
Birthday:
02-27-1947
Deathday:
06-16-2012 (65 years)
Birthplace:
Parma, Italy
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La Rabbia di Pasolini
Act like Narrator (voice)
event2008 star_border 7.2
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An attempt to reconstruct the complete version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's segment of La rabbia.
La Partenza
event1968 star_border 5
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A street strewn with papers. The legs of passers-by. A young man crosses the street. Then we find him in the middle of a discussion with a friend. “Are you still determined to leave? – Yes, I'm leaving today at five o'clock by plane. »
Marco Melani - The Man With The Golden Eye
event2021
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"The Man With The Golden Eye" tells the extraordinary figure of Marco Melani through a live projection of materials collected in over ten years of research. Found footage, unpublished interviews with cinema and television personalities, fragments of films, extracts from television programs, photographs, readings and interventions by the author, intertwine giving voice to a chorus of precious testimonies.
Luna
Assistant Director
event1979 star_border 6.4
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While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.
The Little Devil
Story
event1988 star_border 6.7
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Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone. The devil turns out to be in the form of a fun-loving man called Giuditta. What Father Maurice doesn't know is that this type of devil will turn his life around.
Lost and Found
Screenplay
event1980 star_border 5.2
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Oppressed by her husband, her lover, and her obsessive mother, a bourgeois woman is reunited with a childhood companion at the central train station in Milan. Throughout 24 hours there, she will experience her particular descent into hell.
Berlinguer: I Love You
Director
event1977 star_border 6.7
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A young poet falls in love with a sophisticated woman who hates poetry. But the poet wants to win her with poetry — and a bit of help from his mum.
The field of Casilino
Director
event1995
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Pier Paolo Pasolini's voice introduces a monologue featuring Carlo, the poet's alter ego, set in a desert space with an almost lunar appearance: an expanse of sand under a starry sky. The man stages a sort of erotic liturgy bordering on self-destructive anxiety: he will offer himself to twenty hustler street boys, before a spectacular sunset, which recalls the strong colors of Sirk or Kazan melodramas, puts an end to the whole affair.
12 Directors for 12 Cities
Director
event1989 star_border 5
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Promotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities.
Especially on Sunday
Director
event1991 star_border 6.3
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Four lighthearted stories set in the idyllic Italian countryside: an old grouch is befriended by a stray dog; a lonely widow spies on her newly-wed son and daughter-in-law; a German tourist tries to seduce a younger nurse. The fourth segment was cut in the US by its distributor Miramax.
Pasolini prossimo nostro
Director
event2006 star_border 5.1
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We are on the set of "Salò or the 120 days of Sodom". Pasolini lets a small camera team led by the journalist Gideon Bachmann follow him around engaging him in a long and extraordinary interview/conversation. The interview turns into a long, clear-sighted and violent attack on society that accompanies photos of the set in a surprising juxtaposition of film and reality, revealing Pasolini's metaphorical portrait of modernity.
Roberto Benigni: Tuttobenigni
Director
event1983 star_border 7.7
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A young Roberto Benigni in one of his first public show in Florence at Parco delle Cascine.
I cammelli
Director
event1988 star_border 5.8
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Ferruccio, who knows everything about camels, and Camillo, who acts as his manager, go to Milan to take part in a telequiz.
Strana la vita
Director
event1988 star_border 6.8
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A psychologist acquires wife and lover of a friend of him. But he has two more relationships yet. What will he do with four women following him?
Secrets Secrets
Director
event1985 star_border 6.9
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Young terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a comrade, and over time her violent act becomes a thread linking the lives and fates of several other women. Each has her own secret, including the lawyer who listens to Laura as if in a ‘trance’: moments before, she discovered her husband was cheating.
The Sweet Sounds of Life
Director
event1999 star_border 7
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Sofia, a budding young theater actress, unwittingly discovers that Bruno, her beloved acting teacher, is gay. Heartbroken and determined to flee as far away from him as possible, she meets a young girl on the train who gives birth and abandons the baby. Sofia makes a life-changing decision: she takes the child and passes him off as her own son, naming him Bruno.
1900
Writer
event1976 star_border 7.8
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The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
You Upset Me
Story
event1983 star_border 6.6
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The first movie directed by Roberto Benigni in four surreal short stories: "Durante Cristo" (During Christ), "Angelo" (Angel), , "In Banca" (At the Bank) and "I Due Militi" (The Two Soldiers). An excursus in Benigni's satirical views on man, religion and society.
Nothing Left to Do But Cry
Screenplay
event1984 star_border 7.8
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Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.
Bologna
Director
event1989
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Children play hide in seek in the city of Bologna
The Spider's Stratagem
Assistant Director
event1970 star_border 7.1
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A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the death of his father, ostensibly killed by Fascists in 1936, before his birth. As he unravels a web of lies that seems to encompass the whole town, he finds himself entangled in the same web.
Love in Progress
Director
event1989 star_border 5.2
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Three girls spend some days in a country manor in Toscana. Waiting for a boy? Their friendship will increase during the time passed together and, when a boy arrives, maybe - they won't be there.
L'inchiesta
Assistant Director
event1971
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The events of Giuliano Sartori, correspondent from Genoa for a newspaper in the capital, involved in a complicated investigation set in a psychiatric clinic. Not a simple Italian thriller but a "Russian doll", an open story with different levels of reading and interpretation, in which the distance between the madness of authenticity of feelings and the sprawling social normality that leads to 'annulment of the person and loneliness. Collaborators on the subject and the script of the film are Bernardo Bertolucci and Enzo Carra.
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Director
event1984 star_border 6.2
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A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.
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