Giuseppe Battiston
Giuseppe Battiston (22 July 1968) is an Italian film, TV, and stage actor, director, writer, and producer. Born in Udine, he graduated from the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Arts in Milan. He is the winner of 3 David di Donatello awards. He is perhaps best known to... Read full bio →
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Lavoreremo da grandi
Three friends, Beppe, Umberto, and Gigi, await the arrival of young Toni to celebrate his newfound freedom. After an evening of heavy drinking at the village bar, the car they're about to drive home in hits something. Or rather, someone. Setting off a series of relentless bad decisions, the four flee and take refuge at Umberto's house.
Il corpo
Rich entrepreneur Rebecca Zuin has died from an alleged heart attack, raising suspicions on the part of a police inspector after her body disappears from the morgue. When her handsome young husband becomes a suspect, he starts thinking she may have faked her death to sadistically torment him.
Pinocchio
A puppet is brought to life by a fairy, who assigns him to lead a virtuous life in order to become a real boy.
Il grande passo
At six, Dario watched the first Moon landing on TV, sparking a lifelong dream to reach the stars. For the rest of his life, the ingenious curmudgeon built a homemade space rocket on his farm using scraps from the local hardware store. But, after a disastrous first launch burns down the neighbors' cornfields, Dario lands in jail.
Hotel Gagarin
An highly heterogeneous group of people go to Armenia to make a movie, all ignoring what will happen to each of them.
Perfetti sconosciuti
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever text message or phone call they will receive during the evening - and all hell breaks loose.
La felicità è un sistema complesso
Enrico Giusti works for a big corporation: he tries his best to save dying companies.
Zoran, il mio nipote scemo
Paolo, 40 years old, lives in a small Friulian town close to the north-eastern border. Unreliable and with a passion for good wine, he spends his days at the local tavern and stubbornly stalks his ex-wife.
La sedia della felicità
Italian North - East . Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician. Their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that belonged to a woman now dead. Business is not very good so, together begin the search.
Il comandante e la cicogna
A widowed working-class father falls in love with a struggling, poor artist.
Io sono Li
A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon.
Bar Sport
Inside Bar Sport, a bar on the outskirts of Bologna managed by the histrionic Onassis, the adventures of regulars and casual patrons unfold. Searching for a pinball machine or a payphone, they encounter the omnipresent "technician," so called for his passion for soccer and always ready to chat or moderate other people's discussions.
Notizie degli scavi
Uno su due
Uno su due è un film del 2006 con Fabio Volo, diretto da Eugenio Cappuccio. Presentato nella sezione Première della Festa del Cinema di Roma 2006, è uscito nelle sale italiane il 2 marzo 2007. Il film è tratto dal soggetto di Michele Pellegrini "Ci vediamo lassù", vincitore del Premio Solinas 2001.
La tigre e la neve
A love-struck Italian poet is stuck in Iraq at the onset of an American invasion.
La bestia nel cuore
Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart.
L'uomo perfetto
Lucia è innamorata di Paolo, il fidanzato della sua migliore amica Maria. In prossimità delle nozze dei due, scopre di essere ricambiata da Paolo e cerca di boicottare la cerimonia, facendo innamorare Maria di un uomo "costruito a tavolino".
Brucio nel vento
Day in, day out, the same routine is repeated. Immigrant worker Tobias Horvath gets up at 5:00 A.M., washes, shaves, has some breakfast, and runs to the main square. Here, in his Swiss town, he catches a bus to work, closing his eyes but realizing the horror of his existence.
Pane e tulipani
An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her begin. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.
Chiedimi se sono felice
Aspiring actors Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while focusing on their passion project: staging an adaptation of 'Cyrano de Bergerac'. However, love for the same woman will end their friendship. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo reunite to travel from Milan to Sicily after hearing that Aldo is dying.