Armando Grottini

Movies

Pontius Pilate
Production Manager
The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, the Procurator of Judea who unwillingly condemned Christ to death. Based on the biblical Gospel of John.
Colossus and the Amazon Queen
Production Manager
Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.
Siege of Syracuse
Production Manager
Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact, both nations are willing to preserve the neutrality of Syracuse. However, Rome has now gotten the upper hand in its struggle for power. The fate of Syracuse lies in the hands of its leader, the famed inventor and scientist Archimedes.
The dollars are coming!
Production Manager
A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews are worthy of his inheritance...
Mi permette babbo!
Production Manager
While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.
It Happened in the Penitentiary
Production Manager
A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives.
Good night… lawyer!
Production Manager
A lawyer, married but temporarily alone at home, finds himself in the house a beautiful lady who tries to escape from her jealous husband. Fascinated by the beauty of the unexpected guest, the lawyer is determined to conquer her, in vain. But when the woman leaves, she discovers that she has been stolen some money.
It Happened at the Police Station
Production Manager
Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the theatre, last Alfredo Todini arrested while walking wearing a gown and in the mean a series of human cases, ranging from the pathetic to the funny one, get in the way of his wish.
Of Life and Love
Production Manager
A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
...e Napoli Canta!
Writer
Doomed
Director
Barbara Florian is in love with Renalto Baldini. After the latter goes off to a distant job to make enough money to marry her, the girl discovers she is going to have a baby. Marco (Otello Toso), posing as a friend, exploits the situation to his own gain, and uses the situation to shock the girl's ailing father to his death. Marco then marries the widow, Valeria (Franca Marzi), the girl's stepmother.
Verginità
First Assistant Director
Gina is the daughter of a provincial newsstand dealer and spends her time reading pulp magazines and dreaming of a glamorous vocation on the big city. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby city, without her father's permission, and, en route, meets Franco, a salesman.
Il bacio di una morta
First Assistant Director
Italy, 1848. Clara, daughter of a rich Milan trader, is in love with Enrico, a political dissident, but she is forced to marry Count Severi.
Marechiaro
First Assistant Director
I due orfanelli
Second Assistant Director
In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.
Before Him All Rome Trembled
Second Assistant Director
An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.