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Complete Filmography

Leonora addio
2022
as Luigi Pirandello (voce)
A tale of the three funerals for the ashes of Italian writer Luigi Pirandello intertwined with a murder committed by a young Sicilian immigrant boy in...

The Hidden Child
2021
as Massimo Santo
Gabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One mornin...

Journey into the Twilight
2021
as Self
A portrait of Italy in the 60's and 70's, based on films by Marco Bellocchio.

Citizens of the World
2020
Three Italian retirees embark on a journey to find a new country to live in.

Pizza Boy
2019
as Antonio
The night misadventures of Saba, a Georgian pizza holder, harnessed by a drifting humanity while his wife is about to give birth to their firstborn.

Primula Rossa
2019

The Names of Mr. Sulcic
2019
When Irena Ruppel, a fascinating Slovenian woman, arrives in a valley of the Po river, she is hosted by a man of that area, Gabriele. She seems to kno...

Magical Nights
2018
as Fulvio Zappellini
Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is fou...

Loro
2018
as Crepuscolo
Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the grou...

Virgo - A Woman's Cold Feet
2018
as Odino Primo
Future. Planet Earth. An aged man receives a package from the global government in which he finds a fascinating hologram that will accompany him durin...

There's No Religion Anymore
2016
as Vescovo
Set on the small island of Porto Buio, the traditional live Christmas Nativity scene might not go ahead because the baby who’s always played Jesus has...

Sweet Dreams
2016
as Ettore
Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal...

Indro - L'uomo che scriveva sull'acqua
2016
as Indro Montanelli (adulto)

Behind the White Glasses
2015
as Self
It is a musical portrait that shines a spotlight on unknown aspects of the creative, visionary and groundbreaking talent of filmmaker and writer, Lina...

Blood of My Blood
2015
as Il Conte
In the Middle Ages, Federico, a soldier, visits the convent in Bobbio, where Sister Benedetta is facing charges of witchery for seducing Fabrizio, Fed...

Io, Arlecchino
2015

La valigia
2014
as Old Victor (voice)
Secluded from the rest of the world in a bare and anonymous room, an old man recalls the most important moments of his life thanks to the memories con...

Tellurica - Racconti dal cratere
2014
as "Anniversario"

Francis: One Year of Pontificate
2014
as Narrator
Hear the words of Pope Francis and follow him on his travels through video footage and interviews.

Prophecy - The Africa of Pasolini
2013
as Narrator of poems and voice of Sartre
Pasolini seeks in Africa the peasant and revolutionary authenticity he had sought in the Roman villages. This hope will end in a new disappointment: A...

The Great Beauty
2013
as Cardinal Bellucci
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks...

The Ideal City
2013
as Custode del Maneggio
Actor turned director Luigi Lo Cascio stars as the talented architect and fervent environmentalist Michele who has moved from Palermo to his ideal cit...

Il rosso e il blu
2012
as Prof. Fiorito
The story of a teacher and his students, set in an Italian high school.

Dormant Beauty
2012
as Lo psichiatra
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a ...

The Vanishing of Pato
2012
as Don Carmelo

Seven Acts of Mercy
2012
as Antonio
Luminita, a young illegal immigrant living on the edge of a shanty town, has hatched a plan to get herself out of her predicament. To carry it through...

The Last Man on Earth
2011
as Padre di Luca
The story of the latest week on the earth before the announce of the landing of an extraterrestrial society on earth seen by the eyes of a misogynist ...

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010
as Self

Christine Cristina
2010
as Sartorius
La balena di Rossellini
2010
La Balena di Rossellini origins from one of the most beautiful Roberto Rossellini's dreams, an exemplary project for his autorial path. The film conce...

The Red Shadows
2009
as Sergio Siniscalchi
An intellectual encounters a youth group that seeks social change.
Aria
2009
as Giovanni

All Human Rights for All
2008
Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 ar...

Narciso - Dietro ai cannoni, davanti ai muli
2008
as Narciso Dal Cason

The Demons of St. Petersburg
2008
as Pavlovic
St. Petersburg, 1860. After a member of the imperial family is assassinated, Fyodor Dostoevsky meets one of the conspirators, who reveals that his com...

Secret Journey
2006
as Padre Angelo
After witnessing the murder of their mother thirty years ago, a man and his sister struggle with challenges of their adult lives.
Nero
2004
as Amleto

H.P. Lovecraft - Ipotesi di un viaggio in Italia
2004
as H.P. Lovecraft (voice)
A documentary about the possible ties between H.P.LOVECRAFT and the Polesine region (Italy), stimulated by the casual discovery of a mysterious manusc...

The Voyage Home
2004
De Reditu takes place in 415 AD- five years after the devestating sack of Rome by the Visigoths- and tells the true story of Claudio Rutilio Namaziano...

Alla fine della notte
2003

Good Morning, Night
2003
as Aldo Moro
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from ...
Stessa rabbia, stessa primavera
2003
as Himself
A documentary about the making of "Buongiorno, notte" and the films and politics of director Marco Bellocchio.

Le intermittenze del cuore
2003
as Carlo

It's Easier for a Camel...
2003
as Father
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 ...

Quartet
2001
as Paolo
The film begins on New Year’s Eve 2001 when Angelica attempts suicide by somewhat theatrically cutting her wrists in the bath. Over the weeks that fol...

L'ultima lezione
2001
as Federico Caffè

Il mnemonista
2000
as L.
First violin in the orchestra of a big city, S. has an extraordinary memory, which leads him to remember every detail of what falls under his attentio...

The Body of the Soul
1999
as Ernesto
Ernesto is doomed to loneliness since the loss of his wife. He is a writer who lives alone without any children, and is an antisocial person. However,...

Milestones
1999
as Father
Following the death of their best friend, four guys and the dead men's sister steal his body and burn it on a beach in Italy to fulfill his last wish.

Marianna Ucrìa
1997
as Duke Pietro
In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry at age 13, bearing three children before even turning 16, when she finall...

Triumph and Ruins
1997
History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by the voice of Patty Pravo. Presented at the Taormi...

Les Démons de Jésus
1997
as Raymond Piacentini
Set in the late 1960s, a family of Gypsies live in a dilapidated pavilion in the western suburbs of Paris.

Intolerance
1996
as Professor (segment "Ottant'anni di Intolerance")
A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.

Le fils préféré
1994
as Raphaël, le père
Jean-Paul Mantegna, the son of Italian immigrants now living in Nice, is a hunted man, riddled with debt and involved in borderline illegal companies....

The Butterfly's Dream
1994
as Il padre
This European existential drama utilizes complex symbols inspired by abstract psychological theories to explore the effects and reasons behind a young...

Miracle of Marcellino
1991
as Il precettore
In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they pr...

In nome del popolo sovrano
1990
as Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli
1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.

Traces of an Amorous Life
1990
as The teacher
What is love? In how many forms can it manifest itself? 14 short episodes about love, spanning generations of lovers...to answer.

The Mask
1988
as Elia
A debauched nobleman offers himself to a beautiful woman, but she is repelled by his advances. He dons a mask and tries again, and this time is more s...

According to Pontius Pilate
1987
as Barabba
The story of salvation is told from the perspective of the Roman governor in Judea, Pontius Pilate.

The Gold Rimmed Glasses
1987
A Jewish couple and a homosexual doctor fall to prejudice and scandal in 1938 Italy.

Dark Eyes
1987
as attorney
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.

Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
1986
as Salvatore Cantalamessa aka Turi
A charming billionaire manager kidnaps a criminal and locks him up in her private villa in Sardinia.

A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit
1983
as Dottor Crisafulli
The Minister of the Interior gets stuck in his ultra-technological car and a rival Member of Parliament tries desperately to help him, while chaos spr...

The Persians
1975
as Coreuta
An adaptation of the Aeschylus play.

Seven Beauties
1975
as the socialist
Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming t...

Morel's Invention
1974
as Ospite che si scusa
A castaway arrives on an island. He thinks it's uninhabited, but he sees a palace with also a hidden room. Soon he sees some people walking, dressed w...

Love and Anarchy
1973
as Pautasso
Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Tunin, a farmer turned anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing...