Writing
Gianni Amico
Born December 27, 1933 · Loano, Savona, Italy
Died November 2, 1990 · aged 56
No biography available.
Known For
The Conformist · 1971The Conformist
★ 7.61971
MovieDrama
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Gabriela · 1983Gabriela
★ 5.91983
MovieDramaRomance
In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small Brazilian coastal town run by the local colonels.
Partner · 1968Partner
★ 5.81968
MovieDrama
The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams.
Before the Revolution · 1964Before the Revolution
★ 7.11964
MovieRomanceDrama
The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia, and stung by the drowning of his mercurial friend Agostino, a possible suicide. Gina is herself a bundle of nervous energy, alternately sweet, seductive, poetic, distracted, and unhinged. They begin a love affair after Agostino's funeral, then Gina confuses Fabrizio by sleeping with a stranger. Their visits to Cesare and then to Puck, one of Gina's older friends, a landowner losing his land, dramatize contrasting images of Italy's future. Their own futures are bleak.
On Borrowed Time · 1968On Borrowed Time
★ 6.81968
MovieDramaCrime
During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of a minister, but takes the opportunity to deliver incriminating documents to another one.
Wind from the East · 1970Wind from the East
★ 6.71970
MovieDramaWestern
A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema.
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer · 1984Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
★ 6.51984
MovieDocumentary
A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.
Marco Melani: The Man with the Golden Eye · 2021Marco Melani: The Man with the Golden Eye
2021
Movie
"The Man With The Golden Eye" tells the extraordinary figure of Marco Melani through a live projection of materials collected in over ten years of research. Found footage, unpublished interviews with cinema and television personalities, fragments of films, extracts from television programs, photographs, readings and interventions by the author, intertwine giving voice to a chorus of precious testimonies.
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The Conformist · 1971The Conformist
★ 7.61971
MovieDrama
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
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