Luigi Maria Burruano
Birthday: Born in 1948-10-20 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Deathday: 2017-09-10
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Domenica In
Character: Self
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L'onore e il rispetto
Character: Don Rosario Liberati
L'onore e il rispetto is an Italian television series. There are three seasons, each with six episodes: first season aired in 2006, second in 2009 and third in 2012. First season was directed by Salvatore Samperi, second by Samperi and Luigi Parisi, third by Parisi and Alessio Inturri. On October 2, 2012 Gabriel Garko announced through an interview with Tgcom 24 [1], which will soon turn a fourth season of the TV series....
Sangue caldo
Character: Vito Cirasola
The "good criminal" Arturo La Paglia, said Mister (Gabriel Garko) wants to score his last shot, the robbery of the century, and then live happily with his Anna Rosi (Asia Argento), a young prostitute who has two children Antonia (Manuela Arcuri) and Sergio (Raniero Monaco Lapio). The man, however, did not put into account the wickedness and cruelty of his accomplice, Gianni Fontana (Bruno Eyron), which, heavily in debt with loan sharks Vito Cirasola (Luigi Maria Burruano) and Bellafaccia (Brando...
Il segreto dell'acqua
Character: Ruggero Santocastro
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Nebbie e delitti
Character: Tommaso Carbone
Nebbie e delitti is an Italian television series....
Salvo D'Acquisto
Character: Maggiore Spada
During World War II, 22-year-old Carabinieri deputy brigadier Salvo D'Acquisto makes an heroic gesture of self-sacrifice by "confessing" an act of sabotage for which 22 civilians had been rounded up by the Germans, and is executed by firing squad in their place on September 23, 1943....
Squadra antimafia – Palermo oggi
Character: Don Salvatore Basile alias "Salvo"
Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within....
Boris Giuliano: un poliziotto a Palermo
Character: Buttafuoco
Throughout the sixties and seventies, Boris Giuliano, a police officer of extraordinary ability, renewed the investigation system of the Palermo Mobile Unit and, through key investigations, reconstructed the secret structure and criminal activity of the Cosa Nostra, fundamental elements for the subsequent investigations of judges Falcone and Borsellino, which led to the 1986 maxiprocess....
48 ore
Character: Mario Crotone
There's no time to waste: in just 48 hours a fugitive can disappear for good! The motto of Deputy Head of Police Diego Montagna and his Catturandi squad is: “in order to know where they are, we must find out who they really are”. In order to do so, the squad must enter the minds and the hearts of the fugitives before it's too late. This battle against time will force them to face up to their own dreams, fears and weaknesses, because the only way of knowing the mind of another is to learn to know...
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Gasoline
Character: Father Gabriele
Fiery, dark-haired Stella, an intense auto mechanic, and nervous, blonde Eleonora are young and in love. They operate a gas station peacefully, until Eleonora's mother appears and voices her disapproval of their romance....
Quo Vadis, Baby?
Character: Il capitano
A private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier....
One Hundred Steps
Character: Luigi Impastato
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour....
Eccezzziunale... veramente - Capitolo secondo... me
Character: Don Calogero Calì
The Milanese Donato returns from Spain, animated by the serious intention to go back to being the "ras della fossa". Second chapter of the famous 80s cult....
...e se domani
Character: Police Chief
Mimì reunites after many years with Caterina, with whom he has always been secretly in love. When her husband dies, Mimì decides to become part of her life....
Te lo leggo negli occhi
Character: Carlo
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Dirty War
Character: Avallone
Army colonel Gabriele Moresco and twelve of his soldiers occupy a hospital in Sicily, Italy, taking every patient and doctor as hostages and giving an ultimatum to the government: if they won't admit their role in hiding proof of the use of depleted uranium in the Balkan Wars and the subsequent countless cases of cancer among Italian soldiers in 56 hours, all the hostages will be killed. Negotiator Paolo Manfredi is called to save the hostages, not knowing that his wife and daughter are among th...
Nati stanchi
Character: don Ciccio Milazzo
Salvo and Valentino are two happy Sicilian friends, who do not want to work, because they know that if they find a permanent job, their girlfriends will ask them to marry them....
Break Free
Character: Cenzo
Directed by Gian Tavarelli, Liberi (Break Free) centers on the freckle-faced Vince (Elio Germano), whose life in a Roman mountain village is unfulfilling, to say the least. His father Cenzo (Luigi Maria Burruano) lost his job after a local chemical plant closed; shortly afterward, Cenzo's wife Paola (Anita Zagaria) dumped him for a politician. Fed up, Vince travels to the beach town of Pescara and lands a job as a junior cook at a tourist resort. While there, he falls in love with Genny (Nicole ...
The Return of Cagliostro
Character: Carmelo La Marca
In the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sicilian production company, thanks to the help of a local bishop. They start producing one box-office failure Z-movie after the other, all with terribly bad local non-pros as actors. Covered in debts, they finally have their great chance, when a local nobleman obsessed by magic decides to invest all his wealth in the making of a movie about Cagliostr...
Nowhere
Character: Salomon Goldman
In a country (alluded to be Chile) under dictatorship, a police night raid comes up with a few usual anti-regime suspects. They are sent to a camp in the middle of nowhere. Their friends on the outside start to plan their escape....
Il trasformista
Character: Battani
The Turin area is devastated by floods: the Pô River has overflown and toxic waste from a local dump is now being carried by the stream. Which is why Augusto Vigano, the co-owner of a pub and a dedicated environmentalist, blocks, in the company of a group of friends, the train on which minister Antonelli is traveling. The politician, agrees to listen to the protesters'complaints and , filmed by television cameras, follows Vigano all the way to the dump. It is on this occasion that Vigano is noti...
The Whores
Character: Mario
Orlanda, Liuccia, Milù, Blu Blu and Veronica are five women in Palermo, Sicily, each different from the other. But, along with transvestite Kim and young man Maurizio, they all share something: they're "buttane", hookers, who spend the day between the streets and home; some got children, some got problems with the pimps, some with the clients......
Luna e l'altra
Character: Direttore
Luna is an endearingly prudish teacher in Milan, who lives with her grumpy father. Often teased by students and co-workers alike, her only ally is the janitor, Angelo, who harbors a secret crush on Luna. When a carnival comes to town, Luna meets a man who possesses a magic lamp, which he uses to free her "shadow self." This doppelganger is Luna's polar opposite, whose presence poses both a problem and an opportunity for Luna....
The Wait
Character: Vincent Cavallo
A mafia killer accepts to take the identity of his last victim in order to redeem his past. Two games of chess - one with his victim, the other with his boss - will stress the turning points of this change. The killer meet his victim on a ship that carries back together in Sicily 40 years after their departure. Only one will arrive in Sicily, but he'll chose to change his life and complete the destiny of the other one....
Saint Anthony: The Miracle Worker of Padua
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Depiction of the life of St. Anthony, beginning with his initial calling to the priesthood as a young Portugese nobleman, and following him as he becomes a Franciscan monk and preaches across Africa and Europe....
Tre giorni di anarchia
Character: Don Mimì
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The Ideal City
Character: Avv. Scalici
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 un...
Italiani
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1965, a train with a variety of passengers is heading north when it makes an unexpected stop. On the other track, heading south, a train passes with the same passengers 20 years later....
La madre
Character: Don Quirico
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Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
Character: Comandante
Weaving together fact and fiction, this docudrama performs a portrait of the often seamy underside of the city of Naples.Ferrara traveled to Italy to interview the inmates at the Naples Pozzuoli State Prison, a high security lockup for women, and with the help of a translator he allows a number of women doing time to talk about their lives before and after they were convicted. Ferrara chose to expand the short profile of the prisoners into a feature by offering a look at life in the slums of Nap...
L'assalto
Character: Domenico
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Cuore scatenato
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In Sicily, in a time not yet forgotten, in the heart of a small secluded town populated by cicadas, ticks and venomous snakes, that which made a man a real man was not riches or power, but his honor. He had to defend his dignity against insults and village gossip. It took little to stoke the fire once lit, and no one was immune. One of the worst humiliations a man can suffer was to have an adulterous wife. A man so disgraced would bear the mark of shame, with all eyes of the community upon him. ...
The Sicilian Connection
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An Italian-American pizzeria manager returns to Sicily to assassinate a judge, enlisting his honest younger brother for help. As the brother's morals clash with the task, the only way to save him is through a sacrifice that appeases the mafia....
Everything Everything Nothing Nothing
Character: Imprenditore
Cetto and its city council were arrested, but in prison the conspiratorial former mayor makes no earning name as the gratitude of the powerful secretary. These decide to replace some MPs mysteriously killed precisely with Cetto and two other characters: Rodolfo Favaretto and Frengo Stop...
K@biria Noir
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Giovanni, a father, widower, and well-known Sicilian politician does not comprehend his son's homosexuality or his passion for acting. A family drama is born, made up of quarrels and distance from each other. Loneliness pushes the father to seek, through the Internet, a soul mate, hoping that it will fulfill his need for love....
Sins
Character: Don Cimino
David begins experiencing cloudy memories of a long-lost life amidst the violent Cortello family in Sicily ââ'¬Â¦ a family he ultimately betrayed. And the wages of sin are deadly....
Uomo di rispetto
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Acla's Descent into Floristella
Character: Aclà's father
Set in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of twelve-year-old boy, Aclà, sold into slavery by his destitute parents to work in the underground Floristella sulfur mines. Overworked and underfed, Aclà toils from Monday to Saturday in the steamy, candle-lit labyrinths. Repeatedly beaten and abused by his "owner" and with constant threats of being raped, Aclà plots his escape to the sea......
Concorso di colpa
Character: Ispettore Di Nunzio
The chief commissioner of the homicide squad, with an anti-globalization activist for a son, investigates the suicide of a trade unionist that may be connected to an unsolved political murder of the '70s....
Amore a prima vista
Character: Don Antonio
A man falls in love with a dude after a corneal transplantation....
Baaria
Character: farmacista
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community....
Baciami piccina
Character: Mafioso
7th September 1943. The honest and reliable carabiniere Umberto is sent to escort the flamboyant con man Raoul Nuvolini from Terni to Venice. Umberto's fiancée Luisa follows him against his will....
Milan – Palermo: The Return
Character: Giudice Conti
Turi Leofonte is released from prison after eleven years and asks for the surviving members of his old security detail to escort him back in Sicily to get revenge on his former associates – something the authorities indulge to seize a large stash of Mafia money he claims to have access to....
S.P.Q.R.: 2,000 and a Half Years Ago
Character: Varrone
In 71 BC in Rome, utter disorder reigns in the form of political corruption and bribery involving the senator Cynic (Leslie Nielsen). The situation is claimed to be similar to the “Tangentopoli” situation in Italy in the 1990s: one of the politicians involved was Bettino Craxi....
Un santo senza parole
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The Star Maker
Character: Flirtatious Client
The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome....
And now sex
Character: Barone
Eight episodes vaguely inspired to real events. The "fil rouge" is the relationship between the Italians and sex in the first years of 2000s. From prostitution to virtual sex all the categories are represented in a funny way that anyway tries to investigate this kind of reality....
Whatsoeverly
Character: Imprenditore
Corrupt and sleazy entrepreneur Cetto La Qualunque comes back to Italy and "jumps into politics" lest his law-abiding opponent, Giovanni De Santis, is elected as mayor....
This and That
Character: il carabiniere che parla con Giulio
Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a blond nice girl. Immediately Giulio fall in love and starts to draw his impossible love story into a new comic book. The 2nd is 'Quello dal basco rosso' (the one with the red beret). Sandro, a mature man, meets one of his former girlfriend and her daughter Daniela. Daniela couldn't have sex with her boyfriend b...
L'attentatuni
Character: Leoluchino Barone
The investigations of the Italian Police antimafia Branch searching the murderers of judge Giovanni Falcone....
The Escort
Character: informatore
The film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying to clean up a Sicilian town. Corrupt local politicians, working hand-in-hand with the Mafia, will stop at nothing to prevent exposure of their rackets....
Boys on the Outside
Character: Franco D'Annino
Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl who's come from home to run away with him. Where can they go? A young dad, whose potato stall at the market is shut down because he has no permit, takes his two small children to the beach and yells at them. Mario, gay, a prostitute in drag, gets a visit ...
Bakunin's Son
Character: Corbo
Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, singer, union organizer, rebel......
La fame e la sete
Character: zu Alfiu
Alex, Ivo and Pacifico three Sicilian twin brothers are reunited for their father's funeral....
Conjugal Love
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In a well appointed villa in Bagheria, near Palermo, a couple, Silvio and Leda Pataneo, spend their days attempting to complete a novel, making love, and caring for a citrus grove that the local townfolk want to acquire. All framed against a political backdrop of class and cultural differences....
Delitto di mafia - Mario Francese
Character: Domenico Di Marco
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Blood of the Losers
Character: Mario Vagagini
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Excellent Cadavers
Character: Luciano Leggio
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight....
Mary Forever
Character: Franco D'Annino
A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamoured of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, ...
Ginostra
Character: Ettore's Uncle
An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to solve the murder of a key witness....
Operazione Odissea
Character: Sante Parvitano
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Oltremare - Non è l'America
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On the Dark Continent
Character: Domenico Spatola
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 ...
Quel bravo ragazzo
Character: don Ferdinando Cosimato
On his deathbed, a powerful Mafia boss names his estranged son heir to his criminal empire: however, his men discover too late that the son at issue is an idiotic manchild....
Miracolo a Palermo!
Character: Fofò
One day in Palermo and in the life of young boy Toto who is madly in love with the beautiful teenager Lina....