Manuel De Sica

Manuel De Sica

Рождение : 1949-02-24, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Смерть : 2014-12-05

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Manuel De Sica

Фильмы

The Garden That Doesn't Exist
Self
Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi Continis'. It came to life in Giorgio Bassani's 1962 semi-autobiographical novel recounting an unfulfilled love story between two young Jews in Ferrara, while fascism was raging in Italy in the late 1930's. In 1972, Vittorio De Sica's film adaptation of the book won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Since then, the fictional space of the garden became so tangible that people from all over the world come to Ferrara to look for it. Fifty years after winning the Oscar, reality and fiction come together once more, as we walk through an imaginary garden and bring to life the book, its author, its main protagonists, history, love, friendships and betrayals.
Love Is Not Perfect
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Elena is a beautiful, 35-year-old accomplished woman who has an unhealthy obsession with perfection. Elena's well-ordered life is thrown into chaos, however, when she meets Adriana, an 18-year-old seductive young woman who offers passion and excitement, and Hector, an older man who offers Elena stability and security. Elena quickly realizes though that Adriana is too immature and too young for her, so she tries to end their romance, but for Adriana the rejection is just another game to play
Vittorio D.
Self
A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.
Un'estate ai Caraibi
Music
Several groups of Italians experience amusing adventures and tests of character on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Some of the characters are there simply for rest and relaxation, while others act with different motivations. Multiple plot lines unfold simultaneously as different characters' stories are presented.
A summer at the sea
Music
Set against the sun-soaked shores of Italy in the summertime, seven different tales unfold about life, love, loss, family, and friendship.
Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine
Looks back at the Sciuscià, its success abroad, its influence on later filmmakers, its Oscar win, and the social conditions at the time of its production.
Death Is Beautiful: Michele Soavi Directs Dellamorte Dellamore
Music
A brief overview of the inspiration and process behind making Cemetery Man.
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Himself
How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to watch by an undemanding audience or even how mutilates them to adapt the original formats and runtimes to the restrictive frame of the television screen and the abusive requirements of advertising. (Followed by “Filmmakers in Action.”)
Le ragazze di Miss Italia
Music
A story set behind the scenes of the annual Miss Italia pageant, with its load of young girls and recognizable characters.
Vacanze di Natale 2000
Original Music Composer
Milanese and Naples people go to Cortina d'Ampezzo on Christmas holidays
Nuda proprietà vendesi
Music
Simpatici & antipatici
Music
3 - Tre
Music
At the end of the 18th century, a couple of libertine Tuscan aristocrats welcome in their villa (and into their bedroom) an handsome young revolutionary, hoping to rekindle their marriage.
Celluloide
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June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on the tragic events that occurred during the Nazi occupation: Rome, Open City .
Christmas Vacation '95
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Two Italians are on holiday in Aspen in Colorado. The first one is Lorenzo whose daughter is crazy about Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210 actor) and wants to meet him at all costs. The second one wants to win back his wife who has left him because of his gambling problem.
Men Men Men
Original Music Composer
Four homosexual men in their 40s have issues and no small degree of self hatred. Yet, can laugh at themselves and their comrades and often do.
Miracolo italiano
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7 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a woman cheats on her husband with her favorite soap opera star; a married man pretends to be ill to seduce his younger nurse; a family discovers that their son's beautiful fiancée is transgender; an unsatisfied single woman is duped by her celebrity crush for Kevin Costner; two best friends want to have fun; a couple on a tropical holiday is fascinated by their indigenous masseuse.
О смерти, о любви
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Франческо Делламорте — смотритель кладбища маленького итальянского захолустного городка. Однако его работа немного отличается от обычной — дело в том, что по какой-то непонятной причине мертвецы на этом кладбище имеют дурную привычку пролежав неделю в гробу восставать из мертвых. И в число обязанностей Франческо входит отправлять их обратно в могилы, что он и делает, используя, наверное, самый классический способ — выстрелом разносит им головы…
On the Dark Continent
Music
In the 1950s, a big stir was made by a book (and its corresponding movie) called The Ugly American. Its subject was the grievous damage done to local cultures by well-meaning but essentially clueless (and frequently arrogant) representatives of the U.S. Since then, the phenomenon of cultural damage cause by arrogant tourists and visitors has been demonstrated to be something everyone is capable of. In this thoughtful, comic drama, the subject is Italians overseas. In this film, Malindi Kenya is the playground of rich Italians.
Ricky & Barabba
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A wealthy millionaire decided to commit suicide but meets a homeless with whom he experiences a lot of funny adventures until finally makes order in his life.
Al lupo, al lupo
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Vacanze di Natale '91
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This coarse bedroom farce takes place at the St. Moritz ski resort over a Christmas vacation. Among the couples whose lives intersect are a widowed artist honeymooning with his second wife, a gay man traveling with his son and his lover (and hiding each from the other), a snobbish couple from Milan who have been forced to share a suite with a pair of crass Romans, etc.
Граф Макс
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Механик Альфредо – романтичный молодой человек мечтает о хорошей жизни. Он влюбляется в избалованную топ-модель Изабеллу. Для того, чтобы покорить её сердце он решает пробиться в верхние слои общества. Ему помогает старый граф Макс. Он дает Альфредо необходимые рекомендации и свою одежду, чтобы все его приняли...
To Want to Fly
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Maurizio works in a dubbing studio and puts sound effects into cartoons. One day his hands turn into cartoon ones, with a life of their own.
Non più di uno
Original Music Composer
The Icicle Thief
Music
Director Maurizio Nichetti is invited on TV to introduce a screening of his neo-realist classic 'The Icicle Thief'. He is horrified to discover that his black-and-white tale of life in poverty is constantly interrupted by garish color commercials, and even more horrified when a power cut in the studio causes film and commercials to mix up – a glamorous model finds herself in the arms of an unemployed pauper, while his wife finds herself in consumers' heaven. Nichetti has to break into the film to try to sort everything out.
На всю катушку
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Два пожилых мужичка Мондардини и Баттистини, случайно познакомившиеся друг с другом однажды вечером, решают на время забыть про надоевшие будни и про свой провинциальный городок в Эмилии. И утром они бросают нехитрые пожитки в автомобиль, чтобы поехать на побережье, где живет старый приятель Мондардини. Путешественникам не удается застать того в живых (они приезжают как раз в канун похорон), а следовательно рушатся их планы погостить у ровесника. И они пытаются договориться, куда ехать дальше: одному хочется в Портофино, другому - в Сен-Тропе. Судьба посылает им попутчицу Камиллу, благодаря которой старички оказываются во Франции...
Прощай, малышка
Music
Эротическая драма о запутанных взаимоотношениях двух мужчин и двух женщин. Паоло и Сандра — супруги. Но в их совместной жизни столько дурного, что неудивительно влечение супругов к другим сексуальным партнерам. Паоло тянет к бесподобной биллиардистке Лизе, а Саедру к Марчелло… События фильма — бесконечная череда скандалов, обманов, объяснений, истерик, но главенствует во всем этом секс.
Montecarlo Gran Casinò
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Комиссар по прозвищу Кот
Original Music Composer
Комиссар полиции Ло Гатто (Кошак) служит в Ватикане. Расследуя убийство, он осмеливается поинтересоваться наличием алиби на момент преступления у самого Римского Папы,
Он хуже меня
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Два бесшабашных друга-весельчака Леонардо (Адриано Челентано) и Лучано (Ренато Поццетто) только и делают, что попадают в бесконечные переделки. Когда один из них решает жениться, их дружба претерпевает кризис...
Похоть
Original Music Composer
Английский солдат возвращается домой с зулусской войны с трофеем: дочерью племенного короля...
Carabinieri si nasce
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Vacanze in America
Original Music Composer
A group of students from the San Crispino school for boys take a holiday in the United States, traveling from New York to Los Angeles. Young Father Don Buro has great difficulty controlling the youngsters, especially trouble making ex-student Peo, and finds himself distracted by the attractive single mother of one of the boys.
Cuori nella tormenta
Original Music Composer
Walter is a non-commissioned officer of the Navy, while Raf is a ship's cook. They become great friends but unfortunately they fall in love, without knowing it, with the same girl Sonia.
A Boy and a Girl
Original Music Composer
Anna and Calogero are in love and living together in a low-scale apartment while going to the University of Milan. When Anna discovers she is pregnant, Calogero handles the situation like the moral coward he is.
Подай на меня в суд
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Молодой судья Джованни Пеннизи такой же, как и многие другие, человек, со своими слабостями и жизненными проблемами и ему не чужды мелкие нарушения. И поэтому он судит людей, которые идут к нему, с некоторой снисходительностью. Но для всех будет найдено законное наказание.
Il commissionario
Compositor
Ricomincio da zero
Music
Воскресные любовники
Original Music Composer
Четыре самостоятельные короткометражные истории о мужских приключениях на любовном фронте на уикенде по-английски, по французски, по-американски и по-итальянски. Любопытно, что во всех историях кроме французской сами мужчины захотели развлечься на выходных, а вот герой Лины Вентуры думал исключительно о делах, а не о любовных приключениях, но вышло иначе... Вообще "Французский метод" Эдуара Молинаро наиболее изящный и, самое главное, романтичный.
Under Siege
Music
A band of thugs belonging to an organized crime family assaults several casinos at the same time creating death and panic in their wake. As they flee the scenes of their crimes police begin to close in on them, so they quickly hide themselves in a villa owned by a wealthy industrialist taking him and his family hostage.
I'm Photogenic
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Antonio Barozzi moves from Lago Maggiore to Rome to become an actor. He does not realize his agent and acting coach are only manipulating him to further their own careers.
Dear Father
Original Music Composer
In Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the story of the decadent lifestyle, and dysfunctional family, of a wealthy businessman (played to perfection by Risi's favorite leading man, Vittorio Gassman). Risi paints his portrait against a backdrop of an Italy where the new permissiveness has run rampant, traditional socio-cultural values have been usurped by consumerism, and the streets have become an open battleground for politically extremist groups (the '70s were dubbed "The Years of Lead" due to the great number of terrorist acts, and politically motivated assassinations).
That Strange Desire to Love
Original Music Composer
Angela and Marco are a new brother and sister, they live in a large country house outside the rest of the world, united by an at least ambiguous relationship, which goes far beyond fraternal affection.
Безумия буржуазии
Original Music Composer
Скучающие парижские аристократы заводят интрижки на стороне, которые приносят им одни лишь только неприятности.
Голая консьержка
Original Music Composer
Джанна устраивается консьержкой в многоквартирный дом. Среди его жильцов: склочная семейная пара, коммуна хиппи, импозантный кинопродюсер, утонченная вдова-француженка, модная дама полусвета… И со всеми девушке надо наладить отношения. А как это сделать, если хиппи ночь напролет устраивают шумные тусовки прямо над головой семейной пары, продюсер обещает устроить девушке кинопросмотр за хорошую оплату, а дама, наоборот, готова заплатить, если Джанна сыграет маленький спектакль. И при этом все, независимо от пола, сгорают от желания увидеть красавицу-консьержку голой. И не только увидеть…
La madama
Original Music Composer
In the slang of the underworld or "mala" there is a special term for cop: "Madama". But if word were to get around that the "Madama" is Vito (Christian De Sica) they might even start to like the guy. Vito is a funny sort of a cop. For a start he doesn't like the uniform (he never wears it). Things might even go smoothly for him, if it weren't for an incredible number of beautiful girls who always manage to get in his way. Especially one girl Angelo (shouldn't that have been Angela? No, the girl's name really is Angelo). Problems arise too, with his direct supervisor, who also happens to be a relative. But Vito puts up with it all and manages to stay his usual calm and polite self, even when he risks getting killed.
That Movement Which I Love So Much
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Noblewoman Livia and her friend Marquis Cecco Ottobuoni take revenge against politician Fabrizio Siniscalchi, Livia's lover who dumped her for political reasons, by setting him up with a young prostitute Anna to cause a scandal.
Occhio Alla Vedova!
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Concetta Li Cause, deprived of her husband Oreste by the Mafia, is coveted by Bologna Marcello and Charles postman. Besides the two, there are other suitors because the widow is rich; but Cosa Nostra deploys its resources to prevent the woman from finding a new partner.
Cagliostro
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After attending esoterical studies with a wise man, Cagliostro, a mysterious Italian count, received the gift of supernatural powers. He started to travel all over Europe to heal the poor. But he is also a member of a pre-revolutionary lodge the aim of which is to give freedom to the populations of Europe. This cannot be tolerated by the 18th century's establishment and bought the Pope and the regal house of France try to eliminate him. So Cagliostro is locked up in a castle, while his wife is killed. But when in 1795 the door of his cell is opened there is nothing inside but a sword...
Scusi, si potrebbe evitare il servizio militare?... No!
Music
Вояж
Music
Сицилия, начало XX века. Адриана, влюбленная в красавца Чезаре, выходит замуж за его брата Антонио. Приличия требуют забыть о тайной страсти: Чезаре устраняется, и единственным выражением чувств для него остаются дорогие подарки Адриане и ее семье. Последний подарок – шикарный автомобиль – становится причиной смерти Антонио. Потрясенная Адриана ведет уединенную жизнь, и кажется, что несчастным влюбленным уже никогда не быть вместе. Но судьба дает им последний шанс: внезапная болезнь Адрианы помогает Чезере уговорить возлюбленную на поездку в Неаполь...
La mafia mi fa un baffo
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A two bit actor is a dead ringer for a mafia boss who has been killed by a rival gang. He's hired by the dead man's gang to take his place in public.
Короткий отпуск
Music
Для развития сюжета Чезаре Дзаваттини позаимствовал канву из классовой фрески Элио Петри «Рабочий класс идет в рай», более того начало фильма – это фактически точная цитата из фильма с Джан-Мария Волонте. Только рабочим – южанином у де Сике становится женщина – многодетная мать Клара Матаро (Флоринда Болкан), а вместо борьбы за свои права, после обморока на работе она уезжает подлечиться за счет фирмы на курорт в итальянских Альпах. Тем более, что атмосфера дома, сдобренная отсутствием наличности оставляет желать много лучшего: муж лежит со сломанной ногой, а безработный деверь усложняет и так непростую атмосферу.
We'll Call Him Andrea
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Paolo and Maria are two elementary teachers, who love each other, but can not have a child.
Camorra
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The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".
The Crimes of the Black Cat
Music
A blind pianist tries to figure out who is responsible for a string of murders using a black cat with its claws dipped in curare.
They Call Him Veritas
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Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente
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Two spouses discover a corpse that mysteriously disappears and then reappear in their suitcase. This is stolen by a couple of teens who are suspected, like the first two, of murder.
Cose di Cosa Nostra
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A young man unwantedly gets caught up in an international gang war in this humorous crime farce!
Сад Финци-Контини
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Северо-итальянский город Феррара, предвоенная фашистская Италия.Правительство дуче Бенито Муссолини принимает так называемые "расистские законы", ущемляющие права итальянских евреев.Но законы строги не ко всем, они допускают исключения для лиц, имеющих "заслуги перед Родиной и фашистами".И кто-то вступает в партию, кто-то жертвует значительные суммы правительственным организациям, получая взамен несколько лет относительного покоя, возможность жить, любить и надеяться на счастье.
Io e Dio
Compositor
Влюбленные
Original Music Composer
Джулии осталось жить всего 10 дней, и она решает провести это время на своей итальянской вилле, смотря телевизор. Там она видит интервью с итальянским инженером Валерио. Она вспоминает, что встречалась с ним раньше. Джулия приглашает его к себе на виллу. Они влюбляются друг в друга и решают провести несколько дней вместе.