Renato Carpentieri
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Savignano Irpino, Avellino, Italy
Birthday: April 02, 1943
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Sweet and the Bitter
Overview: Saro, a young Sicilian thug, that from jobs assigned by his godfather, won the favor of leaders of Cosa Nostra, becoming a "man of honor".
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-09-04
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Un mondo in più
Overview: Spring 2020. In the midst of the pandemic, Diego has just turned 18. Although he's named after his father's idol, Maradona, he doesn't really like football, nor lives in Naples anymore. After his mother's death, he moved with his father Franco in a Roman suburb, but he's having an hard time integrating and seems to get better along with the African immigrants living next door than with his new classmates. Things change after Tea, a unconventional young woman who's guarding an important secret, bursts into his and Franco's lives. Their forced coexistence will fuel Diego's coming-of-age journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-03-03
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La giunta
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-02-09
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Dear Diary
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-10-12
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Sud
Overview: During a hot Sunday afternoon in a small Southern Italian town, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Eritrean immigrant, all unemployed, desperate and armed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-10-17
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Puerto Escondido
Overview: Targeted by a dirty cop after witnessing a murder, bank clerk Mario flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, where a couple of oddball Italian expats drags him into a journey of self-discovery and bad decisions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-12-17
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Artemisia
Overview: The story of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), one of the first well-known female painters, including her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-09-10
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I peggiori giorni
Overview: Four episodes – Christmas, May 1st (Labour Day), August 15th (Ferragosto), Halloween – to tell four stories that delve into the human soul.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-08-14
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La casa bruciata
Overview: 1998 Made-for-TV Italian film.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-27
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Fort Apache Napoli
Overview: The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-03-27
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Strangeness
Overview: During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello takes an interest in the odd couple, having been suffering from writer's block while working on his eventual masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author.
Genres: Comedy History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-10-27
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A Brighter Tomorrow
Overview: An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-04-20
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Discovery at Dawn
Overview: Thirty years after the disappearance of her father, a university professor who was targeted by radicals in the '70s, a woman discovers a way to communicate with her past self and tries to prevent the tragedy that marred the life of her family, but she learns that not everything was as she thought.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-01-09
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Il consiglio d'Egitto
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Invisibili
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-04-21
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Tre giorni di anarchia
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-05-12
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Quasi fratelli
Overview: A Donatello award winning short drama about the young Carlotta who stops off on her way to be married to see her ageing grandfather whom she hasn't seen for many years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-11-20
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Fiorile
Overview: The Benedetti family's wealth comes from gold stolen from the French army during the 18th century. When Jean (Michael Vartan), the lieutenant guarding the coins -- and lover of Elisabette Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) -- is executed for a crime he did not commit, Elisabette curses the family. Bad luck travels from generation to generation. As the latest Benedettis tell their children about their eccentric grandfather, the children worry that the family curse will be passed on.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-06
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Asini
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-11-11
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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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Pastime
Overview: A retired teacher is sitting at a table outside a bar; it’s a beautiful sunny day. The waiter brings him breakfast. Soon after a young man arrives and the teacher invites him to sit, he was waiting for him. He is dark skinned. He comes from Mali. Well dressed, serene, ready for the “game” that the teacher is playing. It’s a puzzle game where one wins when completing a crossword. But there is a variable that makes this game impossible: guessing the solutions before the question is made. Nevertheless, the young man finishes the game. Or almost…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-08-28
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Victoria's Tales
Overview: Vittoria Belcastro, a Calabrian oncologist, telis of her long battle against cancer, which she won. Her therapy is based on respect for life, but also for the disease. Two literary testimonies serve to counterpoint her touching words: "Pozzi d'amore (Wells of Love)", a theatrical monologue by Enzo Moscato, the portrait in which fragments the rhythm of the film, and "In alto a sinistra (Top left)", the transposition of a tale by Erri De Luca, in which the themes of pain, memory and absence emerge from the story of a father-son relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-10
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Ossidiana
Overview: Maria, a young Neapolitan painter, lives the artistic experimentation of the 1960s. She is a woman who does not hesitate to live her life adhering to the ideals of research and love, which are for her the very content of art.
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Original Language: en
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Padre Pio de Pietrelcina
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-03-09
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La vita degli altri
Overview: Luisa, a young volcanologist, is sent to a villa to install the technical instruments to survey Mount Vesuvius. Here she meets Mariano, a member of the camorra, that has just discovered that he has been betrayed he decided to break off completely from those he considered his friends. Luisa and Mariano have nothing in common except for a deep sense of the failure they are experiencing and which attracts them to each other. Between the young woman, exploited and disillusioned by an ambitious colleague, and the mature ex-criminal, the spark of friendship is kindled.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-04-23
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Santa Lucia
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-11-28
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Nemici d'infanzia
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-11-04
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La luce nella masseria
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-01-07
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Corpo Celeste
Overview: After growing up in Switzerland, 13-year-old Marta returns to a city in southern Italy with her mother and older sister. Independent and inquisitive, she joins a catechism class at a local church. However, the games and religious pop songs she encounters there do not nearly satisfy her interest in faith. Struggling to find her place, Marta pushes the boundaries of the class, the priest, and the church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-05-20
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Bakunin's Son
Overview: Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, singer, union organizer, rebel...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-10-03
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The Stolen Children
Overview: Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-04-10
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I fetentoni
Overview: The film is set in Reggio Calabria in the late eighties, when bribes are everywhere and the power of the city is in the hands of two bosses: Saro Lodato and Cocò Raffati.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-12-10
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Daydreams
Overview: Axèle is a photographer, Camille is a writer. They have been awarded an arts residency at the Villa Medicis in Rome. Camille is accompanied by her husband, the famous writer Marc Landré. When a strange rivalry takes shape between them, Camille bonds with Axèle. But who is Axèle really ? A total artist, who never compromises and confuses herself with her oeuvre ? Or a ghost ? This year at the Villa Medici, where bodies and souls free themselves, no one will come out unscathed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-02-15
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The Stuff of Dreams
Overview: Members of the Camorra on the run and actors seeking for authority meet after a shipwreck on an island-prison. The theatre turns into a free zone where everyone may not be able to recover their social role but for sure their humanity. Somebody can even get love back. Shakespeare and Eduardo De Filippo blend together in a picaresque comedy full of coup de théâtre.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-12-01
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Os Jogadores
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-02-05
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Tenderness
Overview: Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstairs to his top-floor apartment in Naples when he meets Michela. The charming young woman, who has just moved to the facing apartment, has forgotten her keys and finds herself locked out. Cynical and grumpy, the retired lawyer who has been living estranged from the rest of the world, should normally leave her to her fate but he mellows under her spontaneous charm. He helps her, becomes friends not only with her but with her husband Fabio and their two children. For once, the self-declared misanthropist seems to be experiencing the long forgotten feeling of empathy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-04-24
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Babylon Sisters
Overview: A migrant tale of sisterhood and music celebrating unconventional friendships and the power of diversity.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-01-21
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The Major Fisherman
Overview: In this fact-based drama, an ecology-minded fisherman is elected mayor of his corrupt seaside town and begins crusading against drugs and crime.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-02-08
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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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La vita altrui
Overview: The apparently quiet lives of four milanese bourgeois couples become intertwined
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-25
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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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The Vesuvians
Overview: Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-06-27
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Open Doors
Overview: Tommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he kills his superior who sacked him, the man who replaced him and his wife. He wants a quick trial and an early execution, but an earnest, principled assistant judge looks for a way to save the murderer from being shot, because he does not belive in capital punishment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-03-29
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Law of Courage
Overview: The true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the Republic. He's strictly incorruptible, working hard and refusing even to shake hands with suspects. He then starts a number of investigations that lead him to touch the mafia power in the area, and then to personal war with the hidden organization.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-11-17
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The Art of Happiness
Overview: Sergio driving a taxi in a white Naples overflowing sadness and garbage. Pouring rain leads her clients through the city trying to process the death of his brother, who started ten years earlier for Tibet and never returned. A pop singer, a recycler of fragments of life, a radio announcer, an old uncle, alternate seats on its bearing, each in its own way, a trace of his brother loved. Stubborn not to go over and get lost in an endless race, Sergio is overwhelmed by memories and the music produced in pairs with Alfredo, which in Buddhism and in its foundations had found the strength to cope with the disease. Those notes that he believed buried and laid to always return overbearing and demanding a soundboard that resonate and express his being sound. Putting his hand on the piano, Sergio Alfredo feel again, giving the past with the present and realizing itself in the feeling.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-11-21
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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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The Stolen Caravaggio
Overview: Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happened theft of a famous Caravaggio’s painting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-09-20
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Cinderella the Cat
Overview: Cenerentola struggles to escape the shadow and evil schemes of her stepmother and six stepsisters who all live aboard the Megaride, a ship stuck in the port of a decaying future Naples.
Genres: Animation Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-09-14
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The Jewel
Overview: Amanzio Rastelli appointed several of his relations to managerial positions in his firm. They decided to think internationally and now business is heavily in debt. Luckily for the Rastellis, Bolta the accountant uses all the tricks of his art to cook the books, but catastrophe awaits.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-03-04
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Leopardi
Overview: In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-10-16
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Ride
Overview: A woman and her 10-year-old son face, in their own way, the mourning for the death of the husband and father, which took place in a factory, while the waiting and the recollection for the day of the funeral grow all around.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-11-29
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Ordinary Happiness
Overview: Died in a car crash, Paolo is allowed to come back to life for 92 minutes more, thanks to a miscalculation made by Heavenly accountants. He decides to use this newfound time on Earth to fix his mistakes as a father and husband.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-03-14
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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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The Life Ahead
Overview: In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-11-03
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Io sto bene
Overview: Antonio has spent his whole life away from Italy, his home country. He crosses paths with Leo, a young Italian artist who is trying to make it abroad. The old man and the young woman's destinies mirror each other. Memories from the past are awoken and end up offering a more peaceful future to the both of them.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-10-16
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A che punto è la notte
Overview: In Turin, a fanatic priest dies falling from the pulpit, killed by the explosion of a candle. A second assassination, that of a Carabinieri Marshal, complicates the investigation - but before he died, the Marshal managed to wrote down the word "Topos". Commissioner Santamaria now has to unravel the problem.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-04-07
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The Hand of God
Overview: In 1980s Naples, Italy, an awkward Italian teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-11-24
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Piranhas
Overview: A gang of teenage boys stalk the streets of Naples armed with hand guns and AK-47s to do their mob bosses' bidding – until they decide to be the bosses themselves.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-02-14
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L'isola degli idealisti
Overview: The new feature film by Elisabetta Sgarbi, based on the book by Giorgio Scerbanenco.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-10-23
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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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Mani nude
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Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-10-23
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Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert
Overview: When Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch meet for the first time in Paris in the summer of 1958, they are already international celebrities of the literary world. In the four years that follow, they dabble in great love and an open relationship between his hometown of Zurich and her adopted Rome.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-06-09
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