Stefano Mazzuccato (segment "Primo Maggio")
Four episodes – Christmas, May 1st (Labour Day), August 15th (Ferragosto), Halloween – to tell four stories that delve into the human soul.
Leo Bernardi is a successful and acclaimed Italian director. He’s approaching the end of his career but he cannot accept his slow decline. He has just finished shooting his last movie and he’s deeply sad. The movie is inspired by the novel about Casanova written by Arthur Schnitzler, a character so similar to the director, even more than he could imagine. Schnitzler’s Casanova is aged, glory days are over: he lost his charm and his attraction to women, he’s broke and no more eager to travel through Europe. After a long exile, he just wants to go back to Venice, his homeland. While traveling home Casanova meets a girl, Marcolina. She reawakens his desire, lost for years. So, he tries to seduce her but that leads him to a tragic understanding: he’s an old man now. It’s not by chance that Leo Bernardi decided to tell this story right now, in a pivotal moment of his life and career. The destiny of both Casanova and his director leads them to a final confrontation.
Michele
An actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot."
Guglielmo
Over the course of a day in September, three loosely related people realize their life is not the one they dreamt of.
Curzio Pilati
Un cuento de invierno en el que un incidente trastoca la vida de sus personajes y los cambia para siempre. Cuando el miedo vive dentro de los hogares y las personas, ¿cuál es el precio de la seguridad?
Franco Restivo
En 1968, el ingeniero Giorgio Rosa estableció el estado independiente llamado "La Isla de las Rosas" frente a la costa de Rimini, construido sobre una plataforma fuera de las aguas territoriales, con el esperanto como idioma oficial. Las autoridades italianas no se lo tomaron bien porque la micronación se vio como un expediente para no pagar impuestos sobre los ingresos obtenidos gracias a la llegada de numerosos turistas y curiosos.
Don Calogero 'Lollò' Longhitano
Although Pippo Genuardi seems to have cleared his mind by marrying Taninè Schilirò, daughter of the richest man in Vigàta, he is in fact someone who is not satisfied with his life…
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Screenplay
Sarastro
Tony
Two families meet for a marriage that neither want, and things take a turn when the respective patriarchs fall in love.
Tommaso
Adriano wakes up in a hotel room next to the dead body of his lover, Laura. The door is locked from the inside and there is no evidence of anybody else in the room.
Santino Recchia
Silvio Berlusconi (Toni Servillo) se encuentra en el momento más complicado de su carrera política, recién salido del gobierno y con las acusaciones de corrupción y de sus conexiones con la mafia a punto de llegar a los juzgados. Sergio Morra (Riccardo Scamarcio) es un atractivo hombre hecho a sí mismo que sueña con dar el salto de sus cuestionables negocios de provincia a escala internacional. El camino más rápido para conseguirlo es acercarse a Silvio, el hombre más poderoso de Italia. Para Sergio solo hay una manera de llamar la atención de Il Cavaliere: las fiestas, las velinas, las extravagancias y el exceso.
Santino Recchia
"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.
Santino Recchia
Biopic sobre el ex Primer ministro italiano y empresario Silvio Berlusconi, centrada en la figura de «Il Cavaliere» a partir del año 2000 y que narra una historia de ficción, a partir tanto de diversos eventos personales y políticos como de hechos "probables o inventados". El 24 de abril se estrenó en Italia la primera parte de esta biografía, que se dividió en dos partes por su larga duración. La segunda se espera que se estrene en Italia el 10 de mayo de 2018.
Ettore Ranieri
Well-known writer Ettore takes his family on a mountain chalet getaway for his birthday, in an effort to create a bond between his two sons, Claudio and Giulio, and his second wife, Margherita. The group is also joined by Margherita's brother, Claudio's girlfriend, a Ukraininan cook and her daughter. When an internet outage strikes, a series of exciting adventures ensues.
Giorgio
Franco, adrenalínico, setentón y deportista apasionado, ve cómo su vida cambia cuando descubre que se va a convertir en abuelo y que su físico ya no es el que era. Angela, de 49 años, tiene una aventura con un veinteañero que resulta ser el hijo de su amiga. Giorgio, cincuentón, tiene una novia mucho más joven que él pero le es infiel con una mujer de su misma edad. Y finalmente, Diego, DJ radiofónico deberá hacer frente a un fuerte rival en su trabajo.
Alfredo
Vanni and Linda live in a penthouse apartment for rent in the center of Rome. Vanni writes novels, Linda 'cooperates' to his novels. Between a vernissage and an exhibition of Basquiat, thay hang out Alfredo and Constanza, a couple on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Alfredo is a surgeon with the habit of waking up early and has a lover, Constanza is a dermatologist with the same habits. With the intent to vent their frustrations in their friends' living room, Alfredo and Constanza take hostage the couple and recriminate loudly about the past and the present. In an impossible attempt to contain them, Vanni and Linda eventually take the field and also thrash each other. Someone will end up getting hurt by the end of the night.
Antonio Zanzotto
Luciana is a factory worker married to the love of her life. She is living the simple and quiet life she’s always desired: she works and she is deeply in love with her husband Stefano, even if he doesn’t always have a job and they both need to struggle to keep on going. They are happy and always on each other’s side, but shortly after she finds out she’s pregnant, she gets fired and her world starts falling apart. After having tried to have a baby for years, the joy of impending motherhood lasts only a few months. Begging for help but with no one ready to listen to her, completely desperate and shattered, Luciana decides to kidnap the managing director of her former company, asking for the justice she deserves.
Basilli
Michele es un muchacho de 13 años que vive en un tranquilo pueblo costero. No se puede decir que en la escuela sea muy popular, ni brilla en los estudios, ni sobresale en los deportes. Pero eso no le importa. A Michele le bastaría con tener la atención de Stella, la chica de su clase a la que no puede dejar de mirar. Sin embargo, tiene la sensación de que ella ni siquiera se ha percatado de su presencia. Michele parece atrapado en la rutina hasta que un día, inesperadamente, sucede algo extraordinario: Michele se mira en el espejo y no se ve...
Art critic on TV
Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician; their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that belonged to a woman now dead.
Dino Ossola
Inspirado en una novela del norteamericano Stephen Amidon, originalmente ambientada en Connecticut, el film habla de un mundo de una clase pudiente, con mansiones fastuosas y repletas de personal de servicio, dominado por un especulador creador de un fondo que promete un 40 por ciento de interés anual atrayendo y esquilmando a los crédulos inversores. El personaje es un digno "representante de esa criminalidad financiera que, como ocurrió en la crisis de 2008, puede llegar a destruir la economía de naciones enteras o por lo menos a despojar a los ingenuos de todos sus bienes", declaró Virzì.
Sottosegretario
Cetto and its city council were arrested, but in prison the conspiratorial former mayor makes no earning name as the gratitude of the powerful secretary. These decide to replace some MPs mysteriously killed precisely with Cetto and two other characters: Rodolfo Favaretto and Frengo Stop
Bruno
The life of a melancholy professor is turned upside down when he discovers that a rebellious teenager he is tutoring is actually his son.
Lino Settembre
Lino y Chicca son dos profesionales bien valorados y felizmente casados. Lino es un periodista deportivo que comienza a sufrir los primeros síntomas de un Alzheimer que avanza, sin piedad, arrasando su mente.
Vincenzo
Comedia con gran contenido teatral dirigida por Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterráneo). Ezio (Fabio De Luigi, Un día sin fin) es un guionista soltero que vive en un apartamento en Milán tras una reciente ruptura sentimental. Durante un verano. Ezio trata de escribir una historia acerca de dos neuróticas familias con hijos adolescentes, Filipo (Gianmaria Biancuzzi) y Marta (Alice Croci). Los padres de ambos acuerdan quedar para cenar y así, por fin, conocerse.
Giovanni Baldassi
John Baldassi is a small business owner who lives a peaceful and prosperous existence , alongside the housewife Lucia and two children . The larger of the two sons , the teenager Matteo , however, seems to hide many secrets . Indeed one day the boy disappears into thin air , and after the first suspicions that this is a kidnapping or an escape , makes its way a disturbing hypothesis , dictated by some gruesome discoveries of John in his garage .
Augusto Riverberi
Director
Bencivegna
En el idílico escenario de un pueblecito a orillas del Po, surge el amor entre Hassan y Mara. Él es un mecánico tunecino que, tras años de duro trabajo, se ha ganado el respeto de sus vecinos. Ella es una joven a punto de partir a Brasil con una ONG. Giovanni, un chico que aspira a ser periodista, es testigo de esta historia de amor. La vida de los tres dará un giro tras una serie de inesperados y dolorosos sucesos.
Gino
Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...
Luigi
Luigi (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) un profesor exiliado de su pueblo cuando era un adolescente ahora es tiene que regresar para firmar unos papeles relativos a la propiedad de la familia que posee junto a sus hermanos, pero es arrastrado por asesinatos, intrigas, romances, venganzas, su pasado y su familia disfuncional.
Luca Florio
Después de caer gravemente enfermo, un conocido actor se cuestiona su vida y sus relaciones.
Carlo Ristuccia
Narra los conflictos e ilusiones perdidas de una familia con dos hijos. El padre se reencuentra con una ex novia (Monica Bellucci); la madre retoma su frustrada carrera de actriz, mientras se enfrenta con su hija, que quiere ser estrella de televisión...
Guido
Security guard Guido attempts a robbery to solve his financial problems, but he's double-crossed by Antonella, the younger showgirl he left his wife for, who runs off with the money while he gets arrested. In prison, Guido is forcefully involved in the escape plans of two lifers, an old Moroccan and a Turkish gangster. Once out, he plans to find Antonella, who has since become a TV reporter, but things get complicated...
Very Important Doctor
En un hotel de Venecia, donde rueda un documental un equipo británico, están ocurriendo hechos muy extraños, en los que están involucrados algunos huéspedes: torturas, dolor y perversión.
Uncle Nino
Antonio is a man born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth made him an outcast as a child and as man he has become obsessive and controlling in his relationships with women. Convinced that his girlfriend cheated on him (with her dentist, ça va sans dire), Antonio insults her in a fit of anger and in the fight she breaks off one of his teeth. Antonio now must travel across the country, going from dentist to dentist in search of someone who can make a crown that will suit his extra-large smile.
Willy 'Alain Delon'
Two deadbeat friends see the opportunity of turning their fortune around after they come into possession of a precious stolen relic, the tongue of St. Anthony of Padua.
Hugo
A con-man and a wannabe professional magician team up with a waitress and an old professional on their way to Vegas.
Monsignor Tommaso
When her child is missing an Australian mother calls for an priest from Italy she has not seen in years.
Prof. Mori
A principios del siglo veinte, Italia está agitada por violentos problemas sociales. Las emigraciones internas dejan vacíos los campos convirtiendo las ciudades en lugares turbulentos. La falta de trabajo exaspera a los hombres, al tiempo que alimenta la miseria y la desesperación. Ante tal situación, la burguesía defiende el orden social por medio de la represión policial. Los intelectuales se preguntan sobre las causas y los efectos de la miseria.
L'attore
A Donatello award nominated short drama about a wandering family, including a lady about to give birth, who get caught up in a the filming of a scene from a movie.
Screenplay
A Donatello award nominated short drama about a wandering family, including a lady about to give birth, who get caught up in a the filming of a scene from a movie.
Director
A Donatello award nominated short drama about a wandering family, including a lady about to give birth, who get caught up in a the filming of a scene from a movie.
The Poet
Cuando a Alexander, un escritor griego, le quedan pocos días de vida, necesita resolver un dilema: morir como alguien ajeno a los demás o aprender a amarlos y a comprometerse con ellos. Elegida la segunda vía, lee las cartas de Anna, su esposa fallecida, y cierra su casa en la playa. Un día lluvioso, encuentra a alguien que le ofrece la oportunidad de cumplir su compromiso: un niño albanés al que ayuda a pasar la frontera mientras le cuenta la historia de un poeta griego que vivió en Italia y que, al regresar a Grecia, compraba las palabras olvidadas para escribir poemas en su lengua natal. Entonces el niño juega a buscar palabras para vendérselas.
Antonio
Marco
A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confusion and loneliness.
Stefano
A chemical analyst and a supermarket clerk strike up a friendship after they are brought together by the death of an elderly woman.
Piero Nava
Don Lorenzo Borrelli
A young priest crusades against organized crime in his Naples neighbourhood but falls in love with a 13-year old boy. It's the chance the gangsters were waiting for to get rid of the thorn in their side. Will they be able to force the boy to accuse the priest of sexual harassment and have his reputation destroyed?
Ottone
Un matrimonio acoge en su casa a una pareja, y el esposo se enamora de la recién llegada, a la vez que la esposa del recién llegado.
Alfredo Donati
Their plan was simple...Get the Cash. As Rupert, an ex-con, tries to go straight, his younger brother James pursues a life of delinquency. Days after being released from jail, James is gunned down and lies waiting in a hospital for a liver transplant. In a desperate attempt to save his brother's life, Rupert decides to execute a heist at a downtown club on New Year's Eve that will give him the money he needs. Rupert assembles an eclectic crew of ex-cons, including his best friend and his ex-girlfriend. Rupert and his gang converge on the nightclub for a climax that spins out of control. New Year's Eve has never been so explosive!
prof. Sperone
In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.
Giorgio Ambrosoli
An intriguing look at a sinister web of power,linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.
A successful Italian man living in Paris returns to Italy to exact financial revenge upon his cruel half-brothers in this Italian-French drama. Gabriele now runs a successful antique appraisal company in Paris. He lives in a fine, automated apartment which his lover Claire compares to an impenetrable box. Gabriele is haunted by his troubled youth, which is presented through flashbacks. He and his baby brother Martino were bastards. Their father was the wealthy Giancarlo Giannini who already had a family. After Gabriele's feisty and independent mother died, he and his brother were taken into their father's home. Though living in luxury's lap, the now adolescent Gabriele was mistreated by his two hateful half-brothers. He eventually ran away from that house. This is the motive behind his revenge. But to get it he must return home and therefore, must face his past.
Pietro Di Leo
Store security guard Pietro spends his days catching shoplifters, his weekends visiting his children who are in custody of his ex-wife, and his nights thinking about new ways to flirt with the store's makeup consultant. His malaise psychosomatically manifests itself in nosebleeds, outbursts of anger, visions, etc. One day, he sees a young Gypsy girl steal something from the store and lets it slide: he can't explain why, but she caught his eye. Pietro and Pabe – that's her name – warily start to hang out, knowing each other more and more, until something begins to blossom in them. Could their shared dream for a new, more compassionate life finally be at their fingertips?
Bernardo Manni
Un joven abogado vuelve a casa y descubre que un hombre se ha suicidado al saltar desde una ventana de su apartamento. Su esposa dice que le dejó entrar porque afirmó que el abogado era la única persona que podía ayudarle. El abogado empieza a investigar al hombre y los motivos de su suicidio.
Mario (uncredited)
Targeted by a dirty cop after witnessing a murder, ordinary bank clerk Mario flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, where a couple of oddball Italian expats drag him into a series of misadventures that'll make him revaluate his place in the world.
Vittorio Benvegnù
Italia, 1935. Vittorio, un empleado de una agencia matrimonial, aunque la agencia está cerrada por vacaciones, trata de encontrarle una esposa italiana a un americano.
Cesare
Set in Milan in the summer of 1989 against the backdrop of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the film follows four frustrated individuals whose lives intertwine because of the loss of a planner.
Story
Two stage actors leave on a tournée, but there's a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girlfriend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to tell him.
Screenplay
Two stage actors leave on a tournée, but there's a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girlfriend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to tell him.
Federico Lolli
Two stage actors leave on a tournée, but there's a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girlfriend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to tell him.
Francesco
Carlos Sanchez-Verne
Ambientada en la moderna Buenos Aires. Adrián LeDuc es un sociópata solitario que se ve obligado a alquilar una habitación debido a la crisis de su sala de cine. Jack Carney, el inquilino, parece bastante normal al principio, pero pronto resulta evidente que oculta algo. Sin embargo, al surgir una relación amistosa entre los dos hombres, Adrián prefiere olvidar su sospecha de que Jack pueda ser el asesino en serie que está aterrorizando a la ciudad. Mientras tanto, a los vecinos empieza a preocuparles que Adrián muestre cada vez más indicios de haber heredado la locura de su madre.
Marco
After a mysterious girl tells Marco her boyfriend (and estranged longtime friend of his) Rudy has been arrested in Morocco, he and four other friends leave for Marrakech with a large sum of money to get him out of jail.
Raul Echegarraya
What is the shady affair in which the woman is involved, and what is her role? Is or isn't the man a marquis? Who is the young man played by Fabrizio Bentivoglio, and why does he own that car? Does Basque nationalism have to do anything with the story? Everybody has something to hide, everybody seems guilty.
Lorenzo
Roberto
Via Montenapoleone, la calle más elegante de Milán, es el escenario en el que tienen lugar los encuentros y desencuentros de varios personajes: playboys, modelos y gays.
Yokanaan
John the Baptist, the prophet of Israel, is imprisoned by Herod, governor of Judea for protesting Herod's marriage to his brother's wife. Jealousies rage and Herod's step-daughter and niece Salome seduces Herod by means of a torrid dance to give her the head of the prophet - but then tries to save the life of the man she has thus condemned. Updated to a WWII setting
Gianni
Un mujeriego empieza a recibir llamadas de una misteriosa mujer, lo cual consigue que empiece a reflexionar sobre su vida.
Padre Bruno Martello
Una fabulación sobre política vaticana que se inspira muy vagamente en la extraña muerte de Juan Pablo I. (FILMAFFINITY)
Dumas son
Semblanza biográfica de Alphonsine de Plessis (Isabelle Huppert), la famosa prostituta parisina que fue la musa que inspiró a Alejandro Dumas hijo para escribir "La dama de las camelias", obra en la que se basó Giuseppe Verdi para componer la ópera "La Traviata". Alphonsine aparece como un personaje vulnerable y desamparado y, sobre todo, condicionado por su precaria salud y su voraz apetito sexual.
Alexander
Sadomasoquismo, látigo y sexo anal forman parte del ritual sexual del Varon Von Masoch, un hombre que sorprendió a la sociedad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Riccardo/Rick
An office employee, pretending to be weak and crippled, reveals himself as a ruthless criminal.
