglio before he became Pope Francis I.
Call Me Francis
Producer
Biopic about Jorge Maria Bergoglio before he became Pope Francis I.
Don't Be Bad
Associate Producer
A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.
Ti amo troppo per dirtelo
Story
Ti amo troppo per dirtelo
Producer
Amici come noi
Producer
Sun in Buckets
Producer
The story of a father and a son. An on the road trip from South to North.
I 2 soliti idioti
Producer
The sequel to 2011 film "I soliti idioti".
Il delitto di Via Poma
Producer
Rome, August 7, 1990. 20-year-old Simonetta Cesaroni is killed with 29 stab wounds in her workplace in broad daylight.
What a Beautiful Day
Producer
Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that the reason why he wanted to join the police was benefits in kind and cronyism! But the young man has connections and he soon finds himself a security agent at the Milan Cathedral. Of course the bumbling idiot proves a living catastrophe! Spotted by Sufien, an Arab terrorist who is preparing an attack against the cathedral, Checco appears as the perfect sucker. To manipulate him, he sends his charming sister Farah to him, with the mission to seduce him...
Un cane per due
Producer
Un cane per due
Story
Cado dalle nubi
Producer
An aspiring singer from southern Italy who's just been dumped moves north to Milan, where he falls in love and enters a TV singing competition show.
The Big Dream
Producer
Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his rent, ending up undercover among university students protesting the government, the Vietnam war and the strict mores of the time. He befriends Laura, a bourgeois girl dreaming of a better world, and Libero, a working-class radical leader, complicating his mission...
Aldo Moro - Il presidente
Producer
Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini
Producer
The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of her theories. She was the first Italian Doctor, a famous feminist, a scientist. Her private life was hit by having an illegitimate son and by the Fascism that didn't want to accept completely her theories.
Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini
Story
The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of her theories. She was the first Italian Doctor, a famous feminist, a scientist. Her private life was hit by having an illegitimate son and by the Fascism that didn't want to accept completely her theories.
Il mio amico Babbo Natale 2
Producer
Political Target
Producer
The return of the Red Brigade in Italy, after 11 years of silence from this terrorist organization, was a traumatic event for the entire country. Especially for the families of the victims killed: professors D'Antona and Biagi, and subsequently the police superintendent Petri.
Political Target
Story
The return of the Red Brigade in Italy, after 11 years of silence from this terrorist organization, was a traumatic event for the entire country. Especially for the families of the victims killed: professors D'Antona and Biagi, and subsequently the police superintendent Petri.
Il mio amico Babbo Natale
Producer
Santa Claus has 24 hours to transform an evil and egoistic rich businessman into a better and honest person.
A Judge of Honor
Producer
In 1980 Paolo Borsellino was appointed with the preliminary investigations and the task of setting up a team which would later become the famous anti-mafia pool, investigating into the criminal activities of various mafia bands, in particular the gang headed up by Totò Riina.
Il testimone
Producer
Italian thriller
Il testimone
Writer
Italian thriller
Simpatici & antipatici
Presenter
La missione
Producer
An Eyewitness Account
Producer
La Ribelle
Producer
Acla's Descent into Floristella
Producer
Set in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of twelve-year-old boy, Aclà, sold into slavery by his destitute parents to work in the underground Floristella sulfur mines. Overworked and underfed, Aclà toils from Monday to Saturday in the steamy, candle-lit labyrinths. Repeatedly beaten and abused by his "owner" and with constant threats of being raped, Aclà plots his escape to the sea...
Crime in Via Teulada
Paolo
Diamante, an actress engaged in the filming of a drama, is shot down in a warehouse used to store the cinema "pizzas". Another actress, Ely, get a glimpse of the corpse, which however is immediately disappears.
Nella vita di Sylvia Plath
L'uomo della festa da ballo
Sahara Cross
Arabian terrorist
Jean Bellard and Carl Mank, two Western engineers supported by Hamid are in search of a terrorist group that murdered their colleague in the Tunisian desert.