Franco Castellano

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Franco Castellano was born June 20, 1925 in Rome Italy, and died December 28, 1999, was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 94 films between 1958 and 1997, He also directed 21 films between 1964 and 1992. His 1984 film Il ragazzo di campagna was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. He was born and died in Rome, Italy. About - Franco Castellano was born on 20 June 1925 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Taming of the Scoundrel (1980), Madly in Love (1981) and The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars (1964). He died on 28 December 1999 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Relatives - Noah D'castellano (grandson) Lorenzo Castellano (Children) Born : 11th-Jan-1957

Movie Credits

Il caso Fenaroli

Based on the true crime known as Mystery of Via Monaci or The Fenaroli case.
Released : 1st-Nov-1996

Riconciliati

Released : 15th-Mar-2002

Intolerance

A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.
Released : 11th-Nov-1996

La donna della domenica

Based on a crime book by Italian authors Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, first published in 1972. The story is set in the city of Turin, and deals with the investigation of commissioner Santamaria about the murder of an architect of dubious fame, Garrone. Among the protagonists are Anna Carla Dosio, a beautiful and rich woman, and her friend Massimo Campi, a rich homosexual.
Released : 11th-Apr-2011

Puccini

Giacomo Puccini, the son of a Tuscan organist, achieves world-wide recognition as a composer of operas and dies from throat cancer in the middle of an artistic crisis, at the age of just sixty-six.
Released : 1st-Mar-2009

Cine Tempestose

Released : 4th-Oct-2004

Luisa Spagnoli

This is a true story of Luisa Spagnoli who was an Italian businesswoman, famous for creating a women's fashion store and the chocolate brand, Perugia. The show is a romantic telling of her life. Considering that women were not involved in business, it is an amazing story of someone way ahead of her time.
Released : 1st-Feb-2016

Rita Levi-Montalcini

In 1986, Rita Levi-Montalcini receives the Nobel Prize, but something is missing. After meeting a young violinist, the scientist faces a difficult choice: take refuge in fame or get back in the game.
Released : 26th-Nov-2020

Il sangue e la rosa

Released : 2nd-Sep-2008

Il mistero del cortile

Rome. Paola Angeli, a young psychiatrist, following her recent separation from her husband Alberto Salvi, a crime reporter, moved to an apartment overlooking a large courtyard, overlooked by a series of other buildings. It is Christmas. The city is becoming depopulated. Even the courtyard that Paola sees from her windows during long sleepless nights seems uninhabited apart from the few remaining tenants. One morning, not far from Paola's condominium, the body of an unidentified blonde girl is found in a dumpster. Alberto investigates the mysterious crime on behalf of his newspaper. Paola has the impression of having seen a blonde girl with a pair of very showy earrings enter building C the previous night. but Romolo, the building's doorman, excludes him because the tenants are all away on holiday.
Released : 31st-Oct-1999

L'ultimo Dei Corleonesi

The rise and fall of sicilian most important mafia bosses after WWII: Luciano Liggio, Totò Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, all from Corleone. Their friendship and struggle against italian state.
Released : 14th-Feb-2007

La Donna del Treno

A woman travels in a compartment of a train and a young man sits next to her with whom, almost immediately, sparks strike: once they arrive at their destination the boy realizes that the young lady has forgotten a book and so follows her to to return it. When the two are alone at home, without having even introduced themselves, they soon end up in each other's arms and spend an intense night of love. At dawn the man leaves. Also at dawn that same morning, a man is killed in his garage and it is soon discovered that he is the brother of the young man on the train.
Released : 2nd-Mar-1999

La Voce - Il talento può uccidere

Released : 7th-May-2015

Un'isola d'inverno

Released : 1st-Jan-1998

Barabbas

Barabbas or Jesus Barabbas (literally "son of the father" or "Jesus, son of the father" respectively) is a figure in the account of the Passion of Christ, in which he is the insurrectionary whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem, instead of Jesus Christ.
Released : 28th-Dec-2012

Vorrei vederti ballare

Released : 6th-Dec-2012

Mafalda of Savoy

The story of Mafalda is like the one of Cinderella, just the other way round. The dramatic real story of a Italian princess, born and raised in the comforts of a golden court, who will be forced by war to share the fate of ordinary people in a concentration camp. Mafalda di Savoia was chosen to represent the decline of nobility and the errors of war, which separate and destroy even noble families. Mafalda is a victim of political strategies that overlook her, and her tragic death shows the levelling power of war, that forces poor and rich alike to share the same destiny.
Released : 28th-Nov-2006

Bartali: The Iron Man

TV Miniseries (2 episodes) about life and rivalry of italian bikers Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi.
Released : 26th-Mar-2006

Enrico Mattei

Giorgio Capitani reconstructs in the Rai TV film the parable of the famous entrepreneur, in a product that in technical terms does not escape the logic of television, but still manages to offer an interesting picture of a key figure of postwar Italy.
Released : 3rd-May-2009

Rose's Songs

Autumn 1944. Yellow star, ghettos, Arrow Cross terror. The inhabitants of Hungary's capital, Budapest, await the tragic fulfilment of their fate with helpless resignation. However, above one of the city's villas, once a week in the evening the stars of hope sparkle, if only for a few minutes. This short time gives fresh heart to those hiding here and kindles hope in their tortured souls to live for another day. This mysterious power is none other than a beautiful song that can be heard at such times from the villa's tower room.
Released : 19th-Mar-2003

Un uomo perbene

In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.
Released : 1st-Oct-1999

Hannover

Released : 10th-Dec-2003

Jeremiah

The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on several occasions, and makes it clear that he has been selected to announce God's message to the people of Jerusalem.
Released : 14th-Dec-1998