Luigi Lo Cascio

Luigi Lo Cascio

Nascimento : 1967-10-20, Palermo, Italy

História

Luigi Lo Cascio is an Italian actor born 20 October 1967 in Palermo. He won David di Donatello for Best actor for his starring role in I cento passi. Description above from the Wikipedia article Luigi Lo Cascio, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Luigi Lo Cascio

Filmes

Delta
Osso
Osso, is a volunteer watching over the Delta. A group of poachers arrive there and he tries to maintain peace but the criminal offences of Elia's gang and residents' hostility force him to face the scariest ghost from his past.
Chiara
Assisi, 1211. Chiara is eighteen years old and one night she runs away from home to join her friend Francesco: from that moment on her life changes forever. With charisma and conviction, she breaks free from her family's constraints and stands up to the Pope himself. She fights for herself, for the women who join her and for her dream of freedom. The story of a Saint. The story of a girl and her revolution.
The Bone Breakers
Machinetta
Inside a warehouse in Palermo, a group of people smashes a man’s arm to pieces with a wheelie bag packed with weights. This is the method used by an amateur criminal organization that fractures the limbs of its willing victims before staging fake accidents and raking in the insurance payouts. Vincenzo recruits the individuals from among the down-and-outs that haunt the city streets, where Luisa is a habitué, since she gets her crack there. Vincenzo’s problems suddenly get worse, though, after a series of mistakes shut him out of the gang, and Luisa is now his only chance: he convinces her to have her bones broken.
Strangeness
Il capocomico
During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello takes an interest in the odd couple, having been suffering from writer's block while working on his eventual masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author.
Lord of the Ants
Aldo Braibanti
O poeta, dramaturgo e diretor italiano Aldo Braibanti é preso em 1968 sob uma lei que criminaliza o aliciamento. O informante é o pai de seu companheiro.
Laços
Aldo
A invasão do apartamento de um casal desperta lembranças do turbulento casamento, marcado por um período de infidelidade e abandono. Já adultos, seus filhos vivem as consequências dessa estranha fase.
I Guerrieri del Regno di OEP
Narrator
A documentary with some fictional scenes that focuses the attention, more than on hospitalized children, on the human dynamics that are established in their families. Shot in the Oncohematology ward of an Italian hospital, the movie follows the life of some young patients being treated, alternating interviews with their relatives and hospital staff.
O Traidor
Salvatore Contorno
Palermo, Sicília, 1980. Tommaso Buscetta, membro da Máfia, decide mudar-se para o Brasil com sua família fugindo da guerra constante entre os diferentes clãs da organização criminosa. Mas quando, após viver várias desgraças, ele é forçado a voltar para a Itália, toma uma decisão ousada que mudará sua vida e o destino da Cosa Nostra para sempre.
Morte Abaixo de Zero
Cesare
Um ex-traficante de seres humanos encontra o corpo assassinado de seu sobrinho em um vale remoto. Assim que a polícia começa a investigar o caso de assassinato, ele se torna o principal suspeito.
I Can Quit Whenever I Want 3: Ad Honorem
Walter Mercurio
Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Coeli jail, Pietro keep warning the authorities a fool syntetized nerve gas and he is ready to make a killing, but no one takes him seriously.
Smetto quando voglio: Masterclass
Walter Mercurio
O grupo de pesquisadores está de volta: a conspiração criminosa "com a maior taxa de cultura sempre" para parar quando eu quero decide se reconstituir quando um policial oferece o chefe, Peter Zinni, um desconto de multa e toda a limpeza do grupo do registo criminal, fornecidas para ajudar a polícia a vencer a batalha contra a droga inteligente. Então, esses graduados são obrigados a viver de expedientes em uma Itália que não tem nenhum uso de sua cultura voltar para um par de fuga de cérebros e trabalhar juntos para rastrear os criadores dos novos medicamentos feitos a partir de moléculas ainda não ilegais. Pedro, no entanto, não pode revelar nada sobre sua nova missão na namorada Giulia, grávida de seu primeiro filho, e é forçado a inventar mais e mais colorida com suas mentiras.
Donkey Flies
Maurizio, tiny, reckless and full of energy, grew up in the poorest outskirts of Reggio Calabria, he argues with spiteful hens, speaks to wise donkeys and fights for his dream: to play the snare drum in the neighbourhood band.
An Italian Name
Sandro De Luca
Paolo is an outgoing and handsome real estate broker married to Simona, a beautiful woman from the rough outskirts of Rome who has become an author of spicy bestsellers and is pregnant with their child. Betta, Paolo’s sister and her husband Sandro organise a dinner party with Paolo, Simona and their childhood friend, the eccentric musician Claudio. During the lively gathering Paolo reveals what he would like to name his son, causing reactions to steam up and a torrent of revelations to follow reaching climactic proportions.
Montalbano and Me: Andrea Camilleri
A profile of the author of the highly successful INSPECTOR MONTALBANO series, originally broadcast to mark his birthday.
The Dinner
Paolo
Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the parents protect the kids or force them to face the consequences of their actions?
Human Capital
Donato, il professor Russomanno
The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
The Bad Child
Michele
Marina
Salvatore Granata
The true story of Rocco Granata, an Italian coal miner's son who followed his passion for music against his father's wishes and social barriers.
Salvo
Enzo Puleo
Salvo, a ruthless Sicilian Mafia hit man, changes his priorities after being involved in a bloody ambush.
The Ideal City
Writer
Actor turned director Luigi Lo Cascio stars as the talented architect and fervent environmentalist Michele who has moved from Palermo to his ideal city, Siena. He holds a successful job and is living out a dream experiment of functioning one year without running water or electricity. Not surprisingly, he also displays a passionate opposition to cars and driving. One evening, after being forced to borrow his boss’ car in order to collect a colleague for a work function, Michele’s life takes an unexpected turn. In the blinding rain Michele hits something he cannot identify. After leaving a note on a parked car he believes he damaged, he continues down the road only to come across a dead body a few miles down which he later discovers belongs to one of Siena’s most important luminaries. Michele immediately calls the police, but in doing so, he unwittingly brings intense suspicion on himself as his uncertainty raises more questions than he has answers for.
The Ideal City
Michele
Actor turned director Luigi Lo Cascio stars as the talented architect and fervent environmentalist Michele who has moved from Palermo to his ideal city, Siena. He holds a successful job and is living out a dream experiment of functioning one year without running water or electricity. Not surprisingly, he also displays a passionate opposition to cars and driving. One evening, after being forced to borrow his boss’ car in order to collect a colleague for a work function, Michele’s life takes an unexpected turn. In the blinding rain Michele hits something he cannot identify. After leaving a note on a parked car he believes he damaged, he continues down the road only to come across a dead body a few miles down which he later discovers belongs to one of Siena’s most important luminaries. Michele immediately calls the police, but in doing so, he unwittingly brings intense suspicion on himself as his uncertainty raises more questions than he has answers for.
The Ideal City
Director
Actor turned director Luigi Lo Cascio stars as the talented architect and fervent environmentalist Michele who has moved from Palermo to his ideal city, Siena. He holds a successful job and is living out a dream experiment of functioning one year without running water or electricity. Not surprisingly, he also displays a passionate opposition to cars and driving. One evening, after being forced to borrow his boss’ car in order to collect a colleague for a work function, Michele’s life takes an unexpected turn. In the blinding rain Michele hits something he cannot identify. After leaving a note on a parked car he believes he damaged, he continues down the road only to come across a dead body a few miles down which he later discovers belongs to one of Siena’s most important luminaries. Michele immediately calls the police, but in doing so, he unwittingly brings intense suspicion on himself as his uncertainty raises more questions than he has answers for.
6 sull'autobus
An old bus drives through the streets of Rome. It's a long day. The bus fills up with people and stories. Then empties out. People get on. And get off. Faces, eyes. Expectations. A few encounters. Incidents. Slips. Ambiguities. Thefts. Rows. Confiding exchanges. Confessions. Projects. Plans. Lies. Slaps. Even one hijacking. A well-defined route can become a journey. Each encounter can become a future opportunity or can lay a former wound to rest. Every stop may produce the person who will change your life trajectory. Or not, and the bus carries on. At the next turn, someone else will get on and a fragment of his life will for a moment touch yours.
Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Judge Ugo Paolillo
On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people and injures many more at a major national bank in Milan, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but an investigator uncovers a larger subversive project made of far-right fringe groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.
Il sogno del maratoneta
Dorando Pietri
The feat of marathon runner Dorando Pietri, who participated in the London Olympic Games in 1908.
We Believed
Domenico Lopresti
1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary movements in Southern Italy, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's republican and unificationist cause. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the decades.
Baarìa - A Porta do Vento
giovane con sindrome di Down
Na Itália de 1930, Peppino viveu uma infância problemática. Quando ficou mais velho e viveu no período fascista, descobriu uma grande paixão pela política, entrando para o comunismo. Após a guerra, ele encontra um grande amor.
The Friends at the Margherita Cafe
Manuelo
Bologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.
O Milagre de St. Anna
Angelo Torancelli (Adult)
Adaptação do romance de James McBride, ambientado durante a Segunda Guerra, que conta a história de quatro soldados americanos que fazem parte da 92º Divisão Buffalo Soldier - formada apenas por negros. Baseados na Toscana, Itália, em 1944, esses quatro homens caem numa armadilha preparada pelos nazistas. E acabam se separando quando um deles decide arriscar sua própria vida para salvar um garotinho italiano.
Wild Blood
Patriot
The story of two renowned actors of Fascist cinema, Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, who were supporters of the regime until the very end. Accused of collaborationism and torture, they were summarily executed by Partisans during the Liberation.
The Sweet and the Bitter
Saro Scordia
Saro, a young Sicilian thug, that from jobs assigned by his godfather, won the favor of leaders of Cosa Nostra, becoming a "man of honor".
The Dark Sea
Luca
Investigando a morte de uma jovem mulher, um inspetor de polícia se vê explorando o lado tórrido e misterioso da vida noturna da Roma. Esta investigação acabará se tornando uma obsessão, levando-o a arrastar seu próprio companheiro para um jogo perverso...
Segredos do Coração
Daniele
Indicado ao Oscar de Melhor Filme Estrangeiro e ganhador de muitos prêmios no Festival de Veneza, Segredos do Coração é um filme muito emocionante e terno. Sabina (a fantástica Giovanna Mezzogiorno) está feliz com seu trabalho e seu amor por Franco. Mas pesadelos começam a perturbá-la. Ao mesmo tempo ela descobre que está grávida. Passo a passo, Sabina se lembra da sua infância passada numa família severa de classe média. No entanto, o maior segredo está guardado em seu coração. Ela entra em contato com seu irmão, que vive nos Estados Unidos, para tentar entender o que aconteceu no seu passado. Qual é o segredo? Ela está determinada a trazer serenidade a sua vida.
Eyes of Crystal
Amaldi
While hunting a cultured, intelligent and vicious psychopath, Inspector Amaldi comes face to face with the physical and moral decay of his city as well as the ghosts of his own past.
The Life I Want
Stefano / Federico
A relationship develops between seasoned actor Stefano and his young, ambitious co-star Laura when they are cast as the two leads in a film. Stefano must deal with his growing jealousy when Laura's career begins to take off.
Stessa rabbia, stessa primavera
Himself
A documentary about the making of "Buongiorno, notte" and the films and politics of director Marco Bellocchio.
Bom Dia, Noite
Mariano
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
O Melhor da Juventude
Nicola Carati
Os irmãos Nicola e Matteo tem as vidas transformadas após tentarem resgatar uma jovem que sofria torturas em um manicômio na década de 60. O filme conta desde então os acontecimentos da vida dos dois rapazes até os dias atuais.
Mio cognato
Vito
O Mais Belo Dia das Nossas Vidas
Claudio Mazzoni
Irene (Virna Lisi) vive numa vila antiga e sua maior tristeza é não ter conseguido transmitir aos três filhos a ligação afetiva à casa e ao conceito de família em que foi educada. Sara (Margherita Buy), a filha mais velha, vive em absoluta reclusão depois da morte do marido. Rita (Sandra Ceccarelli), a segunda, é aparentemente mais feliz, tendo um marido com quem casou por amor e duas filhas. Mas a fachada esconde sua insatisfação sexual com o esposo. Finalmente, Cláudio (Luigi Lo Cascio), o mais jovem, é um advogado cheio de dilemas com sua sexualidade. Mas o ambiente de insatisfação na família de Irene será sacudido por dois homens: Sandro (Ricky Tognazzi), que vai transformar a vida insossa de Sara, e Luca (Marco Quaglia), que vai induzir Claudio a fazer sua escolha e declarar a própria homossexualidade.
Light of My Eyes
Antonio
Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur in Rome, who relates only to the lonely heroes in the science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance meeting with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, does he discover a hope that's been in his detached existence.
Os Cem Passos
Peppino Impastato
Cinisi é uma vila na província de Palermo, conhecida pelo aeroporto de Punta Raisi, que os chefes mafiosos locais utilizam para seus negócios. Aqui vive o pequeno Peppino Impastato, a cem passos da casa do chefe Tano Badalamenti, com quem sua família tem um relacionamento próximo, marcado pela lei do silêncio.