Leonardo Sciascia was a Sicilian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician. Some of his works have been made into films, including Porte Aperte, Cadaveri Eccellenti, and Il giorno della civetta.
Rai 1 is the flagship television channel of Rai, Italy's national public service broadcaster, and the most watched television channel in the country. It is a general interest channel, mainly focused on shows, movies and public service; its direct competitor is Mediaset's Canale 5.
Ventimiglia di Sicilia is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, located in the autonomous region of Sicily, Italy. Though "Ventimiglia di Sicilia" is its official name, in Sicilian, the city is known as Calamigna.
The aristocratic Borromeo family were merchants at San Miniato around 1300 and became bankers at Milan after 1370. Vitaliano de’ Vitaliani, who acquired the name of Borromeo from his uncle Giovanni, became count of Arona in 1445. His descendants played important roles in the politics of the Duchy of Milan and as cardinals in the Catholic Reformation. In 1916 the head of the family was granted the title Prince of Angera.
Journey to Italy, also known as Voyage to Italy, is a 1954 drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders play Katherine and Alex Joyce, an English married couple whose trip to Italy unexpectedly undermines their marriage. The film was written by Rossellini and Vitaliano Brancati, but is loosely based on the novel Duo by Colette. Although the film was an Italian production, its dialogue was in English. The first theatrical release was in Italy under the title Viaggio in Italia; the dialogue had been dubbed into Italian.
Paolo il caldo is a novel by Vitaliano Brancati, and also of a 1974 Italian film based on that novel.
Difficult Years is a 1948 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Umberto Spadaro, adapted from the 1946 short story Vecchio con gli stivali, by the Sicilian author Vitaliano Brancati.
The Art of Getting Along is a 1954 comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Alberto Sordi. It is the third and final chapter in the political trilogy about the continuity of fascism in postwar conceived by Vitaliano Brancati and also consisting of Difficult Years and Easy Years.
Beppe Costa is an Italian poet, novelist and publisher.
The Democratic Italian Movement was a political party in Italy.
La governante is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Giovanni Grimaldi and starring Turi Ferro and Martine Brochard. It is based on a stage play by Vitaliano Brancati.
The Teatro Stabile di Catania is a theatrical institution based in Catania, Sicily, Italy which was formed in 1958. It has two theatres, the Teatro Giovanni Verga, the Teatro Angelo Musco. Annually, the program offers a choice of many shows, partly self-produced. It is the first permanent theatre in the South of Italy.
Don Giovanni in Sicilia may refer to:
Il Mondo was a weekly political, cultural and economic magazine founded by Gianni Mazzocchi and directed by Mario Pannunzio.
For the Love of Mariastella is a 1946 Italian melodrama film written and directed by Pino Mercanti. Based on a story of the Sicilian writer Giuseppe Zucca, it was mainly shot in the tonnara of Castellammare del Golfo, with some scenes shot in the tonnaras of Scopello and of San Vito Lo Capo. It is considered as a progenitor of pink neorealism. .
Brancati is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
My Brilliant Friend is an Italian-American drama television series based on the novel of the same name by Elena Ferrante. It is the first of four novels in the Neapolitan Novels series to be adapted for television. An eight-episode miniseries, My Brilliant Friend is a co-production between American premium cable network HBO and Italian networks RAI and TIMvision. It premiered on HBO on November 18, 2018.
Laura Mancinelli was an Italian writer, germanist and medievalist.
