Leo Pescarolo

Nascimento : 1935-01-01, Genova, Italy

Morte : 2006-05-24

Filmes

Dançando no Escuro
Producer
Selma Jezkova (Björk) é uma mãe-solteira tcheca que foi morar nos Estados Unidos. Ela tem uma doença hereditária que a faz perder a visão, algo que também deverá acontecer um dia a seu filho Gene (Vladan Kostig), um garoto de doze anos. Entretanto, em virtude de saber que existem médicos nos Estados Unidos que podem operar seu filho isto foi o suficiente para fazê-la imigrar para o país. Ela trabalha muito duro e guarda tudo o que ganha para a cirurgia do filho. Bill (David Morse) e Linda (Cara Seymour), seus vizinhos, juntamente com Kathy (Catherine Deneuve), uma colega de fábrica, a ajudam no que é possível, mas quando Bill se vê em dificuldades financeiras rouba o dinheiro que Selma tinha economizado duramente. Este roubo é o ponto de partida para trágicos acontecimentos.
Shooting the Moon
Producer
14-year-old Siddharta, wise beyond his age, has to deal every day with his heroin-addict mother Silvia and an absent father. One day, his four-year-old sister Domitilla accidentally pricks her finger on one of Silvia's used needles without her noticing. Seeking advice on the Internet, Siddharta is told to have her tested for hepatitis and AIDS. Thus he embarks on a odyssey of medical bureaucracy and both kind and uncaring adults.
A Trégua
Producer
Although liberated from Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until October 19 of that year. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of Italian former prisoners of war from the Italian Army in Russia. His long railway journey home to Turin took him on a circuitous route from Poland, through Russia, Romania, Hungary, Austria and Germany.
The Killer Wore Yellow Shoes
Producer
To inherit a fortune, all Robert has to do is reopen a delapidated theatre and stage "Hamlet". Unknown to everyone else, Robert witnessed a murder in that theatre as a child... and the murderer is one of the cast.
With Closed Eyes
Producer
In the Tuscan countryside at the end of the 19th century, Pietro, the shy son of a tyrannical landowner, falls in love with Ghisola, a peasant girl with no family. His father has her sent away. Years later, the two meet again: still in love with her, Pietro would like to marry her, but she has become the mistress of a married man.
The Great Pumpkin
Producer
An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of this mistake begins the difficult journey towards being cured.
Towards Evening
Producer
Italy, 1977. Professor Bruschi is a retired widower who lives according to a strict routine he set for himself. An ardent old-style communist, he has always been at odds with the unconventional lifestyle led by his son and his hippieish girlfriend Stella. When their four-year-old daughter is left in his care out of the blue after the two break up, the old professor becomes a sort of father figure to the girl, growing fond of her. However he's once again challenged when Stella also arrives for a stay in his elegant villa, reclaiming custody of her daughter.
Lo zio indegno
Producer
A businessman has trouble reuniting with his roguish con-artist uncle, especially when the uncle propositions school-age girls and comes on to his nephew's mistress.
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
Producer
Jewish lovers (Rupert Everett, Stefania Sandrelli) and a homosexual doctor (Philippe Noiret) fall to prejudice and scandal in 1938 Italy.
Diabo no Corpo
Producer
An Italian high school student becomes infatuated with a woman he sees outside his class window. Her fiancée is in jail for being involved in a radical movement, and she spends much time in court providing moral support. At first she resists the student's advances, but eventually begins an affair with him. Their situation is condemned by her family and his father, who is the woman's psychologist.
Rings of Fear
Producer
Angelo Russo, a sixteen year-old girl, is found dead in a river, having been fatally violated with a large blunt instrument. Inspector Di Salvo is assigned to the case and focuses his investigations on St. Theresa's, the exclusive school where Angelo boarded. Three of the murdered girl's classmates, Franca, Paola and Virgina (who call themselves "The Inseparables"), receive threatening poems from an individual using the name "Nemesis". Bizarre "accidents" start to befall the girls: Franca is injured when someone causes her horse to bolt and Virgina nearly breaks her neck on marbles left at the top of a staircase. But Di Salvo is determined to find the killer, even if it means using unorthodox methods. He is aided by Angelo Russo's little sister Emily, whose helpful clues lead to a boutique owned by a dubious character and a vice ring where "rich influential men pay well for teenage favours" ...
Dimmi che fai tutto per me
Producer
Francesco Salmarani, a well-known doctor from Treviso, suddenly finds himself with an overdraft bank account as his wife's father has come from America demanding the purchase of a large Palladian villa. Tired of his wife, Francesco consoles himself with Paola and then lets himself be ensnared by the very young and beautiful Mary, who has come as housekeeper and father-in-law's lover. The need to fill the administrative gaps and the dream of running away with Mary lead the doctor to organize a coup against his father-in-law who, linked to the mafia, managed to transfer a large dollar patrimony, stolen from the gang, to the villa. The presence of the boy allows the commissioner to exonerate his son-in-law, Mary and Felegatti, of the death of the old mafioso. However, everyone will be left without the dreamed treasure which will fall to Mary and the son of the Salmarani who flee together.
Giovannino
Producer
La banca di Monate
Producer
Lago Maggiore, 1949: a failed bank manager, to revive his economic situation, tries to combine a marriage of interest for his daughter. Failing to do so, he then tries a robbery in his own bank.
Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
Producer
Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bossed around and sexually harassed at work. He decides to take justice into his own hands and get rough with the world. He soon gets his family's respect back.
Una sera c'incontrammo
Producer
Autopsy
Producer
A series of random suicides in Rome, Italy are attributed to a heatwave, but a young pathologist named Simona—who is working on a thesis about murders disguised as suicides—suspects otherwise. When a young girl associated with Simona's playboy father ends up dead in another apparent suicide, Simona teams up with the girl's priest brother to prove she was murdered and track down the unknown serial killer.
Innocence and Desire
Executive Producer
A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife.
Giordano Bruno
Executive Producer
Processo e execução do astrônomo, matemático e filósofo italiano Giordano Bruno, queimado na fogueira pela Inquisição por causa de suas teorias contrárias aos dogmas da Igreja Católica.
Mafia Junction
Producer
Cliff works as a narcotics investigator for the police and infiltrate a mafia gang. Soon it turns out that Cliff has bigger plans than just to bust bad guys.
O Quê Vocês Fizeram com Solange?
Producer
Várias meninas são brutalmente assassinadas por uma pessoa vestindo trajes semelhantes a de um padre, em uma faculdade para mulheres. A polícia e os professores são incapazes de localizar o assassino e evitar novas mortes. Enrico, que tem um caso romântico com uma de suas alunas, Elizabeth, torna-se o principal suspeito.
Galileu
Producer
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.
Legenda Histórica
First Assistant Director
Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory.
Sweet Deceptions
First Assistant Director
Francesca, a seventeen-year-old Roman, is finally sure she has found love. Almost sure. She spends the day observing other lovers' behaviors and considering whether she is ready to jump. Her age notwithstanding, this movie is more about coming of age than about improper or illegal romantic relationships.
Run with the Devil
Second Assistant Director
Stefano is a talented painter, devoted to his art but not interested in promoting himself, while many of his fellow artists are far more adept at selling their persona than creating art.