Tonino Guerra — Playwright (54)

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The Voyeur (1970)
Giochi particolari IMDb Douban
other title: 偷窥情狂 / Giochi particolari …
Forty-year-old Sandro is married to Claude. Sandro has one strange obsession: he is a self-confessed voyeur. He films his wife in all walks of life on his wobbly hand held camcorder. But everything changes when Mark enters their life.

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Piece of the Sky (1958)
Un ettaro di cielo WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: Una hectárea de cielo / Un ettaro di cielo …
As he does every year, Severino, a young hawker who goes around the festivals of the various villages in the Po Delta, returns to Migliarino to sell his knick-knacks and tell far-fetched stories about the future and progress. Besides the beautiful Marina, three gullible old friends live here, pensioners who live off poverty, to whom he proposes the sale of a hectare of sky.

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Especially on Sunday (1991)
La domenica specialmente IMDb Douban
other title: 四段情 / Tonino Guerra …
Four lighthearted stories set in the idyllic Italian countryside: an old grouch is befriended by a stray dog; a lonely widow spies on her newly-wed son and daughter-in-law; a German tourist tries to seduce a younger nurse. The fourth segment was cut in the US by its distributor Miramax.

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Sissignore (1968)
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Ugo Tognazzi actor: Ugo Tognazzi / 玛莉亚·葛拉齐亚·布切拉 …
other title: Dismissed on His Wedding Night / El fiel servidor
A businessman is nicknamed "L'avvocato" and his driver, Oscar, is a yes-man. When L'avvocato has a crash while driving his car, Oscar is put in jail in his place. When Oscar gets out, he finds himself married to the beautiful Maria, but he can't even touch her: she is l'avvocato's lover. Afterwards Oscar is appointed manager, but he can't manage a dime. At the end he shall find himself again in jail, hoping that his "sissignore" (yessir) will let him have, sometime, a driver to send to prison in his place. —

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The Sparrow's Fluttering (1988)
Il frullo del passero IMDb Douban
other title: La femme de mes amours / 我爱的女人 …
A woman, who has been the mistress of a man who has just died, thinks about leaving the little Italian village where they lived and moving to another place. An old and rich man offers her a place in his house, however, she will have to listen to him telling his past love stories.

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Butterfly on the Shoulder (1978)
Un papillon sur l'épaule WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
雅克·德雷 actor: 利诺·文图拉 / 克劳迪娜·奥格尔 …
other title: 肩膀上的蝴蝶 / Un papillon sur l'épaule …
This film starts out like a lot of espionage thrillers: an innocent man witnesses a murder and finds himself mixed up in a deadly intrigue of spies and counter-spies. A movie of this sort can easily become infuriatingly complicated or just plain silly. At worst it can be both, as for example Jacques Deray's earlier spy thriller "Avec la peau des autres", which also starred Lino Ventura. "Un papillon sur l'épaule" works better because it never fully gives up its mystery. We know that something sinister is afoot and we can make some intelligent guesses, but the thing is never spelled out for us. Lino Ventura is like Alice (a paunchy, middle-aged Alice) who tumbles down a rabbit-hole and wakes up in a world that's not quite the same as before, where no-one believes him or can explain what's happening and where innocuous-looking strangers suddenly take on a menacing significance. The white rabbit of this particular looking-glass world is played by Claudine Auger, a slinky spy who keeps whizzing up in a battered car to dispense gnomic advice and warnings. Paul Crauchet, who acted with Ventura nine years earlier in Melville's "L'Armée des ombres", plays a lunatic in pyjamas with an imaginary talking butterfly on his shoulder and a scarecrow in his bed. It sounds bizarre and it is, but I liked it. Ventura, who starred in plenty of espionage thrillers in his career, is believable and sympathetic; the Spanish locations are used to great effect; and Jacques Deray's assured direction feeds the suspense and paranoia, his camera peering around corners and through doorways and windows (one murder is witnessed through revolving doors). An enjoyable thriller and a must-see for Ventura fans. (kinsayder - IMDB).

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虎女 (1979)
Letti selvaggi Douban
路易吉·赞帕 actor: 乌苏拉·安德丝 / 劳拉·安托妮莉 …
other title: Letti selvaggi / Camas calientes
一部意大利喜剧,讲述了一个涉及公主项链的抢劫案,以及一个人物的角色,他们不是他们所看到的。他们做任何能得到项链的东西。

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Many Wars Ago (1970)
Uomini contro WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
弗朗西斯科·罗西 actor: 马克·弗雷切特 / Alain Cuny …
other title: 寸土必争 / Uomini contro …
Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie.

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The Ladykiller In Rome (1961)
L'assassino Douban
埃里奥·贝多利 actor: 马塞洛·马斯楚安尼 / 米切林内·普雷斯利
other title: 谋杀犯 / L'assassino …
尼娜和莉兹被送进同一间精神病院,并在此相识。尼娜对父亲的死心怀愧疚,悲惨事件发生以来一直情绪低落。至于莉兹,她是个有点精神错乱的女孩,曾试图自杀,因此被监禁于此。一个周末晚上,莉兹劝服尼娜一起溜出医院,和自己的男朋友以及其他朋友将城市漆成一片红色。然而事情并没有照计划进行……BY: