Silvio Orlando Filmography

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Il Papa di Giovanna

Actors: Silvio Orlando, Alba Rohrwacher, Francesca Neri, Ezio Greggio, Serena Grandi

Synopsis: A father's love for his troubled daughter may be the only thing that can save her in this drama from writer and director Pupi Avanti. It's 1938, Benito Mussolini is the fascist ruler of Italy, and Michele (Silvio Orlando) is a high school teacher living in Bologna. Michele and his wife Delia Read More

9/12/08
Quiet Chaos

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Valeria Golino, Isabella Ferrari, Alessandro Gassman, Blu Yoshimi

Synopsis: With Quiet Chaos (Caos calma), acclaimed Italian helmer Nanni Moretti steps away from his standard directorial role to essay the lead and co-author the script in a gentle psychological drama directed by Antonello Grimaldi. Moretti stars as Pietro, a film executive whose life takes an irreversible Read More

2008
La Fabbrica Dei Tedeschi

Synopsis: The German industrial firm ThyssenKrupp Acciai Speciali Terni operated a steel mill in Turin, Italy and in the mid-2007, the company decided to close the plant. A number of repairs were needed at the Turin mill to conform to Italian safety regulations, but since the factory was only going to be Read More

2008
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
Light of My Eyes

Actors: Luigi Lo Cascio, Sandra Ceccarelli, Silvio Orlando, Barbara Valente, Toni Bertorelli

Synopsis: Giuseppe Piccioni follows up on his 1999 opus Not of this World with this understated drama about fantasy and reality. The film centers on Antonio (Luigi Lo Cascio), a youngish chauffeur who is a model of professional promptness and courtesy. He also possesses a vivid inner world dominated by Read More

1/1/03
Il Posto dell'anima

Actors: Michele Placido, Silvio Orlando, Claudio Santamaria, Paola Cortellesi, Imma Piro

Synopsis: Italian filmmaker directs Il Posto Dell'Anima (The Soul's Place), a drama about a group of dedicated union workers. Set in the small mountain town of Campolaro, the film follows Carair tire factory co-workers Salvatore (Michele Placido), Antonio (Silvio Orlando), and Mario (Claudio Santamaria). Read More

2003
Opopomoz

Actors: Silvio Orlando, Peppe Barra, John Turturro, Vincenzo Salemme

2003
The Son's Room

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca, Giuseppe Sanfelice, Sofia Vigliar, Silvio Orlando

Synopsis: A family struggles to go on after a devastating loss in this deeply emotional drama from Italy. Giovanni (Nanni Moretti) is a psychiatrist with a successful practice in a small community near the ocean. Giovanni has a warm relationship with his wife Paola (Laura Morante), and they have a pair of Read More

1/25/02
Bear's Kiss

Actors: Rebecca Liljeberg, Joachim Krol, Sergei Bodrov Jr., Keith Allen, Maurizio Donadoni

Synopsis: Director Sergei Bodrov takes a break from his usual socio-political dramas in Bear's Kiss, a surreal fairy tale following Lola (Rebecca Liljeberg), the 14-year-old daughter of long-time circus employees, and her love affair with a shape-shifting bear who calls himself Misha (Sergei Bodrov Jr.). Read More

2002
El Alamein: La Linea del Fuoco

Actors: Paolo Briguglia, Pierfrancesco Favino, Luciano Scarpa, Emilio Solfrizzi, Thomas Trabacchi

Synopsis: Enzo Monteleone's World War II drama El Alamein: The Line of Fire is concerned with the life of Italian soldiers. Lieutenant Fiore (Emilio Solfrizzi) leads a group of soldiers stationed in Egypt. The troops, including Sargent Rizzo (Pierfrancesco Favino) and newbie Serra (Paolo Briguglia), are Read More

2002
Not of This World

Actors: Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando, Caroline Freschi, Maria Cristina Minerva, Sonia Gessner

Synopsis: Fuori Dal Mondo/Not of This World tells a story about people learning to deal with their responsibilities and follow their true path in life. Caterina (Margherita Buy) is a novice nun who is soon to take her vows. One day, while taking a walk in the park, she discovers a newborn baby which has Read More

2/25/00
Children of Hannibal

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

1998
Polvere Di Napoli

Actors: Gigio Morra, Antonio Iuorio, Gianni Ferreri, Alan De Luca, Teresa Saponangelo

Synopsis: In this anthology film with five episodes about modern-day Naples, director Antonio Capuano updates Vittorio De Sica's The Gold of Naples (1954): In Seven Part Scopa a young card-player gambles against local butchers; in Charlie and Jerry two sax players minus instruments entertain at a wedding by Read More

1998
Il Grido D'Angoscia Dell'uccello Predatore

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Agata Apicella, Silvia Nono, Silvio Orlando, Carlo Mazzacurati

1998
Aprile

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Silvio Orlando, Silvia Nono, Pietro Moretti, Agata Apicella Moretti

Synopsis: Film essayist Nanni Moretti, winner of the Cannes "Best Director" Award for his memorable Caro Diario (1994), continues in a diaristic mode with this Italian-French comedy-drama blending his political observations with his personal life, a chronicle of a two-and-a-half year period that includes Read More

1998
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

5/28/97
I Magi Randagi

Synopsis: The three performers (one Italian, one Frenchman and one German) in a ramshackle and miniscule traveling circus are traveling through rural Italy looking for an audience when they encounter Father Gregorio who asks them to portray the three wise men in his village Christmas pageant. This comedy Read More

1996
La Mia Generazione

Synopsis: A police captain plays a mental game of cat and mouse with a convicted terrorist as they cross Italy in an armored car. The story is set in 1983 and takes place over a 24-hour period. The prisoner Braccio, serving the fourth year of a 30-year sentence, is told that he is going to Milan where he Read More

1996
Vesna Va Veloce

Synopsis: A 20-year-old Eastern European girl impetuously ditches the rest of her tour group to embark upon a new life in Italy. Though she writes friends and family glowing accounts of her fabulous and successful adventures in her adopted home, the truth is much more tragic. Intelligently and poignantly Read More

1996
Ferie D'Agosto

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
Il Cielo e Sempre Piu Blu

Synopsis: The English title of this complex Italian film is apt. Featuring 65 main characters and 130 speaking parts (famous faces abound and many of the actors appeared gratis), and ranging in tone from tartly humorous to darkly tragic, it presents 30 interwoven slices from the lives of modern day Romans Read More

1996
La Scuola

Synopsis: This intelligent Italian comedy centers on an academically and physically run-down school and is presented from the viewpoint of the teachers. The main character is Vivaldi, who passionately believes that the purpose of education is to allow students to creatively express themselves. To this end Read More

1995
Arriva la Bufera

1993
Sud

Actors: Silvio Orlando, Francesca Neri, Antonio Catania, Marco Manchisi

Synopsis: How bad can political corruption get? Try this on for size: the four men in this story had already lost their jobs when an earthquake hit their part of Sicily and destroyed their houses. The government promised them money to rebuild with, but all of it went into the pockets of a local politician Read More

1993
Un' Altra Vita

Actors: Silvio Orlando, Adrianna Biedrzynska, Claudio Amendola, Antonella Ponziani

Synopsis: In this offbeat love story, Saverio has been living alone for some time in the quite large apartment his parents left to him in their will. Being that Saverio is a dentist, when Alia, a girl who has moved to Italy from Russia, shows up on his threshold with a missing tooth and bearing numerous Read More

1992
Il Portaborse

Actors: Silvio Orlando, Nanni Moretti, Giulio Brogi, Anne Roussel, Angela Finocchiaro

Synopsis: The system established early in the days of the Roman Empire (whereby those who have a powerful patron prosper and no one without a patron can get anywhere) still exists in present-day Italy. Today, this system is given many pejorative labels and is classified as a form of corruption when it Read More

1991
Matilda

Actors: Silvio Orlando

Synopsis: Matilda has been in love three times, and three times her boyfriends have met with violent deaths. This is enough to daunt any person, and it certainly does slow down her romantic aspirations. However, her wealthy Neapolitan family is determined that she should not remain "on the shelf," and Read More

1991
La Settimana Della Sfinge

Actors: Margherita Buy, Paolo Hendel, Silvio Orlando, Isaac George, Delia Boccardo

Synopsis: Gloria (Margherita Buy) is so taken by the repairman she spends a night with that she quits her job and attempts to get him to marry her, to no avail. She is something of a puzzle freak, and the mysteries of the Sphinx and the pyramids in Egypt intrigue her. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Palombella Rossa

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Mariella Valentini, Silvio Orlando, Alfonso Santagata, Claudio Morganti

Synopsis: This humorous and peculiarly Italian movie is unlikely to have been released outside that country, largely because of the intricacies of its political references. Writer/producer/director/lead actor Nanni Moretti has filmed a semi-autobiographical story which combines the action in a rousing Read More

9/15/89
Kamikazen - Ultima Notte a Milano

2/12/88