Roberto De Francesco
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Caserta, Italy
Birthday: March 02, 1964
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Capri-Revolution
Overview: In 1914, with Italy on the cusp of joining World War I, a group of foreign artists establishes a commune on the rural island of Capri, catching the attention of young Lucia, a local illiterate shepherdess who soon falls under their spell.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-12-13
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Appassionate
Overview: Pina was born in Portugal but now lives in poor circumstances in Naples. Pina has two daughters, Rosa, who has been wearing a wedding dress since she was left stranded at the altar several years ago, and Caterina, who murdered a man who wronged her as he left the church following his wedding. Caterina winds up in prison alongside Maddalena, a prostitute who witnessed the murder and was inspired to kill a man in her own life who had hurt her. The incidents from these women's lives are interspersed with another story, set in 1929 and filmed in black-and-white, about a man who shoots his wife in a movie theater and must run to avoid the police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-09-03
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The Son's Room
Overview: A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-03-09
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Pugni nell'aria
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Il peso esatto del vuoto
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Original Language: it
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Piano, Solo
Overview: A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-09-21
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One Man Up
Overview: Naples, 1980. Two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, see their lives going downhill. One is a crooner embroiled in a sex scandal; the other is a football player whose career is cut short by an injury.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-08-31
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The Long Night
Overview: The long night of Manolo, hairdresser to the stars, on the Champs Élysées during his first experience with cocaine. He goes to discos and seances, sees widowed baronesses and pushers, and finally manages to set up his moment of intimacy with Ariel Bachini, famous film star, but…
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-10-08
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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno
Overview: A movie about Domenico Modugno, famous singer.
Genres: Drama Music History TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-02-18
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Sicilian Letters
Overview: Loosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the run. A disgraced politician is gifted a second chance when secret services involve him in an operation to root out an elusive Mafia boss. Using his personal connection as the Boss' godfather, his task is to get him to reveal his hiding place in their secret letters.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-10-10
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Volare
Overview: One day, Annabì decides it’s enough. Her whole life has been affected by her fear of flying and so has her career. She is a successful actress but has turned down many roles abroad because flying is an insurmountable obstacle for her. Now, her daughter Serena has decided to study in California. Obsessed with the idea of not being a good mother, Annabì forces herself to cross the dreaded threshold of Fiumicino airport and to head to a secluded area where a course will take place. Other mysterious travelers are heading to the same place, all of them with their own baggage of fears and willing to overcome their aerophobia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-02-22
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The Second Time
Overview: A convicted terrorist out on parole meets the man she nearly killed 15 years before without recognizing him. He does so but decides to keep quiet and starts to spend time with her — desperate to know the motivation behind her violent acts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-10-26
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Rehearsals for War
Overview: A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast members come and go and another kind of war goes on every day in nearby streets of old Naples.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-04-29
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Traces of an Amorous Life
Overview: What is love? In how many forms can it manifest itself? 14 short episodes about love, spanning generations of lovers...to answer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-13
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Un'altra Italia era possibile - Il cinema di Giuseppe De Santis
Overview: The documentary aims to tell the story of a director who managed to capture the attention of the whole world and, due to his political and aesthetic coherence, was able to work much less than he deserved. It's the story of a film professor who earned the gratitude and affection of all his students. The tale of a cinephile who successfully combined social and civic commitment with a spectacular talent worthy of Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-09-07
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Cinque giorni di tempesta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-09-02
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Nulla ci può fermare
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Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-10-01
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Evelina e i suoi figli
Overview: Stefania Sandrelli is Evelina, a separated woman who lives with possessive teenage children. When you fall in love, problems arise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-03-24
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Neve
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-12-11
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Prologo a Ritorno ad Alphaville
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Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-09-10
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Tutto per mio figlio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-11-07
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Una fredda mattina di maggio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-11-29
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Ladri di futuro
Overview: Everyday people, everyday stories. Normal, therefore special. They crave for a tomorrow what they haven't got today: the man or the woman of their dreams, a child all of their own, the hope of making it... The only thing they all have in common is the place where they live.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-04-17
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Nessuno
Overview: A young man gradually retreats from reality after his mother falls into a coma.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-10-29
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Se sei così, ti dico sì
Overview: Piero Cicala is an adult singer who leads a modest life in the shadow of the only moment of glory lived in the eighties, thanks to a song that earned him a million records sold. Just when it seems that fame is definitively confined to the past, Piero receives the proposal to conduct a broadcast in Rome. Accepted the offer, he goes to the capital, where he will meet the famous Tatia Cortès, an irrepressible showgirl...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-04-15
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Saturday, Sunday & Monday
Overview: Although this sounds like a weekend like many others, in the Prior house the atmosphere is rather tense because of some nervousness on the part of individual members of the family, especially the father, Peppino, who gets angry with anyone who happens to shoot: with their children, Juliana and Roberto, and his sister, aunt Meme. Meanwhile, his wife Rosa is dedicated to the preparation of the sauce, which she will serve for Sunday's lunch, to which she invited the neighbors, the accountant Ianniello and his wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-12-25
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Holy Shoes
Overview: The film tells, through the stories of four characters whose lives, in different forms and manners, are either changed or endangered by shoes, an object symbolizing desire par excellence, what we are willing to do to find our identity in the world, how far we go to be loved and accepted. It narrates a world where everyone desires what they don't have, where everyone wants to be what they are not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-07-04
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The Medicine Seller
Overview: A farmaceutical salesman is involved in the spiral of corruption in the medical assistance of the welfare state system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-11-15
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Glory Hole
Overview: An entrepreneur from Caserta becomes entangled with the underworld and ends up exposing himself because of his relationship with Alba, the youngest daughter of a gangster. The subsequent situation gets worse and worse, and he is forced to hide in a bunker built especially for him, where he survives for a long time alone, in the company of hallucinations and ghosts.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-06-14
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Pawn Street
Overview: In Torino, a bittersweet crowd is bringing its own belongings to a pawn shop, waiting for a ransom or the final auction. Between the thousands of faces that tell the human inventory of the crisis, three stories intertwine unconsciously in the thin line of moral debt. Sandra, a young trans, in order to escape her past sells her fur coat. Her gaze will cross Stefano’s, a novice who just started working at the bank, and who drags her towards a tender obsession. Michele, a retired porter, asks for a loan to a family member, who will turn out to be fatally the wrong person to ask a favour from.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-12-31
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Mom or Dad?
Overview: A divorced couple fights for the custody of their three children: neither of them wants it. Mom wants to leave them to dad, and vice versa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-02-14
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Honey
Overview: Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-05-01
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Il colore nascosto delle cose
Overview: Teo has a good job, a fiancee, a lover, no intention to assume any responsibility in his life. Meeting Emma, a blind woman, will upset his convictions.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-09-08
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We Believed
Overview: 1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following fifty years.
Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-11-12
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Notes of Love
Overview: A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confusion and loneliness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-04-17
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Loro 1
Overview: "Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-04-24
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Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician
Overview: Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-09-08
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We Have a Pope
Overview: The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope's fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-04-15
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La vita oscena
Overview: The tragic coming-of-age story of a boy who takes his experiences to the point of seeking death, only to be reborn. His favourite poet chose death, but he finds the strength to survive and tell about his “obscene life”.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-04-28
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Loro 2
Overview: "Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-05-10
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Il grande Blek
Overview: Waiting for the train that will take him away, a man goes back over moments of his small-town upbringing: the relationship with his family, his involvement in the protests of 1968 and a childhood friend died too soon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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The Yes Man
Overview: Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-04-05
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Sweet Dreams
Overview: Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal loss, even if the priest says she is now in Heaven. Years later in the 90s, adult Massimo has become an accomplished journalist. After reporting on the war in Sarajevo, he begins to suffer from panic attacks. As he prepares to sell his parents’ apartment, Massimo is forced to relive his traumatic past. Compassionate doctor Elisa could help tormented Massimo open up and confront his childhood wounds…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-11-10
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Bits & Pieces
Overview: Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy's foremost directors and actors feature in this star-studded omnibus tale about life and love.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-02-02
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The Mayor of Rione Sanità
Overview: Antonio Barracano is a respected man among the Neapolitan underworld, keeping order and administering justice according to his own criteria, beyond the law. One day he's faced with a dilemma after a young man asks him permission to kill his father.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-09-30
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Hammamet
Overview: The last years of Bettino Craxi, one of the most important and controversial italian leader of the 1980's.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-01-09
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Basta un niente
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-03-31
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Loro
Overview: Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the group of businessmen and politicians – the Loro (Them) from the title – who live and act near to media tycoon and politician Silvio Berlusconi in the years between 2006 and 2009.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-09-13
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Il mistero di Rosa
Overview: Viterbo, 1250. Rosa is a young girl who, after a night vision, begins to preach the words of St. Francis in the streets. One day she is sent into exile. Short in a medieval setting, between ancient villages and naturalistic locations, focused on power conflicts: political, religious and gender.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-01-07
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Little Horrors
Overview: A woman in her flooded kitchen thinks of Ophelia and death by drowning. A nun wonders about her vocation. A girl, dumb by choice, walks around in Naples. A ballerina in a wheelchair. Three youths around a bonfire in a little island. A man secluded in a tower waiting for the end of the world. And many other stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-05-13
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L'estate di Bobby Charlton
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-03-09
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Hotel Paura
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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Nemmeno in un sogno
Overview: A shepherd from the mountains of a remote Asian region travels to Southern Italy, in love with what he saw on Italian television. There, he accidentally ends up in a holiday resort, where he's treated like a guest for a whole day, thus cementing his assumption that all the opulence and kindness he saw on TV were true.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-09-20
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The King of Laughter
Overview: In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that could compromise his freedom of expression and the economic security of his extended family—including his son's, young Eduardo De Filippo.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-09-09
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The Inner Cage
Overview: A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-10-14
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The American Backyard
Overview: A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary after a single glance. A year later, he moves to the American Midwest to write his novel, next to the auxiliary's elderly mother's house, separated by a grim garden.
Genres: Horror Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2025-03-06
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Man Who Check the Meter
Overview: The portly meter reader Crecenzio is first seen blowing up a building. The reasons for this drastic, desperate act provide the basis for the story, which is told in flashback.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Il Complottista
Overview: In a working-class neighborhood in Rome, a barber bothers his customers and neighbors with conspiracy theories he reads online. At home and in his small community nobody takes him seriously, especially when he convinces himself that streetlights send secret signals via Morse code. Yet, when the police arrive at his door and arrest him in front of his family, his credibility takes an unexpected twist.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-10-20
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Nero
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Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-11-28
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E Io ti seguo
Overview: Giancarlo, a young Neapolitan animated by a great passion for journalism, is called as a correspondent in Torre Annunziata for the newspaper IL MATTINO. He begins to investigate the underworld and despite the difficulties he doesn't give up. His intuitions take him so far that the clan leader Gionta considers him too uncomfortable a character. The film reconstructs the last days of the life of the Neapolitan journalist Giancarlo Siani, killed by the Camorra in September 1985. It does so with the participation that a friend like Fiume had of Siani and with the courage to face a narrative that is absolutely different from the one of the debut film "Isolde".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-09-03
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Lettera da Parigi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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