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Tag Archives: Michele Placido
The Meadow AKA Il prato (1979) Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Michele Placido, Saverio Marconi, Isabella Rossellini
Giovanni, a Milan youth heads to poverty-plagued Tuscany to sell some property. Read More »
And Agnes Chose to Die AKA L’Agnese va a morire (1976) Giuliano Montaldo, Ingrid Thulin, Stefano Satta Flores, Michele Placido
An old couple, Agnes and Palita, lulled by their quiet routine Read More »
Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974) Luigi Comencini, Laura Antonelli, Alberto Lionello, Michele Placido
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. Read More »
The Divine Nymph (1975) Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Laura Antonelli, Terence Stamp, Michele Placido
A beautiful woman (Laura Antonelli) engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other. Read More »
Lamerica (1994) Gianni Amelio, Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Piro Milkani, Drama
Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. Read More »
Scandal in the Family (1975) Bruno Gaburro, Michele Placido, Simonetta Stefanelli, Jenny Tamburi, Drama, Comedy
Milo is desperate for a share of the flourishing family business. Having failed to impress his uncle with his business acumen he then tries to impress his aunt by making love to her. Read More »
Giovanni Falcone (1993) Giuseppe Ferrara, Michele Placido, Anna Bonaiuto, Giancarlo Giannini, Crime, Drama
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. Read More »
Tre fratelli / Three Brothers (1981) Francesco Rosi, Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Drama
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 Read More »
Mery per sempre / Forever Mary (1989) Marco Risi, Michele Placido, Claudio Amendola, Francesco Benigno, Drama, Crime
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, enamored 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?
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