
Birthday:
01-04-1955
(70 years)
Birthplace:
Polistena, Calabria, Italy
Biography
Domenico "Mimmo" Calopresti (born 4 January 1955 in Polistena, Calabria) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker and actor. His fictional feature film debut The Second Time was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.
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Happiness Costs Nothing
Act like Sergio
event2003 star_border 3.6
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A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a young woman he falls for, but she puts him on the test.
I Prefer the Sound of the Sea
Act like Don Lorenzo
event2000 star_border 5.8
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This is the story of Rosario and Matteo, two man from Southern Italy. Rosario is helped by Luigi to settle in the north. Luigi wants to give Rosario a chance to redeem himself and offer him, at the same time, an opportunity to confront his beliefs with the ones of his son Matteo. Rosario lives in a "commune" and Matteo in a beautiful, comfortable house. They're both introverted and shy and find a common ground: they meet, go out together, become friends and show each other a completely different way of living their lives as teenagers.
Cattiva Coscienza
event2023 star_border 5.9
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In a parallel universe, live people’s precious consciences. They all feel disheartened, demotivated, and unheard, except for Otto (Francesco Scianna). He is the top-ranked conscience, because his human Filippo (Filippo Scicchitano) follows him blindly, guaranteeing him happiness.
The Words of My Father
Act like Giovanni Malfenti
event2001 star_border 6
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At 30, Zeno's father dies, and he realizes that his youth is almost over. Meeting Giovanni Malfenti, a succesful gallery owner with four daughters, he's impressed by Malfenti's energy, and falls in love with one of his daughters. This relationship helps Zeno find peace and direction.
Notes of Love
Act like Psychoanalyst
event1998 star_border 5
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A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confusion and loneliness.
The Gospel According to Mattei
Act like Il Giornalista
event2017
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A cinic director and his assistant come back to Basilicata, their homeland, looking for redemption. 50 years aged and aristically loser, they try to shoot a rickety investigative movie titled "Il Vangelo secondo Mattei" in the same location where Pasolini filmed his "The Gospel According to St. Matthew" but focusing on the disasters caused by oil extractions in their wasteland of Basilicata, in the south of Italy. As main character, they choose Franco, 70 years old, that was an extra in Pasolini film...
Ultima Chiamata
event2017
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A man wakes up in a strange place. Peeled walls, a bare, cold and damp room. He doesn't understand where he is. He has severe pain especially in the head, tries to open the door but it's locked, tries to call someone but nobody answers. He is a prisoner. A nightmare begins for him in which he will have to go through a path of understanding to finally get to understand what really happened.
Cutro, Calabria, Italia
Act like Self
event2024
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On 26 February 2023, a boat - an old wooden gulet - sank in Steccato di Cutro, in the province of Crotone, Calabria. Inside the boat, which left Izmir, Turkey, on February 21, there were over 180 human beings, mostly of Afghan, Pakistani, Syrian, Turkish, Somali and Iraqi origin. Women, men and children. The shipwreck claimed the lives of 94 migrants, including 34 minors. The number of missing was unknown... The boat, 150 meters from the shore, surrendered before the violence of the waves and the sharp points of the rocks. Who are the victims and survivors of the shipwreck? They are individuals who have fled their lands for a series of causes: armed conflicts, persecutions (of a religious or gender nature), poverty, climate change, the right to aspire to a better existential path, the need to rediscover dignity, to work, to study and to raise a family.
Italia '90: lavori in corso
Director
event1990
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Independent documentary about the hidden side of the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
L'abbuffata
Director
event2007 star_border 5.2
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A pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project.
The Second Time
Story
event1995 star_border 5.8
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A convicted terrorist out on parole meets the man she nearly killed 15 years before without recognizing him. He does so but decides to keep quiet and starts to spend time with her — desperate to know the motivation behind her violent acts.
Crash Editing
Director
event1984
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Documentary about advertising made for the 1984 Stuttgart Videocongress festival. Shot on U-matic.
Qualcuno verrà
Director
event1985
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Documentary. Shot on U-matic.
Untreu
Director
event1985
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Documentary. Shot on U-Matic.
Remzija
Director
event1992
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Documentary about homelessness in Turin. Shot on Betacam.
Ripresi
Director
event1987
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Documentary about and made in collaboration the inmates of the fifth row of Turin's Carceri Nuove prison. Shot on U-matic.
Alla Fiat era così
Director
event1990
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Several Fiat workers tell the story of their life, work, and struggle at Fiat in the 1960's and 1970's. At the same time, memory makes something alive again in one of the worker's solitary gestures. However, twenty years later....
A proposito di sbavature
Director
event1985
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Tonino De Bernardi, author of self-produced films, many Super8 and videos, talks about cinema and Turin. Shot on U-matic.
Luxury
Director
event1984
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Shot on U-matic.
Tutto era Fiat
Director
event1999
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Ten years later of "Alla Fiat era così", Calopresti interviews trade unionists, factory managers, former workers and recently hired young people at FIAT Turin, who expose different points of view on a very different factory from the Taylorist one of the 1960s, and on a city that has changed accordingly.
I Only Wanted to Live
Director
event2006 star_border 4
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A Donatello award nominated documentary following nine Italian survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Romanzo radicale
Writer
event2022
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Romanzo Radicale is political and human adventure of Marco Pannella, portraying the most intimate moments, the political fights, his unique gestures that have made an era.
Uno per tutti
Director
event2015 star_border 4.5
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The relationship between three lifelong friends is put to the test by a long-ago secret and a present-day crime committed by one of their children.
The Thing
Line Producer
event1990 star_border 6.6
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1989. Amidst the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) – the largest of its kind in Western Europe – announces that is going to change name, identity and renew itself into a new 'Thing'. The documentary is a selection of the debates that took place in various PCI chapters across Italy after the historic decision.
Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten
Director
event2019 star_border 6.3
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At the end of the 1950s in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time. No road connects Africo with the other villages. In the wake of this tragedy, all of Africo’s citizens -including children - abandon their usual occupations and unite to build their own road. Giulia, the new schoolteacher, comes from the North with a mission to teach standard Italian to help bring cultural cohesion with Africo and the rest of Italy. But she will have to contend with the local mafioso Don Totó, who is determined to ensure this the town remains cut off, and thus, under his power.
It's Easier for a Camel...
Co-Producer
event2003 star_border 4.6
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As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world. Now a charming thirty-something-single woman, Federica's fantasies have evolved, adding lovers, stardom, and motherhood to her waking dreams, where Federica continues to press for her everyday life to be as real as the fantasies that invade her. Unfortunately, Federica's daydreams can only provide a meager distraction from the reality she faces. Her career as a successful playwright is heading south, her boyfriend is pressuring her to start a family, a former lover wishes to rekindle an old affair, her sister is barely talking to her, her brother is self-centered and her loving father is terminally ill. And as if to make matters worse, Federica is rich, too rich, and the guilt that consumes her because of it is pushing her over the edge.
Tutte le mie notti
Thanks
event2019 star_border 5.1
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On an autumn night, in the deserted streets of a seaside town, Sara is fleeing from a party, convinced she has witnessed a murder. He finds refuge with Veronica, but does not know that the woman is the lawyer of an important industrialist, the alleged murderer.
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