Carlo Cecchi
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Biography: Carlo Cecchi (born January 25, 1939) is an Italian actor. Born in Florence, Cecchi studied under the Living Theatre and with the Workshop of Eduardo De Filippo. In 1968 he made his debut for cinema in La sua giornata di gloria. In 1971 he directed in Florence a theatre cooperative playing works by Shakespeare, Mayakovsky, Brecht, Chekhov and Molière. In 1992 he returned to cinema in The Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician by Mario Martone, and later worked for directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Pupi Avati, Ferzan Ozpetek. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carlo Cecchi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Birthday: January 25, 1939
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Gender: Male
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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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Steam: The Turkish Bath
Overview: Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Instanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam turkish steam bath that she left him. He finds a love and warmth in his relatives' Instanbul home that is missing from his life in Italy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1997-05-09
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The Red Violin
Overview: 300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-11-13
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Stealing Beauty
Overview: Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-29
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The Escort
Overview: The film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying to clean up a Sicilian town. Corrupt local politicians, working hand-in-hand with the Mafia, will stop at nothing to prevent exposure of their rackets.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-04-15
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An Impossible Crime
Overview: Thriller about the murder by poisoning of a famous lawyer.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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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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Arcane Sorcerer
Overview: Shunned by his church, a seminary student takes refuge with an excommunicated priest who teaches him wizardry and black magic.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-04-19
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Let It Be
Overview: Mary is a young girl, daughter of shepherds, promised in marriage to Joseph, a widower with two children, living in the nearby village of Nazareth, in the Galilee of two thousand years ago. Grown up in love and respect for the little ones, Mary, after leaving her home, soon sees the distortions of the patriarchal world surrounding her, starting with her husband's family. Here he reads the oldest brother of Joseph, Mordecai. The sunny and determined attitude of the girl, protective of children, arouses the indignation of the head of the family and those who are convinced of the need to give them punishment, discipline and submission.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-11-19
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Gold
Overview: When gold is discovered in a remote location, a variety of different groups descend on the spot to stake their claims, resulting in a spate of brutal violence.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-06-06
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The Good Pope
Overview: Angelo Roncalli, born in Sotto Il Monte in 1881, is known for his profound spirituality as well as his extraordinary goodness from the young years of his life. When he feels a need to serve God, Angelo goes to study theology in Bergamo, and in Apollinare School (Rome) and becomes a priest. During his studies, he gets to know his two dearest friends, Mattia and Nicola. Very soon, most people see marvelous talents in him, including his wide knowledge and a constant readiness for sacrifice. The Holy See makes him go further to bishop and cardinal, and the Holy Father sends him to various places as a representative of the Church. When Pius XII dies on October, the 9th, 1958, 77 year-old Angelo goes to Rome, to conclave to choose a new pope. However, this time, it is him who hears gentle words of Jesus "Tu es Petrus!" ("You are Peter!") and from October, the 28th leads the church as pope John XXIII
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-28
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Milonga
Overview: A celebrity is murdered in broad daylight in the streets of Rome. Behind the murder lies a much more complex truth. The tracks, surrounded by a sultry milonga, leading to a gay commissioner.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-04-09
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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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The Horseman on the Roof
Overview: In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
Genres: Adventure Romance History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-09-20
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La fine è nota
Overview: A young lawyer returns home and discovers that a man has committed suicide jumping through a window of his house. His wife, Maria, says that she let the unknown man enter because he said the lawyer was the only one who could help him. Bernardo start to investigate about the man and about the reasons of his suicide.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-02-10
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Red Moon
Overview: The downfall of a powerful Mafia family by the hands of its young scion. Based on Aeschylus' tragedy, the Oresteia.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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Il gatto selvaggio
Overview: A typical 1968 film, it is directed in an elliptical style by the author, who builds a political theorem on the link between violence and revolution.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-02
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If the Unconscious Revolts
Overview: In this film, as in all my previous ones, there is a direct connection between inner urges and cinematic rendering. I tried to visualize my present aspiration to recover, through the various ways taught by one’s experience, the easiness, directness and ripeness proper to children’s relationships and affective life. This film is maybe a track of this path backwards. – A. L.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-11-15
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Silk
Overview: French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages European silkworms, Hervé must travel to Japan to retrieve healthy eggs. After a long journey, Hervé finally arrives at a village where he can buy them. He becomes infatuated with a young concubine and goes to great lengths to see her again. But, when war breaks out in Japan, the concubine flees, forcing Hervé to return home to his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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His Day of Glory
Overview: A Brechtian thriller about an intellectual's transformation into a street-fighting man. Features a prologue featuring unused footage from Bertolucci's Partner, contributed by Pierre Clementi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Goodbye Kiss
Overview: Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—who fled to Latin America in the '70s to escape justice—decides to surrender after hearing about the fall of the Berlin Wall. Determined to lead a comfortable, bourgeois life in his native Italy, he cuts a deal with a shady police chief, getting his sentence reduced in exchange for ratting out former comrades. Once released, Giorgio obsessively pursues his dream of becoming a "respectable" citizen, even if the way is paved with larceny, pimping, drug-dealing, rape, heist, and murder...
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-02-24
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The Blind Fly
Overview: This almost silent film has been censored and rejected for his violent scenes, even if it was well received at the Pesaro New Cinema in 1966. It contains a quotation from Beckett off-screen at the critical moment. The story sometimes seems like a puzzle where a simple man who is sick from his environment, suddenly starts killing several people near a stadium. There are also moments from his life, discussing with a friend about fear of death and various meetings his beloved girlfriend. - my-tv-is-dead
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Ultima Pallottola
Overview: Based on the case of the serial killer Donato Bilancia, who murdered 17 people between 1998 and 2000 in Genova.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-24
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Martin Eden
Overview: The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-09-04
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Renzo e Lucia
Overview: Loose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's “The Betrothed”. In war-torn 17th century Italy, shady feudal lord Don Rodrigo eyes young and beautiful Lucia, who loves—and is reciprocated by—commoner Renzo. The two lovers plan to marry in secret, but Rodrigo discovers it and they are forced to flee their village, becoming separated and each facing many dangers, including the Plague.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-01-13
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Le Mans
Overview: Filmed during the annual 24-hour endurance race at Le Mans, Michael Delaney is a Porsche driver haunted by the memory of an accident at the previous year's race in which a competing driver was killed. Delaney also finds himself increasingly infatuated with the man's widow.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-23
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The Damned Of The Earth
Overview: Upon his death, a young African director, Abramo Malonga, bequeathed his first and last unfinished film to his former teacher, the Italian director Fausto Morelli. Morelli, who after seeing the work, is confronted with a confusing, complex and, in part, incomprehensible work. Helped by the young widow of Abramo Malonga and by the notes left by his deceased friend, and again by his personal memories, the Italian director attempts to reconstruct and complete the film. Fausto's work progresses with difficulty, not only because of the problems the film poses for him, but because of the problems that arise in his daily life. After a long crisis, after which he returns to Pisa with his former party companions and abandons himself to love and his own solitude, Fausto takes up the work of his African friend, closing it with a final invention, in which , with a bold metaphor, has refigured the human condition of our time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-19
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RARA
Overview: In all of his work, Bussotti makes frequent reference to the body, to sexuality. This to remind musicians — especially classically trained ones — that they are not body-less angels, that they are not just their musical thoughts, that they are still, in the last analysis, flesh and bones. Thus the erotic is not for shocking, but to stress that making music involves the body in a very direct way.
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1969-05-30
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Tosca e altre due
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-05-15
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Il feroce saladino
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-09-23
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