
Lando Buzzanca
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Gerlando Buzzanca (born August 24, 1935 in Palermo) is an Italian comedy actor.
He left high school in Palermo when he was 16 years old, and moved to Rome to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. In order to survive, he took many jobs: waiter, furniture mover, and a brief appearance as a slave in the film Ben-Hur.
In his long career he often interpreted the role of the average Italian immigrant from southern Italy, who slowly began to enjoy moderate success during the years of the Italian economic miracle. His films showcased all the freshness of the 1960s, the 1970s and the heavier transition to the 1980s, focusing on the common life in several Italian cities such as Rome, Verona or Milan, balanced between personal happiness and professional achievement.
Buzzanca often interpreted roles of a subordinate white collar worker, with a heavy vein of machismo, as a frustrated employee who tries to redeem his dull existence with his virility. He became famous for his role in the film Il merlo maschio, (The Male Blackbird), where in a provincial environment of cultural importance, the philharmonic orchestra of the Arena di Verona, he vents out his own frustrations, indulging into candaulism when he induces his bride to expose her naked body in the middle of a bridge in Verona.
Some critics, in a lighter vein, have defined Buzzanca as a "Homo eroticus": a human being halfway between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens, who risked extinction in the 1970s because of the harsh struggle with feminism activists. Today, even though much less so, this male type is still found among Italian males.
Buzzanca's fame is greater in foreign countries than in his native land, and in countries as France, Japan, Greece, Israel, Spain and Switzerland he is a renowned international stereotype of the Italian provincialotto, elegant, naif, always causing mischief, and not obtaining anything from it.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.741 |
Birthday | 1935-08-24 |
Place of Birth | Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
Also Known As | Gerlando Buzzanca, |

1972

The Eroticist
5.6/21
Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in quest...
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1994

Once a Year, Every Year
0/0
A man enters a restaurant in Trastevere, in the suburbs of Rome, and asks the owner to cook him the superb bass he has just been given. He wants it se...
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Once a Year, Every Year

1981

Los crápulas
0/0
Two ex-convicts are hired by the Devil to manage a small town cemetery.
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Los crápulas

1972

When Women Lost Their Tails
3.2/6
Filli and the cavemen from "When Women Had Tails" are living a carefree life inside a dinosaur skeleton. But when conman Ham introduces them to the co...
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When Women Lost Their Tails

1965

The Sucker
7.371/656
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only comp...
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The Sucker

1970

The Beast
5.5/6
Foul, twitchy, and deranged sex maniac Johnny Laster comes up with a plan to abduct a lovely young heiress in order to obtain her considerable inherit...
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The Beast

2004

How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
6.7/13
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1964

Seduced and Abandoned
7.639/151
The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is sed...
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Seduced and Abandoned

1970

The Conjugal Debt
5.6/4
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The Conjugal Debt

1962

His Days Are Numbered
7.2/43
A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work.
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His Days Are Numbered

1963

The Monsters
7.4/182
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
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The Monsters

2007

I Vicerè
6/33
In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands—fights to preserve its wan...
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1969

Monte Carlo or Bust!
5.847/53
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Monte Carlo or Bust!

1970

When Women Had Tails
4.5/21
Seven orphan cavemen grow up on a little island all by themselves. After a fire burns all vegetation they set out to find a new place to live.
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When Women Had Tails

1965

Made in Italy
6/10
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
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Made in Italy

1970

The Lovemakers
4.9/5
Carlo Danieli, an industrialist of Sicilian origins, manages a French fries company. The man marries Elena, his girlfriend for years, who has decided...
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The Lovemakers

1971

Secret Fantasy
6.4/27
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Secret Fantasy

1969

The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
3.8/4
The Italian Vittorio Coppa works as a sleeper car commuter and commutes regularly between Munich and Rome. Because he believes that true love exists o...
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The Viking Who Became a Bigamist

1973

My Darling Slave
4.8/8
Demetrio Cultrera, is a young rich car dealership Sicilian bachelor who becomes engaged to the beautiful and rich Rosalba Giordano.
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My Darling Slave

1967

Operation San Pietro
5.9/14
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Operation San Pietro

1964

Senza sole nè luna
0/0
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Senza sole nè luna

1966

For a Few Dollars Less
4/6
A bank clerk and his cousin, a "general", join forces to track down a Mexican outlaw.
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For a Few Dollars Less

1966

Our Husbands
5.8/16
Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.
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Our Husbands

1975

Il gatto mammone
4.5/10
Lando Buzzanca plays a man desperate to father a male heir. However, his wife (Roseanne Podesta) is apparently barren. They decide to use a surrogate...
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Il gatto mammone

1966

Ringo and Gringo Against All
3.5/2
Two bumbling southern soldiers are still trying to fight the Civil War unaware of its conclusion and encouraged by two southern belles who are trying...
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Ringo and Gringo Against All

1964

Love in Four Dimensions
5/1
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Love in Four Dimensions

1987

Secondo Ponzio Pilato
7/8
The story of salvation is told from the perspective of the Roman governor in Judea, Pontius Pilate.
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Secondo Ponzio Pilato

1967

Anyone Can Play
3.9/5
In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.
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Anyone Can Play

1971

No One Will Notice You're Naked
5.3/9
Rosario Trapanese is determined to show he is not the typical old-fashion Sicilian. When his firm sends him to Denmark, a more sexual liberated nation...
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No One Will Notice You're Naked

1974

The Handsome Devil
4/2
Deep South Italian seventies. The performing and penniless sales representative "Tano" Avallone, fell in love with the beautiful Mariangela, sixteen-y...
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The Handsome Devil

1974

The Household
6.3/6
A butler for wealthy clients has a problem--he can't seem to stop getting sexually involved with the wives and daughters of his bosses.
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The Household

1963

The Girl from Parma
7.5/15
Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love wi...
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1963

The Eye of the Needle
7.2/2
Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who i...
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The Eye of the Needle

1969

Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
8.5/2
A noble family assigns their younger son to the convent. The youngster has an affair with a novice, who becomes pregnant. The brothers, exasperated by...
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Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza

1977

Una noche embarazosa
4.9/6
An Italian taxicab driver is used as a "breeding man" to save the inheritance of a wealthy family in Mexico.
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Una noche embarazosa

1971

Homo Eroticus
4.8/5
Michele is a three-testicle, sexually insatiable man who goes around bedding all women in town (regardless of age), until one day things goes terribly...
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Homo Eroticus

2000

Il segreto del giaguaro
4.2/4
‘Romano de Roma’, incurable ‘70s maniac and born optimist, er Piotta alias “the Jaguar” has his headquarters in a bar near Piazza Vittorio, a meeting...
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Il segreto del giaguaro

1972

La calandria
3.5/3
The luxurious Livio bets with the lord of the city to seduce a young bride in a month, at the cost of his genitals.
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La calandria

1973

Wife for Sale
6.5/1
The engineer Furio Cicerone came up from nothing and entered the circle of the great industrialists; he is married to Clara, but has a series of adven...
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Wife for Sale

1976

San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
5.3/7
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1974

Playing the Field
5.423/13
A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity and suddenly finds himse...
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1980

Lend Me Your Wife
3.1/5
Alex Fortini, a transplant to Milan, lives behind his lover who owns an advertising agency. When his wife, who had left five years ago, reappears, fea...
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Lend Me Your Wife

1967

Don Juan in Sicily
5.1/11
Giovanni Percolla lives in Catania surrounded by the attentive cares of his three sisters. He permanently acts like a Don Giovanni to hide his real po...
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Don Juan in Sicily

1970

On the Day of the Lord
4.3/3
Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the w...
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On the Day of the Lord

2000

Cornetti al miele
5/1
A stressed-out husband views his life as a series of endless complications.
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Cornetti al miele

2005

Incidenti
0/0
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1999

The Bird People
0/0
Antonio Lombardi, a seventy-year-old pensioner and former seafarer, lives with his son, Luca, and his family, sharing a room with his nephew. After a...
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The Bird People

1972

The Union
4.1/6
A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained impor...
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The Union

1972

The Migratory Bird
6/3
Andrea Pomeraro, a history teacher, has an affair with a student who then blackmails him. Attempting to retrieve the incriminating photos, he accident...
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The Migratory Bird

1968

Sunstroke
0/0
One Sunday in summer a mixed crowd pours on to a beach near Rome. A few tourists who had hoped to spend a relaxing day, find themselves involved in a...
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Sunstroke

1967

Spia spione
5/2
Carlo Barlozzetti, a silly waiter, lives alone in an apartment located across a bank which a Professor and his followers try to robe. While The Profes...
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Spia spione

1982

I'm Going to Live by Myself
5.8/43
Giacomino, tired of living at home with his parents, goes to his own place, but his neighbour, mr. Giuseppe, convinces himself to teach Giacomino abou...
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I'm Going to Live by Myself

1971

The Beasts
3.5/2
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The Beasts

1975

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
6.05/10
A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his head...
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Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza

1969

House of Pleasure
3.5/4
Susanna travels to Paris with her small group of actors. There she saves Emperor Napoleon from rather painful predicaments, uncovers a number of nasty...
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House of Pleasure

1959

Ben-Hur
7.872/2810
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of t...
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Ben-Hur

1968

Better a Widow
0/0
Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to bui...
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Better a Widow

1967

A Rose for Everyone
4.5/2
A vivacious woman tries to please all of her lovers but finds she can't handle the jealousy that erupts among them.
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A Rose for Everyone

1970

Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
5.5/1
Young protesters live together in a commune in Milano. One has a ventriloquist ability and is signed by national TV becoming a superstar in commercial...
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Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!

1989

Cinema
5/1
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Cinema

2003

Quattro passi nel Cinema
0/0
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Quattro passi nel Cinema

1964

Love and Marriage
5.5/2
An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.
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Love and Marriage

1970

Un caso di coscienza
5.7/3
Discovering that a woman from their small town in Sicily cheated on her husband, a group of upper class men investigate and try to identify her.
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Un caso di coscienza

1978

Swept Away by Family Affection
1/1
This is an Italian sex comedy that, like the earlier sex comedy "Il Gatto Mammone", combines the comic stylings of Lando Buzzanca ("The Eroticist", "I...
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Swept Away by Family Affection

2011

Case Chiuse
2.5/2
February 20, 1958: the Italian Parliament approved Law No. 75, the "Merlin Law": the end of an institution of Italian society for ages: the brothel. T...
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Case Chiuse

1975

Il fidanzamento
3.5/2
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Il fidanzamento

2017

Who Will Save The Roses?
6.6/5
The melting love story between two old men, one of them is sick and stays in bed all day, the other is a gambler who takes care of him, visit him ever...
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Who Will Save The Roses?

1966

After the Fox
6/74
A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.
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After the Fox

1961

Divorce Italian Style
7.905/472
Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tr...
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Divorce Italian Style

1970

The Married Priest
3/2
A young Sicilian priest who moved to Rome comes into contact with the high bourgeoisie and receives a lot of sexual attention.
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The Married Priest

2010

Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
6.8/3
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Lo scandalo della Banca Romana

1963

The Little Nuns
7/1
Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the littl...
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The Little Nuns

1972

Jus primae noctis
3.8/2
Ariberto de Ficulle is a nobleman who came into possession of a small feud by marrying the ugly Matilde Montefiascone.
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1968

Criminal Affair
2/1
A renowned author, college professor and criminologist is given a year off in order to write his latest book. His arrival in Buenos Aires gives him th...
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Criminal Affair

1965

Letti sbagliati
4.4/7
Four episodes: a traveler is enticed by train per bet; a professional wants to be alone with a woman he likes; a lawyer becomes the lover of an advers...
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Letti sbagliati

1964

The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
5.6/5
Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decide to take on human features to study the terrestri...
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1964

Corpse for the Lady
5.1/5
Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovanna in the meantime become a nun to collect the amo...
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Corpse for the Lady

1969

La donna a una dimensione
0/0
Paola, still young and married to a rich industrialist, seeks an outlet to the uselessness of her life by coming into contact with the young activists...
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La donna a una dimensione

1965

The Double Bed
3/3
Various sketches centered on alcove stories.
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The Double Bed

1964

The Magnificent Cuckold
6.606/47
Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he star...
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The Magnificent Cuckold

1965

James Tont Operation U.N.O.
5/2
The diabolical Goldsinger, enraged at being excluded from the UN, hatches a plot to blow up the assembly while all the heads of the state participate....
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James Tont Operation U.N.O.

1966

James Tont Operation T.W.O.
4/3
A dangerous criminal group wants to destroy St. Peter's Basilica and the secret agent James Tont is the only one who can help it.
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James Tont Operation T.W.O.

1964

Extraconiugale
0/0
Three anthological segments about sexcapades and erotic fantasies in middle-class Italy.
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Extraconiugale

2018

W gli sposi
5.8/6
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1988

O Diabo na Cama
0/0
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O Diabo na Cama

2003

Una famiglia per caso
0/0
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Una famiglia per caso

1965

Su e giù
0/0
A movie divided in four episodes: the arrival of the husband makes the loves of his wife to hide in the next room; an husband invites a friend while h...
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Su e giù

1973

Io e lui
5/2
Rico is a not too successful screen-player. He is also a repressed sex addict. His life changes when he starts to talk to his own penis, which incredi...
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Io e lui

1964

La paura numero uno
8/2
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2007

Chiara e Francesco
5.1/38
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Chiara e Francesco

2009

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
7/1
This portrait of the Italian director & actor, Pietro Germi, explores his work, from Italian neorealism to the birth of the Italian comedy. He constru...
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