Mimmo Calopresti

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Mimmo Calopresti

Born January 4, 1955 · Polistena, Calabria, Italy (age 71)

Domenico "Mimmo" Calopresti (born 4 January 1955 in Polistena, Calabria) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker and actor. His fictional feature film debut The Second Time was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

Known For

The ThingThe Thing · 1990
The Thing
6.81990
MovieDocumentary
1989. Amid the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the largest communist party in Western Europe—Italy's PCI—announces that it'll change its name, vowing to become 'a new thing'. The film follows the debates taking place in various PCI branches across Italy in the aftermath of this historic decision.
Ultima ChiamataUltima Chiamata · 2017
Ultima Chiamata
2017
Movie
A man wakes up in a strange place. Peeled walls, a bare, cold and damp room. He doesn't understand where he is. He has severe pain especially in the head, tries to open the door but it's locked, tries to call someone but nobody answers. He is a prisoner. A nightmare begins for him in which he will have to go through a path of understanding to finally get to understand what really happened.
I Only Wanted to LiveI Only Wanted to Live · 2006
I Only Wanted to Live
4.02006
MovieDocumentaryDrama
A Donatello award nominated documentary following nine Italian survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Happiness Costs NothingHappiness Costs Nothing · 2003
Happiness Costs Nothing
3.92003
MovieDrama
A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a young woman he falls for, but she puts him on the test.
Gianni Versace – Emperor of DreamsGianni Versace – Emperor of Dreams · 2023
Gianni Versace – Emperor of Dreams
2023
MovieDocumentary
The growth and success of Gianni Versace: his childhood and adolescence in Reggio Calabria in the 60s, his first steps in the world of fashion. The docufilm collects a series of interviews with friends and colleagues as well as archival images of fashion shows and interviews.
Aspromonte: Land of The ForgottenAspromonte: Land of The Forgotten · 2019
Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten
6.32019
MovieDrama
At the end of the 1950s in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time. No road connects Africo with the other villages. In the wake of this tragedy, all of Africo’s citizens -including children - abandon their usual occupations and unite to build their own road. Giulia, the new schoolteacher, comes from the North with a mission to teach standard Italian to help bring cultural cohesion with Africo and the rest of Italy. But she will have to contend with the local mafioso Don Totó, who is determined to ensure this the town remains cut off, and thus, under his power.
Romanzo radicaleRomanzo radicale · 2022
Romanzo radicale
2022
MovieDramaTV Movie
Romanzo Radicale is political and human adventure of Marco Pannella, portraying the most intimate moments, the political fights, his unique gestures that have made an era.
Notes of LoveNotes of Love · 1998
Notes of Love
7.01998
MovieDramaRomance
A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confusion and loneliness.

Filmography

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It's Easier for a Camel...It's Easier for a Camel... · 2003
It's Easier for a Camel...
4.92003
MovieDramaComedy
As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world. Now a charming thirty-something-single woman, Federica's fantasies have evolved, adding lovers, stardom, and motherhood to her waking dreams, where Federica continues to press for her everyday life to be as real as the fantasies that invade her. Unfortunately, Federica's daydreams can only provide a meager distraction from the reality she faces. Her career as a successful playwright is heading south, her boyfriend is pressuring her to start a family, a former lover wishes to rekindle an old affair, her sister is barely talking to her, her brother is self-centered and her loving father is terminally ill. And as if to make matters worse, Federica is rich, too rich, and the guilt that consumes her because of it is pushing her over the edge.

Co-Producer

Good VibesGood Vibes · 2023
Good Vibes
6.02023
MovieThriller
Five stories that intertwine around a mysterious smartphone that allows you to have a copy of anyone's phone. Just enter the number and you immediately have access to bank accounts, photos, videos, emails, messages, even the most intimate ones, and if you activate the camera in spy mode you can observe the lives of others live. A morbidity that pervades anyone who comes into contact with this phone, in the frantic search for the power to influence the lives of others. Thus begins an escalation of linked events in which, without a moment's respite, we will follow the fate of the phone and of those who come into possession of it. The protagonists of the five episodes must confront their most hidden desires and the (in)ability to manage the power of knowledge.
Cutro, Calabria, ItaliaCutro, Calabria, Italia · 2024
Cutro, Calabria, Italia
2024
MovieDocumentary
On 26 February 2023, a boat - an old wooden gulet - sank in Steccato di Cutro, in the province of Crotone, Calabria. Inside the boat, which left Izmir, Turkey, on February 21, there were over 180 human beings, mostly of Afghan, Pakistani, Syrian, Turkish, Somali and Iraqi origin. Women, men and children. The shipwreck claimed the lives of 94 migrants, including 34 minors. The number of missing was unknown... The boat, 150 meters from the shore, surrendered before the violence of the waves and the sharp points of the rocks. Who are the victims and survivors of the shipwreck? They are individuals who have fled their lands for a series of causes: armed conflicts, persecutions (of a religious or gender nature), poverty, climate change, the right to aspire to a better existential path, the need to rediscover dignity, to work, to study and to raise a family.

Director