Tonino Zera

Birth : 1957-09-14, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy

Movies

Girasoli
Art Direction
1963. The young nurse Anna begins working in the juvenile ward of a mental hospital. There she meets Lucia, a fifteen-year-old schizophrenic. Against the backdrop of a struggle between Dr. Marie and the rigid Dr. Oreste to reform patient treatment, a relationship between Anna and Lucia develops, forcing them to make decisive choices for their respective lives.
The Palace
Set Designer
A drama set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.
Mixed by Erry
Production Design
The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples, Italy, who brought pop music in the hands of a generation.
The Desired War
Production Design
An international incident threatens to break out a war between major European powers that only an unlikely couple of bickering lovers seems able to stop.
Caravaggio's Shadow
Production Design
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
Tapirulàn
Production Design
The Italian Recipe
Production Design
Yang is a spoiled pop star from China. When he comes to Rome for a reality show he meets young Manman, a simple girl with a big dream: becoming a great chef. The two of them will spend together a night that will change their lives.
Marilyn's Eyes
Production Design
Clara and Diego, under the guidance of the psychiatrist of a day rehabilitation center for disturbed people who attend, decide to transform the treatment center into a restaurant, involving all their other companions.
The Bad Poet
Production Design
1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior Mussolini fears could damage his alliance with Nazi Germany. However, after spending time with D'Annunzio, Comini finds himself torn between loyalty to the Party and his fascination with the poet, who will put his burgeoning career at risk.
Rose Island
Production Design
In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well because the micronation was seen as an expedient to not pay taxes on the revenues obtained thanks to the arrival of numerous tourists and curious people.
Il caso Pantani - L'omicidio di un campione
Production Design
The Pantani case, a film directed by Domenico Ciolfi, tells the story of the last five years in the life of the cyclist from Romagna, in particular from 5 June 1999, when he was suspended from racing, to 14 February 2004, the day of his death. His untimely death in unclear circumstances, which have opened several judicial inquiries, was a shock to the world of cycling, which lost its Pirate on Valentine's Day. The film is a tribute to this Italian sporting hero, remembering him as a young man who, riding his bike, reached several milestones but was defeated in a fatal match.
The Best Years
Production Design
Italy, from the '80s to the present day, told through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.
Into the Labyrinth
Production Design
When a kidnapping victim turns up alive after fifteen years, a profiler and a private investigator try to piece together the mystery.
An Almost Ordinary Summer
Production Design
Two families meet for a marriage that neither want, and things take a turn when the respective patriarchs fall in love.
The First King
Production Design
Romulus and Remus, two shepherds and loyal brothers, end up taking part to a journey that will lead one of them to be the founder of the greatest nation ever seen. However, the fate of the chosen one will pass from killing his own brother.
Moschettieri del Re - La penultima missione
Production Design
In 17th-century France, the Queen brings the Three Musketeers — Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and an aging d'Artagnan — back from retirement for one last mission: saving her son Louis and the whole kingdom.
There's No Place Like Home
Production Design
An extended family reunites after a long time to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of their grandparents on an idyllic island. However, they get stranded there for longer than they expected, causing secrets and long-held grudges to break out.
Sono tornato
Production Design
Mussolini reappears in Rome 72 years after his death, finding a Country still full of problems like racism and hate for politicians. Misguised for an actor, he sides with a young filmmaker and starts traveling along Italy to reconquer it.
The Girl in the Fog
Production Design
A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.
Husband & Wife
Production Design
Married for ten years, in full crisis, thinking about divorce. But following a failed scientific experiment, they suddenly find one inside the body of the other.
Like Crazy
Production Design
Beatrice is a blabbermouth and a so-called billionaire countess who likes to believe she’s in intimacy with world leaders. Donatella is a young quiet tattooed woman, locked in her own mystery. They are both patients of a mental institution and subject to custodial measures.
The Elevator: Three Minutes Can Change Your Life
Production Design
A disturbing psychological thriller, that engages the audience to the point that it is always caught off guard, thus changing the point of view of the two main performers.
Sotto una buona stella
Production Design
A wealthy broker, Federico Picchioni, within two days forfeits his partner and work, finishing well to living with two children and granddaughter (abandoned by her father). He is, at this point, in the face of many difficulties of adjustment but finds comfort in the help of his neighbor.
The Fifth Wheel
Production Design
The life of a working-class boy in Rome through the '70s and '80s, choosing his own path with his lifetimes friends and family.
Romeo & Juliet
Production Design
In Verona, bad blood between the Montague and Capulet families leads to much bitterness. Despite the hostility, Romeo Montague manages an invitation to a masked ball at the estate of the Capulets and meets Juliet, their daughter. The two are instantly smitten but dismayed to learn that their families are enemies. Romeo and Juliet figure out a way to pursue their romance, but Romeo is banished for his part in the slaying of Juliet's cousin, Tybalt.
Amiche da morire
Production Design
Three very different women who are hiding a secret are forced to work together to save their own skin.
Ex 2: Still Friends
Production Design
Marco encounters his ex-girlfriend Consueloand starts seeing her without telling that he has just married. Antonio is an MP and during his European trip he has a love affair with elegant Olga who has a big secret to hide. Recently-jilted Fabio is mistaken for psychiatrist by a beautiful girl Valentina with whom he falls in love. A divorce lawyer Sandra is romantically attracted to her client's husband Massimo.
Four Single Fathers
Production Design
A comedy/drama about four Italian single fathers trying to cope with American ex-wives, children, family, and new relationships, set in New York and Rome.
The Man Who Loves
Production Design
A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved.
Miracle at St. Anna
Production Design
Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.
Pashmy Dream
Production Design
A movie star flees from an interview when she's surrounded by paparazzi, leaving her bag behind.
Nero bifamiliare
Production Design
A couple's pleasant new life in the country is threatened by the mysterious new next door neighbors.
L'estate del mio primo bacio
Production Design
De Gasperi - L'uomo della speranza
Production Design
The Jokes
Production Design
In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society in early 2000.
Caterina in the Big City
Production Design
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself in an completely different environment where students rigidly divide themselves in subcultures based on social class and their parents' political affiliation.
Il pranzo della domenica
Production Design
The life of Franca Malorni, exponent of the good bourgeoisie of the capital, suddenly changes when her husband dies suddenly. The woman begins to pour her attention on the three daughters, obliging them to have a Sunday lunch with their families.
South Kensington
Production Design
And now sex
Production Design
Eight episodes vaguely inspired to real events. The "fil rouge" is the relationship between the Italians and sex in the first years of 2000s. From prostitution to virtual sex all the categories are represented in a funny way that anyway tries to investigate this kind of reality.
Vacanze di Natale 2000
Production Design
Milanese and Naples people go to Cortina d'Ampezzo on Christmas holidays
Call Girl
Production Design
Maria, a provincial Polish girl, travels to Milan to pay her older sister Eva a surprise visit. The sisters haven't seen each other in seven years and Eva has changed a lot. She lives in a luxurious apartment and dresses in designer clothes. Although she pretends to be an interpreter, Eva is actually a call-girl and, one night, fails to return from an appointment. Maria enquires at the hotel where Eva last worked. Eva's body is soon found. The investigation is conducted by Inspector Messina, a trendy cop. Maria and Messina become an inseparable investigating team. Maria poses as a call-girl in order to reveal her sister's killer and they use mobile phones to keep in touch.
3 - Tre
Production Design
At the end of the 18th century, a couple of libertine Tuscan aristocrats welcome in their villa (and into their bedroom) an handsome young revolutionary, hoping to rekindle their marriage.
Savages
Production Design
A group of Italian tourists on a Caribbean holiday finds itself stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash.
I Don't Speak English
Production Design
If Sergio Colombo, a middle age man, doesn't want to lose his job, has to attend a full immersion English course in UK. So Sergio leave his wife and son and reaches a school full of terrible kids. Obviously he is the only adult and the worse student. Learning English hasn't been never so hard.
Men Men Men
Production Design
Four homosexual men in their 40s have issues and no small degree of self hatred. Yet, can laugh at themselves and their comrades and often do.
Ricky & Barabba
Production Design
A wealthy millionaire decided to commit suicide but meets a homeless with whom he experiences a lot of funny adventures until finally makes order in his life.
Il conte Max
Set Decoration
Alfredo è un rozzo riparatore di motociclette romano amico del Conte Max, uno spianato gentiluomo ed ex-gaudente. Quest'ultimo invita Alfredo nella sua residenza a Campo dei Fiori e gli insegna il galateo, il francese e come si gioca a poker. Le risate cominceranno quando Alfredo conosce ed insegue a Parigi la bellissima fotomodella Isabella Matignon.