Michele Riondino
Birthday: Born in 1979-03-14 in Taranto, Italy
Deathday: Alive
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Pietro Mennea - La freccia del Sud
Character: Pietro Mennea
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Il Giovane Montalbano
Character: Salvo Montalbano
The young "Commisario" detective Salve Montalbano, based in a village, solves mysterious crimes in Sicilia....
Fedeltà
Character: Carlo Pentecoste
A seemingly happy marriage begins to dissolve when the husband's faithfulness is called into question, and both spouses become tempted by other desires....
Il segreto dell'acqua
Character: Blasco Santocastro
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Il Conte di Montecristo
Character: Jacopo
Edmond Dantes, a sailor falsely accused of treason, is imprisoned in the Château d'If off Marseille. After escaping, and adopting the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo, he plans revenge against those who wrongly accused him....
I leoni di Sicilia
Character: Vincenzo Florio
Follow brothers Paolo and Ignazio, two small spice merchants who have escaped from a Calabria stuck in the past in search of social redemption. In Sicily they invent a future, turning a small, run-down shop into a flourishing business that young Vincenzo, with his revolutionary ideas, will transform into an economic empire....
Festival di Sanremo
Character: Self - Special Guest
The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest....
La guerra è finita
Character: Davide Pavia
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Movie Credits
Pino
Character: Narrator
Rome, 1968: at the pinnacle of his artistic career, Pino Pascali died in an accident. 50 years later the Pascali Museum in Apulia—where Pino was born—buys and exhibits one of his works. This is the story of a work of art returning to its origins told through Pino Musi and Pino Pascali’s photographs....
Ten Winters
Character: Silvestro
Born of a chance meeting in Venice, Silvestro and Camilla's rocky romance unfolds over 10 winters as new lovers come and go but they are eternally thrust back into one another's arms....
The Man from Rome
Character: Filippo
A skeptical Vatican priest travels to the southern Dutch province of Limburg to investigate a reported miracle, only to get entangled in a series of apparently miraculous events that undermine his vocation....
A Man Falling
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Foreclosed to the future, hope is in the past. Foreclosed the space, hope is inside time. We haven't seen each other again. It was not our mouth and nose that were covered with a mask, but our eyes. We couldn't see each other during the pandemic. The mask was on the eyes like that of the protagonist of Chris Marker's film, La Jetée. Perhaps it is from this film that is so important that one could start looking at the world again,try to figure out how much of what we were has been deposited in th...
Fort Apache Napoli
Character: Rico
The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985....
Marpiccolo
Character: Tonio, il Boss Locale
Tiziano, a seventeen-year-old boy, fights to change his destiny, against the backdrop of a Taranto oppressed by the underworld. With a father sick of video poker and a mother busy opposing the installation of an antenna in front of an elementary school, Tiziano ends up getting into serious trouble when, in order to chase his dream of starting a different life in a distant place, with his girl, robs the safe of the local boss's villa....
The Past Is a Foreign Land
Character: Francesco
A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had never known....
Drifters
Character: Damiano
A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee....
Henry
Character: Gianni
The detective Silvestri has a zealous wife, a child on the way and a double murder to be solved in a livid Rome selling drugs and consuming lives. His investigation intersects the lives of young people and affected Nina and John, in spite of themselves involved in the murder of a drug dealer and his mother. Aerobics instructor her layabout him, the young lovers try to work out and awkwardly from a story larger than themselves. In the background is moving while the murder underworld clan committ...
Dormant Beauty
Character: Roberto
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state....
Scattered Cloud
Character: Don Franco
Blue-collar worker Diego lives in the Roman suburbs and is about to marry his lifelong fiancée. His feelings are put to the test on the eve of the wedding, when, while working on the renovation of a luxury home, he meets Viola, his boss's granddaughter, and becomes fascinated by a lifestyle light-years away from his....
Interstate
Character: César Falcone
A supernatural thriller in which a hitman, facing an existential crisis, decides to exit the game and leave town with the woman he loves, but his plans are disrupted by a mysterious young man and his ruthless former boss....
Steel
Character: Alessio
Here, the steel worker works on a continuous cycle, twenty-four hours a day and never stops. There, by the sea, on the island of Elba there is a paradise and the unreachable dream of happy families. In the middle, on the shores their secret beach, neither here nor there, Anna and Francesca, small but big, "thirteen years old almost fourteen", who are living their last summer of innocence before high school. The film is based on the book by Silvia Avallone....
Principessa
Character: Pietro
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Leopardi
Character: Antonio Ranieri
In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry....
Metti, una sera a cena con Peppino
Character: Self
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Wondrous Boccaccio
Character: Guiscardo
It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female...
Palazzina LAF
Character: Caterino Lamanna
Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track his colleagues, in search of reasons to report them. He then asks to be assigned himself to the Palazzino LAF where as punishment, some employees sit out their time with no job assignment. There he discovers that what looks like paradise is actually a strategy to psychologically break troublesome workers....
Liberi e pensanti - Uno maggio Taranto
Character: Self
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Senza lasciare traccia
Character: Bruno
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Worldly Girl
Character: Libero
Giulia’s is a poised world, made of rigour and sacred texts, which fiercely excludes those who do not belong to it. Libero's world is the world of all the others, of those who make mistakes, who fend for themselves looking for another chance and who love unconditionally. When Giulia meets Libero, she realizes she can have another destiny, one she will have to choose and build....
Falchi
Character: Francesco
Three undercover cops in Naples must face their own demons as well as criminals....
We Believed
Character: Saverio Tambasco
1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following fifty years....
Diva!
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The moving life and international career of actress Valentina Cortese is acted out by eight Italian actresses who interpret parts of her biography. A rich assortment of stock footage and film clips creates a vibrant portrait of our Diva....
Con il fiato sospeso
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Pietro Mennea - La freccia del sud
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La mossa del cavallo
Character: Giovanni Bovara
Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged with collecting a severe tax. Sicilian by birth, but Ligurian by adoption, he reasons and speaks as a man of northern Italy and does not understand the dynamics of the law of silence that regulate the Sicilian land, so his intransigence immediately gives him several enemies…...
Forever You
Character: Matteo
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Let's Stay Friends
Character: Alessandro Colonna
Alessandro, a forty-year-old widower pediatrician, lives with his teenage son, leading a monotonous and insipid existence. After a call from an old friend in Brazil, the man has his tired stability tested....
Buongiorno Taranto
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All Human Rights for All
Character: Militare di Leva (Art. 5)
Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration....
Giro di giostra
Character: Damiano
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Our Ghost
Character: Valerio
Valerio and his six-year-old son, Carlo, live in the attic above the apartment they've been evicted from. Every time new tenants arrive, they terrify them by pretending to be ghosts, in the hopes of being able to move back "downstairs". To Carlo, it's just a game that protects him from their poverty and his motherless condition. It even works, for a while, until Myriam and her daughter Emma arrive, in flight from her abusive husband. And Myriam's not afraid of ghosts…...