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unusual facts about Italian cinema



Bras d'honneur

Its most famous occurrence in Italian cinema is in Federico Fellini's I vitelloni (1953), where the idler played by Alberto Sordi jeers at a group of workmen, combining this gesture with a raspberry.

Mehdi Mahdloo

Nunziante and starring Checco Zalone, Rocco Papaleo, Tullio Solenghi and Ivano Marescotti, which become the most watched movie in the history of Italian cinema, beating all records.

My Voyage to Italy

The film is a voyage through Italian cinema history, marking influential films for Scorsese and particularly covering the Italian neorealism period.


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Caro diario

Shots of landscape, architecture, and beautiful monuments accompany his thoughts, which range from critiques of Hollywood cinema (specifically the contemporary movie Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer), to critiques of banalization of the Italian cinema, to a chance meeting with Jennifer Beals, to sociology and urbanism.

Cinema X

At this point Tony Crawley was credited as managing editor, while contributing editors included William Rostler for articles on American films and Luigi Cozzi for articles on Italian cinema.

Giulia Elettra Gorietti

She had her debut as an actress in the Italian cinema in 2003, with Caterina va in città, directed by Paolo Virzì, sharing the stage with Margherita Buy and Sergio Castellitto.

Lupe Sino

When she was fourteen, the family moved to Madrid and she began working as a servant, but ended up working in the world of Italian cinema with director Fernando Mignoni.

Solvi Stubing

Born in Berlin, Stubing obtained wide popularity in Italy with a commercial for Peroni Beer, and starred in many films, often of modest value, in several genres of Italian cinema.