Franco Castellano

Franco Castellano

Born: January 11, 1957
in San Vito al Tagliamento, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

Movies for Franco Castellano...

Rita Levi-Montalcini
Title: Rita Levi-Montalcini
Character: Professor Levi
Released: November 26, 2020
Type: Movie
In 1986, Rita Levi-Montalcini receives the Nobel Prize, but something is missing. After meeting a young violinist, the scientist faces a difficult choice: take refuge in fame or get back in the game.
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Title: Tango per la Libertà
Character: avvocato Solanas
Released: December 12, 2016
Type: TV
Tango per la Libertà is a television miniseries broadcast on Rai1 on 12 and 13 January 2016. Freely inspired by Enrico Calamai's book No political asylum, it tells the story of an Italian diplomat in Argentina who managed to save more than 300 men and women persecuted by Jorge Rafael Videla's regime.
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Luisa Spagnoli
Title: Luisa Spagnoli
Character: Leone Cravero
Released: February 1, 2016
Type: Movie
This is a true story of Luisa Spagnoli who was an Italian businesswoman, famous for creating a women's fashion store and the chocolate brand, Perugia. The show is a romantic telling of her life. Considering that women were not involved in business, it is an amazing story of someone way ahead of her time.
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Title: Luisa Spagnoli
Character: Leone Cravero
Released: January 26, 2016
Type: TV
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La Voce - Il talento può uccidere
Title: La Voce - Il talento può uccidere
Character: Magistrato De Bartolomei
Released: May 7, 2015
Type: Movie
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Barabbas
Title: Barabbas
Character: Pietro
Released: December 28, 2012
Type: Movie
Barabbas or Jesus Barabbas (literally "son of the father" or "Jesus, son of the father" respectively) is a figure in the account of the Passion of Christ, in which he is the insurrectionary whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem, instead of Jesus Christ.
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Title: Barabbas
Character: Pietro
Released: December 28, 2012
Type: TV
Billy Zane stars as Barabbas--the man whose life was spared because of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Based on the Nobel Prize in Literature winning novel by Par Lagerkvist, Barabbas is a story rooted in the Bible which will come to life on REELZ as a four-hour miniseries and tells the ultimate story of redemption. Barabbas was shot on location in Tunisia and is directed by Emmy Award winner Roger Young.
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Vorrei vederti ballare
Title: Vorrei vederti ballare
Released: December 6, 2012
Type: Movie
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Title: Faccia d'angelo
Character: dottor Arosio
Released: March 12, 2012
Type: TV
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La donna della domenica
Title: La donna della domenica
Character: Architetto Garrone
Released: April 11, 2011
Type: Movie
Based on a crime book by Italian authors Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, first published in 1972. The story is set in the city of Turin, and deals with the investigation of commissioner Santamaria about the murder of an architect of dubious fame, Garrone. Among the protagonists are Anna Carla Dosio, a beautiful and rich woman, and her friend Massimo Campi, a rich homosexual.
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Enrico Mattei
Title: Enrico Mattei
Character: Marcello Boldrini
Released: May 3, 2009
Type: Movie
Giorgio Capitani reconstructs in the Rai TV film the parable of the famous entrepreneur, in a product that in technical terms does not escape the logic of television, but still manages to offer an interesting picture of a key figure of postwar Italy.
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Puccini
Title: Puccini
Character: Toscanini
Released: March 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Giacomo Puccini, the son of a Tuscan organist, achieves world-wide recognition as a composer of operas and dies from throat cancer in the middle of an artistic crisis, at the age of just sixty-six.
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Title: Anna e i cinque
Character: il Secco
Released: September 30, 2008
Type: TV
Anna e i cinque is an Italian comedy television series starring Sabrina Ferilli about a woman who is a nanny for a wealthy family by day and stripper by night.
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Il sangue e la rosa
Title: Il sangue e la rosa
Character: Rudolf Kruger
Released: September 2, 2008
Type: Movie
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Title: Il sangue e la rosa
Character: Rudolf Kruger
Released: September 2, 2008
Type: TV
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L'ultimo Dei Corleonesi
Title: L'ultimo Dei Corleonesi
Character: Piero Grasso
Released: February 14, 2007
Type: Movie
The rise and fall of sicilian most important mafia bosses after WWII: Luciano Liggio, Totò Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, all from Corleone. Their friendship and struggle against italian state.
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Mafalda of Savoy
Title: Mafalda of Savoy
Character: Aldo Maggio
Released: November 28, 2006
Type: Movie
The story of Mafalda is like the one of Cinderella, just the other way round. The dramatic real story of a Italian princess, born and raised in the comforts of a golden court, who will be forced by war to share the fate of ordinary people in a concentration camp. Mafalda di Savoia was chosen to represent the decline of nobility and the errors of war, which separate and destroy even noble families. Mafalda is a victim of political strategies that overlook her, and her tragic death shows the levelling power of war, that forces poor and rich alike to share the same destiny.
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Title: Gino Bartali - L'intramontabile
Character: Mario Carità
Released: March 26, 2006
Type: TV
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Bartali: The Iron Man
Title: Bartali: The Iron Man
Character: Comandante Carità
Released: March 26, 2006
Type: Movie
TV Miniseries (2 episodes) about life and rivalry of italian bikers Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi.
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Title: Wuthering Heights
Character: Ivory
Released: October 4, 2004
Type: TV
New adaptation of Emily Brontë's famous novel, a story of love and uncontrollable passion, exploring the deepest feelings to the extremes to which love can lead us, especially when there are many obstacles to overcome. A Yorkshire melancholy story about a love stronger than death.
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Cine Tempestose
Title: Cine Tempestose
Released: October 4, 2004
Type: Movie
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Title: La stagione dei delitti
Character: Davide Toscano
Released: August 31, 2004
Type: TV
What is the English language plot outline for La stagione dei delitti (2004)?
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Title: Orgoglio
Character: Herman Ludovici
Released: February 29, 2004
Type: TV
1912. The dramatic love story between Anna Obrofari e Pietro Pironi.
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Hannover
Title: Hannover
Character: Vico
Released: December 10, 2003
Type: Movie
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Rose's Songs
Title: Rose's Songs
Character: Géza Halász
Released: March 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Autumn 1944. Yellow star, ghettos, Arrow Cross terror. The inhabitants of Hungary's capital, Budapest, await the tragic fulfilment of their fate with helpless resignation. However, above one of the city's villas, once a week in the evening the stars of hope sparkle, if only for a few minutes. This short time gives fresh heart to those hiding here and kindles hope in their tortured souls to live for another day. This mysterious power is none other than a beautiful song that can be heard at such times from the villa's tower room.
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Riconciliati
Title: Riconciliati
Character: Roberto
Released: March 15, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man
Character: Adam
Released: January 28, 2002
Type: TV
The true story of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian cattle dealer and avowed fascist who — trapped in Nazi-occupied Budapest after Italy's armistice with the Allies — nevertheless saved more than 5,000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust through a combination of lies, bribery and derring-do.
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Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man
Title: Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man
Character: Adam
Released: January 28, 2002
Type: Movie
It is the real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa an in the Spanish civil war where he deserved a safe conduct for Spanish embassies. After some years, disillusioned by fascism, he is a fresh supplier for the Italian army. In the war years he is in Budapest for his business. He lives an easy life there, well introduced into the Hungarian high society, without any problem coming from the war situation. When the Nazi occupied Hungary, in 1944, instead to leave (Italy had already surrendered to the Allies) he escaped to the Spanish embassy in Budapest using his old safe conduct and becoming a Spanish citizen, changing name into Jorge Perlasca. He starts working as a diplomat here. When Sanz Briz (Geza Tordy), the Spanish consul, is removed, Perlasca immediately substitutes him, like if he was officially appointed from Spanish authorities... Written by 1felco
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Il mistero del cortile
Title: Il mistero del cortile
Character: Alberto Salvi
Released: October 31, 1999
Type: Movie
Rome. Paola Angeli, a young psychiatrist, following her recent separation from her husband Alberto Salvi, a crime reporter, moved to an apartment overlooking a large courtyard, overlooked by a series of other buildings. It is Christmas. The city is becoming depopulated. Even the courtyard that Paola sees from her windows during long sleepless nights seems uninhabited apart from the few remaining tenants. One morning, not far from Paola's condominium, the body of an unidentified blonde girl is found in a dumpster. Alberto investigates the mysterious crime on behalf of his newspaper. Paola has the impression of having seen a blonde girl with a pair of very showy earrings enter building C the previous night. but Romolo, the building's doorman, excludes him because the tenants are all away on holiday.
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Un uomo perbene
Title: Un uomo perbene
Character: Sostituto Procuratore Felice Di Persia
Released: October 1, 1999
Type: Movie
In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.
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La Donna del Treno
Title: La Donna del Treno
Character: Giorgio
Released: March 2, 1999
Type: Movie
A woman travels in a compartment of a train and a young man sits next to her with whom, almost immediately, sparks strike: once they arrive at their destination the boy realizes that the young lady has forgotten a book and so follows her to to return it. When the two are alone at home, without having even introduced themselves, they soon end up in each other's arms and spend an intense night of love. At dawn the man leaves. Also at dawn that same morning, a man is killed in his garage and it is soon discovered that he is the brother of the young man on the train.
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Jeremiah
Title: Jeremiah
Character: Babylonian Minister
Released: December 14, 1998
Type: Movie
The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on several occasions, and makes it clear that he has been selected to announce God's message to the people of Jerusalem.
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Intolerance
Title: Intolerance
Character: (segment "Max suona il piano")
Released: November 11, 1996
Type: Movie
A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.
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Il caso Fenaroli
Title: Il caso Fenaroli
Character: Giovanni Fenaroli
Released: November 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Based on the true crime known as Mystery of Via Monaci or The Fenaroli case.
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Title: Uno di noi
Released: September 29, 1996
Type: TV
Uno di noi is an Italian television series, airing on Rai Uno in 1996. The series was rerun on Rai Premium during the summer of 2011.