Silvio Orlando

Silvio Orlando

Born: June 30, 1957
in Naples, Italy
Silvio Orlando (born 30 June 1957) is an Italian actor.

Orlando was born in Naples. He worked with numerous Italian directors such as Nanni Moretti, Daniele Luchetti, Carlo Mazzacurati, Gabriele Salvatores and others. He also took part to several TV series.

Orlando in 1988 directed two theatre works written by Peppino De Filippo: Don Rafelo 'o trumbone and Cupido scherza e spazza. In 2008 he was protagonist of Roberto Paci Dalò's play L'assedio delle ceneri.

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Sarò con te
Title: Sarò con te
Character: Himself
Released: May 4, 2024
Type: Movie
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Un altro ferragosto
Title: Un altro ferragosto
Character: Sandro Molino
Released: March 7, 2024
Type: Movie
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 event attracting the media as well as mysterious emissaries from the new political regime. These two tribes of vacationers, two seemingly irreconcilable sides of Italy, are destined to come together during the Ferragosto holiday for an ultimate showdown.
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Title: This World Can't Tear Me Down
Character: DIGOS Detective (voice)
Released: June 9, 2023
Type: TV
When an old friend returns to the neighborhood, Zerocalcare wants to help him find his place back in the world. But what's the right thing to do?
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A Brighter Tomorrow
Title: A Brighter Tomorrow
Character: Ennio
Released: April 20, 2023
Type: Movie
An old film director unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.
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Dry
Title: Dry
Character: Antonio
Released: September 29, 2022
Type: Movie
In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.
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The Hidden Child
Title: The Hidden Child
Character: Gabriele Santoro
Released: November 4, 2021
Type: Movie
Gabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One morning, while shaving his beard, the postman buzzes at the intercom to tell him he has a package. Gabriele opens the door and, before greeting him, runs to rinse his face. In that short space of time, a ten-year-old child slips into his apartment and hides away. “The maestro” – as he’s called in his neighbourhood – only notices the stowaway late at night. And when he sees him, he recognises the intruder as Ciro, a child who lives with his parents and siblings on the top floor of his building. When asked why he has fled his home, Ciro refuses to speak. Nevertheless, the maestro instinctively decides to hide him in his home, setting Ciro’s enemies a uniquely difficult challenge.
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Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
Title: Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
Released: October 15, 2021
Type: Movie
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The Inner Cage
Title: The Inner Cage
Character: Carmine Lagidia
Released: October 14, 2021
Type: Movie
A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity.
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Ezio Bosso - Le cose che restano
Title: Ezio Bosso - Le cose che restano
Character: Sè stesso
Released: October 4, 2021
Type: Movie
Ezio Bosso reveals his real self and takes us into his world and his imagination, as if were a diary.
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The Ties
Title: The Ties
Character: Aldo dopo
Released: October 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Naples, early 1980s. The strained marriage between Aldo and Vanda is fractured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, his infidelity. Equally hurt and bewildered, Vanda attempts to hide her pain from the couple's two school-age kids, lest they discover that their cramped apartment is not a home of trust and love. 30 years later, Aldo and Vanda are still tied together, but their relationship with each other and their children continues to be defined by what happened all those years ago.
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Title: The New Pope
Character: Cardinal Voiello
Released: January 10, 2020
Type: TV
As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III. A sequel series to “The Young Pope.”
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Title: The Young Pope
Character: Cardinal Voiello
Released: October 21, 2016
Type: TV
Lenny Belardo, the youngest and first American Pope in the history of the Church, must establish his new papacy and navigate the power struggles of the closed, secretive Vatican.
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An Almost Perfect Country
Title: An Almost Perfect Country
Character: Domenico Bonocore
Released: March 24, 2016
Type: Movie
Pietramezzana, a remote village in the Lucan Dolomites, is likely to disappear. Its inhabitants, led by the volcanic Dominic do not give up and, believing that the opening of a factory may be the solution to all their troubles, they want to make sure that the project is successful ...
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La sedia della felicità
Title: La sedia della felicità
Character: Art dealer on TV
Released: April 24, 2014
Type: Movie
Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician; their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that belonged to a woman now dead.
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A Castle in Italy
Title: A Castle in Italy
Character: The Italian Mayor
Released: October 30, 2013
Type: Movie
Louise meets Nathan, her dreams resurface. It's also the story of her ailing brother, their mother, and the destiny of a leading family of wealthy Italian industrialists. The story of a family falling apart, a world coming to an end and love beginning.
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The Human Factor
Title: The Human Factor
Character: Adriano Monaco
Released: August 28, 2013
Type: Movie
A world-weary, widowed police inspector has to break his vow of self-isolation and get back on the field after his teen daughter is arrested for the possession of a gun tied to a much-publicized murder.
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Un Natale con i fiocchi
Title: Un Natale con i fiocchi
Character: Lino Fiocchi
Released: December 25, 2012
Type: Movie
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Zinì e Amì
Title: Zinì e Amì
Released: November 10, 2012
Type: Movie
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Il delitto di Via Poma
Title: Il delitto di Via Poma
Character: Inspector Montella
Released: December 6, 2011
Type: Movie
Rome, August 7, 1990. 20-year-old Simonetta Cesaroni is killed with 29 stab wounds in her workplace in broad daylight.
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Missione di pace
Title: Missione di pace
Released: September 9, 2011
Type: Movie
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La Passione
Title: La Passione
Character: Gianni Dubois
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: Movie
To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.
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Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
Title: Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
Character: Gianni
Released: February 26, 2010
Type: Movie
Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.
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The Big Dream
Title: The Big Dream
Character: Carabinieri colonel
Released: November 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up undercover among college students protesting the government, the Vietnam War and the values of their parents' generation. However, he complicates his mission by falling for Laura, a bourgeois girl dreaming of a better world.
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Ex
Title: Ex
Character: Luca
Released: February 6, 2009
Type: Movie
Six people struggling with their relationship, or lack thereof, cross paths with their respective exes — and discover they might still harbor feelings for each other.
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Giovanna's Father
Title: Giovanna's Father
Character: Michele Casali
Released: September 12, 2008
Type: Movie
Michele Casali is a middle-class professor in Fascist Italy who teaches at the same high school attended by his only daughter, Giovanna. A shy and sensitive girl, her insecurities are only magnified by Michele's overprotectiveness—reaching a point of no return.
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The Germans' Factory
Title: The Germans' Factory
Released: September 12, 2008
Type: Movie
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Quiet Chaos
Title: Quiet Chaos
Character: Samuele
Released: February 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.
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The Caiman's Diary
Title: The Caiman's Diary
Released: October 31, 2006
Type: Movie
The filmmaker's diary of the making of "Il caimano" and the political events that led up to it.
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The Caiman
Title: The Caiman
Character: Bruno Bonomo
Released: March 24, 2006
Type: Movie
Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it
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After Midnight
Title: After Midnight
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: April 23, 2004
Type: Movie
A beautiful fugitive draws a shy film buff out of his shell while she hides in the museum — the cavernous interiors of the Mole Antonelliana in Turin, Italy — where he works as night watchman.
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Opopomoz
Title: Opopomoz
Character: Peppino (voice)
Released: December 5, 2003
Type: Movie
It's Christmas Eve in Naples. Little Rocco feels increasingly jealous due to the imminent birth of a baby brother. Three bungling devils sent by Satan promise him that if he'll stop Jesus from being born—entering the Nativity scene his father built by the magic word "opopomoz" and altering the past—his brother won't be born either.
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Il posto dell'anima
Title: Il posto dell'anima
Character: Antonio
Released: May 30, 2003
Type: Movie
Three workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company owner of the factory who wants to close the Italian branch in which they work.
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Anguish Cry of Predator Bird
Title: Anguish Cry of Predator Bird
Character: Self
Released: April 16, 2003
Type: Movie
A selection of deleted scenes from Nanni Moretti's 1998 film "Aprile".
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Bear's Kiss
Title: Bear's Kiss
Character: Alberto
Released: November 28, 2002
Type: Movie
A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human being.
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El Alamein
Title: El Alamein
Character: il Generale
Released: November 8, 2002
Type: Movie
War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then?
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Il consiglio d'Egitto
Title: Il consiglio d'Egitto
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Light of My Eyes
Title: Light of My Eyes
Character: Saverio Donati
Released: September 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur in Rome, who relates only to the lonely heroes in the science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance meeting with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, does he discover a hope that's been in his detached existence.
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The Son's Room
Title: The Son's Room
Character: Oscar - a Patient
Released: March 9, 2001
Type: Movie
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
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I Prefer the Sound of the Sea
Title: I Prefer the Sound of the Sea
Character: Luigi
Released: March 24, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Not of this World
Title: Not of this World
Character: Ernesto
Released: March 26, 1999
Type: Movie
The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.
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Polvere di Napoli
Title: Polvere di Napoli
Character: Ciriaco / Ciarli
Released: June 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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Aprile
Title: Aprile
Character: Self
Released: March 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming national elections.
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Children of Hannibal
Title: Children of Hannibal
Character: Domenico
Released: March 13, 1998
Type: Movie
Unemployed Domenico robs a bank, but is forced to take a hostage when things go wrong. The hostage, Tommaso, is a man who hates his wife and job, and who was already planning to run away with his gay cop lover anyway, so this seems to him like a good opportunity to disappear and start over again: the kidnapped becomes the kidnapper, and things get even more complicated when the two are joined by Rita, Tommaso's beautiful daughter.
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Auguri professore
Title: Auguri professore
Character: Vincenzo Lipari
Released: December 19, 1997
Type: Movie
Professor Lipari teaches in a public school and is in a full-on existential crisis. He has no faith in himself and in the possibility of changing the world for the better. At school, a former student of his who is also a teacher will change his attitude.
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Nirvana
Title: Nirvana
Character: Indian concierge
Released: January 24, 1997
Type: Movie
Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released.
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We Free Kings
Title: We Free Kings
Character: Melchiorre
Released: December 20, 1996
Type: Movie
Three tumblers wander throughout Italy with their show. A priest asks them to perform the Three Kings in a Nativity play, in a village where there are no children. That night a comet runs across the sky, so the three decide to follow it to search for the new Messiah.
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Intolerance
Title: Intolerance
Character: (segment "Arrivano i sandali")
Released: November 11, 1996
Type: Movie
A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.
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La mia generazione
Title: La mia generazione
Character: The Captain
Released: September 27, 1996
Type: Movie
Italy, early 80's. A political terrorist is being transferred northward from Sicily for a conjugal visit; during the journey, a police captain tries to make him cooperate.
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Vesna Goes Fast
Title: Vesna Goes Fast
Character: L'assicuratore
Released: September 4, 1996
Type: Movie
Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation.
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August Vacation
Title: August Vacation
Character: Sandro Molino
Released: April 5, 1996
Type: Movie
Like every August, journalist Sandro, his family and acquaintances vacation on the island of Ventotene. This time, however, they find out the house next door has been rented to a lower middle class family, whose crass nature and values soon clash with their own intellectual and progressive background.
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Bits & Pieces
Title: Bits & Pieces
Released: February 2, 1996
Type: Movie
Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy's foremost directors and actors feature in this star-studded omnibus tale about life and love.
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La scuola
Title: La scuola
Character: prof. Vivaldi
Released: April 6, 1995
Type: Movie
In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.
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The Only Country In The World
Title: The Only Country In The World
Character: Luciano Sandulli / Stalker
Released: December 31, 1994
Type: Movie
Anthology short film with segments by nine directors against Silvio Berlusconi and its Forza Italia party — released ahead of the 1994 Italian general elections, which Berlusconi nevertheless won in a landslide. In Nanni Moretti's segment, he and Silvio Orlando reprise their roles from The Yes Man (1991).
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Scream for Help
Title: Scream for Help
Character: Michele
Released: March 13, 1994
Type: Movie
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Sud
Title: Sud
Character: Ciro
Released: October 17, 1993
Type: Movie
During a hot Sunday afternoon in a small Southern Italian town, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Eritrean immigrant, all unemployed, desperate and armed.
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Arriva la bufera
Title: Arriva la bufera
Character: Mario Solitudine
Released: March 25, 1993
Type: Movie
Depressed magistrate Damiano Fortezza relocates from Milan to a small town in Campania, where the three Fontana sisters, owners of a chain of incinerators, dominate. The youngest, Eugenia, is about to marry a well-known crook Fortezza has to prosecute. However, he ends up falling in love with Eugenia and questioning the priorities of his job.
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Un'altra vita
Title: Un'altra vita
Character: Saverio
Released: September 8, 1992
Type: Movie
Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a Russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a guy like him would never have thought to come across.
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The Yes Man
Title: The Yes Man
Character: Luciano Sandulli
Released: April 5, 1991
Type: Movie
Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.
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Title: Felipe ha gli occhi azzurri
Released: February 24, 1991
Type: TV
Felipe ha gli occhi azzurri is an Italian television series.
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Matilda
Title: Matilda
Character: Torquato
Released: October 19, 1990
Type: Movie
Matilda is an unlucky girl: her boyfriends keep dying in strange accidents. The last of them, Torquato, a shy filing clerk, is a little afraid of this situation and doesn't know how to continue the relationship.
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La settimana della sfinge
Title: La settimana della sfinge
Character: Ministro
Released: October 12, 1990
Type: Movie
Crossword-solving waitress Gloria falls for a womanizing TV repairman.
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Palombella Rossa
Title: Palombella Rossa
Character: Mario
Released: September 15, 1989
Type: Movie
Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election day, he begins to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors the one of Italian communism.
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Title: Zanzibar
Character: Domenico Tagliuti
Released: September 12, 1988
Type: TV
Zanzibar is an Italian television series.
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Kamikazen (Ultima notte a Milano)
Title: Kamikazen (Ultima notte a Milano)
Character: Antonio Minichino
Released: March 4, 1988
Type: Movie
A group of comedians are trying to be successful on stage. One night an important television network organises a public variety show to sort out some performers for their programs. Every one of them will try their hardest, but just a few will be chosen.
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Parthenope
Title: Parthenope
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The long journey of Parthenope’s life, from her birth in 1950 till today. A feminine epic, devoid of heroism but brimming with an inexorable passion for freedom, Naples, and the faces of love—all those true, pointless, and unspeakable loves. The perfect Capri summer, the lightheartedness of youth. Which ends in ambush. And then all the others—the Neapolitans, men and women, observed and loved, disillusioned and vital, their waves of melancholy, their tragic ironies and dejected glances. Life, be it ordinary or memorable, knows how to be very long. The passing of time offers up a vast repertoire of emotions. And there in the background, so close and so very far, is Naples, this ineffable city that bewitches, enchants, screams, laughs, and always knows how to hurt you.