Аватар персоны Paolo Sassanelli

Paolo Sassanelli

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29-10-1958

Birthday

Scorpio

Zodiac Sign

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Total Films

Also known as (male)

Bari, Italy

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

69 Works

producer

0 Works

director

5 Works

writer

5 Works

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La tentazione di esistere

La tentazione di esistere

A pensioner with many phobias realises one day that four million francs have been mistakenly deposited into his account. Instead of notifying the bank, he makes an unexpected decision: he withdraws the money and flees on his moped.
0.0

Year:

2023

Quasi orfano

Quasi orfano

Valentino Tarocco invents a new life as a famous Milanese designer. He has removed all connection with the past, but an accident will bring him back to his twenties, causing him to recover his Apulian dialect and love for his origins.
6.1

Year:

2022

Viaggio a sorpresa

Viaggio a sorpresa

5.4

Year:

2022

Sulla giostra

Sulla giostra

5.4

Year:

2021

Castelli di sabbia

Castelli di sabbia

Past and present mood surface and superimpose in the director's parents' private archive images, among the relations which retrace the same, inexplicable steps.
0.0

Year:

2021

In der Familie: Part 2

In der Familie: Part 2

Sofia Modica suffers from the fact that her mother betrayed the family to the police in Dortmund. She went into hiding with her father Luca and Pippo in Munich. The hope that they can quickly travel on to Calabria is a small consolation for Sofia. They are dependent on the Italian entrepreneur Domenico Palladio, a high-ranking member of the 'Ndrangheta.
0.0

Year:

2020

Sassiwood

Sassiwood

0.0

Year:

2020

Compagni di Viaggio

Compagni di Viaggio

This is the story of Abou, a man who lives far from his country and his affections.
4.0

Year:

2020

Tuttapposto

Tuttapposto

Roberto is a student in a corrupt university where teachers sell exams and only hire friends and relatives.
6.5

Year:

2019

A Whole New Life

A Whole New Life

Gianni is a taxi driver dissatisfied with his life. One day by chance he gets the opportunity to take possession of the villa and life of a billionaire on holiday.
5.7

Year:

2019

L'eroe

L'eroe

The life of Giorgio, a mediocre journalist, changes abruptly when the director of the newspaper decides to transfer him to a provincial office. Only the kidnapping of young Carlo gives him back his work as a correspondent.
6.0

Year:

2019

Magical Nights

Magical Nights

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 found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who–promptly taken to the police–start to tell their version of the story.
6.1

Year:

2018

Nevermind

Nevermind

A lawyer with a deplorable habit; a sitter struggling with her disturbing new job; a childhood friend who's hiding something; a chef with an unspeakable desire; a psychologist haunted by a tow truck... In each segment, a normal person suffers extremely weird, disturbing and paradoxical situations. These situations may seem incredible, yet they happen.
5.0

Year:

2018

Due piccoli italiani

Due piccoli italiani

The daring journey through Europe of two somewhat naive friends, Salvatore and Felice, fleeing a small town in Puglia, who find themselves catapulted to Rotterdam and then to Iceland. For the first time in their lives they will discover what it means to feel alive and happy. Through some mishap and with the help of the generous and extravagant Anke, they will overcome their fears and inhibitions. They will be overwhelmed by life, discovering the joy of existing and of experiencing and receiving affection and love in a strange triangle of relationships typical of a 'modern family', bizarre and reassuring at the same time.
8.0

Year:

2018

Sugar Baby

Sugar Baby

To help her financially struggling mother, a teenage girl turns to escorting and meets a wealthy man who makes a proposal she can't refuse.
5.2

Year:

2018

Abbraccialo per me

Abbraccialo per me

6.6

Year:

2016

Somewhere Amazing

Somewhere Amazing

Asti, third millennium. Lucia, mother and wife on the verge of boredom, opens up to friendship with the immigrant Ahmed, looking for an escape from the routine.
4.7

Year:

2015

We Are Francesco

We Are Francesco

Francesco, a young man born without arms who has learned to live despite his disability, has access to good education thanks to material wealth and the love of his parents. But his sexual drive remains unfulfilled. Only his childhood friend Stefano will understand the frustration of his friend and help him.
4.2

Year:

2015

Ameluk

Ameluk

2.5

Year:

2015

La dolce arte di esistere

La dolce arte di esistere

From the director of "L'estate di mio fratello", a movie about the incapability of relating with others. And the possibility of disappearing for real.
2.0

Year:

2015

Sun in My Eyes

Sun in My Eyes

After her longtime marriage ends painfully, a lawyer finds new purpose by working at a refugee center, where she meets a child that changes her life.
5.3

Year:

2015

Ever Been to the Moon?

Ever Been to the Moon?

Giulia is 30, single and working a high-end fashion job that allows her to travel and lead a dream life in Milan and Paris. However, a chance meeting with charming, down-to-earth farmer Renzo will makes her realize she's missing the most important thing in life—true love.
5.7

Year:

2015

Una domenica notte

Una domenica notte

At 46, Antonio Colucci realizes his dream of becoming a great horror movie director is far from being accomplished and he tries hard to seize what might be his last chance of getting a story of his on the screen.
0.0

Year:

2014

Song'e Napule

Song'e Napule

The police infiltrates an unemployed classically-trained musician into a wedding band in order to drive out an elusive Camorra boss.
6.6

Year:

2013

All Against All

All Against All

5.9

Year:

2013

Cosimo and Nicole

Cosimo and Nicole

Cosimo is Italian, Nicole French. They meet in Genoa during the G8 protests and immediately fall in love. Swept off their feet by an overwhelming and uncontrollable passion, they decide never to part. After much wandering they decide to return to Genoa, where they start working for a friend of theirs who organises concerts. Things seem to be going well until a tragic accident almost sours their relationship, as a result of which they’re faced with two options that can change their future. Forever.
6.4

Year:

2012

Paura

Paura

Three young musicians think they have luck on their side when they score the keys to a beautiful villa outside of Rome for the weekend. Unfortunately, they soon discover that they are not alone.
4.8

Year:

2012

Henry

Henry

The detective Silvestri has a zealous wife, a child on the way and a double murder to be solved in a livid Rome selling drugs and consuming lives. His investigation intersects the lives of young people and affected Nina and John, in spite of themselves involved in the murder of a drug dealer and his mother. Aerobics instructor her layabout him, the young lovers try to work out and awkwardly from a story larger than themselves. In the background is moving while the murder underworld clan committed to winning a prestigious post in the heroin market. Among African criminals and delirious, Silvestri will be up to restore order and find the culprits. The price you pay will be high, however.
5.1

Year:

2012

FRATELLI MINORI

FRATELLI MINORI

10.0

Year:

2012

Un Natale per due

Un Natale per due

An Italian style remake of "Due Date".
5.6

Year:

2011

Oltre il Mare

Oltre il Mare

3.4

Year:

2011

Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show

Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show

Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani's house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side, and Alessio fall in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares. There is a reason why Terzani's bestsellers are so frightening ... Alessio will discover that reality can be unexpectedly more terrifying than every brainchild, and he will have to fight hard to escape Ubaldo Terzani's jaws.
4.6

Year:

2011

Make a Fake

Make a Fake

5.4

Year:

2011

Questo mondo è per te

Questo mondo è per te

19-year-old Teo, an aspiring writer who has grown up worshipping the likes of John Fante, Bukowski and Luciano Bianciardi, suddenly finds himself in dire need of becoming financially independent in the wake of his father's health problems, jeopardizing his studies and future.
6.4

Year:

2011

Unlikely Revolutionaries

Unlikely Revolutionaries

Five ordinary people disillusioned with politics—a perennial temp, a docker, a university professor, a TV reporter, and a convict—decide to kidnap a politician, to dispense justice and use the ransom money to compensate the family of a blue-collar worker who died in workplace accident.
5.6

Year:

2010

Interferenze

Interferenze

0.0

Year:

2009

Giulia Doesn't Date at Night

Giulia Doesn't Date at Night

Guido, an acclaimed author, leads an idyllic life with his beautiful wife and teenage daughter. But despite his seemingly perfect existence, Guido's restless search for inspiration leads him into the arms of Giulia, a charming and mysterious swim instructor, who is hiding a secret from her past.
6.5

Year:

2009

Days and Clouds

Days and Clouds

Set in Genoa, the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after Michele loses his job. He and his wife Elsa are forced to give up their affluent lifestyle and cope with the tensions of moving into a smaller home, finding new work, and making sacrifices.
6.8

Year:

2007

Don't Think About It

Don't Think About It

Still an unsuccessful punk rock musician at 36, Stefano returns to his hometown in the countryside to help with his family's business.
6.6

Year:

2007

Last Minute Marocco

Last Minute Marocco

Guided by the spirit of adventure and desire to escape, a group of Italian boys decide to leave secretly for Morocco, soon followed by one of their apprensive parents.
5.0

Year:

2007

Nicola, lì dove sorge il sole

Nicola, lì dove sorge il sole

"Nicola, where the sun rises" - Tells the true story of the transfer, from Myra (today Demre in Turkey ) to Bari , of the relics of St. Nicholas. 62 sailors arrive in Lycia aboard 3 sailing ships to steal the bones of the saint. They return to Bari on 8 May 1087 and announce they want to build a new basilica dedicated to St. Nicholas.
0.0

Year:

2006

Red Like the Sky

Red Like the Sky

A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound.
7.6

Year:

2006

...e se domani

...e se domani

Mimì reunites after many years with Caterina, with whom he has always been secretly in love. When her husband dies, Mimì decides to become part of her life.
5.7

Year:

2006

The Life I Want

The Life I Want

A relationship develops between seasoned actor Stefano and his young, ambitious co-star Laura when they are cast as the two leads in a film. Stefano must deal with his growing jealousy when Laura's career begins to take off.
6.7

Year:

2004

La vita è breve ma la giornata è lunghissima

La vita è breve ma la giornata è lunghissima

DV-shot documentary following a group of up-and-coming young Italian actors .
0.0

Year:

2004

Fate come noi

Fate come noi

6.5

Year:

2004

Aria

Aria

A Donatello award nominated short feature.
0.0

Year:

2004

Now or Never

Now or Never

2001. Soon-to-be-graduate David gets involved in the anti-globalization movement after falling for activist Viola in the months preceding the fateful events of the G8 summit in Genoa.
5.5

Year:

2003

L'ultima lezione

L'ultima lezione

0.0

Year:

2001

The Moor

The Moor

The illegitimate son of an enslaved African woman and Pope Clement VII becomes the head of the Medici dynasty. However, taking on that role doesn't mean that his family is going to accept him.
0.0

Year:

-

Senza Filtro

Senza Filtro

5.4

Year:

2001

Tandem

Tandem

5.4

Year:

2000

Roman Summer

Roman Summer

Former theatre actress comes back to Rome and meets old and new friends.
6.9

Year:

2000

My Younger Brother

My Younger Brother

Michele Moretti is an aspiring director who lives with his brother Niccolò with whom he manages mattresses sales; he spends his free time with his friends Francone and Giovanni and with Anna, a girl he has met and who sells paintings at traffic lights. One day he gets an interview with the director of a television network and, to make a good impression, he declares that he is Nanni Moretti 's younger brother.
0.0

Year:

2000

Fuori di me

Fuori di me

Documentary about a screening of Zanasi's previous film "Nella mischia" (1995) in an impoverished district of Bari.
0.0

Year:

2000

See You

See You

15-year-old Andrea lives in a world of his own, where an innocent friendship with a pretty girl becomes a full-blown romance. He invites her to a motor show in nearby Bologna, but she fails to show up at the bus station. Instead, Andrea is joined by his older sister Stefania–who's planning a runaway with her boyfriend Angelo.
7.0

Year:

1999

LaCapaGira

LaCapaGira

Bari, the last chills of a very cold winter. A gang of petty criminals rummages through the day and night of the suburbs, searching for a precious package sent from the Balkans and destined never to reach its final destination. What does the package contain? Important material for our characters; for the viewer, a passe-partout that opens the door to a jagged and surprising urban undergrowth.
7.1

Year:

1999

The Wasp and the Queen

The Wasp and the Queen

A gay man and a lesbian, both having reasons to try going straight, end up as a couple!
6.0

Year:

1999

Sono Positivo

Sono Positivo

A Southern Italian family is suddenly faced with AIDS. One of them has it. Which friend or family member could have begun this cycle of infection? The characters include a vain housewife, her straight-laced husband, her gay brother, and her husband's and brother's best friend. Hilarious mayhem ensues.
4.7

Year:

1999

Nella mischia

Nella mischia

Italian slice-of-life comedy-drama following the exploits of four low-life teenagers from Rome's suburbs.
2.0

Year:

1995

Moon Shadow

Moon Shadow

5.8

Year:

1995

Se non avessi l'amore

Se non avessi l'amore

The film covers the last year of Pier Giorgio Frassati life, son of the family that owned the newspaper La Stampa, who lived between 1901 and 1925 and was beatified in 1990.
6.0

Year:

1991