Аватар персоны Alessandro Cicognini

Alessandro Cicognini

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15-01-1906

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M° Alessandro Cicognini, Cicognini, Sandro Cicognini

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Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy

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Don Camillo in Moscow

Don Camillo in Moscow

Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union.
7.1

Year:

1965

The Pigeon That Took Rome

The Pigeon That Took Rome

An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.
5.3

Year:

1962

The Last Judgment

The Last Judgment

The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino Ventura. The film was a huge flop, massacred by critics and audiences when it was released. It was filmed in black and white, but the last sequence, the dance at theatre, is in color.
6.4

Year:

1961

Don Camillo: Monsignor

Don Camillo: Monsignor

Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.
6.9

Year:

1961

It Started in Naples

It Started in Naples

Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an 8 year old boy who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. To make matters worse, Lucia happens to be a sexy nightclub dancer.
6.3

Year:

1960

A Breath of Scandal

A Breath of Scandal

A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire.
5.1

Year:

1960

Everyone's in Love

Everyone's in Love

Giovanni is a young widower with a son who is attracted to the charming teen Allegra.
5.3

Year:

1959

The Black Orchid

The Black Orchid

An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster's widow.
6.2

Year:

1959

Bread, Love and Andalucia

Bread, Love and Andalucia

Determined to postpone his own wedding, a former marshal leaves his bride-to-be and participates in an international music festival in Spain, where he falls for a young dancer.
6.2

Year:

1958

Fast and Sexy

Fast and Sexy

A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the village blacksmith.
5.2

Year:

1958

Holiday Island

Holiday Island

Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.
6.1

Year:

1957

The Window to Luna Park

The Window to Luna Park

A man has problems connecting with his son after coming home from work in Africa, after his wife's death.
6.2

Year:

1957

Fathers and Sons

Fathers and Sons

The adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their love, but the other, a doctor of prestige, is not at all happy about it.
6.7

Year:

1957

Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge

Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge

Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.
7.6

Year:

1956

The Roof

The Roof

Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This comedy follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed couple can have their own home.
7.4

Year:

1956

Time of Vacation

Time of Vacation

Holiday time in Corniolo, a resort 40 kilometres from Rome. In a recently opened hotel various characters sojourn and love stories begin and end.
6.2

Year:

1956

Loser Takes All

Loser Takes All

Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...
5.4

Year:

1956

The Band of Honest Men

The Band of Honest Men

Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.
7.7

Year:

1956

The Bigamist

The Bigamist

A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently.
6.6

Year:

1956

What a Woman!

What a Woman!

A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.
6.0

Year:

1956

Scandal in Sorrento

Scandal in Sorrento

Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
6.9

Year:

1955

Don Camillo's Last Round

Don Camillo's Last Round

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.
7.2

Year:

1955

Are We Men or Corporals?

Are We Men or Corporals?

These are the years of the Second World War, and Toto is imprisoned in a concentration camp, suffering the harassment of Colonel Hammler, a Nazi cruel and despotic.
6.6

Year:

1955

Summertime

Summertime

Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to finance a summer in romantic Venice, where she finally meets the man of her dreams, the elegant Renato Di Rossi.
6.8

Year:

1955

It Happens in Roma

It Happens in Roma

Airy comedy of a man a woman and the lengths they'll go to for a really great apartment! Located in the center of Rome with amazing views both want it and strike the compromise of marrying each other platonically to get it. The woman still hopes for true love and the man agrees to step aside should that special someone come along but he is secretly smitten with her and surreptitiously makes her various suitors look like fools. All goes well until he comes up against Rosanno Brazzi and finds him a tough challenge to overcome.
5.2

Year:

1955

The Art of Getting Along

The Art of Getting Along

In this comedy Alberto Sordi plays Rosario Scimoni, known as Sasà, an opportunistic and unscrupulous guy, nephew of the mayor of Catania, and he's always ready to take sides with anyone who can help him. He switches from socialism to fascism; he changes his political faith the same way he changes women. He even tries to found his own party.
6.8

Year:

1954

Too Bad She's Bad

Too Bad She's Bad

When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences.
6.9

Year:

1954

The Fate of Two Queens

The Fate of Two Queens

Anthology film in which Hedy Lamarr plays 2 queens during 2 different time periods. Ulmer directed the Genoveffa di Brabante part whereas Allégret was responsible for the empress Josephine section after he left due to artistic differences with Lamarr.
0.0

Year:

1954

Frisky

Frisky

The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
7.1

Year:

1954

Frisky

Frisky

The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
7.1

Year:

1954

The Gold of Naples

The Gold of Naples

A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.
7.3

Year:

1954

Graziella

Graziella

Naples 1821. Alphonse, a young poet belonging to a noble French family, is caught by a storm at sea. Fortunately the boat manage to reach the shores of Procida, where Alphonse is welcomed by the family of Andrea. Here he meets the beautiful Graziella.
6.0

Year:

1954

Ulysses

Ulysses

A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.
6.5

Year:

1954

Crossed Swords

Crossed Swords

Nobleman Rainiero, Sidonia's duke son, comes back home with his friend Renzo. Soon after arrival, Renzo will get in a big trouble and he will be forced to choose between going to church for marriage or going to prison.
4.0

Year:

1954

The Anatomy of Love

The Anatomy of Love

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
6.4

Year:

1954

Bread, Love and Dreams

Bread, Love and Dreams

When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
7.0

Year:

1953

We, the Women

We, the Women

Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.
6.0

Year:

1953

The Return of Don Camillo

The Return of Don Camillo

Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
7.2

Year:

1953

The Return of Don Camillo

The Return of Don Camillo

Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
7.2

Year:

1953

Indiscretion of an American Wife

Indiscretion of an American Wife

While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?
5.9

Year:

1953

Anna's Sin

Anna's Sin

Anna's Sin tells the story of a black American actor (Johnson) who falls in love with a white woman playing Desdemona to his Othello on the Italian stage.
5.0

Year:

1953

Sunday Heroes

Sunday Heroes

Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.
6.7

Year:

1952

La Favorita

La Favorita

0.0

Year:

1952

La fiammata

La fiammata

Just before the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, a party is held in the castle of the Stettin's Counts.
0.0

Year:

1952

Times Gone By

Times Gone By

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
5.1

Year:

1952

Wanda the Sinner

Wanda the Sinner

Wrongly accused of his wife's death, a marine officer is forced to resign and sees his life fall apart.
5.0

Year:

1952

Wanda the Sinner

Wanda the Sinner

Wrongly accused of his wife's death, a marine officer is forced to resign and sees his life fall apart.
5.0

Year:

1952

Wife for a Night

Wife for a Night

A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
5.8

Year:

1952

Two Cents Worth of Hope

Two Cents Worth of Hope

Once a young woman gets a man to fall in love with her, he must prove himself financially stable and meet her dowry requirements.
6.2

Year:

1952

The Little World of Don Camillo

The Little World of Don Camillo

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
7.6

Year:

1952

The Little World of Don Camillo

The Little World of Don Camillo

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
7.6

Year:

1952

Hello Elephant

Hello Elephant

Vittorio De Sica is a teacher struggling to take care of his family and always dreaming that Parliament will increase the salaries for teachers and life will become easier for his wife, Maria Mereander, and kids. An Indian prince (Sabu) visits Italy, is assisted by the teacher and gives De Sica a baby elephant as a reward. This upsets the landlord, Nando Bruno, the other tenants, and the neighborhood. He takes the elephant away but, like Lassie, it comes home.
5.7

Year:

1952

Umberto D.

Umberto D.

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.
7.9

Year:

1952

Cops and Robbers

Cops and Robbers

Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.
7.5

Year:

1951

Position Wanted

Position Wanted

Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...
8.2

Year:

1951

Position Wanted

Position Wanted

Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...
8.2

Year:

1951

Miracle in Milan

Miracle in Milan

Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.
7.3

Year:

1951

First Communion

First Communion

The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.
6.1

Year:

1950

Tomorrow Is Too Late

Tomorrow Is Too Late

Progressive schoolteachers Landi and Anna have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella and Franco. The two kids are enamored with one another and decide to experiment with some of the knowledge they've gleaned in the classroom.
5.8

Year:

1950

La strada finisce sul fiume

La strada finisce sul fiume

An American journalist, Barbara, goes to Italy to interview Roi, the country's most notorious outlaw when she imagines to be some kind of modern-day Robin Hood. Through local contacts and friends, she arranges a meeting and finds that her "robin-hood'" is just a hood, hoodlum and ruthless criminal. The police are about to capture him but he uses her as an hostage to make his escape but they are marooned for a night in a country farm house. It becomes a harrowing night for her and the poor farmers.
0.0

Year:

1950

High Time

High Time

The historic clock of a small town needs to be repaired but there is no money in the town coffers to pay for it. Don Paolo (Peppino Spadaro), the Priest, raises the money by lottery and thinks the surplus should go to the poor. The Communists and Socialists object because they are afraid the priest will get the credit and they claim it as "the people's money." The democratic mayor (Arturo Brogaglia) can think of no solution other than organizing committees and sub-committees. Finally, Rocchetti (Paola Stoppi), the town mechanic who has no answers for town problems and hates the clergy and politicians alike, comes forward and repairs the clock for the sheer joy of work.
0.0

Year:

1950

Paolo e Francesca

Paolo e Francesca

The tragic love story, already narrated by Dante in his Inferno, of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta. Francesca is married to Paolo's brother, Gianciotto an old and crippled man and secretly Paolo's mistress. When Gianciotto finds out tragedy ensues.
0.0

Year:

1950

The Flame that Never Dies

The Flame that Never Dies

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself.
5.2

Year:

1949

The Earth Cries Out

The Earth Cries Out

Two Jews and their former British comrade land on opposite sides of the Palestine issue following World War II.
5.2

Year:

1949

Vento d'Africa

Vento d'Africa

0.0

Year:

1949

The Mysterious Rider

The Mysterious Rider

Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.
4.6

Year:

1948

Bicycle Thieves

Bicycle Thieves

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
8.2

Year:

1948

Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris

Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris

The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attempt by suspicious innkeeper Thenardier, and a climax on the barricades of Paris.
6.0

Year:

1948

Unknown Men of San Marino

Unknown Men of San Marino

A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War.
4.8

Year:

1948

Les Misérables

Les Misérables

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
6.0

Year:

1948

Il cavaliere del sogno

Il cavaliere del sogno

Luisa's dreams of love comes true in a hotel in the mountains.
0.0

Year:

1947

The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio

This is an Italian live action film with Alessandro Tomei as Pinocchio.
6.5

Year:

1947

Ultimo amore

Ultimo amore

0.0

Year:

1947

Cronaca nera

Cronaca nera

A mob boss seeks refuge from the police at the home of an ordinary family.
0.0

Year:

1947

L'elisir d'amore

L'elisir d'amore

Nemorino is hopelessly in love with Adina but she is attracted to a dashing captain.
3.5

Year:

1947

Shoeshine

Shoeshine

At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to ride...
7.8

Year:

1946

Two Anonymous Letters

Two Anonymous Letters

When her sweetheart Bruno joins the Italian army, Gina, bored by her lack of social life, weds Tullio. She comes to regret her decision when Tullio proves to be a Nazi collaborationist. Casting her lot with the Resistance movement, Gina is forced into a difficult decision when the safety of ex-lover Bruno is endangered by the treachery of Tullio.
5.0

Year:

1945

La resa di Titì

La resa di Titì

A young diplomat falls in love with a lady he has followed in the street and in order to establish a relationship, he introduces her into her house proposing a connection between Titì, the lady's dog and her Pekingese. The husband of the woman, somewhat naive, lends itself to the game and the dongiovanni becomes a regular home. The lady knows how to resist the siege and, after the critical moment, speaks clearly to the young man who definitively desists from the enterprise.
0.0

Year:

1945

Scorned Flesh

Scorned Flesh

A sailor, Paolo, falls in love with a girl named Luisa. The two decides to get married, but on the day of the marriage the woman is involved in a serious car accident.
0.0

Year:

1943

Il nostro prossimo

Il nostro prossimo

0.0

Year:

1943

Four Steps in the Clouds

Four Steps in the Clouds

A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....
7.3

Year:

1942

Quarta pagina

Quarta pagina

0.0

Year:

1942

La maestrina

La maestrina

In a small mountain town, a new teacher arrives, Maria Bini, who, with her extreme confidentiality, arouses people's curiosity and gossip. The young mayor of the village feels attracted to the girl and begins to court her.
0.0

Year:

1942

Primo amore

Primo amore

An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.
0.0

Year:

1941

The Iron Crown

The Iron Crown

In the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of kingdom. He abandons the prince Arminio to beasts in the woods, but lions don't kill him and breed him as one of them.
5.8

Year:

1941

Ridi pagliaccio

Ridi pagliaccio

When she is in jail to defend her colleague, the secretary Anna Alessandri finds out that her man got engaged to another woman.
0.0

Year:

1941

Senza cielo

Senza cielo

0.0

Year:

1940

Una romantica avventura

Una romantica avventura

Directed by Mario Camerini.
5.9

Year:

1940

A Hundred Thousand Dollars

A Hundred Thousand Dollars

On a whim, an American man offers a girl the sum of $100,000 if she will marry him.
5.5

Year:

1940

The Sinner

The Sinner

Seduced and abandonned by her fiance, Maria Ferrante leaves home to avoid any scandal. She is trying to find work and place to stay but one misfortune after another comes into her life Venice Film Festival 1940
5.5

Year:

1940

Beyond Love

Beyond Love

Venice Film Festival 1940
0.0

Year:

1940

An Adventure of Salvator Rosa

An Adventure of Salvator Rosa

Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely struggle against the cruel tyrant that frightens the country.
6.0

Year:

1939

Department Store

Department Store

In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.
5.8

Year:

1939

Ettore Fieramosca

Ettore Fieramosca

ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current patriotic fervor and pride in the Italian nation, and it contributed to a revival of Italian nationalism.
6.3

Year:

1938

Il corsaro nero

Il corsaro nero

6.0

Year:

1938

I due misantropi

I due misantropi

0.0

Year:

1937