Moni Ovadia

Moni Ovadia

Born: April 16, 1946
in Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Movies for Moni Ovadia...

Una risata ci salverà
Title: Una risata ci salverà
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 2023
Type: Movie
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The Right to Happiness
Title: The Right to Happiness
Released: March 3, 2023
Type: Movie
The Right to Happiness centers on a small used book store in a small plaza in a small town with big vistas, somewhere in Italy. It sounds like a book lover's fantasy, and maybe it is. The bookseller, Libero, knows most of his rather eccentric customers and can barely bring himself to take their money (although fascists pay double). When a young boy, Essien (Didie Lorenz Tchumbu), an émigré from Burkina Faso, happens on the shop, Libero begins lending him books of increasing difficulty. From Pinocchio to Moby Dick, Essien can read as fast as Libero can lend, and the two form a bond over reading and meaning. "Books should be read twice," Libero says. "Once to understand them, and once to think." Life should probably be lived like that too, but the bookseller's name means "free," and freedom is what Libero bequeaths to Essien.
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Caravaggio's Shadow
Title: Caravaggio's Shadow
Character: Filippo Neri
Released: November 3, 2022
Type: Movie
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
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Laboratory Greece
Title: Laboratory Greece
Character: Self
Released: December 8, 2019
Type: Movie
A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories. «If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe» Paul Craig Roberts
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Mexico! Un cinema alla riscossa
Title: Mexico! Un cinema alla riscossa
Character: Himself
Released: May 4, 2017
Type: Movie
The Cinema Mexico is one of the last single-screen cinemas left in Milan. Its story is inextricably tied to the figure of Antonio Sancassani who ran it independently for the past thirty years taking care of every single aspect. At the cinema Mexico he presents independent films, debuts, films in original version, documentaries, forgotten films or films that have been "burned" by large-scale distribution offering them a second chance. The thirty-six years of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and two extraordinary years of The Wind Blows Round are only some of the successes that have made of the cinema a reference point for insiders from all over Italy. A passionate portrait that reflects on the fate of small cinemas and on the difficulties for independent cinema that is suffocated by the laws of the market, by online streaming and by the television.
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Le Supplici di Eschilo - Teatro greco di Siracusa
Title: Le Supplici di Eschilo - Teatro greco di Siracusa
Character: Pelasgo
Released: June 24, 2015
Type: Movie
“The Suppliants of Aeschylus were part of a trilogy consisting of Supplicants, Sons of Egypt and Danaids, followed by a satyr drama Amirnon. It was first performed at the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, probably in 463 BC."
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Anita B.
Title: Anita B.
Character: Uncle Jacob
Released: January 28, 2014
Type: Movie
After World War II, Anita, a young survivor of Auschwitz, becomes involved in an intense and passionate affair that almost shatters her until she gains the strength to start a new life.
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Margerita
Title: Margerita
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Efrem, gypsy boy and skilled pickpocket, faces his first theft in an apartment. An experience that will change his life.
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Memories of Anne Frank
Title: Memories of Anne Frank
Character: Rabbino
Released: January 27, 2010
Type: Movie
Inspirada libremente en el libro (“Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend”) escrito por Alison Leslie Gold. La escritora americana recopiló el largo relato de Hanneli Goslar (una de las amigas más cercanas de Anne Frank) cuarenta años después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. (FILMAFFINITY)
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L'ultimo re
Title: L'ultimo re
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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Nicola, lì dove sorge il sole
Title: Nicola, lì dove sorge il sole
Released: October 18, 2006
Type: Movie
"Nicola, where the sun rises" - Tells the true story of the transfer, from Myra (today Demre in Turkey ) to Bari , of the relics of St. Nicholas. 62 sailors arrive in Lycia aboard 3 sailing ships to steal the bones of the saint. They return to Bari on 8 May 1087 and announce they want to build a new basilica dedicated to St. Nicholas.
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Oylem Goylem
Title: Oylem Goylem
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Klezmer derives from the Hebrew words "Kley Zemer", which refer to the musical instruments (generally, the violin and stringed instruments in general and the clarinet) used to play the traditional music of Eastern European Jews from the XVIth century on. Moni's StageOrchestra is inspired by that music, by its constant change of tones and by the spirit which pervades it, from the sorrowful, monochord which revives the spirit of a synagogue prayer to the explosive joy of songs and dance music created for happier occasions. It is not a faithful reprise of klezmer music or a philological revisitation we propose here, but rather a free use, which maintains the climate and the imprint of several centuries of musical practice, born and developed in close proximity with the Polish, Czech and Byelorussian civilizations and enriched by a fertile exchange with the musical culture of that other diasporic population of Europe, the Gypsy people.
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Golem
Title: Golem
Character: Narratore
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Autunno
Title: Autunno
Character: Costanza's father
Released: September 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Three stories that provide an irony-laden analysis of the Neapolitan bourgeoisie and of small-time intellectualism and aspiration.
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Looking for Paradise
Title: Looking for Paradise
Character: Adamo
Released: December 22, 1995
Type: Movie
The life and times of Claudia Bertelli, born in Milan in 1949 from bourgeois parents, educated in England, rebel and single mother, then feminist and married woman and again doctor in the developing countries and mystical nun who dies peacefully in 2011.
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Diario senza date
Title: Diario senza date
Released: September 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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Where's yankel?
Title: Where's yankel?
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
This is the incredible story of a group of Kletzmer musicians during a break in their concert. In a few minutes out of the stage fights, unexpected events happen that stem from the telling a brief little story.
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Caro diario
Title: Caro diario
Character: Lucio
Released: October 12, 1993
Type: Movie
Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted Rome, in the second he visits a reclusive friend on an island, and in the last he has to grapple with an unknown illness.
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A Soul Split in Two
Title: A Soul Split in Two
Character: Bar Patron
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: Movie
Store security guard Pietro spends his days catching shoplifters, his weekends visiting his children who are in custody of his ex-wife, and his nights thinking about new ways to flirt with the store's makeup consultant. His malaise psychosomatically manifests itself in nosebleeds, outbursts of anger, visions, etc. One day, he sees a young Gypsy girl steal something from the store and lets it slide: he can't explain why, but she caught his eye. Pietro and Pabe – that's her name – warily start to hang out, knowing each other more and more, until something begins to blossom in them. Could their shared dream for a new, more compassionate life finally be at their fingertips?
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Giulia in ottobre
Title: Giulia in ottobre
Released: January 31, 1985
Type: Movie
Giulia has a one-night stand with a stranger to forget a heartbreak. Aimlessly walking through October city streets to let off steam, she meets a woman who came from Turin seeking an explanation from her partner, who doesn't even want to see her. The two join forces and settle accounts with him. Neither of them feels like going home and being alone, so they spend the whole night wandering around Milan.