Ettore Maria Margadonna
Nascimento : 1893-11-30, Palena, Italy
Morte : 1975-10-28
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During the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone is one of the characters played by the famous Ettore Petrolini who figures in these sketches.
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The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.
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The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.
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A landowner pretends he's in love with a provocative bar owner to make his fianceè jealous. She has fallen for a marshal.
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A landowner pretends he's in love with a provocative bar owner to make his fianceè jealous. She has fallen for a marshal.
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Determined to postpone his own wedding, a former marshal leaves his bride-to-be and participates in an international music festival in Spain, where he falls for a young dancer.
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Determined to postpone his own wedding, a former marshal leaves his bride-to-be and participates in an international music festival in Spain, where he falls for a young dancer.
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A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the village blacksmith.
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A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the village blacksmith.
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Stylish, sophisticated and absolutely broke, Dino and Maria pursue a romance until they realize neither of them has any money, which forces the gold diggers to turn their attention to a wealthy widower and his daughter. A compulsive gambler who owes several anxious investors a small fortune, Dino has trouble cutting his losses, no matter how bad the losing streak.
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Scandal in Sorrento or Pane, amore e ... é um filme de comédia italiana dirigido por Dino Risi. Este é o terceiro filme da trilogia, formado por Bread, Love and Dreams em 1953, Bread, Love and Ciúme em 1954.
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Scandal in Sorrento or Pane, amore e ... é um filme de comédia italiana dirigido por Dino Risi. Este é o terceiro filme da trilogia, formado por Bread, Love and Dreams em 1953, Bread, Love and Ciúme em 1954.
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Nannina is engaged to a sleazy, unruly boxer who ends up in jail after a fight with a traffic policeman.
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Nannina is engaged to a sleazy, unruly boxer who ends up in jail after a fight with a traffic policeman.
Co-Writer
Dante Trilli, who has been teaching in his village school for about twenty years, wins a competition for Milan. Waiting for him is his childhood friend, where he is the janitor in the school where Trilli will teach.
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The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
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The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
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When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
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When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
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When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
Screenplay
In the movie La valigia dei sogni (The Suitcase of Dreams, Italy, 1953) directed by Luigi Comencini, some sequences from Cenere are inserted. The protagonist is a former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction, and uses them to set up recreational performances at schools. After an accidental fire and the risk of prison, he meets a rich producer who helps him to build a film museum.
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In the movie La valigia dei sogni (The Suitcase of Dreams, Italy, 1953) directed by Luigi Comencini, some sequences from Cenere are inserted. The protagonist is a former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction, and uses them to set up recreational performances at schools. After an accidental fire and the risk of prison, he meets a rich producer who helps him to build a film museum.
Writer
Joys and disappointments of three young girls who dreaming of making a career in film: Luisa has talent and triumphs; Franca tries to seduce a producer, however no artistic skills, Giuditta, the most inexperienced and naive, will have to choose between the dream of cinema and the reality of a marriage.
Um casal recém-casado chega a Roma para a lua-de-mel. O marido, Ivan, tem um tio muito influente na cidade, e conseguiu para os dois uma audiência com o Papa, além de ter vários planos turísticos programados. Porém, sua jovem esposa aproveita um momento de descanso para ir a uma produtora de fotonovelas entregar um presente para seu herói predileto, o Sheik Branco, que então a convida para ir ao set de filmagens, fora da cidade.
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Boscotrecase, província de Nápoles: Antonio acabou de voltar do serviço militar e está encarando a dura realidade do pós-guerra, aprendendo a arte de sobreviver. Ele tem a mãe e várias irmãs para sustentar sozinho, e por isso ele aceita todo emprego que aparece. Logo conhece Carmela, filha do fabricante de fogos de artifício da cidade, que Antonio rejeita no começo devido a sua situação financeira, mas ela não desiste, e logo ele também a quer a todo custo.
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A lovely, incisive portrait of adolescents in the crowded San Giovanni quarter of Rome during the last years of WWII.
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An Italian sex worker falls in love with a black American soldier during World War II.
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A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of some of the jewels of the victim. The passionate protests of his sister arouse the compassion of Za la Mort, who promises to help the girl.
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Among others, Ernesto returns to Turin after the war from a German POW camp; his household destroyed and family deceased, he tries making an honest living.
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An Italian drama from 1943.
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A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor.
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O nobre Pantaleo Di Santa Paola acaba de falecer, e o preâmbulo de seu testamento é uma confissão na qual ele afirma que em sua juventude teve um relacionamento com uma amazona de circo que gerou filhos gêmeos.
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Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic after his last performance in Milan, attempts to find a way to win over the audience and the critics, while wooing his love interest.
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After several unsuccessful suicide attempts, Totò finds himself in an animal asylum.
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An 1938 Italian historical war film that portrays the life and death of Pietro Micca who was killed in 1706 at the Siege of Turin while fighting for the Duchy of Savoy against France in the War of the Spanish Succession.
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