Christian De Sica
Birthday: Born in 1951-01-05 in Roma, Lazio, Italy
Deathday: Alive
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Domenica In
Character: Self
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Zelig
Character: Host
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Rischiatutto
Character:
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Ciao Darwin
Character: Capitano Alti
Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The ga...
Gigolò per caso
Character: Giacomo
When his father Giacomo comes back into his life after a heart attack, Alfonso has to cope with a life-changing truth: his father is a gigolo. After a series of unfortunate events, Alfonso is forced to follow in his father's footsteps....
TV Story Superstar
Character: Self (archive footage)
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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....
Lo zio d'America
Character: Massimo Ricciardi
Lo zio d'America is an Italian television series....
Mozart in the Jungle
Character: Impresario Beppi
In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on my Grave" comes an insider’s look into the secret world of classical musicians. From her debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall to the Broadway pits of "Les Miserables" and "Miss Saigon," Blair Tindall has played with some of the biggest names in classical music for twenty-five years. Now in "Mozart in the Jungle," Tindall exposes the scandalous rock and roll lifestyles of the musicians, conductors, ...
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S.P.Q.R.: 2,000 and a Half Years Ago
Character: Cesare Atticus
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....
Natale a Beverly Hills
Character: Carlo / Germano
Carlo descends on his former lover's unsuspecting family and the scheming Rocco tries to break up his old rival Marcello's wedding....
Another Summer Holiday
Character: Pierluigi Nardi Masciulli
Altiero Molino is a twenty-six-year-old digital entrepreneur who’s returning to Ventotene with his model husband in order to gather his old friends together around his ailing father so as to treat him to one last holiday in this place which is so special to him. He didn’t expect to find the island all abuzz with Sabry Mazzalupi’s marriage to her partner Cesare. This young woman, who’s the awkward daughter of Roman shopkeeper Ruggero, has become an online celebrity and her wedding is a global eve...
Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
Character: Self
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Christmas in Miami
Character: Giorgio
In Christmastime Miami, heartbroken divorcée Giorgio invites himself to stay at his best friend Mario's — unaware that the latter is having an affair with his ex-wife — and ends up pursued by Mario's barely-of-age daughter; nosy and out-of-touch Ranuccio crashes his son's sex-themed holidays before ending up in a series of mishaps with Giorgio....
A Walk in Time - The Adventure Continues
Character: Ascanio Colonna
The back-in-time misadventures of Walter and Ascanio are not finished. The defective time-travel machine will bring them from prehistory all the way to outer space, in a funny, light-hearted trip across the time....
Natale in India
Character: Fabio Detassis
Destinies intertwined for two antithetical people who meet during a trip to India, where lots of misunderstandings and funny situations will take place....
A Walk in Time
Character: Ascanio Colonna
While visiting Universal Studios in Hollywood along with their respective families, two Italian tourists get on a real time machine and got lost in time. Professor Mortimer effort to rescue them result in trips through various ages of ancient Italy....
Tifosi
Character: Cesare Proietti
Four different stories about italian football team’s supporter....
Christmas Vacation '90
Character: Tony
Several characters coincide during the Christmas holidays in the winter season of Saint Moritz....
Natale in crociera
Character: Paolo Cioffa
Paolo Cioffa, as Christmas approaches, is ready to leave on a cruise with his mistress Magda Venni, freed by his wife Francesca Zanchi and his son Federico, who is about to go skiing....
Christmas Vacation 2000
Character: Avvocato Covelli
Superenalotto winner Pasquale Esposito with his family, two penniless students from Emilia and the Colombo and Covelli families, who accidentally rent the same chalet, will spend the Christmas holidays in Cortina d'Ampezzo....
Christmas Vacation '95
Character: Remo Proietti
Two Italians are on holiday in Aspen in Colorado. The first one is Lorenzo whose daughter is crazy about Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210 actor) and wants to meet him at all costs. The second one wants to win back his wife who has left him because of his gambling problem....
Christmas Vacation '91
Character: Enzo
This coarse bedroom farce takes place at the St. Moritz ski resort over a Christmas vacation. Among the couples whose lives intersect are a widowed artist honeymooning with his second wife, a gay man traveling with his son and his lover (and hiding each from the other), a snobbish couple from Milan who have been forced to share a suite with a pair of crass Romans, etc....
Christmas Holidays
Character: Roberto Covelli
Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a singer and a playboy, meets Ivana: she's married with a rich man, Donatone, but in the past she had a flirt with Billo, who wants to reignite the flame....
Natale a Rio
Character: Paolo Berni
Fabio is in love with his colleague Linda, but she has never even seen him until he's mistaken for her boyfriend. Paolo and Mario leave for a luxurious vacation in Rio de Janeiro for Christmas, without knowing that their sons have booked a trip for the same low-cost destination and, for a problem of homonymy between fathers and sons, the two holidays are exchanged....
Natale a New York
Character: Camillo 'Lillo' Ferri
Lillo (Christian De Sica) married Milena, one of the richest women in Europe. The marriage contract provides that Lillo undertakes to never cheat on her, under penalty of divorce and not even a penny of alimony. But one day he meets Barbara (Sabrina Ferilli) and it's immediately irresistible passion... Filippo Vessato (Fabio De Luigi) is a young surgeon who, to make a career, is forced to suffer the harassment of his head, Professor Benci (Claudio Bisio). Filippo is about to go to New York to ge...
Ricky & Barabba
Character: Barabba
A wealthy millionaire decided to commit suicide but meets a homeless with whom he experiences a lot of funny adventures until finally makes order in his life....
Natale sul Nilo
Character: Fabio Ciulla
A womanizing lawyer follows his wife and son to a trip to Egypt in a last-ditch effort to make up for his infidelities. Also travelling to Egypt is a bumbling police chief who's desperate to keep his rebellious daughter from becoming a showgirl. The two meet during a Nile cruise. Calamity ensues....
Il figlio più piccolo
Character: Luciano Baietti
Ruthless businessman Luciano reconnects with his estranged family from a previous marriage, only to use their youngest son, awkward and starry-eyed Baldo, as the fall guy for his failing endeavor....
Natale in Sudafrica
Character: Carlo Boffa
Carlo, on vacation in South Africa with his second wife Susanna meets her younger brother Giorgio....
Body Guards
Character: Fabio Leone
Fabio Leone and Paolo Pecora are two police officers from Rome, who, together with the careless Neapolitan Ciro Marmotta, are fired from the barracks due their scuppering of a plan to capture a secret agent....
Merry Christmas
Character: Fabio Trivellone
Four Italian men are suddenly involved in awkward situations, while they are spending the Christmas holiday, stuck in Amsterdam....
Taste of the Sea
Character: Felicino Carraro
A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations....
Christmas in Love
Character: Fabrizio Barbetti
A middle-aged man’s relationship with a young model is questioned by his daughter, who’s dating an older man herself....
Paparazzi
Character: Cesare "Faina" Proietti
A montley group of free-lance photographers are desperate to grab a good shot of a celebrity....
Vacanze in America
Character: Don Buro (Frà Rodolfo da Ceprano)
A group of students from the San Crispino school for boys take a holiday in the United States, traveling from New York to Los Angeles. Young Father Don Buro has great difficulty controlling the youngsters, especially trouble making ex-student Peo, and finds himself distracted by the attractive single mother of one of the boys....
The Tourist
Character: Colonnello Lombardi
American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye....
Soap and Water
Character: Presentatore Sfilata (uncredited)
A school janitor pretends to be a priest in order to give private lessons to a young top model....
Talcum Powder
Character: Marcello
Sergio Benvenuti is a shy seller of contracts for a Roman company of music, but because of his character he cannot find even a customer, so he asks for help from a fellow named Nadia....
Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore
Character: Sé stesso
Necessarily far from the spotlights, Monica Vitti shines in a light intact to the eyes of spectators at every latitude. On scene the artistic path and life full of unpredictable events of an actress both introverted and sunny are recalled, through excerpts from her films and television programs, testimonies of friends and colleagues, leading exponents of Italian cinema of yesterday and today, critics, writers and costume experts....
Yuppies
Character: Sandro
Willy, Giacomo, Lorenzo and Sandro are 4 young yuppies rampant in the "Milano da bere" of the 80s, who live in the myth of Lawyer Gianni Agnelli and Silvio Berlusconi; their only purpose in life is to appear rather than be. Giacomo is an advertiser, Lorenzo is a notary, Sandro is a dentist, and Willy is a car salesman....
Yuppies 2
Character: Sandro
The adventures of the Milanese yuppies continue, always polished, "at home" in via Montenapoleone or at Nepentha, impeccable in dressing and "winning" at work, a little less in private life....
Department Store
Character: Antonio Borazzi, culturista e vincitore del buono premio di 500.000 lire
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store....
Firefighters
Character: Alberto Spina
In the barracks of the "Settecamini" fire brigade in Rome, the shabby Squadra 17 tackles missions with resounding failures, waiting in vain for a chance for redemption....
Firefighters 2: Heroic Mission
Character: Alberto Spina
Following a twinning between the national fire brigade and the special forces of the Canadian firefighters, Captain Carter arrives in Rome....
Fratelli d'Italia
Character: Cesare Proietti / Cristiano Gardini
Three episodes held together by a common element: a car rented by three different characters....
Nineties - Part II
Character: Don Buro / Roberto Torri
Second scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV......
Nineties
Character: Cesare Proietti/Lando Marcelli
Scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV......
Blaise Pascal
Character: Luogotenente criminale
In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science....
Hypochondriac
Character: Claudio Anzalone
During the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servants to look after him, while his wife is only waiting to see him dead to inherit....
Compagni di scuola
Character: Ciardulli, aka Tony Brando
A group of former high school classmates meets for a reunion 15 years after graduation, only to discover that any innocence or friendship is long lost....
Vacanze di Natale a Cortina
Character: Roberto Covelli
Roberto Covelli, a Roman lawyer, goes on a Christmas holiday to his chalet in Cortina with his wife Elena and their daughters....
My Friends: Act IV – How It All Began
Character: Paolo
Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic....
Simpatici & antipatici
Character: Roberto
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The Clan
Character: Franco
Dino and Franco, two mechanics in Rome, unrepentant bachelor and friends to the skin, leave for Las Vegas to attend the international gathering of Harley-Davidson, one of the great passions they have in common ......
Il conte Max
Character: Alfredo / Max
Alfredo is a crude Roman motorcycle repairman who is a friend of Count Max, a gentleman and ex-pleasure lover. The latter invites Alfredo to his residence in Campo dei Fiori and teaches him etiquette, French and how to play poker. The laughter will begin when Alfredo meets and chases the beautiful model Isabell Bellissima in Paris....
Sue Me
Character: Giovanni Pennisi
Judge Pennisi deals with a lot of citizens every day, some of them criminals, but almost always ordinary people, suffering from a wide range of problems....
Buona giornata
Character: Ascanio Cavallini
A common day in the actual Italy, narrated by the different stories of seven different people, it's the starting point for an overview to the 21st century's italian society, among corrupt politicians, unfaithful husbands, hardcore soccer fans and dishonest businessmen....
BelliFreschi
Character: Mario nicknamed Jerry
Tom and Jerry two Italian two bit actors go to America because they hope to take part in a film starring Sylvester Stallone. However when they go to his villa in Beverly Hills, Stallone gets murdered and the two are suspected of the murder. Hunted by the CIA and the FBI they flee across the USA disguised as women and end up working in a restaurant as showgirls. Here Tom meets a Mafia boss who falls in love with him and goes to Mexico with him to escape the police hunt. Some years later the two f...
Montecarlo Gran Casinò
Character: Furio
The misadventures of different Italian rascals who came to the famous Montecarlo Gran Casinò to get lucky....
Lightning Strike
Character: Alberto Benni
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An Almost Perfect Affair
Character: Carlo
An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate affair begins, but the couple's romance is tested as they face the temptations of fame and fortune....
I'm Getting a Yacht
Character: Attilio
A dentist buys a small yacht and takes his two children on a cruise of the Mediterranean. His ex-wife stows away to keep an eye on the children and the inevitable happens....
Men Men Men
Character: Vittorio
Four homosexual men in their 40s have issues and no small degree of self hatred. Yet, can laugh at themselves and their comrades and often do....
The Unlikely Prince
Character: Ciambellano
Needing good PR, a snooty princess orchestrates a brief romance with an ordinary guy. But the schlub she picks proves more resourceful than expected....
NightClub
Character: Walter Danesi
The nightlife of young carefree friends in a wonderful 60s Rome....
The Price of Nonna's Inheritance
Character: Carlo Delle Fave
When a grandmother falls for a cheeky suitor with dubious intentions, her family devises a secret plan to protect her life — and their inheritance....
Un matrimonio
Character: Pippo Dagnini
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The Cousin
Character: Ninì Scuderi
Italian coming of age story about two cousins, Enzo and Agata, told in three stages....
Colpi di fortuna
Character: Gabriele Brunelli (segment "Non è vero ma ci credo")
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Detective School Dropouts
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Two bumbling private detectives get themselves hired to find a missing person. They find themselves in the middle of a mob war when it turns out that the missing person is somebody the mob wants to stay missing....
House of Pleasure for Women
Character: Ugolino
The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their activities in Italy. Mr. Chips has chosen Eddie Mordace to open the Italian branch of the multinational American Love Company. So Eddie opens in Milan a small branch of the Company whose purpose is to comfort women. Eddie hires Simbad, Adone and later, when business starts to go well, Ugolino, a real Count, and Ivanoe, who becames the attraction of the House....
The Price of Family
Character: Carlo Delle Fave
Heartbroken that their children no longer want to spend time with them, two parents fake an inheritance to bring the family together for Christmas....
Grog
Character: Stella
Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local television station, requesting that they broadcast his demand for a plane so they can escape the country. The television director and his crew show up to film the hostage crisis, and then things get progressively more bizarre and satirical. Not content with the living drama, he directs everyone's actions to make the event more newsworthy....
La madama
Character: Vito Militiello
In the slang of the underworld or "mala" there is a special term for cop: "Madama". But if word were to get around that the "Madama" is Vito (Christian De Sica) they might even start to like the guy. Vito is a funny sort of a cop. For a start he doesn't like the uniform (he never wears it). Things might even go smoothly for him, if it weren't for an incredible number of beautiful girls who always manage to get in his way. Especially one girl Angelo (shouldn't that have been Angela? No, the...
Chaste and Pure
Character: Carletto Morosini
Antonio is married to a very wealthy woman but the sole heir of the family fortune is his daughter. He induce his dying wife to swear in the daughter of remaining "chaste and pure" ( so that she cannot marry ) until his own death....
Liquirizia
Character: Gian Galeazzo Lo Cascio
Two groups of students - the third-class high school students and the matured accountants - decide to perform a show to celebrate the last day of school....
Vittorio D.
Character: Self
A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family....
La scuola più bella del mondo
Character: Preside Filippo Brogi
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We Are Cinema
Character: Self (archive footage)
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema....
Attenti a quei tre
Character: Luca
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I limoni d'inverno
Character: Pietro Lorenzi
Pietro and Eleonora, both avid gardeners, are strangers who only meet because their two terraces are close to each other. The relationship that grows between them helps them to alleviate the pain each feels over something secret and very serious, a pain both try to hide from themselves and those around them. In this limbo they inhabit, the two make a stab at finding happiness together, until their paths diverge once more....
Vacanze ai Caraibi - Il film di Natale
Character: Mario Grossi Tubi
While on holiday in the Caribbean, a bankrupt family pins their hopes on a rich man, two strangers fall in lust, and a technophile gets shipwrecked....
Cortina Express
Character: Lucio De Roberti
During Christmas holidays in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, bon vivant Lucio tries to save his nephew from a doomed marriage; faded rock sensation Dino wants his daughter's love back; and record producer Patrizia struggles with bankruptcy and her lazy husband....
The Sex Machine
Character: Daniele Vanturoli
The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat… no T.V., until a team of award-winning scientists succeeds in harnessing energy from the world’s oldest source of reciprocating motion....
Fräulein - A Winter’s Tale
Character: Walter
As a solar storm unfolds, causing power surges and blackouts, a storm of emotions rages within Regina, a spinster referred to as Fräulein, when a childlike sexagenarian checks into her hotel. What should be one night becomes a stormy coexistence all its own....
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Character: Barone Jacopo del Serchio
At the end of the 18th century, a couple of libertine Tuscan aristocrats welcome in their villa (and into their bedroom) an handsome young revolutionary, hoping to rekindle their marriage....
Poor but Rich
Character: Danilo Tucci
The "Tucci" are a poor Italian family living in a small village in Lazio. Father, mother, a conceited daughter and a genius son, forced to pretend being stupid to keep up with the family. One day something unexpected happens: the family wins one hundred million Euros. Excited, they decide to keep the winning a secret, but as soon as a single word slips out from the mouth of the householder, they only have one choice to avoid being persecuted by friends and acquaintances: run away. They leave at ...
Teste di quoio
Character: Venditore di tappeti
A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage....
Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
Character: Self
An account of the life and work of the legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey into the greatest moments of cinema, from the Italian neorealism to the masterpieces of Woody Allen, commented by prestigious figures of world cinema....
Love in First Class
Character: venditore in stazione
A man from Milan, Carmelo, is forced to take his young son Malcolm, on a trip down South so his mother, who usually takes care for the boy, can go on vacation with her Moroccan boyfriend. Carmelo, who obviously is not too often at home, has no clue about how to deal with young children, even the most basic chores a father should know to tend the restless imp thrown in his care. The crowded train traveling from Milan to Reggio, Calabria, is packed in the second class section where Carmelo and Mal...
Viuuulentemente mia
Character: Juan Lopez y Aragona
Clumsy public security officer helps an adventurer (Laura Antonelli) to escape from Italy. In order not to undergo a punitive transfer to Barbagia, he goes back on the woman's trail to take her to prison....
Poor but Richer
Character: Danilo Tucci
The Tucci family discovers that they have not really lost all their money and, refusing to pay Italian taxes, decides to turn Torresecca into a tax haven, relying on a post-Italian unification bureaucratic oversight....
L'eroe
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Amici come prima
Character: Cesare Proietti
Cesare Proietti is the esteemed manager of the Relais Colombo, a luxury hotel in Milan. When a group of new Chinese business partners want to revolutionize everything, the hotel owner's daughter, Luciana, decides to fire Cesare. When Cesare discovers Luciana is looking for a caregiver who can look after her father, he decides to dress up as a charming woman to apply for the role....
Alberto il grande
Character: Self
Docu-film directed by Carlo and Luca Verdone realized on 2013 in occasion of the tenth anniversary from the actor’s death happened on 24th February 2003. Through this documentary Verdone’s brothers with deep respect towards the Roman actor trace an affectionate and sincere portrait not only about an Artist but, above all, about a man with his habits, his ideas, his tics, his vices and his virtues. And for the first time Mrs Aurelia – Alberto Sordi’s sister who is dedicated the documentary – ope...
Sono solo fantasmi
Character: Thomas/Vittorio Di Paola
Three brothers pretend they're ghost hunters to inherit from their father....
La mia banda suona il pop
Character: Tony
The Russian magnate Ivanov dreams about having The Popcorn, his favorite Italian musical band from the 80s in Saint Petersburg....
Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
Character: Self
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Giovannino
Character: Giovannino Calì
Giovannino grows up and seeks his way, exemplary in his total and definitive absence of character. He lets himself be guided a little by everyone, without ever making a decision of his own free will. He first seduces the family servant, then runs away to Rome and tries to marry her unserious daughter to a boarding house owner. But her father arrives from Catania who distrusts her and arranges for him to marry a rich and lame girl....
Who Framed Santa Claus?
Character: Babbo Natale
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Holiday on Mars
Character: Fabio Sinceri
We are in 2030, and on vacation we go to Mars! Having made his wife and son Giulio lose his tracks for years, Fabio (Christian De Sica) is about to marry the wealthy Bea on Mars. But what could happen if during an excursion into space, something goes wrong and Giulio suddenly becomes a sprightly old man (Massimo Boldi)? Between hilarious unexpected events and amusing misunderstandings, Fabio will find himself dealing with a seventy-year-old son and a marriage that is in danger of jumping ......
Comedians
Character: Bernardo Celli
Six aspiring comedians tired of the mediocrity of their lives, at the end of an evening stand-up course they prepare to face their first performance in a club. In the audience there is also an examiner, who will choose one of them for a TV show. For everyone this is the great opportunity to change their life, for some it could be the last one. The performances begin and each comedian takes the stage with a great dilemma: to respect the teachings of their master, devoted to intelligent and uncomp...
A Brief Vacation
Character: Mariani, Il Giovane In Treno (uncredited)
Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her....
Ti vogliamo bene Francesco Nuti
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...Watch Out, We're Mad
Character: Torsillo
Estranged, quarreling brothers Carezza and Sorriso have to put aside their differences to reclaim their father's beloved dune buggy from predatory real estate developer Torsillo, with the help of beautiful circus performer Miriam, whose family business is threatened by Torsillo's enforcers....
Mario Verdone: Il critico viaggiatore
Character: Self
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