Giobbe Covatta

Giobbe Covatta

Born: June 11, 1956
in Taranto, Italy
Gianni Maria Covatta (born 11 June 1956), best known as Giobbe Covatta, is an Italian stand-up comedian, actor, writer and politician.

Born in Taranto, after appearing in a number of other variety shows Covatta he had his breakout in 1990 as a recurring guest in the Canale 5 talk show Maurizio Costanzo Show, where he reads his compositions inspired by the Bible. These sketch eventually inspired a book, Parola di Giobbe, which was released in 1991 and got an immediate success, selling over a million copies and getting over thirty editions. In the later years Covatta published other books, notably Pancreas, a parody of Edmondo De Amicis' Heart, and was active as an actor in films, television series and on stage.

In 2006, Covatta was elected councilor of the Federation of the Greens party in the Rome local elections. In 2015, he was elected national spokesperson of the party, still maintaining he does not consider himself a politician.

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Movies for Giobbe Covatta...

Gol!a
Title: Gol!a
Released: April 20, 2023
Type: Movie
Golia is a former rugby champion suffering from dementia. every day he wakes up convinced that he is still young and is away with his team, only to learn that he is living inside a nursing home and has lost all contact with his wife and children. alessandro, another guest of the nursing home, is a former professor of ancient literature suffering from paraplegia. alessandro has one last ambition left: to help golia break out of the nursing home and reunite him with his family, overcoming the defense lines of the institution’s mean-spirited staff and showing the institutions how senility and illness are not valid pretexts for defining the social worthlessness of man.
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Water to the Ropes
Title: Water to the Ropes
Character: Parroco
Released: January 9, 2023
Type: Movie
Montalto, 2021. On the occasion of the historic 500th anniversary of the birth of Pope Sixtus V, the mayor of the birthplace of the famous pontiff, hires an author of religious musicals from the Marches, Angelo Santini, to create a show inspired by the famous papal events. Among these Angelo readapts one, under the cumbersome supervision of the village parish priest, and entitles it "Acqua alle corda", inspired by the well-known story of the obelisk in St. Peter's Square.The mayor is very pressing on the fact that this show must have an important resonance, and urges Angelo to find a theater company worthy of attracting the attention of the media. Angelo therefore involves a very high-level musical company which, thanks to its autonomy, completely upsets the religious spirit of the work,bringing it to a demented dimension, and consequently triggering unpredictable tensions within the country.
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Anime borboniche
Title: Anime borboniche
Character: Padre Giacinto
Released: January 14, 2021
Type: Movie
A married couple is going to the Royal Palace of Caserta for a historical reenactment.
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La Reliquia
Title: La Reliquia
Character: Il Maciaro
Released: November 13, 2020
Type: Movie
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Il caso Pantani - L'omicidio di un campione
Title: Il caso Pantani - L'omicidio di un campione
Character: Rosario Tolomelli
Released: October 12, 2020
Type: Movie
The Pantani case, a film directed by Domenico Ciolfi, tells the story of the last five years in the life of the cyclist from Romagna, in particular from 5 June 1999, when he was suspended from racing, to 14 February 2004, the day of his death. His untimely death in unclear circumstances, which have opened several judicial inquiries, was a shock to the world of cycling, which lost its Pirate on Valentine's Day. The film is a tribute to this Italian sporting hero, remembering him as a young man who, riding his bike, reached several milestones but was defeated in a fatal match.
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Amo la tempesta
Title: Amo la tempesta
Character: Tato
Released: August 6, 2020
Type: Movie
A gang of fathers and abandoned parents go to extreme measures to fight italian youngsters emigration by performing a reverse illegal immigration, kidnapping and smuggling their children out of Germany.
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Poor but Richer
Title: Poor but Richer
Character: Don Genesio
Released: December 14, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Poor but Rich
Title: Poor but Rich
Character: sacerdote di Torresecca
Released: December 15, 2016
Type: Movie
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 night, heading to Milan. They will realize as soon as they arrive that today's rich people behaves very differently from the past, and being rich has become a real bother... this discovery will make things way different from what Tuccis' expected.
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Il nostro ultimo
Title: Il nostro ultimo
Character: Prete della vecchia chiesa
Released: November 9, 2015
Type: Movie
When their mother dies, Fabrizio and Guglielmo decide to take her on one last trip.
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Una donna per la vita
Title: Una donna per la vita
Character: Prete
Released: September 21, 2012
Type: Movie
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The sun inside
Title: The sun inside
Character: Autista pullman
Released: June 20, 2012
Type: Movie
Yaguine and Fodé, two teenagers from African Guinea, wrote a letter to the "European Parlament great leaders", on behalf of all children and teens in Africa, where they ask for help with food, health and education. Ten years later, thirteen-year-old Thabo embarks on an epic journey with his friend Rocco from Bari to return to his own African village of 'Ndula to escape a ruthless Italian gang who are exploiting young football players.
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All Human Rights for All
Title: All Human Rights for All
Released: December 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.
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Title: Medici miei
Character: Gianni Colantuomo
Released: September 2, 2008
Type: TV
Medici miei is an Italian television series.
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Title: Mai dire Grande Fratello & figli
Released: October 4, 2004
Type: TV
Reality commented by Gialappa's Band
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Title: Il mammo
Character: Il veggente
Released: February 22, 2004
Type: TV
Il mammo is an Italian television series.
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Il segreto del successo
Title: Il segreto del successo
Character: Se stesso
Released: January 30, 2003
Type: Movie
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Una famiglia per caso
Title: Una famiglia per caso
Released: January 5, 2003
Type: Movie
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Title: Mai dire domenica
Released: January 27, 2002
Type: TV
Show commented by Gialappa's
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Muzungu
Title: Muzungu
Character: Edoardo
Released: March 26, 1999
Type: Movie
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Camere da letto
Title: Camere da letto
Character: Sandro
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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Package, Double Package and Counterpackage
Title: Package, Double Package and Counterpackage
Character: Il finto cieco
Released: January 22, 1993
Type: Movie
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Paraboleiperboli
Title: Paraboleiperboli
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie