Carlo Mazzacurati
Nacimiento : 1956-03-02, Padua, Veneto, Italy
Muerte : 2014-01-22
Historia
Carlo Mazzacurati (2 March 1956 – 22 January 2014) was an Italian film director and screenwriter from Padua. His native Po valley was often featured in his movies. He made his directorial debut with Notte italiana (1987) and co-wrote Daniele Luchetti's It's Happening Tomorrow (1989) – both produced by Nanni Moretti – before gaining recognition on his own with social dramas Il toro (1994) and Vesna va veloce (1996), the former earning him the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Starting with La lingua del santo (2000), Mazzacurati's work entered a more mainstream, comedic field, albeit retaining its bittersweet character studies. A notable exception was The Right Distance (2008), which marked a return to his small-town drama roots. He died at age 57 from pancreatic cancer.
Screenplay
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.
Director
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.
Story
Documentary about Medici con l'Africa CUAMM, one of Italy's foremost humanitarian NGOs to operate in Africa.
Director
Documentary about Medici con l'Africa CUAMM, one of Italy's foremost humanitarian NGOs to operate in Africa.
Story
What is the "feeling" of a city? Is it the roads, the light that illuminates them, the people that live there and their stories? It's all these things, but also something else, something requiring time and attention to be understood. The film goes in search of this feeling exploring the city of Venice and its lagoon, prying into its less-known corners and listening to the stories of six citizens: a hotel waitress, an old archaeologist, a pensioner from Mestre, a painter/fisherman, an apartment burglar and a young boy.
Screenplay
What is the "feeling" of a city? Is it the roads, the light that illuminates them, the people that live there and their stories? It's all these things, but also something else, something requiring time and attention to be understood. The film goes in search of this feeling exploring the city of Venice and its lagoon, prying into its less-known corners and listening to the stories of six citizens: a hotel waitress, an old archaeologist, a pensioner from Mestre, a painter/fisherman, an apartment burglar and a young boy.
Director
What is the "feeling" of a city? Is it the roads, the light that illuminates them, the people that live there and their stories? It's all these things, but also something else, something requiring time and attention to be understood. The film goes in search of this feeling exploring the city of Venice and its lagoon, prying into its less-known corners and listening to the stories of six citizens: a hotel waitress, an old archaeologist, a pensioner from Mestre, a painter/fisherman, an apartment burglar and a young boy.
Self
Piero Tortolina has been a point of reference for a whole generation of film lovers. Pioneer of cinema-clubs and great film collector, he has been an invisible protagonist in the history of italian cinema.
Screenplay
A un fracasado director de cine se le ofrece la oportunidad de montar la pasión de Cristo en un pueblo, con divertidas consecuencias.
Story
A un fracasado director de cine se le ofrece la oportunidad de montar la pasión de Cristo en un pueblo, con divertidas consecuencias.
Director
A un fracasado director de cine se le ofrece la oportunidad de montar la pasión de Cristo en un pueblo, con divertidas consecuencias.
Screenplay
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.
Story
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.
Director
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.
cameriere
Paolo Bonomo es un productor de películas de serie B que atraviesa un momento particularmente crítico: está en trámites de separación de su mujer Paola, y además su productora no va demasiado bien. Un día le ofrecen un guión para hacer una película sobre Silvio Berlusconi y acepta la propuesta. (FILMAFFINITY)
Screenplay
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Story
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Director
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Self
A selection of deleted scenes from Nanni Moretti's 1998 film "Aprile".
Screenplay
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...
Story
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...
Director
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...
Director
Over the course of three days, Marco Paolini interviews Luigi Meneghello (1922-2007) about growing up under fascism, his involvement with the Italian resistance movement, his later self-exile, acclaimed literary work and its relationship with dialect.
Screenplay
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.
Story
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.
Director
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.
Director
Marco Paolini discusses with poet Andrea Zanzotto (1921-2011) about three themes: Nature, History, and Language.
Director
Over the course of three days, Marco Paolini interviews Mario Rigoni Stern (1921-2008) about – among other things – his renowned experience as a soldier on the Eastern front during WWII, culminating in the infamous retreat of the Italian troops, the difficult reintegration into civilian life after the war, his relationship with his literary work and the one with his ancestral land, the Asiago Plateau.
Teleplay
At 19, David has his diploma (the first in his family), a job at a car wash, and little else. His family is broke and argues constantly. So, unannounced, David leaves Turin for his uncle's farm in Polesine. Here he learns many life lessons over the course of a summer while hanging out with Bosnian drug dealer Alem and Patrizia, an older woman who's an addict.
Story
At 19, David has his diploma (the first in his family), a job at a car wash, and little else. His family is broke and argues constantly. So, unannounced, David leaves Turin for his uncle's farm in Polesine. Here he learns many life lessons over the course of a summer while hanging out with Bosnian drug dealer Alem and Patrizia, an older woman who's an addict.
Director
At 19, David has his diploma (the first in his family), a job at a car wash, and little else. His family is broke and argues constantly. So, unannounced, David leaves Turin for his uncle's farm in Polesine. Here he learns many life lessons over the course of a summer while hanging out with Bosnian drug dealer Alem and Patrizia, an older woman who's an addict.
Story
Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation.
Screenplay
Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation.
Director
Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation.
Director
A collective short film made of nine segments characterized by a critical and pessimistic attitude towards the future of Italy in the wake of the political rise of Silvio Berlusconi ahead of the 1994 general elections.
Story
After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former company and smuggles it in Hungary to sell it for a large sum of money.
Screenplay
After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former company and smuggles it in Hungary to sell it for a large sum of money.
Director
After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former company and smuggles it in Hungary to sell it for a large sum of money.
Film critic
Film dividido en tres episodios, que refleja la vida y opiniones de Nanni Moretti. «En mi Vespa» es una aproximación a la vida cotidiana de Roma durante el mes de agosto; en "Islas" visita a Gerardo, un amigo que lleva once años viviendo en Lipari; juntos recorren otras íslas como Salina, Stromboli, Panarea y Alicudi. En "Médicos" el director rueda su propia quimioterapia y su recorrido por hospitales y especialistas incapaces de diagnosticarle la causa de unos insoportables picores.
Story
Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a Russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a guy like him would never have thought to come across.
Screenplay
Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a Russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a guy like him would never have thought to come across.
Director
Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a Russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a guy like him would never have thought to come across.
Screenplay
In 1939 Vicenza, a young petty thief befriends the local priest. Based on the novel by Goffredo Parise.
Man in swimming pool
A causa de un accidente, Michele, jugador de waterpolo, pierde la memoria. Durante un partido, unos desconocidos empiezan a presionarlo con el fin de que recuerde su pasado. Cuando el partido está a punto de acabar, Michele se dispone a lanzar un penalti del que depende el empate para su equipo.
Director
In 1939 Vicenza, a young petty thief befriends the local priest. Based on the novel by Goffredo Parise.
Story
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.
Screenplay
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.
Story
1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, damsels in distress, eccentric nobles, and revolutionaries along the way.
Screenplay
Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to make way for a national park. The lawyer soon discovers that in that area, once target of methane extraction, the soil is now at risk to sink, due to hydrogeological disturbance: in the meanwhile, he also digs out a mystery tied to a death dating back twenty years before.
Story
Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to make way for a national park. The lawyer soon discovers that in that area, once target of methane extraction, the soil is now at risk to sink, due to hydrogeological disturbance: in the meanwhile, he also digs out a mystery tied to a death dating back twenty years before.
Director
Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to make way for a national park. The lawyer soon discovers that in that area, once target of methane extraction, the soil is now at risk to sink, due to hydrogeological disturbance: in the meanwhile, he also digs out a mystery tied to a death dating back twenty years before.
