Ivo Garrani

Ivo Garrani

Born: February 6, 1924
Died: March 25, 2015

Movies for Ivo Garrani...

Zora la vampira
Title: Zora la vampira
Character: Priest
Released: September 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Count Dracula trades Transylvania for Italy in search of fresh blood and Western standards of living, but finds instead his ancient love Zora, reincarnated as a young graffiti artist from the Roman hip-hop scene.
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Excellent Cadavers
Title: Excellent Cadavers
Character: Judge Gaetano Costa
Released: October 16, 1999
Type: Movie
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.
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Title: Enchantment
Character: Umberto Curti
Released: June 8, 1998
Type: TV
Incantesimo is a long-running drama series on Italian television, broadcast on the RAI network. It is set in a hospital called Clinica Life in Turin, Italy, and revolves around the life of the doctors and nurses in the hospital. According to the official website, it is "interested in social themes, the incoherence of daily life, solidarity, love and passion, not forgetting moments of comedy". Incantesimo was first broadcast in March 1997, is now in its 10th series and has broadcast 400 episodes. Incantesimo is also being broadcast on the Chinese CCTV 8 network, dubbed into Mandarin. Many notable Italian actors and actresses have starred in the series including, Orso Maria Guerrini, Delia Boccardo, Kaspar Capparoni, Paolo Malco, Guido Furlani, Alessio Boni, Vanessa Gravina, Paola Pitagora, Alessandra Acciai and Barbara Livi. The series was especially popular in Bulgaria, where it was aired on BNT 1 and Nova Television. In Armenia it was aired on ArmeniaTV and TV5 in Russian, as well as on Shant TV in Armenian.
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Dio c'è
Title: Dio c'è
Character: Ettore
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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On the Dark Continent
Title: On the Dark Continent
Character: Monsignor Fantazzini
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
In the 1950s, a big stir was made by a book (and its corresponding movie) called The Ugly American. Its subject was the grievous damage done to local cultures by well-meaning but essentially clueless (and frequently arrogant) representatives of the U.S. Since then, the phenomenon of cultural damage cause by arrogant tourists and visitors has been demonstrated to be something everyone is capable of. In this thoughtful, comic drama, the subject is Italians overseas. In this film, Malindi Kenya is the playground of rich Italians.
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The Last Days of Humanity
Title: The Last Days of Humanity
Released: September 23, 1991
Type: Movie
The last days of humanity by Karl Kraus, a mammoth drama - almost 800 pages in the Adelphi edition - staged by Luca Ronconi in the Lingotto in Turin, broadcast by Rai
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The Invisible Wall
Title: The Invisible Wall
Character: Capo di Stato Maggiore della Difesa
Released: September 13, 1991
Type: Movie
June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on board. The official version blames the "structural failure" of the plane, but a young journalist smells a cover-up and starts fighting to break free the truth from the 'invisible wall' of lies built by politicians and air force higher-ups.
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Soldati - 365 all'alba
Title: Soldati - 365 all'alba
Character: Colonnello
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Claudio Scanna is a private in the Italian army: during his first night in a new military base he gets in a fight with senior recruits. Lieutenant Fili, Claudio's commanding officer, is denied a promotion because his superiors discover he was absent without justification during the night of the fight. Fili blames Claudio and vows to make his remaining months in the service a living hell...
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The Repenter
Title: The Repenter
Character: Boss Michele Ferro
Released: November 15, 1985
Type: Movie
A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.
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Holocaust 2000
Title: Holocaust 2000
Character: Prime Minister
Released: November 25, 1977
Type: Movie
An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
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Street People
Title: Street People
Character: Salvatore Francesco
Released: March 30, 1976
Type: Movie
A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.
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Special Section
Title: Special Section
Character: L'amiral François Darlan
Released: April 23, 1975
Type: Movie
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
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One Appreciated Professional of Sure Future
Title: One Appreciated Professional of Sure Future
Character: Lucetta's father
Released: April 25, 1972
Type: Movie
The young lawyer Vincenzo, Lucetta's new husband, daughter of a building speculator, discovers, on the night of the wedding, that he can not fulfill his duty as husband.
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Caliber 9
Title: Caliber 9
Character: Don Vincenzo
Released: February 15, 1972
Type: Movie
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
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Liberty
Title: Liberty
Character: Nicola Lombardo
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The revolt of the people of a Sicilian village further to the Expedition of the Thousand which, in 1860, enables Garibaldi to liberate Sicily.
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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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Maddalena
Title: Maddalena
Character: Maddalena's husband
Released: November 19, 1971
Type: Movie
The love story between a free-spirited girl and a priest.
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Waterloo
Title: Waterloo
Character: Marshal Soult
Released: October 26, 1970
Type: Movie
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
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Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
Title: Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
Character: Mussolini
Released: October 21, 1970
Type: Movie
This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign.
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Liberation: The Break Through
Title: Liberation: The Break Through
Character: Mussolini
Released: May 8, 1970
Type: Movie
A grandiose military film epic, which does not know analogues in world cinema: the history of the Great Patriotic War from the Battle of the Kursk Bulge to the installation of the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag - "Liberation".
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Liberation: The Fire Bulge
Title: Liberation: The Fire Bulge
Character: Mussolini
Released: May 7, 1970
Type: Movie
The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.
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La resa dei conti: dal Gran Consiglio al processo di Verona
Title: La resa dei conti: dal Gran Consiglio al processo di Verona
Character: Benito Mussolini
Released: April 8, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Bandit
Title: The Bandit
Character: il Barone Nardò
Released: January 29, 1969
Type: Movie
Sicily, 1865. Two peasants, Gramigna and his father are tricked by Baron Nardò and robbed of their field, which then the baron lets to Assunta, her daughter Gemma and her fiancé Ramarro. Determined to take revenge, Gramigna begins to hunt down Nardò's complicit mediators. Unbeknownst to Gramigna, Gemma, to escape her arranged marriage, goes after him. Love and violence will follow all till their desperate ends.
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Deadly Inheritance
Title: Deadly Inheritance
Character: Leon
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
There are a number of inheritors to a fortune who are getting killed by a mysterious somebody whom we do not see. Each death is novel, but not terribly graphic. Who did it?
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On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
Title: On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
Character: Duca Pandolfo
Released: December 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.
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The Rover
Title: The Rover
Character: Scevola
Released: September 27, 1967
Type: Movie
A former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy when she falls in love with a French naval officer.
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Casanova '70
Title: Casanova '70
Character: avvocato
Released: June 15, 1965
Type: Movie
The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.
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Samson and Gideon
Title: Samson and Gideon
Character: Gedeone / Gideon
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Consisting of two segments, the film is centered on two great Israelite leaders found in the Book of Judges.
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Title: Gian Burrasca's Diary
Character: Il Babbo
Released: December 19, 1964
Type: TV
A miniseries based upon the book by Vamba.
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Cyrano and d'Artagnan
Title: Cyrano and d'Artagnan
Character: Laubardemont
Released: October 22, 1964
Type: Movie
Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.
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The Betrothed
Title: The Betrothed
Character: L'Innominato
Released: February 20, 1964
Type: Movie
Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella are two poor farmers who are in love, but they are hampered by the wickedness of the powerful Don Rodrigo, who secretly loves Lucia. The two run away from Lake Como where they live, and take refuge inland.
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Senza sole nè luna
Title: Senza sole nè luna
Character: Possamai
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
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The Leopard
Title: The Leopard
Character: Colonel Pallavicino
Released: March 27, 1963
Type: Movie
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
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The Verona Trial
Title: The Verona Trial
Character: Roberto Farinacci
Released: March 2, 1963
Type: Movie
This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her husband by fanatics of her father.
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The Shortest Day
Title: The Shortest Day
Character: Erede siciliano (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
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Conquered City
Title: Conquered City
Character: Mavroti
Released: December 5, 1962
Type: Movie
Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed in Italy and filmed in Greece. An Athens hotel, full of refugees and expatriates of all nationalities, is captured by Allied troops in the closing days of the War. British Major David Niven has been ordered to prevent a cache of weapons hidden in the hotel from falling into the hands of renegade troops. He cannot allow himself to trust anyone--not even the most innocent-looking (or attractive) of guests. Originally titled La Citta Prigioniera. Conquered City was released in English-speaking countries outside the U.S. as Captive City.
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Commando
Title: Commando
Character: Colonel Dionne
Released: November 14, 1962
Type: Movie
A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.
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The Slave
Title: The Slave
Character: Julius Caesar - Roman Triunvir
Released: August 24, 1962
Type: Movie
The decurion Randus holds himself so well in the command of his troops, that Caesar promotes him to centurion. He is subsequently sent to Egypt, to keep Cesar informed on the actions and intentions of co-triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus - a man too rich, and ambitious, for Caesar's comfort. A fateful sea trip from Egypt to Rome forces Randus in captivity by mercenary troops, and leads a revolt by which he gets freedom for himself, and all the other slaves. Through an amulet he received from his late mother, a man who had fought by Spartacus' side, identifies the young man as Spartacus' and Varinia's son. At first reluctant to accept this story about his origins, Randus will be forced by the circumstances to repeat the feat of his father, twenty years later.
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Ten Italians for One German
Title: Ten Italians for One German
Character: Giovanni Ferroni
Released: December 31, 1961
Type: Movie
A cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten Italian civilians were sentenced to death for each German soldier killed in a partisan attempt.
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Dreams Die at Dawn
Title: Dreams Die at Dawn
Character: Andrea
Released: December 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Five Italian journalists live the last hours of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
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Hercules and the Captive Women
Title: Hercules and the Captive Women
Character: Re di Megara
Released: August 19, 1961
Type: Movie
King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle. Hercules is part of the crew, but the strongman falls overboard in a thick fog. Washed ashore, he saves a young Ismene from Proteus, an evil, shape-shifting creature. Ismene takes Hercules to Atlantis, where he discovers that her mother, Queen Antinea, has captured Androcles. Hercules schemes to rescue him and thwart Antinea's dream of world conquest.
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The Hunchback
Title: The Hunchback
Character: Moretti
Released: November 30, 1960
Type: Movie
Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.
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Morgan, the Pirate
Title: Morgan, the Pirate
Character: Governor Don José Guzman
Released: November 17, 1960
Type: Movie
A Welsh pirate raids up and down the Caribbean, battling the Spanish, the English and other pirates.
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Adua and Her Friends
Title: Adua and Her Friends
Character: avvocato
Released: September 16, 1960
Type: Movie
When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
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Atom Age Vampire
Title: Atom Age Vampire
Character: Inspector Brochard
Released: August 16, 1960
Type: Movie
When a singer is horribly disfigured in a car accident, a scientist develops a treatment which can restore her beauty by injecting her with a special serum. While performing the procedure, however, he falls in love with her. As the treatment begins to fail, he determines to save her appearance, regardless of how many women he must kill for her sake.
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Black Sunday
Title: Black Sunday
Character: Prince Vajda
Released: August 11, 1960
Type: Movie
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant, Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
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Valley of the Doomed
Title: Valley of the Doomed
Character: Vincent Micocci
Released: April 8, 1960
Type: Movie
1860, the great Duchess of Parma, Maria Luisa, wants to provide her little state with train tracks, in spite of the opposition she gets from certain noble people.
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Carthage in Flames
Title: Carthage in Flames
Character: Thala
Released: January 29, 1960
Type: Movie
Historical drama depicting the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage.
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The Giant of Marathon
Title: The Giant of Marathon
Character: Creuso
Released: December 3, 1959
Type: Movie
A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
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General Della Rovere
Title: General Della Rovere
Character: Partisan chief (uncredited)
Released: October 7, 1959
Type: Movie
The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
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The Coin
Title: The Coin
Character: Belar
Released: July 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Bob recruits Jacques, a desperate blacksmith, to "recover" smuggled diamonds from de Belar. The heist goes badly wrong. The crooks kill each other for the money, but the diamonds are gone and Jacques returns to his life as an honest man.
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Il padrone delle ferriere
Title: Il padrone delle ferriere
Character: Monsieur Moulinet
Released: March 11, 1959
Type: Movie
Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu.
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Title: L'isola del tesoro
Character: Silver John
Released: February 7, 1959
Type: TV
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South Wind
Title: South Wind
Character: Padrino
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Antonio Spagara, a young Sicilian worker, has been assigned by the Mafia to murder a nobleman, Marquis Macri. But at the last minute Antonio reneges on his commitment and instead of killing the father, he flees to Palermo with Grazia, his daughter. Life is not a bed of roses in the Sicilian capital, as the young man must impose himself to face his godfather and Grazia's despotic sister Dorotea. To make matters worse, the Mafia is not going to tolerate Antonio's desertion...
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The Day the Sky Exploded
Title: The Day the Sky Exploded
Character: Professor Herbert Weisse
Released: September 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collison course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed.
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Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
Title: Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
Character: Antigono
Released: August 29, 1958
Type: Movie
The construction of great temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, followed by new and high taxes and the arrival of a plague, create discontent in the population, and threatens the love between a sculptor and a slave.
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City at Night
Title: City at Night
Character: Un dottore
Released: March 6, 1958
Type: Movie
A young girl falls in love with an actor. She persuades her father to support his acting company, but when she discovers him with another girl she runs away. Then everybody try to find her.
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Hercules
Title: Hercules
Character: Pelias, King of Iolcus
Released: February 20, 1958
Type: Movie
In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts.
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Sette piccole croci
Title: Sette piccole croci
Character: Andrea Lecoeur
Released: May 26, 1957
Type: Movie
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Roland the Mighty
Title: Roland the Mighty
Character: Carlo Magno
Released: December 6, 1956
Type: Movie
In this sword-and-sandal saga set on the steppes of Asia, Roland, leader of the Paladin troops, who must proves his mettle against the dreaded Saracen invaders, and withstand their evil plots
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The Rival
Title: The Rival
Character: Secondo ufficiale inquirente
Released: November 7, 1956
Type: Movie
The love triangle between a Countess, a soldier and a younger woman.
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Eighteen Year Olds
Title: Eighteen Year Olds
Character: Il medico
Released: December 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with him.
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Orient Express
Title: Orient Express
Released: October 8, 1954
Type: Movie
On December 24th the Orient Express gets snowbound near a little mountain village and its passengers are forced to spend some time there, mingling with the local people, upsetting their usually monotonous daily lives.
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Ragazze da marito
Title: Ragazze da marito
Released: November 19, 1952
Type: Movie
Oreste is known for his deliberation and caution in handling license forms at his office.But when he needs money to send his 3 girls off to Capri to find rich suitors, he is tempted to take bribes to put a license through more quickly.