Diego AbatantuonoFilmography

2061: Un Anno Eccezionale

The Get-Together Dinner

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Vanessa Incontrada, Violante Placido, Ines Sastre, Francesca Neri

Dinner for Them to Meet

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Vanessa Incontrada, Francesca Neri, Violante Placido, Ines Sastre

Synopsis: Italian director Pupi Avati contrasts his 2007 English-language thriller The Hideout with this sentimental, distinctively Italian comedy concerning a failed actor who can't help but obsess over his lackluster career. After the depressive thespian makes a half-hearted suicide attempt, his three Read More

The Feast

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Donatella Finocchiaro, Nino Frassica, Paolo Briguglia

Synopsis: Three aspiring moviemakers unexpectedly land a big break and their hometown comes out to celebrate in this warm comedy-drama. Gabriele (Paolo Briguglia), Nicola (Lele Nucera) and Marco (Lorenzo Di Ciaccia) are three young men growing up in Diamante, a small town in the Calabria region of Southern Read More

Rivincita di Natale

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Carlo delle Piane, Alessandro Haber, Gianni Cavina, George Eastman

I'm Not Scared

Actors: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia, Giuseppe Cristiano, Mattia Di Perro

Synopsis: Gabriele Salvatores' kidnapping drama lo Non Ho Paura (I'm Not Scared) is about a boy dealing with issues he cannot quite comprehend. While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele (Giuseppe Cristiano) discovers Filippo (Mattia Di Perro), who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Read More

Amnesia

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini, Martina Stella, Juanjo Puigcorbe, Ruben Ochandano

Synopsis: Directed by Gabriele Salvatores, Amnesia takes place in the Spanish island of Ibiza, where an odd mix of commercialism, ex-hippies, fisherman, and artists co-exist. Town locals Sandro (Diego Abatantunono), a pornographic film director, and Angelino (Sergio Rubini), the manager of a beachside Read More

Mari del Sud

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Giulia Steigerwalt, Victoria Abril, Antonio Stornaiolo, Vivian de la Cruz

Synopsis: Directed by Marcello Cesena, Mari del Sud (Our Tropical Island) follows a dysfunctional family whose idea of concealing their bankruptcy from friends and family is hiding in the basement of their palatial home while they're presumed to be vacationing. The basement is a disgusting place to live; Read More

Concorrenza Sleale

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Castellitto, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Rich

Synopsis: The insidious emergence of state-sanctioned anti-Semitism in Fascist Italy sets the stage for this historical drama. In 1938, Umberto (Diego Abatantuono) is a tailor who is beginning to lose business to Leone (Sergio Castellito), a haberdasher whose shop is next door to Umberto's. Leone offers Read More

Momo Alla Conquista Del Tempo

Actors: Erica Necci, Giancarlo Giannini, Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini

Metronotte

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Flavio Insinna, Marco Messeri, Simona Caramelli

Synopsis: Francesco Calogero directs this crime thriller about erratic behavior brought on by a tedious, stressful job. Irascible Paolo (Diego Abatantuono) constantly clashes with his fellow security guards. One night, after loudly arguing with someone else, Paolo discovers one of his colleagues shot dead Read More

Paparazzi

Actors: Christian de Sica, Massimo Boldi, Diego Abatantuono, Roberto Brunetti, Nino D'Angelo

Synopsis: This Italian comedy takes an affectionate look at a motley group of free-lance photographers desperate to grab a good shot of a celebrity, with a host of Italian TV personalities appearing as themselves. "The Potato" (Roberto Brunetti) is a would-be paparazzo who lives with his uncle (Christian De Sica Read More

Tifosi

Actors: Massimo Boldi, Christian de Sica, Diego Abatantuono, Enzo Iacchetti, Nino D'Angelo

Synopsis: Popular Italian comedian Neri Parenti directs this sketch-based movie about Italy's famously obsessive soccer fans. In one segment, a doctor forbids his son to marry the daughter of a pilot because he supports a rival team. In another, a Milanese cabby installs a satellite dish in his taxi only to Read More

Matrimoni

Actors: Francesca Neri, Diego Abatantuono, Stefania Sandrelli, Claude Brasseur, Cecilia Dazzi

Synopsis: Matrimony is a drama about the complexity of relationships. On Christmas Eve, perfect housewife Giulia ($Francesca Neri} is worried about a family heirloom which has cracked and rushes to the junk shop to get it repaired -- little anticipating her perfect marriage is about to fall to pieces as Read More

Children of Hannibal

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Silvio Orlando, Valentina Cervi, Flavio Insinna, Ugo Conti

Synopsis: This Italian road comedy gets a jump-start when unemployed Dominico (Silvio Orlando) robs a bank, taking businessman Tommaso (Diego Abatantuono) hostage. Since debt-plagued Tommaso has a dead-end marriage, he takes advantage of the situation, leaking news of his abduction in a diversion tactic Read More

Nirvana

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono, Emmanuelle Seigner

Synopsis: A computer virus endows Solo (Diego Abatantuono), the hero of a virtual reality game, with human consciousness, thereby creating all kinds of headaches for his creator Jimi (Christopher Lambert). The trouble begins in the futuristic metropolis of Northern Agglomerate three days before Christmas. Read More

Camere Da Letto

Synopsis: In this sexy comedy, four modern couples try to sort through the hubub of their lives and make time for making love. The story's main couple, Dario and Maddalena are so busy with their children, managing finances (Dario's ex-wife demands a larger alimony payment) and their two very different jobs Read More

In Barca A Vela Contromano

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Valerio Mastandrea, Antonio Catania, Emanuela Rossi, Davide Bechini, Maurizio Mattioli

Synopsis: Writer-director Stefano Reali adapted his play Operations (staged in the UK by Alan Ayckbourn) for this comedy-drama. Unemployed medical grad Massimo (Valerio Mastandrea) is hired by medical authorities to uncover a scam. He poses as an injured soccer player and shares a hospital room with Luigi (Antonio Catania Read More

Il Testimone dello Sposo

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Dario Cantarelli, Ines Sastre, Valeria D'Obici, Cinzia Mascoli

Synopsis: In a northern Italian province, townspeople prepare for the wedding of wealthy, balding businessman Edgardo (Dario Cantarelli) and beautiful Francesca (Ines Sastre), pressured into marriage by her family. Angelo (Diego Abantantuono), who went to America when he was young, returns with a fortune. Read More

Il Barbiere Di Rio

Synopsis: Popular comic actor Diego Abatantuono headlines this lively comedy that follows the adventures of a small-town barber from Italy who one day spontaneously heads for Rio de Janeiro to see his estranged sister. Life there is bewilderingly busy and colorful and the simple barber has many riotous Read More

Viva San Isidro!

Synopsis: In this quirky comedy, a farmer living in a remote, primitive Mexican village finds a downed plane and assumes the fine, white powder inside is fertilizer. The tale begins as the villagers are celebrating a football victory with their star soccer player, Quintino, who scored the winning goal. The Read More

Camerieri

Synopsis: Four hard-working, under-appreciated waiters must deal with the rude, demanding middle-class at a wedding anniversary in this Italian comedy. The story is set at Eden, a run-down restaurant that has just been bought by Azzaro. The restaurant staff do not know whether or not they will still have Read More

Il Toro

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Roberto Citran, Marco Messeri, Marco Paolini, Paolo Veronica

Synopsis: This feel-good movie, which offers American audiences spectacular views of Central European landscapes, uses gentle humor to tell the story of two common men who place themselves in an uncommon situation. Franco, a recently laid-off co-op stud farmer whose company jilted him out of his settlement Read More

Nel Continente Nero

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Anna Falchi, Ivo Garrani, Tony Sperandeo

Synopsis: In the 1950s, a big stir was made by a book (and its corresponding movie) called The Ugly American. Its subject was the grievous damage done to local cultures by well-meaning but essentially clueless (and frequently arrogant) representatives of the U.S. Since then, the phenomenon of cultural Read More

Arriva la Bufera

Per Amore, Solo Per Amore

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Penélope Cruz, Alessandro Haber, Stefania Sandrelli

Synopsis: This biographical drama is an attempt to tell the story of the life of St. Joseph (Diego Abatantuono), the father-figure of the young Jesus' life, the long-suffering husband of the much younger Mary (Penelope Cruz). In this story, Joseph, a mature man, has courted any number of other women, but Read More

Puerto Escondido

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Valeria Golino, Claudio Bisio, Renato Carpentieri, Antonio Catania

Synopsis: Mario (Diego Abatantuono) is a gentle soul living in a big Italian city. He works as a bank teller. When his bank is robbed for the umpteenth time, and he sees yet another policeman killed, he throws in the towel on city life, and attempts to get away from it all by fleeing to a small town in Read More

Mediterraneo

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio, Gigio Alberti

Synopsis: Gabriele Salvatores' antiwar story Mediterraneo is set during World War II on a seemingly deserted island in the middle of the Aegean Sea. After their ship is sunk by the British, a unit of Italian soldiers finds refuge on the island, where they soon realize that the area is not deserted after Read More

Turné

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Synopsis: Dario (Diego Abatantuono) is a lively, loyal friend, and a good trouper who can recover cheerfully from even the worst onstage disasters. He needs to be, because he is constantly onstage with his best friend Federico (Fabrizio Bentivoglio), who is a barely adequate actor. In everyday life Read More

Marrakech Express

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Giuseppe Cederna

Synopsis: When Teresa (Cristina Marsillach), an old school chum from ten years before, shows up at his house, Marco (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) lets her in. She wants him to help her get hold of $20,000 to pay off a Moroccan judge to get her boyfriend Rudy (another old school chum) out of jail. Somehow, this Read More

I Cammelli

Actors: Paolo Rossi, Diego Abatantuono, Giulia Boschi, Giancarlo Sbragia, Sabina Guzzanti

Synopsis: Ferroccio Ferri (Paolo Rossi) is a quiz-show champion who is an expert on camels in this offbeat comedy. He is eligible for the upcoming show that will award a sizeable sum of money to the grand-prize winner. Camillo (Diego Abatantuono) is the manager of a second-rate traveling troupe who recruits Read More

Il Segreto Del Sahara

Strana La Vita

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Monica Guerritore, Lina Sastri, Amanda Sandrelli, Domiziana Giordano

Synopsis: Dario (Diego Abantantuono) is a psychologist who is in no hurry to marry his schoolteacher paramour Maria (Lina Sastri) in this romantic comedy. He meets an old friend who married Dario's former sweetheart Anna (Monica Guerritore), and with a picture of his wife and mistress in his hand, the man Read More

Ultimo Momento

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Lino Capolicchio, Diego Abatantuono, Elena Sofia Ricci, Nik Novecento

Synopsis: In this uneven drama, Walter Ferrari (Ugo Tognazzi) is an Italian soccer coach fired on the eve of the playoffs by club President Di Carlo (Lino Capolicchio). He overcomes his feelings of bitterness in order to help his former club win the big game, but his relationship with the team and his Read More

Un Ragazzo di Calabria

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Gian Maria Volontè, Therese Liotard

Synopsis: Like many uninsightful fathers, Nicola is very ambitious and hardworking and perceives himself to be a failure. He has persuaded himself that the only good thing his thirteen-year-old son can possibly do is to work harder and smarter than he himself did, so that he, at least, can fulfill his Read More

Regalo Di Natale

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Gianni Cavina, Alessandro Haber, George Eastman

Synopsis: The relationships between five men who play cards far into the night on Christmas Eve are the focus of this psychological drama by Pupi Avati. Four of the players are out to skin the fifth, industrial tycoon Santelia (Carlo Delle Piane), but the four are not exactly a united front. Theater-owner Read More

Grand Hotel Excelsior

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Carlo Verdone, Enrico Montesano, Diego Abatantuono, Eleonora Giorgi

Synopsis: Four popular Italian comedians (Adriano Celentano, Carlo Verdone, Enrico Montesano, and Diego Abantantuono), at the time this film was shot, play characters who either work in or visit a large hotel. Each comedian reprises some of the roles or attitudes that made him famous in a series of Read More

Eccezzziunale... Veramente

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Stefania Sandrelli, Massimo Boldi, Teo Teocoli

Synopsis: This take-off on the soccer mania that is a part of Italian life centers on the comic presence of its star Diego Abatantuono who plays three different lead roles in the three "acts" that make up the film. In the first story, Donato (Abatantuono) is an out-of-work southerner trying to find his way Read More

I Fichissimi

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Jerry Calà

Synopsis: The dialogue and content in this film about gangs and their internal turmoil are geared to a young, teenage audience. The setting is Milan, and four brothers from the south of Italy have lined up against the local gang. The southerners are headed by Felice (Diego Abatantuono), the eldest of the Read More

Il Tango Della Gelosia

Actors: Monica Vitti, Diego Abatantuono, Philippe Leroy, Jenny Tamburi

Synopsis: In this light comedy based on a play by Aldo de Benedetti from the 1950s, Princess Lucia (Monica Vitti) is miffed that her husband, Prince Giulio (Philippe Leroy is single-mindedly focused on his race horses to the point that he is ignoring her. She decides to find out if he really does love her Read More

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