Giuliana De Sio
Nacimiento : 1956-04-02, Salerno, Campania, Italy
Historia
Giuliana De Sio was born in Salerno and grew up in Cava de 'Tirreni, where her family originates from. De Sio's first public appearance was her when she was five in a show at the Teatro Verdi in Salerno. She moved to Terrasini when she was eighteen to live in a hippy commune before moving to Rome, where she befriended Teresa Ann Savoy and Alessandro Haber, who encouraged her to start acting. Her professional debut took place in 1976 when Gianni Bongiovanni chose her for the RAI TV film Una donna. Elio Petri then gave her a part of her in Mani dirty di lei and Tonino Cervi chooses her to act in The Imaginary Sick with Alberto Sordi.
In the early 1980s she meets Massimo Troisi, who chooses her for an important role in her second film, Sorry for the delay (1982). She subsequently worked with Francesco Nuti in The Pool Hustlers (1982) and Casablanca Casablanca (1985).
Roberta
Dora, raises her two children with the help of her eccentric family, free-spirited best friend, and a charming poet-turned- nanny.
Self
Elena Monti
Elena
Eugenio es un hombre cuya vida no difiere mucho de la de cualquier cuarentón soltero. Sin embargo, padece Síndrome de Down y, aunque eso es una dificultad con la que debe luchar cada día, no le impide vivir con ilusión y ayudar a la gente.
Erodiade
Expulsada e ignorada por su marido, tratada con brutalidad por los soldados romanos y buscando el amor y la redención, María Magdalena constituye uno de los mayores enigmas cristianos. Esta emocionante película destaca muchas caras de una de las figuras más polémicas entre el séquito de Cristo, la seductora, prostituta, curandera y política que ha sido una fijación como personaje desde la llegada del cine.
Iris
Jack Altieri, a young Italian-American restaurant owner, arrives at Vesta awaits him a painting of the sixteenth century that depicts the veiled face of Medea of Carpi, noble woman processed to witchcraft. Shortly after the arrival of Jack, a country girl is killed in a mysterious way, dropping the suspicions of the Commissioner Gianzi on the young restorer, who is soon advised to not complete the work on the opera, because it would hide an ancient curse.
Margherita
Emilia
At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously developed schizophrenia. To identify the causes of her condition, he employs psychoanalytic methods to dig into her sexual past, despite objections by the old-fashioned chief physician.
Robert Cavaillon is the king of the pet food industry. After he sold the factory to his workers, he decided to run for office. His campaign in support of animal rights gives him a lead in the opinion polls - which worries the main political parties. Since his past is unassailable, his political opponents decide to give the job of getting rid of him to a bizarre couple - a professional killer called Jean and a high-class call girl named Clara. The pair has to ruin him with scandal and then eliminate him for good. Jean's first attempt at his task is a failure: instead of a killer he ends up looking like Cavaillon's savior and friend. Clara is forced to play the role of the killer's tender wife, because their victim sees them as a kindly pair not interested in using him for his position like everyone else. Between one bungled assassination attempt and the next, the three are enmeshed in an intense relationship in which their roles all change.
Teresa Capece
Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and next to her she sleeps only and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick. So one night Teresa is involved, in spite of herself, in a whirlwind of ambiguous situations, together with Ferdinando and Friariello, met by chance, between camorristi, dog races and a bingo of which he unknowingly becomes the prize. But "has to pass" to "nuttata", this is certain, but how?
Ti presento un'amica (internationally released as Private Affairs and Quite by Chance) is a 1988 comedy drama film directed by Francesco Massaro.
Rosario, the prostitute
Una revisitación de la mítica de la picaresca española que propone el encuentro entre Guzmán de Alfarache y el Lazarillo de Tormes.
Franca
Elena vive en una granja en la Toscana, separada de su inútil marido Leonardo, que está más preocupado por su amante que por su esposa y sus dos hijas. Las tres viven con Claudia, hermana de Elena, y con Fosca, el ama de llaves, en un mundo prácticamente sin hombres. El único hombre de la casa es un viejo tío senil que pasa la mayor parte del tiempo haciendo punto. Este insólito y estable universo femenino pronto se verá sacudido por varias crisis.
Chiara
Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to become famous. Francesco is different: he found in her the reason of his life. But when she accepts a job far from home, Francesco comes back to billiards.
Giulia Canella
Based on a real-life mystery in the newspapers after World War I, this conventional, straightforward story is about a poorly-dressed man who is brought into the police station in Turin for stealing flower pots from the cemetery. He is rather brutally interrogated, and then because he has no idea who he is or where he belongs, he is put into an asylum for the mentally disturbed. After his photograph is published in the newspapers, a woman shows up at the institution claiming that he is Professor Canella, her missing and wealthy husband. The news obtains the release of the amnesiac, but his claim is quickly and hotly contested by another family, arguing that the man is an imposter. As a result, his case goes back to court and in the meantime, the "professor" is put in jail. As the courtroom drama continues, there are various clues that suggest whether or not the amnesiac has been accurately identified and by whom.
Emmanuela Setti Carraro
En la primavera de 1982, el General Dalla Chiesa podría haberse retirado. Su implacable persecución contra el terrorismo lo había convertido en el hombre más popular de Italia. Pero una nueva guerra había empezado en Palermo: un nuevo enfrentamiento entre los clanes mafiosos había producido una ola de asesinatos tanto de miembros de las distintas familias como de jueces, magistrados y oficiales de policía.
Chiara
Francesco, nicknamed 'Toscano', is a very good pool player but he never wins when he plays for money. He meets Chiara, a saxophone player, on a late night bus by swapping his case containing the cue with her one, containing the sax. The two fall in love, but in the meantime Francesco loses a big amount of money playing versus 'Scuro', the long-time Italian champion. His only chance to pay the debt is to win the Italian Championships.
Anna
Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility.
Angelica
La historia transcurre en la casa del señor Argante quien en su afán de tener compañía se ha convertido en un hipocondríaco quien en todo momento cree tener algún tipo de enfermedad con la intención de reclamar cuidados de parte de su esposa, sus hijas y por supuesto, de su criada Tonina, pero cuando la terquedad del hombre es tal que decide casar a su hija Angélica con un médico sin importar el verdadero amor de la joven.
Luisa
Cesira
Giuseppe Cicerchia, un chico con pocos antecedentes penales y un matrimonio fallido a sus espaldas, ha creado fama como curandero en un pequeño pueblo de montaña.