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Nino Frank was born in Barletta, in the southern region of Apulia, a busy port town on Italy's Adriatic coast.. In the late 1920s, Frank was a supporter of the Irish writer James Joyce, along with a circle that also included Moune Gilbert, Stuart Gilbert (who helped to make the French translation of Ulysses in 1929), Paul and Lucie Léon, Louis Gillet, and Samuel Beckett.
Bread and Chocolate (Italian: Pane e cioccolata) is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Franco Brusati. This film chronicles the misadventures of an Italian immigrant to Switzerland and is representative of the commedia all'italiana film genre. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian ...
Massacre Time was released in Italy on 10 August 1966. [9]Although an international English-language version was made, a redubbed English version produced by American International Pictures was theatrically released in the United States in December 1968 as The Brute and the Beast, with a longer running time (88 minutes); [10] [8] it was one of only two Spaghetti Westerns imported to the United ...
Dino Risi, Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Franco Rossi: Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Alberto Sordi: Commedia all'italiana: Film with 3 episodes Idoli controluce: L'incendio di Roma: Invasione: Short subject: In a Colt's Shadow: Giovanni Grimaldi: Stephen Forsyth, Conrado San Martín, Franco Ressel: Western: Italian–Spanish co-production [4] Io la ...
Two Sons of Ringo (Italian: I due figli di Ringo) is a 1966 Italian western-parody film starring the comic duo Franco and Ciccio.It was the last film directed by Giorgio Simonelli who, for health reasons, left the production just before the end of filming and was replaced by Giuliano Carnimeo.
Lost in the Dark, silent drama film directed by Nino Martoglio and produced in 1914, documented life in the slums of Naples, and is considered a precursor to the Italian neorealism movement of the 1940s and 1950s. [12] The only surviving copy of this film was destroyed by Nazi German forces during the World War II. [40]
Michele Abbagnano (Nino Manfredi) ekes out a living by abusively selling coffee, hot milk and cappuccino on the night trains running between Naples and Vallo della Lucania; each night, his goods held in a set of vacuum flasks which he carries in a basket along with handfuls of sugar packets he steals from railway cafés, he moves from carriage to carriage peddling warm drinks to the dazed ...
Basta che non si sappia in giro is a 1976 Italian anthology comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Luigi Magni. The film obtained a good commercial success. The film obtained a good commercial success.