Michele Placido | Actor | Actress

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Michele Placido

Michele Placido was born on May 19, 1946 in Ascoli Satriano, Puglia, Italy. He is an actor, director and screenwriter, known for La piovra (1984), Romanzo Criminale (2005) and Un eroe borghese (1995). Born : 19th-May-1946

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Moses the Lawgiver

The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Originally a TV Miniseries recut for theaters
Released : 22nd-Dec-1974

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The Unknown Woman

Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to become a beloved nanny for an adorable little girl, Thea. However, that is just the very beginning of her unknown journey.
Released : 9th-Oct-2006

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The Caiman

Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it
Released : 24th-Mar-2006

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Big Business

In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.
Released : 10th-Jun-1988

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2061 - Un anno eccezionale

In a post-apocalyptic future, the Italian peninsula is going through a dark moment due to a terrible energy crisis.
Released : 26th-Oct-2007

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The Goodbye Kiss

Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—who fled to Latin America in the '70s to escape justice—decides to surrender after hearing about the fall of the Berlin Wall. Determined to lead a comfortable, bourgeois life in his native Italy, he cuts a deal with a shady police chief, getting his sentence reduced in exchange for ratting out former comrades. Once released, Giorgio obsessively pursues his dream of becoming a "respectable" citizen, even if the way is paved with larceny, pimping, drug-dealing, rape, heist, and murder...
Released : 24th-Feb-2006

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The Sicilian Connection

Mario (Placido), an Italian American who manages a pizzeria in NYC, is charged with an assassination of a judge in Palermo. He leaves the States, comes back to Sicily and recruit Michele, his younger brother, for some help. Michele is a good guy not involved with the Mafia, that is trying to build his life on honesty and hard-working. Michele needs some money to give freedom to a prostitute he is in love, and Mario promise his help in change of an hands to set up his trap for the judge. Anyway Michele isn't made with the same "pasta" of Mario, he couldn't never be a real Mafioso and this causes many between the two brother and the Mafia. There is only a way for Mario to save his brother. A way that Mafia could like.
Released : 25th-Jan-1985

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Piano, Solo

A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.
Released : 21st-Sep-2007

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Mary Forever

A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamoured of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?
Released : 4th-May-1989

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Three Brothers

In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come.
Released : 19th-Mar-1981

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Focaccia Blues

Released : 17th-Apr-2009

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Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso

Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.
Released : 26th-Feb-2010

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La lupa

She was tall, dark and thin, with a proud and voluptuous bust. They called her "The she-wolf" because she seemed never to be satisfied. All the men were obsessed with her but one day the she-wolf fell madly in love with young Nanni.
Released : 16th-Sep-1996

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Victory March

The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He gradually becomes acclimated to the military mind-set, and when the Captain's wife decides to take a romantic interest in him, he does not report her dangerous peculiarities to anyone.
Released : 12th-Mar-1976

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The Pyjama Girl Case

Two seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found on the beach, and a retired inspector makes inquiries; also, Linda, a waitress and ferry attendant, has several lovers and marries one, but continues seeing the others. The police have a suspect in the murder, but the retired inspector is convinced they're wrong; he continues a methodical investigation. Linda and her husband separate, and there are complications. Will the stories cross or are they already twisted together?
Released : 31st-Dec-1977

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The Scent of Blood

A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia, have been married for twenty years. While she lives in their flat in Rome, he spends most of his time in the country house where he writes his books, openly living with his younger lover, Lù. In return, Carlo has long accepted that her wife may have lovers, but her volatile relationship with a young neo-fascist suddenly rekindles his jealousy.
Released : 2nd-Apr-2004

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Commediasexi

Released : 14th-Dec-2006

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Come Home and Meet My Wife

50 year old Giulio (Tognazzi) and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina (Muti), fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks in on his friend and Vincenzina upon a return from a trip. His jealousy and anger get the best of him and he kicks his wife out of the house. Years pass and Giulio decides to rekindle the lover affair with Vincenzina.
Released : 29th-Oct-1974

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The Roses of the Desert

A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the battalion is involved to help the local population. The war anyway goes on with no regards to human feelings. The "glorious" Fascist campaign is going to became a fast retreat.
Released : 1st-Dec-2006

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The Wings of the Dove

A 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a wealthy, dying millionairess (Isabelle Huppert) in Venice.
Released : 6th-May-1981

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The Divine Nymph

In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
Released : 16th-Oct-1975

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Department Store

A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
Released : 6th-Jun-1986

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Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences)

Seemingly unrelated events connect several people: a young wounded soldier, a nurse, a failed comedian, and a murderer. The film starts literally with a bang and ends with a strangulation. In between there are numerous events both strange and unpredictable involving drugs and homosexuality, a deaf-mute and a potential suicide. The odd characters assembled in this movie are each in their own way in search of sexual gratification.
Released : 5th-Aug-1998

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Just Married

Nicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.
Released : 23rd-Oct-2009

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Saturday, Sunday and Friday

SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the theater and marry a Mafia man.
Released : 6th-Jun-1979

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Lamerica

Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con requires a native Albanian, so they designate Spiro, an impoverished and confused former political prisoner as chairman of the board. When Fiore returns to Italy to get government funds for the project, Spiro unexpectedly disappears and Gino sets out on a journey to find him. The search leads him to discover Spiro's tragic personal history and witness Albanian poverty firsthand.
Released : 9th-Sep-1994

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Tigers in Lipstick

8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.
Released : 16th-Mar-1979

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The Art of Love

Young student Claudine has a dream in which the Roman student Cornelius, fascinated by the beautiful wife of the commander, attends lectures on the art of love of great Ovid. Ancient tragedy repeats itself in a few centuries ...
Released : 7th-Dec-1983

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Leap Into the Void

Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and now suffers from mental illness and suicidal thoughts. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. However, Mauro becomes unconsciously jealous of their relationship.
Released : 14th-Feb-1980

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La Orca

A teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, where she is made to write her own ransom letter. She soon discovers that one of her captors is infatuated with her and she will use those feelings to stay alive.
Released : 1st-Jun-1976

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Volunteers for an Unknown Destination

Released : 1st-Jan-1979

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Till Marriage Do Us Part

The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter written from Paris by their father, a womaniser who lives and hides from them in the French headtown. The pair decide, to avoid the scandal, to live as brother and sister. He will later leave for the war in Lybia, she will find solace and sexual satisfaction in the arms of the family chauffeur.
Released : 24th-Oct-1974

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Del perduto amore

Released : 18th-Sep-1998

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Beach House

Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.
Released : 27th-Oct-1977

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And Agnes Chose to Die

After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.
Released : 26th-Sep-1976

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Il posto dell'anima

Three workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company owner of the factory who wants to close the Italian branch in which they work.
Released : 30th-May-2003

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Liberate i pesci!

Released : 28th-Jan-2000

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Ages of Love

Roberto is a young and ambitious lawyer who is going to marry Sara. His whole life is perfectly planned out. During a expropriation which he is in charge of, he meets Micol, a gorgeous and provocative young woman from a small village in Tuscany. This is when things start to get complicated... Fabio, a famous anchorman, has been the perfect husband for twenty five years. At a party one night, he meets Eliana, a femme fatale full of surprises. This one-night stand proves to be more than what he bargained for when she refuses to leave... Adrian is an American art history professor who moved to Rome after his divorce. He is friends with Augusto, the building's concierge, whose ebullient daughter Viola is about to disrupt his peaceful existence and relight his fire
Released : 25th-Feb-2011

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My Friends: How It All Began

Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic.
Released : 16th-Mar-2011

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Afghan Breakdown

During the main withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, a company of hardened paratroopers under the command of Major Bandura are joined by Steklov, the son of a high-ranking officer.
Released : 1st-Jan-1991

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The Lookout

When police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from a roof, thus facilitating the flee of his accomplices. However, one of them is seriously injured, which compromises the plans of the thieves.
Released : 5th-Sep-2012

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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

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Tulpa - Demon of Desire

Lisa Boeri is at the top of her corporate career. At night she frequents the notorious Club Tulpa, owned by a mysterious Tibetan guru. Unshackled from repression and guilt, Lisa will do anything with any stranger to attain a higher consciousness. However, when her lovers start getting murdered in shocking ways, Lisa can’t go to the police because the scandal would impact her day job. Foolishly she tries to unmask the assassin herself, with truly nightmarish consequences.
Released : 25th-Aug-2012

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Giovanni Falcone

The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles.
Released : 8th-Oct-1993

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Close Friends

Fifteen-year-old Sabrina has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfolds it gradually becomes clear that Sabrina is a victim of incest.
Released : 16th-May-1992

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L'ultimo padrino

A TV movie focused on former Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano and the policemen who tried to catch him.
Released : 13th-Jan-2008

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The Meadow

Romantic entanglements develop between three young Italians frustrated by their current economic and social status.
Released : 6th-Sep-1979

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Poliziotti

When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for disaster.
Released : 10th-Feb-1995

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How Good the Whites Are

The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, advances across the continent. As a result of the difficulties the team encounters, disorganization gradually takes over the convoy. Each of the members of the group, little by little, yield to their petty, selfish impulses: violence, power, nostalgia - The breakdown of one of the trucks forces Michele and Nadia to wait at an oasis for the arrival of spare parts. But a starving local tribe settles threateningly near them. The chief of the tribe makes a speech they don't understand, which is followed by a macabre purification ceremony.
Released : 20th-Jan-1988

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Lulu

Lulu models for a young painter who tries to seduce her. When her husband enters the room he dies from a heart attack. Lulu marries the painter, who commits suicide when he finds out that she has been having a long standing affair with Dr Schon and whose son gives her a job. Lulu kills Dr Schon and goes to London to live with his son. Eventually, she becomes a prostitute and dies a victim of Jack the Ripper.
Released : 7th-Nov-1980

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Corleone

Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?
Released : 10th-Nov-1978

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TV Credits

Stars in der Manege

Self -
Released : 11th-Apr-1959

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Wetten, dass..?

Self - A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
Released : 14th-Feb-1981

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La Piovra

Commissario Corrado Cattani - An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
Released : 11th-Mar-1984

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Padre Pio - Tra cielo e terra

Padre Pio - The story of Padre Pio (1887-1968) from the onset of the stigmata during World War I, when he prayed that soldiers' suffering be his, until his death. The story is told by Emilia, Pio's friend, to a Vatican official reviewing Padre Pio's potential canonization. We watch local people venerate the humble Capuchin monk, we see petty jealousies within the Church almost bring him down, and we experience his decision to build a Home for the Relief of Suffering, a labor of love begun just after World War II. Emilia and her husband Dr. Sanguineti work tirelessly beside the humble but sensible Pio.
Released : 12th-Nov-2000

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Aldo Moro - Il Presidente

Aldo Moro -
Released : 9th-May-2008

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Il sequestro Soffiantini

Giuseppe Soffiantini - In 1997, a group of bandits kidnaps businessman Giuseppe Soffiantini, keeping him imprisoned for 237 days in their hideout in the mountains of Sardinia.
Released : 30th-Jan-2002

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Il Grande Torino

Angelo (2004) -
Released : 25th-Sep-2005

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Karol, un Papa rimasto uomo

Renato Buzzonetti - Karol: The Pope, The Man is a 2006 TV miniseries chronicling Pope John Paul II's life as pope in flashbacks from October 22, 1978's papal inauguration to his death in 2005 and was directed by Giacomo Battiato. It is the sequel to the 2005 TV miniseries Karol: A Man Who Became Pope, which portrayed John Paul's life before the papacy and ended on October 16, 1978, the day of his papal election.
Released : 10th-May-2006

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Ciao Darwin

Presidente di giuria - Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.
Released : 3rd-Oct-1998

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Bambi-Verleihung

Self - The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
Released : 1st-Jan-1948

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Joe Petrosino

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Released : 15th-Oct-1972

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In Treatment

Guido - In Treatment is an Italian TV series directed by Saverio Costanzo and starring Sergio Castellitto.
Released : 1st-Apr-2013

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Racket

Guido Gerosa -
Released : 29th-Apr-1997

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Noi

himself -
Released : 6th-Mar-2022

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Vincenzo Malinconico, avvocato d'insuccesso

Ugo Maria Starace Tarallo -
Released : 20th-Oct-2022

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Questo e' il mio paese

Giannino Cafuero -
Released : 30th-Nov-2015

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