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Vittorio Caprioli, Marcella Valeri, and Mickey Fox at "La Parolaccia" in a scene from the film Trastevere (1971). Thanks to its peculiarity, La Parolaccia has inspired the mention of fictitious restaurants in various comedy films such as Made in Italy (1965), Simpatici & antipatici (1998), and in 1981, Fracchia la belva umana (where it is renamed "Da Sergio e Bruno - Gli Incivili") [3] as well ...
The Way is a 2010 drama film directed, produced and written by Emilio Estevez and starring Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara Unger, James Nesbitt, and Yorick van Wageningen. In it, Martin Sheen's character walks the Camino de Santiago , a traditional pilgrimage route in France, Portugal and Spain.
The word trattoria is cognate with the French term traiteur [3] (a caterer providing takeaway food). Derived in Italian from trarre, meaning 'to treat' (from the Latin tractare / trahere, 'to draw'), [4] its etymology has also been linked to the Latin term littera tractoria, which referred to a letter ordering provision of food and drink for officials traveling on the business of the Holy ...
Over the past century, there have been numerous films set in Rome, and the city has a particularly strong cinematic tradition. The city hosts the Cinecittà Studios, [1] the largest film and television production facility in continental Europe and the centre of the Italian cinema, where a large number of today's biggest box office hits are filmed.
In 1914, he converted an oil and wine shop into a restaurant, initially called "Alfredo", on the Via della Scrofa, in central Rome. [ 4 ] Di Lelio invented fettuccine al triplo burro [ 5 ] (later named "fettuccine all'Alfredo" or "fettuccine Alfredo") in 1908, while running his oil and wine shop, in an effort to entice his wife, Ines, to eat ...
The Café de Paris was a famous bar on Via Veneto, one of the best known and most expensive streets in Rome, Italy. It was located at No. 90, close to the United States Embassy. [ 1 ] The bar was immortalised in 1960 in the movie La Dolce Vita by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini , starring Anita Ekberg , Anouk Aimée and Marcello Mastroianni ...
Two Weeks in Another Town is a 1962 American drama film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Kirk Douglas and Edward G. Robinson.The supporting players include Cyd Charisse, Claire Trevor, Daliah Lavi, George Hamilton, and Rosanna Schiaffino.
Cinecittà Studios (pronounced [ˌtʃinetʃitˈta]; Italian for Cinema City Studios) is a large film studio in Rome, Italy.With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe, [1] and is considered the hub of Italian cinema.