Fabrizio Gifuni
Birthday: Born in 1966-06-15 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Deathday: Alive
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La meglio gioventù
Character: Carlo Tommasi
A family saga set in Italy which chronicles the life of a middle-class family. It explores the relationship between two brothers Nicola and Matteo as their life paths separate during youth, encompassing major political and social events in post–World War II Italian history....
Le cinque giornate di Milano
Character: Giovanni Grimaldo
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Boris
Character: Self
Boris is an Italian television series created by Luca Manzi and Carlo Mazzotta, initially produced from 2007 to 2010, with a revival season premiered in 2022. The show brings to the stage the behind the scenes of a television set where a troupe is shooting Gli occhi del cuore 2 (The eyes of the heart 2), a satirical portrait of the many fictions airing on the Italian TV networks....
Paolo VI - Il Papa nella tempesta
Character: Paolo VI
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L'amica geniale
Character: Nino Sarratore
When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship....
Esterno notte
Character: Aldo Moro
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists....
Portobello
Character: Enzo Tortora
The story of Italian TV host Enzo Tortora....
C'era una volta la città dei matti
Character:
C'era una volta la città dei matti... is Italian television film of two episodes....
Movie Credits
Kryptonite!
Character: Matarrese
Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has taken to her bed with depression. Super-mod brother and sister Titina and Salvatore take the boy under their wings, introducing him to demonstrations and love-ins, whilst caped superhero Gennaro visits Peppino even after being knocked...
The Sweet and the Bitter
Character: Stefano
Saro, a young Sicilian thug, that from jobs assigned by his godfather, won the favor of leaders of Cosa Nostra, becoming a "man of honor"....
Un Amore
Character: Marco
Twenty years of the relationship between a man and a woman....
The Best of Youth
Character: Carlo Tommasi
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lives of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family take different directions, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades....
Hannibal
Character: Matteo
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media....
The Voyagers
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Time jump to 1939 with teenager Max and his friends as they try to navigate Mussolini's Rome and find Max's missing brother....
The Time It Takes
Character: Luigi
A father and a daughter. Cinema and life. The childhood that seems perfect and then become great by getting everything wrong. Fall and get up, start again, grow old, become fragile, let go but never get lost. The time it takes to save yourself....
The Cézanne Affair
Character: Gabriele Rossetti
Gabriele returns home in southern Italy to bid farewell to his father Ernesto, a former stationmaster in a small town not far from Bari. The old man reawakens in Gabriele memories of his childhood, of his loving mother, his uncle, his friends... but also of his father's rage and bitterness over his failure in achieving his artistic ambitions: Ernesto was convinced he was destined to be a famous painter, and was willing to sacrifice everything for this belief, even his own dignity – and this made...
Dark Love
Character: Psychotherapist
The aftermath of a rape seen through the parallel lives of the assailant and victim as they try to redeem and rebuild their lives respectively....
Rubando Bellezza
Character: Self
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Brucio nel vento
Character: Tobias Horvath (voice)
For ten years, immigrant Tobias has worked at a Swiss clock factory and, in the relentless ticking, he saw life go by without much expectation. One day, he sees Caroline, a former schoolmate from back in Eastern Europe, and falls in love with her, but she's married and has a daughter....
Once Upon a Time the City of Fools
Character: Franco Basaglia
A biopic of Franco Basaglia, the Italian psychiatrist....
Galantuomini
Character: Ignazio
A well known judge comes back to his native region, Salentino in the South of Italy, to find out that his old friend is dead and the woman he loved is now working for a crime organization....
Let It Be
Character: Sapiente
Mary is a young girl, daughter of shepherds, promised in marriage to Joseph, a widower with two children, living in the nearby village of Nazareth, in the Galilee of two thousand years ago. Grown up in love and respect for the little ones, Mary, after leaving her home, soon sees the distortions of the patriarchal world surrounding her, starting with her husband's family. Here he reads the oldest brother of Joseph, Mordecai. The sunny and determined attitude of the girl, protective of children, a...
Musikanten
Character: Nicola
During research for a series focused on the greatest scientists of the past, a TV producer, following a hypnosis experiment, finds herself catapulted into the 19th century, participating in the last years of Ludwig Van Beethoven's life....
Mixed by Erry
Character: Arturo Maria Barambani
The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples, Italy, during the '80s....
The Legend of Kaspar Hauser
Character: The Priest
Arriving on a deserted beach in the Mediterranean sea, in a time and a place unspecified, Kaspar Hauser is forced to confront the evil of a Grand Duchess who feels threatened by the power she exercises over the community....
La carbonara
Character: Zaccaria
Cecilia is a commoner who runs an inn, where the specialty is the "spaghetti alla carbonara". Moreover, the woman is tied to the movement of young patriots, named "Carbonari", who want a united Italy, and are struggling against the power of the pope. Cecilia believes she lost her husband in a fatal accident, and has made a new lover: Fabrizio, who is also a patriot. One day the guy's saved by a monk, when he is about to be imprisoned by the soldiers of Cardinal Rivarola. The monk is the husband ...
Qui non è il paradiso
Character: Renato Sapienza
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De Gasperi - L'uomo della speranza
Character: Alcide De Gasperi
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Happiness Costs Nothing
Character: Francesco (voice)
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....
Beket
Character: Agente 06
Freak and Jajà, like Vladimir and Estragon, are in a no man’s land, with no date or time. Earth is no longer inhabited by humans but a few strange survivors who appear from time to time. The two protagonists, strangers to each other, meet at a bus stop in the middle of nowhere....
Paul VI: The Pope in the Tempest
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The service of Pope Paul VI presents tremendous challenges for humanity not only in the political, cultural and economic aspects of the world but also in the spiritual life of The Church. Pope Paul VI is the first Pope to be a Missionary Pope, to meet people where they are. To trust in God as he was asking The Church to do and he is given the opportunity to love that trust in its fullness....
Esterno Notte (part I)
Character: Aldo Moro
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists...
Esterno Notte (part II)
Character: Aldo Moro
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists...
Human Capital
Character: Giovanni Bernaschi
The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve....
Excellent Cadavers
Character: Narrator
In the late-80s and early-90s, two prosecutors went after the mob in Sicily. Archival footage, gruesome photographs and new interviews are shown....
Four of Us
Character: Ettore
James prepares for his eighth grade oral exams while his family is going through different times....
Fratelli di sangue
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Giovanni Falcone
Character: Roberto Antiochia
The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles....
Kidnapped
Character: Pier Gaetano Feletti
The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification....
Pasolini
Character: Pier Paolo Pasolini (voice) (uncredited)
We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Over the course of the action, Pasolini’s life and his art are constantly refracted and intermingled to the point where they become one....
Un silenzioso imbroglio
Character: Himself
Documentary about Andrea Molaioli's film La Ragazza del Lago....
Sul vulcano
Character:
Three stories to narrate the relationship between mount Vesuvius and the humanity living at its feet. Maria and her flower garden, Matteo, an artist who paints using the volcano's ashes, and Yole, a neo-melodic singer whose devotion to the Virgin Mary is almost idolatric....
Sweet Dreams
Character: Athos Giovanni
Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal loss, even if the priest says she is now in Heaven. Years later in the 90s, adult Massimo has become an accomplished journalist. After reporting on the war in Sarajevo, he begins to suffer from panic attacks. As he prepares to sell his parents’ apartment, Massimo is forced to relive his traumatic past. Compassionate doctor Elisa could help torment...
The Way We Laughed
Character: Pelaia
Studying to become a teacher in 1950s Northern Italy, Sicilian immigrant Pietro is joined by his big brother Giovanni. Pietro shows considerable promise in his field, prompting illiterate Giovanni to take on even the toughest jobs in order to support his sibling's academic pursuits....
If I May - Chapter II
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Over the course of a day, Fausto, invincible in his inertia, watches a paradoxical procession of visitors pass by: the mellifluous parish priest of the town; a mysterious man with his absurd ghost-themed business idea; the captain of the Carabinieri who proposes a shotgun wedding to his daughter, who has become pregnant by a stranger. Finally, late at night, a couple of thieves enter the house with Barbara's complicity. Fausto surprises them, impassive and bored as always, and reassures them: th...
Montalbano and Me: Andrea Camilleri
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A profile of the author of the highly successful INSPECTOR MONTALBANO series, originally broadcast to mark his birthday....
The Body of the World
Character:
The intellectual soul of man extends from the earth and ascends, in order to comprehend the body of the world, the wondrous substance of the sky....
Fiamme di Gadda - A spasso con l'ingegnere
Character: Sé stesso
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Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Character: Aldo Moro
On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy....
Where I've Never Lived
Character: Massimo
Where I've never been to live, Francesca's emotional conflicts, 50, is the only daughter of a famous Turin architect, to whom she visits only on rare occasions. For many years, Francesca lives in Paris with her teenage daughter and her husband Benoît, a financier on her sixty, apparently reserved but paternal and protective about her. Due to a domestic accident that forces the elderly father to bed, the woman flees to Turin to take her parents in the design of a villa on a lake for a young coupl...
The Girl by the Lake
Character: Corrado Canali
A cop investigates the murder of a beautiful teen girl left naked by a lake....
Probably Love
Character: Cesare
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Leave the Saints Alone
Character: Narrator (voice)
A journey through Italy across a century of popular religious devotion. Ancient and more recent saints, white and black Madonnas, devotional processions... are the expression of a need for the sacred that seems very distant from our way of being, but perhaps is not that distant at all. Today, especially in the South, but with some “isolated” locations in the North, popular faith is still a very real thing, which finds its finest expression in song and in music....
L'inverno
Character: Leo
It's the story of a couple with some relationship's problems who meet another couple. It's a drama of incommunicability....
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
Character: Self - Interviewee
Documentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté...
Evviva Giuseppe
Character: Himself
The life and work of Giuseppe Bertolucci, as told by his father and brother, friends and colleagues....
Before the Night
Character: Giuseppe Fava
The life and times of Pippo Fava, a Sicilian journalist who fought the Mafia through his local newspaper in the '70s and early '80s, meeting an untimely end....
Johnny the Partisan
Character: Ettore
After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among them. Johnny avoids to band together the red partisans (communists) and tries to be part of the azure bands (former regular soldiers). But in both cases he is deluded by the partisan bands and discovers that the partisan war is less poetic and genuine ...
Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten
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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 ...
The Beast
Character: Leonida
To rescue his daughter, an unstable Special Forces veteran unleashes his inner beast as he pursues her kidnappers — and soon becomes a suspect himself....
Agalma
Character: (voice)
A whirlwind of activity sweeps us into the daily routine at the Archaeological Museum of Naples....
Lei mi parla ancora
Character: Amicangelo
Nino and Caterina have been married for 65 years. After Caterina's death, their daughter Elisabetta, trying to help her father to overcome the loss, hires an author to write a book on their love story....
The Catholic School
Character: Golgota
Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion were seen as under threat....
Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
Character: Self
The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century that this city became an early laboratory of ideas and theories on cinema and a set chosen by some of the greatest Italian authors and beyond. Furthermore, a considerable number of directors, actors, screenwriters and set designers were born in Parma who have made their way internationally, testifying to the fact that in this small city in Northern Italy there was a decidedly cinematic air. Red ar...
Signorina Effe
Character: Silvio
A white and a blue collar worker fall in love during the 1980 strike at FIAT that marked the end for labor movement in Italy....
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
Character: Self
A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring insights from his colleagues, family, and never-before-seen footage, highlighting his artistic journey and political activism....
Duse, the Greatest
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Fate un bel sorriso
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