Known For
Complete Filmography
Girati di Anna – Presentrazione a Venezia, settembre 1975
2025
as Self
After its premiere at the Berlinale Forum in February '75, Anna was also presented in Venice, the film was followed by a very well-participated debate...
Permette? Alberto Sordi
2020
Researcher
Biopic about Italian actor Alberto Sordi, from his beginnings 1937 to celebrity in 1957.
Love Among the Ruins
2015
as Himself
Love Among the Ruins is a spoof about the miraculous discovery and restoration of a long lost Italian silent film. The film connects a contemporary fi...
Belluscone: A Sicilian Story
2014
This film tells the story of three defeats: Berlusconi’s political and human defeat in his “twilight”, the one of Ciccio Mirra, Berlusconi’s unconditi...
Giulio Andreotti - Il cinema visto da vicino
2014
Director
C'era una volta il prossimamente
2014
as Self
A passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions"
Aspirante vedovo
2013
as Professore
A ne'er-do-well who's married to a millionnaire realizes his financial trouble might be solved if his wife was dead - and sets out a plot to achieve j...
L'uomo che amava il cinema
2012
as Self
Piero Tortolina has been a point of reference for a whole generation of film lovers. Pioneer of cinema-clubs and great film collector, he has been an ...
La meravigliosa avventura di Antonio Franconi
2011
Just before sleeping, a small boy finds a crate of ancient toys: a little circus, lead soldiers and a book about circus legend Antonio Franconi - whos...
Cinico in TV
2011
as Self
One Life, Maybe Two
2010
as Professore di cinema
You're 20 years old and life is full of endless possibilities. But, on a rainy evening, you bumps into another car and life hasn't been the same anymo...
The Big Dream
2009
as Professor
Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up undercover among college students protesting the government...
Fuga dal call center
2008
La rabbia 1, la rabbia 2, la rabbia 3... l'Arabia
2008
Director
The story of La Rabbia by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovanni Guareschi, a movie lost in the archives of a laboratory in Rome, and recently re-discovered...
The Roses of the Desert
2006
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, s...
The Caiman
2006
as Beppe Savonese, critico cinematografico
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 p...
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004
Writer
Fellini's TV Advertisements
2003
Director
Immediately preceding INTERVISTA, director Federico Fellini made GINGER AND FRED (1986). For that film, Fellini created a number of comically exaggera...
The Return of Cagliostro
2003
as Self
In the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sic...
The Last Sequence
2003
as Self - film critic
A documentary on Fellini’s lost alternate ending for 8½
Una vita non violenta
1999
as il prete
Cuba libre - Velocipedi ai tropici
1997
as Critico
A group of Italian people go to Cuba, for various different reasons. One of them would like to remake Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief. But it won...
In camera mia
1992
as tassista
L'ultima mazurka
1986
Screenplay
Sweet Dreams
1981
as aiuto regista
Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 stu...