Paolo VirzìFilmography

Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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Tutta La Vita Davanti

Crew: Director

Synopsis: On the heels of his poorly received period drama Napoleon and Me, director Paolo Virzì draws inspiration from Michela Murgia's popular novel to compose this surreal and bittersweet snapshot of life in contemporary Italy. Marta (Isabella Ragonese) is a cum laude college graduate who has finally Read More

2008
A Whole Life Ahead

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Isabella Ragonese, Massimo Ghini, Valerio Mastandrea, Micaela Ramazzotti, Elio Germano

2008
N (Napoleon and Me)

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Elio Germano, Monica Bellucci, Francesca Inaudi, Sabrina Impacciatore

Synopsis: A young firebrand learns the hard way about the practical problems behind political assassination in this lavish period comedy. In 1814, with his reputation in tatters and his rule of France come to an inglorious end, Napoleon Bonaparte (Daniel Auteuil) flees to the Island of Elba, where his Read More

2006
Il Caimano

Actors: Silvio Orlando, Margherita Buy, Daniele Rampello, Giacomo Passarelli, Jasmine Trinca

Synopsis: Controversial Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berluscoi is just one of the targets of writer and director Nanni Moretti's satiric focus in this sharp comedy-drama. In the 1970's, Bruno (Silvio Orlando) was one of Italy's most daring and best-respected filmmakers, while his wife Paola (Margherita Read More

2006
Caterina in the Big City

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Alice Teghil

Synopsis: Writer/director Paolo Virzì and co-writer Francesco Bruni follow up their sly fish-out-of-water comedy My Name Is Tanino with another comedy in a similar vein, Caterina in the Big City. Giancarlo (Sergio Castellitto) is delighted when he has an opportunity to leave his provincial teaching job and Read More

6/3/05
My Name is Tanino

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Corrado Fortuna, Rachel McAdams, Frank Crudele, Jessica De Marco, Mary Long

Synopsis: A young, clue-free Italian finds and eludes trouble on numerous occasions as he journeys to and through America in director Paolo Virzi's 2001 comedy My Name Is Tanino. Naïve optimist Tanino (Corrado Fortuna) gets romantically involved with an American tourist named Sally (Rachel McAdams), who Read More

2001
Baci e Abbracci

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Francesco Paolantoni, Massimo Gambacciani, Piero Gremigni, Samuele Marzi, Paola Tiziana Cruciani

Synopsis: Dominated by a cast of newcomers, this comedy of errors from director Paolo Virzi aims for both laughter and poignance. Three factory workers who lose their jobs when their employer closes shop decide to join forces and open an ostrich ranch, in hopes that ostrich meat will find favor on Italian Read More

1999
Ovosodo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Edoardo Gabbriellini, Malcolm Lunghi, Matteo Campus, Alessio Fantozzi, Pietro Fornaciari

Synopsis: In this bittersweet coming-of-age comedy, seven-year-old Piero (Matteo Campus) lives in Livorno, a city along the coast of Tuscany, in a low-rent shantytown the locals call "Ovosodo" (which literally translates as "hard boiled eggs"). Piero is forced to grow up at an early age after the death of Read More

1997
Ferie D'Agosto

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Two disparate Italian families battle it out on a remote island during summer vacation in this barbed social comedy that sharply comments on the yawning chasm created by ideological and political differences between liberal-but-narrow-minded intellectual elitists and ultra-conservative, ignorant Read More

1996
La Bella Vita

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Claudio Bigagli, Sabrina Ferilli, Massimo Ghini, Giorgio Algranti, Emanuele Barresi

Synopsis: This Italian romantic comedy examines the life of the working class in modern Tuscany. Bruno is going to be among those laid off from the local steel mill. His consternation is compounded by his wife Mirella's discontent. Though they've only been married three years, she is already involved in an Read More

1994
Condominium

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Carlo delle Piane, Ottavia Piccolo, Ciccio Ingrassia, Roberto Citran, Nicoletta Boris

Synopsis: It's pretty clear that the people who are attending the tenants' management meeting for the low income housing unit they live in are there unwillingly. They don't care about much except their own lives -- certainly not maintaining their building. When a new tenant, Carlo Delle Piane, arrives at Read More

1991
Time to Kill

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Ricky Tognazzi, Patrice-Flora Praxo, Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: In this off-beat wartime drama, a young Italian soldier stationed in Ethiopia gets into deep trouble after a toothache compels him to set off in search of a dentist. He pauses at a desert oasis and sees a beautiful young woman bathing there. He loses control and rapes her. Afterward he feels bad Read More

11/24/89

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Paolo VirzìFilmography

Tutta La Vita Davanti

A Whole Life Ahead

N (Napoleon and Me)

Il Caimano

Caterina in the Big City

My Name is Tanino

Baci e Abbracci

Ovosodo

Ferie D'Agosto

La Bella Vita

Condominium

Time to Kill

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