Massimo Ceccherini
Birth : 1965-05-23, Scandicci - Tuscany - Italy
History
Figlio di un imbianchino, sembra destinato alla professione paterna ma è molto attratto dal mondo dello spettacolo: debutta in televisione partecipando a La corrida di Corrado e per anni porta avanti la carriera del cabarettista a fianco dell'amicoAlessandro Paci, in particolare inizia a farsi conoscere dal pubblico televisivo nel programma cabarettistico di Videomusic(poi TMC2) Aria fresca, presentato da un giovane Carlo Conti. Nel frattempo ottiene la prima parte in un film, Benvenuti in casa Gori del regista Alessandro Benvenuti, col quale l'anno seguente girerà anche la pellicola Zitti e mosca. Nel 1994, al fianco di Paolo Villaggio, recita in Cari fottutissimi amici diretto da Mario Monicelli. Il successo popolare arriva però con la collaborazione con l'amico Leonardo Pieraccioni, partecipando a tutti i suoi film, tranne Il pesce innamorato, Il paradiso all'improvviso e Finalmente la felicità (in questi ultimi due comunque appare in brevi camei). È regista e sceneggiatore di tre film: Faccia di Picasso, Lucignolo, La mia vita a stelle e strisce, dei quali è anche protagonista. Un quarto film, La brutta copia, è stato girato e terminato nel 2002 restò impigliato nella brutta situazione finanziaria in cui rimase coinvolto il suo produttore, Vittorio Cecchi Gori uscendo solo 11 anni dopo nel canale sky cinema comedy della piattaforma satellitare di Sky italia. Nel 1998 interpreta la sua personalissima rivisitazione della favola diPinocchio con Fermi tutti questo è uno spettacolo, Pinocchio insieme ad Alessandro Paci e Carlo Monni. Nel 2001 conduce con Raffaella Carrà, Enrico Papi e Megan Gale il Festival di Sanremo, e nel 2005, per una sola puntata, Striscia la Notiziaassieme a Pieraccioni. Nel 2006 partecipa come concorrente alla quarta edizione del reality show L'isola dei famosi - Honduras. Durante la puntata del 18 ottobre, arrabbiato per aver visto il concorrente Raffaello Balzo mangiare a causa della sua debolezza fisica, pronuncia una bestemmia in diretta e così viene escluso dalla gara sebbene non fosse inquadrato. Nel 2006/2007 riprende la carriera teatrale, partecipando a vari spettacoli tra i quali la tournée di Quei bravi racazzi con Alessandro Paci. Nel 2008partecipa al film Un'estate al mare di Carlo Vanzina. Nel 2009 ripropone nuovamente Pinocchio con Alessandro Paci e Carlo Monni.
Writer
Tells the story of two young men who leave Senegal for Europe; a contemporary odyssey through the dangers of the desert, the perils of the sea and the ambiguities of the human soul
Duccio Chilleri
Everyone in Marco's life seems constantly restless, from his brilliant but unhappily married parents to his own wife Marina, or even Luisa, the real love of his life, a girl he met during a fateful summer in the '70s and always stayed in touch with. Tragedy and fate seem to haunt him, yet he somehow manages never to get ensnared in the chaos—like his namesake, “the hummingbird”, he focuses all his energy at standing still.
Missing the train is very bad. Seeing it leave with your children and those of your friends you had to accompany on vacation is a whole other story ... that of the crazy pursuit from Turin to Sicily of a father and grandfather as different as they are unreliable.
Zio Waldemaro
A street priest struggling to save his church learns his late uncle left him a small business that could turn his fortune around: he'll soon realize that said business is in fact... a brothel!
Screenplay
In this live-action adaptation of the beloved fairytale, old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However, his dream is to become a real boy, which can only come true if he finally changes his ways.
Volpe
In this live-action adaptation of the beloved fairytale, old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However, his dream is to become a real boy, which can only come true if he finally changes his ways.
It's the story of four people who, after the funeral of Carlo Conti, are summoned by a notary to read the will of their recently deceased friend. In the will, Carlo Conti asks them to complete a project he always dreamed of: a TV show dedicated to Tuscan comedy. They will face the casting and the organization the television program. Unfortunately, they will run into many nut jobs!
A series of episodes linked by a common thread: "Who are the infamous?". The infamous are all those who, with their despicable actions cause things go well for them but bad for others. There are many things that could go better, much depends on us and our everyday behavior.
Pappone
Two men must struggle to travel to Prague for Champions League Football Final match.
Vincenzo 'Tinto' Zambrotta
Convict Umberto is allowed to work outside prison during daytime as a librarian. There he falls for a beautiful woman who mistakes him for a volunteer helping the inmates — however, like a modern-day Cinderella, every day he must leave and be back to his cell before midnight... will they manage to live happily ever after?
Father Circus Performer
The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomonte becomes obsessed with a flea and neglects his daughter.
Anna's father
Middle-aged family man Arnaldo is kicked out by his wife because of a misunderstanding. Instead of despairing, Arnaldo takes advantage of the situation to turn around his unsatisfying adult life by going to live in a flat shared with four university students.
Fernando Petriccioli / Leandro Fandechi
Screenplay
Story
Director
Four homosexual friends, two men and two women, would like to get married without coming out to keep up appearances. But it's not that easy .
Marco
Story
Cristiano and Franco are the owners of a fashion house and a couple. Cristiano is obsessed with the idea of having a child, to make him happy Franco think of kidnapping Massimo and treating him like a son
Screenplay
Cristiano and Franco are the owners of a fashion house and a couple. Cristiano is obsessed with the idea of having a child, to make him happy Franco think of kidnapping Massimo and treating him like a son
Director
Cristiano and Franco are the owners of a fashion house and a couple. Cristiano is obsessed with the idea of having a child, to make him happy Franco think of kidnapping Massimo and treating him like a son
Massimo
Cristiano and Franco are the owners of a fashion house and a couple. Cristiano is obsessed with the idea of having a child, to make him happy Franco think of kidnapping Massimo and treating him like a son
Spino
paziente ospedale
A middle-aged man finds out his late mother was sponsoring a Brazilian girl who has now become a beautiful model.
Pino
In a small town in southern Italy lives the Di Gennaro family. Gennaro, the householder, is a noted dentist, married to Anna, a housewife, a few years away from converting to Buddhism. They have two sons: Roberto, last year medical student and guitarist in a small band, and Mattia who attended the first year of high school. The Di Gennaros appear to be a perfect family, but each character hides flaws and excesses.
Alderighi
Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic.
Manolo
Leonardo
A businessman in Italy, who doesn't pay any taxes, and a financier always on the hunt for tax evaders come into contact because their sons share an apartment in Paris.
Cecco
Massimo Marchesi
During a séance with some friends, divorced carny Gualtiero successfully conjures the spirit of Marilyn Monroe — although he's the only one who can see her. With Marilyn's help, he tries to win back his wife, who left him for a lion tamer, and his teen daughter.
Cecco
Set against the sun-soaked shores of Italy in the summertime, seven different tales unfold about life, love, loss, family, and friendship.
Baccano
Mariano has been married for 10 years with Miranda, a woman way out of his league. Their small-town life is disrupted by womanizing photographer Andrea, who — struck by her good looks — offers Miranda a one-time modelling job. Albeit hesitant, the couple eventually accepts his invitation to the Seychelles...
Cosimetto Delli Cecchi
In a post-apocalyptic future, the Italian peninsula is going through a dark moment due to a terrible energy crisis.
Cosimo Bartolini
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.
Director
Self
Frate Massimo
Divorced high school PE teacher Gilberto falls in love with Margherita, unaware that she is the mother of Paolina, a student that has been sending him "I love you" notes written in every language in the world.
Max Bernabei
Passante
Lorenzo is a confirmed bachelor who creates atmospheric SFX for movies. His beliefs about love are put to the test when he meets Amaranta, a beautiful woman who has commissioned a fake snowfall as a surprise to her boyfriend—who doesn't show up, forcing Lorenzo to take his place in the romantic trip Amaranta had planned.
Story
Lando Cecchini
Screenplay
Director
Melchiorre "Gimondi" Natali
After his father's death, elementary school teacher Leopoldo discovers he has to share the inheritance with a half-brother he didn't know existed: hustler and small-time crook Melchiorre, currently in jail.
Natalizia
Writer
The usual story of the young director who tells the movie that fails to do. Zany gags, quotes, the eternal exasperation to get at all costs to laugh, to any.
Self
The usual story of the young director who tells the movie that fails to do. Zany gags, quotes, the eternal exasperation to get at all costs to laugh, to any.
Director
The usual story of the young director who tells the movie that fails to do. Zany gags, quotes, the eternal exasperation to get at all costs to laugh, to any.
Writer
Red-haired, sex-obsessed manchild Lucio lazes all day long with his friend Pino until he falls for the beautiful head of the local loony bin. A retelling of 'Pinocchio' from the perspective of a Candlewick-like character.
Director
Red-haired, sex-obsessed manchild Lucio lazes all day long with his friend Pino until he falls for the beautiful head of the local loony bin. A retelling of 'Pinocchio' from the perspective of a Candlewick-like character.
Lucio
Red-haired, sex-obsessed manchild Lucio lazes all day long with his friend Pino until he falls for the beautiful head of the local loony bin. A retelling of 'Pinocchio' from the perspective of a Candlewick-like character.
Theatre Play
Lucignolo
Max
Three deadbeat friends see their motorhome holiday trip hijacked by Viola, a beautiful girl on the run from the police after a robbery.
Germano
Ottone, a professional dog sitter who's uncertain about most things in life, asks an analyst if he made the right decision love-wise while recounting the significant relationships he had with four women.
Libero
The everyday life of accountant Levante, his family and the other people of a small town in the Tuscan countryside is taken by storm by the serendipitous arrival of five beautiful flamenco dancers from Spain.
Danilo Gori
Matriarch Adele's death prompts an unexpected and often incendiary reunion for the large Gori family – unaware that inside her coffin lie also the stolen goods of a robbery by her son Danilo.
Pino Noferini
Four thirtysomething university students share a flat in Florence: Leonardo pursues beautiful Letizia, her brother Rocco works night shifts to pay for his rent, Bruno has to graduate to inherit his father-in-law's business (while cheating on his wife with her sister), and Pino dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian.
tipo toscano
A comedy based on Ancient Rome with Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi and Leslie Nielsen.
Martini
In 1944 in Tuscany, a group of boxers facing the disasters of the Second World War, during the intrusive presence of the Germans and the Americans, organizes rigged matches to make some money and travel from town to town, hoping to participate in local fairs. A young black American soldier, believed missing, and a girl who refused to marry accompany the ramshackle group.
Amico di Nedo
The life of a rootless insurance agent starts falling apart.
fan di Anna
Tullio Venturini, a retired widower, has a daughter, Anna, who is an actress. However, he is the only one not to know that she works in the porn industry.
Kinder
In a small Tuscan village that's waiting for the local festival to commence, amidst confusion about the fall of Communism, the lives of some dazed characters intertwine.
Danilo Gori
