Gianni Cavina

Gianni Cavina

Born: December 9, 1940
in Bologna, Italy

Movies for Gianni Cavina...

Dante
Title: Dante
Character: Piero Giardina
Released: September 29, 2022
Type: Movie
The tormented life of Dante Alighieri, from solitary childhood to death in exile, seen through Giovanni Boccaccio’s journey to rehabilitate his memory.
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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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Il signor Diavolo
Title: Il signor Diavolo
Character: Gino il sagrestano
Released: August 22, 2019
Type: Movie
In 1950s Italy, a government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a grisly child murder. The culprit is a young boy who claims to have acted in order to kill the Devil himself.
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Welcome Mr. President!
Title: Welcome Mr. President!
Character: Mr. Fausto
Released: March 21, 2013
Type: Movie
In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends, the library where he works as a precarious employee. He is an optimistic person even if his child accuse him of being a wannabe. One day, due to a mess of politicians, an amazing thing happens: Peppino is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic. Pulled out from his quiet life, is to play a role for which he knows he is obviously inappropriate, but his common sense and his instinctive gestures are incredibly effective, except for the etiquette, for which he is in trouble. The inflexible and fascinating Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Janis Clementi, is anxious to no avail in an attempt to regulate the unpredictable actions of the President...
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The Big Heart of Girls
Title: The Big Heart of Girls
Character: Sisto Osti
Released: November 11, 2011
Type: Movie
Carlino Vigetti is pushed by his family to court the daughters of the Osti, landowners. But the return of their third daughter, the beautiful Francesca, will shatter the plans ...
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Title: Atelier Fontana - Le sorelle della moda
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: TV
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Caffè Capo
Title: Caffè Capo
Character: University professor
Released: October 24, 2010
Type: Movie
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A Second Childhood
Title: A Second Childhood
Character: Preda
Released: October 8, 2010
Type: Movie
Lino and Chicca are an aging, childless middle-class couple whose life is disrupted after he's diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
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The Friends at the Margherita Café
Title: The Friends at the Margherita Café
Character: Carlo
Released: April 3, 2009
Type: Movie
Bologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.
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Baciami piccina
Title: Baciami piccina
Released: September 29, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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The Wedding Director
Title: The Wedding Director
Character: Smamma
Released: April 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Franco Elica is a film director casting a remake of a pious melodrama in Rome. He's melancholy, heading south for a break. On a beach, he meets a man who films weddings and is roped into helping film the wedding of the daughter of a severe and imperious prince. The wedding is one of convenience - the prince needs money, the groom is a mama's boy. Elica is attracted to the bride, Boda, and tries to convince her not to marry. No matter how outrageous his behavior, the prince keeps Elica on as the wedding director. As the wedding approaches, what's real blurs with Elica's imagination. Is he mad?
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Christmas Rematch
Title: Christmas Rematch
Character: Ugo Cavara
Released: January 30, 2004
Type: Movie
17 years after Regalo di Natale the same 5 players for a new challenge. Who can trust who?
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Empty Eyes
Title: Empty Eyes
Released: May 26, 2001
Type: Movie
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Midsummer Night Dance
Title: Midsummer Night Dance
Character: Loris' brother
Released: December 3, 1999
Type: Movie
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Porzus
Title: Porzus
Character: Spaccaossi
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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Festival
Title: Festival
Character: Renzo Polpo
Released: September 27, 1996
Type: Movie
The annual film festival in Venice is, of course, an ideal place to make a film (how come no-one has thought of it before). Everything is there in Pupi Avati's Festival: the famous hotels Des Bain and Excelsior on the Lido, the shimmering sandy beach which captivated Visconti. The film was made last spring and exploits the presence of passing film stars such as Jack Nicholson. We see the hysterical press conferences, where journalists and experts ask intelligent questions-without listening to the answers.
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Non chiamarmi Omar
Title: Non chiamarmi Omar
Character: Bruno
Released: November 5, 1992
Type: Movie
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Per non dimenticare
Title: Per non dimenticare
Released: October 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Title: L'ispettore Sarti
Released: February 12, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: Appointment in Trieste
Character: Oscar
Released: October 3, 1989
Type: TV
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Facciaffittasi
Title: Facciaffittasi
Character: Leo Grandi
Released: May 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Title: The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Character: Natoli
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.
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Christmas Present
Title: Christmas Present
Character: Ugo
Released: October 4, 1986
Type: Movie
On Christmas night, four estranged friends reunite after a long time to rip off a rich industrialist in a game of poker, but old grudges get in the way.
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Noi tre
Title: Noi tre
Character: Il cugino
Released: December 20, 1984
Type: Movie
The adolescence of Mozart is chronicled in this Italian biopic. Here, young Wolfgang is seen as a prodigy who aspires to a normal life. He is studying music in Bologna when he falls in love with a local girl and makes friends with a boy his own age. Mozart is so elated that he fails a music exam on purpose so he can stay a little longer. Unfortunately, a priest rigs his test and the young composer is forced to move on.
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Dancing Paradise
Title: Dancing Paradise
Character: William
Released: June 12, 1982
Type: Movie
Set in a fantastic site, the film tells the story of a mythical musician named Dancing Paradise and of his son William who, accompanied by an angel, retraces his father's career to repeat it.
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Il turno
Title: Il turno
Released: September 18, 1981
Type: Movie
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Cream Horn
Title: Cream Horn
Character: Gabriele Arcangeli
Released: September 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Mariana and Domenico are on the run from her jealous boyfriend who just happens to be an over-jealous professional football player.
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Per favore, occupati di Amelia
Title: Per favore, occupati di Amelia
Character: Stefano
Released: June 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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La locandiera
Title: La locandiera
Character: Ortenzio
Released: October 2, 1980
Type: Movie
The innkeeper Mirandolina is a beautiful girl, and for her beauty the Count of Albafiorita and the Marquis of Forlimpopoli fall in love.
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Cinema!!!
Title: Cinema!!!
Character: Giuliano
Released: November 13, 1979
Type: Movie
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The Stars in the Ditch
Title: The Stars in the Ditch
Character: Marione
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: Movie
A father and his four sons during the 18th century have their lives thrown into turmoil with the arrival of a woman at their villa. She quickly takes on multiple roles of sister, mother, confidant and lover to all, plunging the men into confusion and leading to an almost mythic ending.
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Traffic Jam
Title: Traffic Jam
Character: Pompeo, Teresa's Husband
Released: January 12, 1979
Type: Movie
A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told.
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Fancy a Woman
Title: Fancy a Woman
Character: Gesuino
Released: July 22, 1978
Type: Movie
An erotic, comedic anthology film in which a young couple becomes addicted to having their trysts recorded, a woman cheats on her husband with an older man and desperately attempts to avoid the traps set for her, and a man, with the help of a mad scientist, is able to have an amorous encounter with Cicciolina.
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Quando c'era lui... caro lei!
Title: Quando c'era lui... caro lei!
Character: Pavanati
Released: June 4, 1978
Type: Movie
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Il prigioniero
Title: Il prigioniero
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Italian TV movie. Based upon a novel by Anton Chekhov.
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All Deceased... Except the Dead
Title: All Deceased... Except the Dead
Character: Martini
Released: March 10, 1977
Type: Movie
Dante arrives at the castle of the recently deceased Marquis Zanetti to sell a book which contains a prophecy that the death of nine members of the Zanetti family will reveal a hidden treasure.
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The Big Operator
Title: The Big Operator
Character: Silvio
Released: November 27, 1976
Type: Movie
The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire.
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Passi furtivi in una notte boia
Title: Passi furtivi in una notte boia
Character: Geometra Cesare Marchesi
Released: September 8, 1976
Type: Movie
tory of a valet waitress. In order to become the owner of the bar where he works, he agrees to rob a bank. Good for the first time, not the second.
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The House with Laughing Windows
Title: The House with Laughing Windows
Character: Coppola
Released: August 20, 1976
Type: Movie
A young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano, which was painted on the wall of a local church by a mysterious, long-dead artist.
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San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Title: San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Character: Samuele Calì
Released: March 2, 1976
Type: Movie
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House of Pleasure for Women
Title: House of Pleasure for Women
Character: Adone
Released: January 23, 1976
Type: Movie
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, a raper, who becames the attraction of the House.
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Buttiglione diventa capo del servizio segreto
Title: Buttiglione diventa capo del servizio segreto
Character: Sergente Mastino
Released: August 10, 1975
Type: Movie
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The Baron's Mazurka
Title: The Baron's Mazurka
Character: Petazzoni
Released: January 22, 1975
Type: Movie
A fig tree located in the lands of a baron of the lower Po valley has for many centuries been the subject of worship. The baron, crippled and an atheist, one day sees a girl lying on the fig tree in a benevolent attitude and exchanges for the Saint Who was martyred there in the Middle Ages. Immediately the aristocrat converts and decides to give his belongings to a religious institute. In fact, he was a victim of a cheating and the "santa" is a prostitute who has given up on rage.
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The Son of the Buried Alive
Title: The Son of the Buried Alive
Character: Dany
Released: March 7, 1974
Type: Movie
A young nobleman battles against the ferocious woman who’s reigning upon those lands. The truth, as told by a poor but valiant mute, is that the real sovereign is the young boy and helps him defeat the evil ones.
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Thomas
Title: Thomas
Character: Adam
Released: September 28, 1970
Type: Movie
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Blood Relations
Title: Blood Relations
Character: Alliata
Released: January 28, 1970
Type: Movie
The story about a sinister magician-dwarf, physically unable to love a woman. His wife's betrayals and an obsessive isolation drive him to despair.
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Flashback
Title: Flashback
Released: October 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Heinz is a German soldier stationed as a sniper overlooking his own army from a tree. When he falls asleep, his troops are gone and he is left alone to defend the incoming enemy invasion. Flashbacks recall his wartime experiences and his transition from a human being into a sadistic murderer and rapist.
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Title: Il mulino del Po
Character: Primo contadino
Released: January 13, 1963
Type: TV