Gianni Cavina

AKA:
0.1129

1940-12-09

Bologna, Italy

Biography

Crew Roles

The Baron's Mazurka
Screenplay
House of Pleasure for Women
Writer
All The Souls... Except the Dead
Writer
The House with Laughing Windows
Screenplay
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {48}

Smamma

2006-04-21 6

The Wedding Director

Franco Elica is a film director casting a remake of a pious melodrama in Rome. He's melancholy, heading south for a break. On a beach, he meets a man who films weddings and is roped into helping film ...
Genre :Drama

2001-05-26 6

Empty Eyes

Genre :

Carlo

2009-04-03 5.6

The Friends At The Margherita Café

Bologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his family's home. Throu ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Ugo Cavara

1986-10-04 7.4

Christmas Present

On Christmas night, four estranged friends reunite for a game of poker to rip off a rich businessman—but old grudges get in the way. ...
Genre :Drama

Adam

1970-09-28 8.1

Thomas

A modest theatrical company, soon to debut, organizes a superstitious spiritual session. During the evening the spirit of little Thomas is evoked. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Ugo Cavara

2004-01-30 6.8

Christmas Rematch

Fifteen years after the card game on Christmas Eve in which he lost 550 million lire, Franco Mattioli returns to Bologna because he learned that his friend Lele - a film critic by profession, present ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1992-10-01 0

Per non dimenticare

Genre :Drama

Spaccaossi

1997-09-12 5.1

Porzûs

Genre :War, Drama

Preda

2010-10-08 6.7

A Second Childhood

Lino and Chicca are an aging, childless middle-class couple whose life is disrupted after he's diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. ...
Genre :Drama

Coppola

1976-08-20 7.261

The House with Laughing Windows

A young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano, which was painted on the wall of a local church by a mysterious, long-dead artist. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Gabriele Arcangeli

1981-09-11 5.8

Cream Horn

Mariana and Domenico are on the run from her jealous boyfriend who just happens to be an over-jealous professional football player. ...
Genre :Comedy

Loris' brother

1999-12-03 6.7

Midsummer Night Dance

Genre :Romance, Comedy

Geometra Cesare Marchesi

1976-09-08 4.2

Passi furtivi in una notte boia

tory of a valet waitress. In order to become the owner of the bar where he works, he agrees to rob a bank. Good for the first time, not the second. ...
Genre :Comedy

Renzo Polpo

1996-09-27 6

Festival

The annual film festival in Venice is, of course, an ideal place to make a film (how come no-one has thought of it before). Everything is there in Pupi Avati's Festival: the famous hotels Des Bain and ...
Genre :Drama

Samuele Calì

1976-03-02 5.3

San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women

Genre :

Adone

1976-01-23 5.5

House of Pleasure for Women

The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their activities in Italy. Mr. Chips has chosen Eddie Mordace to open the Italian branch o ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Gesuino

1978-07-22 3.8

Fancy a Woman

An erotic, comedic anthology film in which a young couple becomes addicted to having their trysts recorded, a woman cheats on her husband with an older man and desperately attempts to avoid the traps ...
Genre :Comedy

Il cugino

1984-12-20 6.2

The Three of Us

1770. Young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with “normal” boys, falls in love for the first time and tries to escape his des ...
Genre :Comedy, History

2021-10-15 0

Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta

Genre :

Ortenzio

1980-10-02 5.3

La locandiera

The innkeeper Mirandolina is a beautiful girl, and for her beauty the Count of Albafiorita and the Marquis of Forlimpopoli fall in love. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dany

1974-03-07 2

The Son of the Buried Alive

A young nobleman battles against the ferocious woman who’s reigning upon those lands. The truth, as told by a poor but valiant mute, is that the real sovereign is the young boy and helps him defeat th ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

1978-01-01 0

Il prigioniero

Italian TV movie. Based upon a novel by Anton Chekhov. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Martini

1977-03-10 6.2

All The Souls... Except the Dead

Dante arrives at the castle of the recently deceased Marquis Zanetti to sell a book which contains a prophecy that the death of nine members of the Zanetti family will reveal a hidden treasure. ...
Genre :Thriller, Comedy, Horror

Natoli

1988-01-01 0

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway

Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- inc ...
Genre :Drama

Leo Grandi

1988-05-01 0

Facciaffittasi

Genre :

Sisto Osti

2011-11-11 5.8

The Big Heart of Girls

Carlino Vigetti is pushed by his family to court the daughters of the Osti, landowners. But the return of their third daughter, the beautiful Francesca, will shatter the plans ... ...
Genre :Drama

Petazzoni

1975-01-22 6.9

The Baron's Mazurka

A fig tree growing in the estates of Baron Anteo Pellacani has been worshipped since the Middle Ages, after a Saint was supposedly martyred there. The Baron, who was crippled in a fig tree-related acc ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

1981-09-18 0

Il turno

Genre :Comedy

William

1982-06-12 6.5

Dancing Paradise

Set in a fantastic site, the film tells the story of a mythical musician named Dancing Paradise and of his son William who, accompanied by an angel, retraces his father's career to repeat it. ...
Genre :

Alliata

1970-01-28 5.7

Blood Relations

The story about a sinister magician-dwarf, physically unable to love a woman. His wife's betrayals and an obsessive isolation drive him to despair. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Mystery

Stefano

1981-06-01 2.5

Per favore, occupati di Amelia

Genre :Comedy

Sergente Mastino

1975-08-10 0

Buttiglione diventa capo del servizio segreto

Genre :Comedy

University professor

2010-10-24 0

Caffè Capo

Genre :Comedy

2006-09-29 5.8

Baciami piccina

7th September 1943. The honest and reliable carabiniere Umberto is sent to escort the flamboyant con man Raoul Nuvolini from Terni to Venice. Umberto's fiancée Luisa follows him against his will. ...
Genre :Comedy

Marione

1979-03-24 7.9

The Stars in the Ditch

A father and his four sons during the 18th century have their lives thrown into turmoil with the arrival of a woman at their villa. She quickly takes on multiple roles of sister, mother, confidant and ...
Genre :Fantasy, Horror

Mr. Fausto

2013-03-21 6.2

Welcome Mr. President!

In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the co ...
Genre :Comedy

Silvio

1976-11-27 4.5

The Big Operator

The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire. ...
Genre :Comedy

Pavanati

1978-06-04 6.6

Quando c'era lui... caro lei!

Genre :Comedy

Gino il sagrestano

2019-08-22 6.045

Mr. Devil

In 1950s Italy, a government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a grisly child murder. The culprit is a young boy who claims he acted in order to kill the Devil itself. ...
Genre :Horror, Mystery

Giuliano

1979-11-13 6.5

Cinema!!!

Genre :

Bruno

1992-11-05 0

Non chiamarmi Omar

Genre :Comedy

Pompeo, Teresa's Husband

1979-01-12 6.8

Traffic Jam

A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passe ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Piero Giardina

2022-09-29 5.2

Dante

The tormented life of Dante Alighieri, from solitary childhood to death in exile, seen through Giovanni Boccaccio’s journey to rehabilitate his memory. ...
Genre :Drama, History

1969-10-01 6.2

Flashback

Heinz is a German soldier stationed as a sniper overlooking his own army from a tree. When he falls asleep, his troops are gone and he is left alone to defend the incoming enemy invasion. Flashbacks r ...
Genre :War, Drama

Primo contadino

1963-01-13 0

Il mulino del Po

Genre :Drama

2011-01-01 6.75

Atelier Fontana - Le sorelle della moda

Genre :Drama

1991-02-12 6.5

L'ispettore Sarti

Genre :Crime

Oscar

1989-10-03 0

Appointment in Trieste

Genre :Action & Adventure