Mario Pisu

Mario Pisu

Born: May 21, 1910
Died: July 17, 1976
in Montecchio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Movies for Mario Pisu...

Nick the Sting
Title: Nick the Sting
Character: Phil
Released: September 14, 1976
Type: Movie
Nick Hezard, a young con man, wants to avenge the death of a friend of his and organizes a swindle trying to cheat Robert Turner, an American businessman he thinks responsible for his friend's death. He succeeds in getting a hundred thousand swiss francs and uses them to carry out the second part of his plan.
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Sorbole... che romagnola!
Title: Sorbole... che romagnola!
Character: The Vicar
Released: July 7, 1976
Type: Movie
Due to a mistake by the travel agency she works for, a young woman finds herself deeply in debt and stranded in a tourist resort full of incredibly stuck-up travelers. As these tourists all insist they are all incredibly thin attractive people despite evidence to the contrary, she decides to open up a boutique in which she strives to transform them into beautiful people.
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The Sensuous Nurse
Title: The Sensuous Nurse
Character: Leonida Bottacin
Released: December 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Greedy relatives hire a sensual caregiver to hasten the demise of a wealthy count suffering from a heart condition.
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The Sex Machine
Title: The Sex Machine
Character: Ministro
Released: March 27, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
Title: Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
Character: capo della polizia
Released: March 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bossed around and sexually harassed at work. He decides to take justice into his own hands and get rough with the world. He soon gets his family's respect back.
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Blue Jeans
Title: Blue Jeans
Character: Mario Mauri
Released: March 17, 1975
Type: Movie
Tells the story of young Daniela ‘Blue Jeans’ Anselmi, a free-spirited drifter who makes her way in life by selling sexual favors and practicing petty-crime. After Daniela is arrested, the man who might be her long-lost father is called into her life to look after her.
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Carnality
Title: Carnality
Character: Count Orsani
Released: November 25, 1974
Type: Movie
A corrupt businessman obtains a castle through surreptitious means. He has a series of affairs while his ill wife remains bed-ridden and after her death he marries one of his mistresses. But she was the daughter of the man from whom the castle was stolen and she has her own agenda...
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Orders Signed in White
Title: Orders Signed in White
Character: Attorney General
Released: November 13, 1974
Type: Movie
After a phone call has been intercepted (an industrialist is going to receive a huge amount of money from a foreign bank), Mafioso Luca Albanese is assigned to set up a big robbery. He and his gang (three men and three women) then hide-out in a remote mountainous region, but soon at each other's throats. Moreover, someone is killing Albanese's men one by one, leaving white paint on the victim's faces...
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Io e lui
Title: Io e lui
Character: Protti
Released: September 19, 1973
Type: Movie
Rico is a not too successful screen-player. He is also a repressed sex addict. His life changes when he starts to talk to his own penis, which incredibly answers him! All his relationships and views about reality are seriously impacted by his new "friend", his penis! The "two" in fact, often have different opinions, and sometimes the personality of "it" is stronger than its owner.
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Without Warning
Title: Without Warning
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 15, 1973
Type: Movie
A discredited police inspector is given a second chance, in the form of a dangerous assignment. Chosen because of his uncanny resemblance to a Lt. Revere, the inspector impersonates him in order to penetrate a group of mercenaries with orders to assassinate its leader.
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The Boss
Title: The Boss
Character: Gabrielli
Released: February 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.
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The Sensuous Sicilian
Title: The Sensuous Sicilian
Character: Principe Lorenzo Banchieri
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
From his youth, Paolo Castorini, a Sicilian baron, is as attracted to women as they to him. Giovanna, a servant girl, Lillian, a serious girlfriend in Rome, a hostess at a post-war party, Paolo makes love to them all. He also feels dissatisfied with a life only of the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. When his father is on his deathbed, Paolo learns of syphilis in the family and something of the curse of dissolution. Some years later, he resolves to marry Katrina, the pure daughter of the woman he should have married. He wants her purity to redeem him so he can make something of his life. But is it too late?
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Appuntamento a Senlis
Title: Appuntamento a Senlis
Released: June 9, 1972
Type: Movie
A young man wants to give an idealized image of himself and his family and so he introduces the girl he loves to two old actors who pretend to be his parents.
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We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Title: We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Released: December 24, 1971
Type: Movie
A judge opens an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of an MP.
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Why
Title: Why
Character: Psichiatra
Released: October 27, 1971
Type: Movie
Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?
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Zingara
Title: Zingara
Character: Marisa and Silvia's father
Released: August 6, 1969
Type: Movie
Franco, singer in search of success, falls in love with Marisa. But she walks away from him to stay close to her sick cousin.
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Title: Nero Wolfe
Character: Otis Jarrell
Released: February 21, 1969
Type: TV
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Temptation
Title: Temptation
Released: January 29, 1969
Type: Movie
The young architect Guido maintains a relationship with Carla, wife of industrialist Veraldi that despite being aware of her infidelity does nothing to prevent it.
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L'amore è come il sole
Title: L'amore è come il sole
Released: January 6, 1969
Type: Movie
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Emma Hamilton
Title: Emma Hamilton
Character: King Ferdinand of Naples
Released: November 28, 1968
Type: Movie
The Making of a Lady: The Story of Lady Hamilton is a 1968 historical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Michèle Mercier, Richard Johnson and John Mills.[1] It was based on the novel La San-Felice by Alexandre Dumas and depicts the love affair between Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson. It was a co-production between Italy, West Germany, France and the United States.
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Morire gratis
Title: Morire gratis
Character: Giovanni
Released: March 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A young artist, living and working in Rome, drives his car for a long trip to Paris. Into the car also his last work, a sculpture. During the trip he meets Michelle, young french woman. The artist in Paris hopes to sell his sculpture.
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Title: Il Circolo Pickwick
Character: Samuel Pickwick
Released: February 4, 1968
Type: TV
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Spia spione
Title: Spia spione
Released: August 18, 1967
Type: Movie
Carlo Barlozzetti, a silly waiter, lives alone in an apartment located across a bank which a Professor and his followers try to robe. While The Professor intends to steal a ring packed with a precious and secret metal alloy guarded in A safety deposit box, his men want to take the money from the safe.
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Johnny Banco
Title: Johnny Banco
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1967
Type: Movie
A hustler of humble origins steals $200,000 from a gangster and heads to Monte Carlo.
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The Looters
Title: The Looters
Character: Patrick O'Hara
Released: August 8, 1967
Type: Movie
Morgan, a lapsed burglar, is drugged and shanghaied on board a yacht by beautiful Colleen. When he comes to, the athletic young man learns that Colleen and her friends want him to break open the vaults of a Carribean island where a ruthless dictator has deposited a treasure stolen from his people. Despite the way he has been treated, Morgan accepts the mission. The group, supported by local resistant fighters, storm the fortress, but Colleen's father gets killed during the attack. The treasure is finally retrieved and is returned to the people. Morgan and Colleen will say yes to each other for better or for worse.
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Tutto Totò - La scommessa
Title: Tutto Totò - La scommessa
Character: Avv. Giulio Cesare
Released: January 31, 1967
Type: Movie
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Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Title: Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Character: Barone Renato Santambrogio
Released: December 23, 1966
Type: Movie
A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons, is in fact separated from his wife and leads a frenetic life divided between numerous lovers.
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O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo
Title: O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo
Released: October 28, 1966
Type: Movie
After an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to investigate the organization that's claiming responsibility, and threatening the US with another attack, if they don't pay.
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Our Husbands
Title: Our Husbands
Character: il medico condotto
Released: August 21, 1966
Type: Movie
Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.
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Adultery Italian Style
Title: Adultery Italian Style
Character: Vicino
Released: March 25, 1966
Type: Movie
To get her husband more interested in her, the wife invents a lover. The husband will collect every hint trying to figure out who is the lover.
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How We Robbed the Bank of Italy
Title: How We Robbed the Bank of Italy
Character: Paolo
Released: March 18, 1966
Type: Movie
Dim-wits Franco and Cicco try to come up with a plan to rob the safes of the Bank of Italy, but with one muddle after another, they find themselves empty-handed after each attempt to do so.
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Te lo leggo negli occhi
Title: Te lo leggo negli occhi
Character: padre di Dino
Released: March 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A girl from a country village goes to town and falls in love with a songwriter struggling for success. Soon however their life-paths go different ways and they split. Only for a short time naturally : a song he writes will help them to reunite.
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Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Title: Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Character: Winner of the 'Capranica'
Released: February 16, 1966
Type: Movie
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
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Made in Italy
Title: Made in Italy
Character: The Lawyer (segment "2 'Il Lavoro', episode 2")
Released: December 22, 1965
Type: Movie
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
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Money
Title: Money
Released: November 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Episodic comedy about the corrupting influence of money.
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The Gendarme in New York
Title: The Gendarme in New York
Character: Adjutant Renzo
Released: October 28, 1965
Type: Movie
Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
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Juliet of the Spirits
Title: Juliet of the Spirits
Character: Giorgio (Giulietta's husband)
Released: October 22, 1965
Type: Movie
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.
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La violenza e l'amore
Title: La violenza e l'amore
Character: Il medico
Released: August 26, 1965
Type: Movie
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Soldati e caporali
Title: Soldati e caporali
Released: December 31, 1964
Type: Movie
The army challenges the navy in a singing contest.
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L'abito nuovo
Title: L'abito nuovo
Released: January 20, 1964
Type: Movie
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Arms of the Avenger
Title: Arms of the Avenger
Character: Eusebio Pimperval
Released: October 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Using Leonardo Da Vinci's innovative designs for weapons of war, flying engines and other machinery, three brothers join forces to fight a wicked and powerful Duke in early-Renaissance Italy.
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The Organizer
Title: The Organizer
Character: Manager
Released: October 25, 1963
Type: Movie
The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia is sent by (presumably) the Socialists to help them organize their strike and give form to their struggle
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Totò Sexy
Title: Totò Sexy
Character: L'impresario
Released: September 5, 1963
Type: Movie
Two strange street musicians end up in jail and exchange sexy stories to while away time.
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Zorro and the Three Musketeers
Title: Zorro and the Three Musketeers
Character: Count of Tequel
Released: February 14, 1963
Type: Movie
In the first half of the 1600's, France is at war with Spain. The cousin of the king of Spain, Isabella, is held captive in the French castle, and the Count of Seville is sent to France as a diplomat. While there, he is escorted by the Three Musketeers, who discover that he has secretly made a deal with Cardinal Richelieu to disclose Spanish military secrets in exchange for Isabella's release. However, he is merely bluffing and plans to take Isabella by force. When the musketeers discover this, they come to his aid, and together the four of them work at freeing the Countess. Meanwhile, the Count doubles as Zorro to free the Spanish court from a treacherous suitor.
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Character: Mario Mezzabotta
Released: February 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
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I motorizzati
Title: I motorizzati
Character: Angelo
Released: November 30, 1962
Type: Movie
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.
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Lo smemorato di Collegno
Title: Lo smemorato di Collegno
Character: avvocato Dell'Orso
Released: September 7, 1962
Type: Movie
A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in the newspaper, Mrs. Ballerini realizes that he is her husband and brings him home; then Mrs. Polacich recognizes him as her husband.
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Roaring Years
Title: Roaring Years
Character: gerarca
Released: April 21, 1962
Type: Movie
In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.
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Mariti a congresso
Title: Mariti a congresso
Released: August 11, 1961
Type: Movie
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The Cossacks
Title: The Cossacks
Character: principe Voronzoff
Released: February 4, 1960
Type: Movie
Set in the 1850s in Czar Alexander II's Russia, this drama and adventure film focuses on the strife between the Circassian Muslims, led by Shamil and Czar Alexander.
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Hannibal
Title: Hannibal
Character: Sacerdote
Released: December 21, 1959
Type: Movie
A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.
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First Love
Title: First Love
Character: signor Paolo Palazzi
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: Movie
Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her for several romantic places until the money ends. Ugo will try to get the girl engaged on a local TV station, but Renata falls in love with a manager.
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Totò all'inferno
Title: Totò all'inferno
Character: Tolomeo
Released: March 16, 1955
Type: Movie
After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell.
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Human Torpedoes
Title: Human Torpedoes
Character: (Voice dubbing for Emilio Cigoli)
Released: May 7, 1954
Type: Movie
A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take their torpedo-laden attack craft on a daring attack on the port of Suda.
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Di qua, di là del Piave
Title: Di qua, di là del Piave
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
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10 love songs to save
Title: 10 love songs to save
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
The plot concerns a songwriter, played by Jacques Sernas who leaves his sweetheart and publisher when he learns that he is going blind.
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Il mago per forza
Title: Il mago per forza
Released: November 22, 1951
Type: Movie
In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.
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Io sono il capataz
Title: Io sono il capataz
Character: Hurtado
Released: February 28, 1951
Type: Movie
The young Uguccione is mistaken for Rascelito Villa called "C6", a dangerous revolutionary, and then immediately sent to Parazuela where he leads the insurrectionist troops.
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Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Title: Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Character: Sergio (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1950
Type: Movie
Young swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him--and chases him when he escapes.
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Margaret of Cortona
Title: Margaret of Cortona
Released: February 22, 1950
Type: Movie
A Tuscan peasant girl in the 13th century overcomes sexual harassment, and the skepticism of her fellow citizens, as she saves plague victims, works miracles, and eventually becomes a saint.
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Il diavolo in convento
Title: Il diavolo in convento
Character: Padre Claudio
Released: January 17, 1950
Type: Movie
March 1945: an air raid destroys a fishing village. The homeless are hosted by Brother Angelo in the convent of San Fruttuoso in Camogli: years pass but the houses are not rebuilt and when the prior dies, the convent is sold to the rich engineer Milone, determined to transform it into a holiday complex. To prevent the homeless from ending up on the streets, Brother Angelo devises every possible expedient, even a fake miracle while waiting for San Fruttuoso to perform a real one.
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Professor, My Son
Title: Professor, My Son
Character: Ettore Giraldi
Released: December 9, 1946
Type: Movie
During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles.
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Il canto della vita
Title: Il canto della vita
Character: Rimondino
Released: December 15, 1945
Type: Movie
During the German occupation, the only heir of a rich owner of the Roman countryside, in order to escape capture, lives hidden in a cave. To help him there is a young woman who has been in love with him for a long time. However, one day, during one of those daily visits, the boy abuses her.
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The Rape of the Sabine
Title: The Rape of the Sabine
Character: Alberto Randoni
Released: November 21, 1945
Type: Movie
Ernesto is the teacher of the village, he is married and he is dominated by his wife. He has the passion of the theatre and he has written a drama in verse named "Il ratto delle Sabine". Unfortunately he has only an admirer and she is their servant Rosina. When the touring company of Prof. Tromboni arrives in the village, Ernesto decides to let them perform his play, though anonymously. So the day arrives and the theatre is sadly empty. But when the news that the author is the teacher spreads far and wide...
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Lettere al sottotenente
Title: Lettere al sottotenente
Released: October 9, 1945
Type: Movie
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La locandiera
Title: La locandiera
Released: December 1, 1944
Type: Movie
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Il cappello da prete
Title: Il cappello da prete
Character: Giorgio Di Sauro (voice)
Released: November 10, 1944
Type: Movie
The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house. He tries to steal from the house of a very rich priest and, surprised during the theft, he kills the priest, and then throws the body in an abandoned well. He continues his life of revelries and luxury, until the remorse for the crime trigger a process of self-destruction. The nightmares of the baron, tormented by the only evidence left of the murder, the hat of the priest ,drags him into a daring and hallucinated series of ups and downs to the brink of insanity and jail.
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Il nostro prossimo
Title: Il nostro prossimo
Character: Don Luigi
Released: February 26, 1943
Type: Movie
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Manovre d'amore
Title: Manovre d'amore
Character: Il tenente medico Skafos
Released: December 1, 1940
Type: Movie
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Re di danari
Title: Re di danari
Character: Franco Marino
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
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Destiny Unknown
Title: Destiny Unknown
Character: Gianni Casati
Released: November 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigrants who are hired as railroad workers in turn-of-the-century South America. In addition to facing poverty, deprivation, and prejudice, the immigrants are also bedeviled by a raging fever epidemic. Finally achieving a measure of prosperity, the Italians are forced to confront tragedy once more when their grown children march off to WWI. Though Isa Miranda is top-billed, she has very little to do in comparison with male lead Filippo Scelso. Passaporto Rosso was released in the U.S. as Destiny Unknown.