Tonino Guerra — Playwright (22)
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Piece of the Sky (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Un ettaro di cielo
director: Aglauco Casadio actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Rosanna Schiaffino …
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) [Movie] Douban IMDb
La domenica specialmente
director: 弗朗切斯科·博里尼 / 朱塞佩·贝托鲁奇 … actor: 布鲁诺·冈茨 / 基娅拉·卡塞利 …
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) [Movie] Douban IMDb
Sissignore
director: 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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Orders are Orders (1972) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Gli ordini sono ordini
director: Franco Giraldi actor: 莫尼卡·维蒂 / 克劳迪娜·奥格尔 …
other title: Gli ordini sono ordini / Les ordres sont les ordres …
Giorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice that orders her to perform actions out of the ordinary.
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Three Brothers (1981) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Tre fratelli
director: 弗朗西斯科·罗西 actor: 菲利普·努瓦雷 / 米凯莱·普拉奇多 …
other title: 三兄弟 / Tre fratelli …
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come.
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The Mystery of Oberwald (1981) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Il Mistero di Oberwald
6.3 (6 ratings) director: 米开朗基罗·安东尼奥尼 actor: 莫尼卡·维蒂 / 保罗·博纳切利 …
other title: 奥伯瓦尔德的秘密 / Il Mistero di Oberwald …
A man, mirroring the assassinated King, infiltrates a castle to kill the Queen but hesitates, leading to a deadly dare and revelation of shared history.