Gennaro Nunziante

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Gennaro Nunziante
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NationalityItalian
Occupation Film director

Gennaro Nunziante is an Italian film director. He directed the three highest-grossing Italian films in Italy headed by Quo Vado? . [1] [2]

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Career

He teamed up with Checco Zalone to write Cado dalle nubi (2009), with Zalone starring and Nunziante directing.

They followed it up in 2011 with Che bella giornata . It opened with a record Italian opening weekend of $9.4 million [3] and became the highest-grossing Italian film of all-time in Italy, grossing €43.4 million, [4] surpassing Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful . [2] Life Is Beautiful retained the worldwide grossing record for an Italian film with $70 million worldwide. [2]

In 2013, he and Zalone followed it up with Sole a catinelle which surpassed it with an opening record of €19.2 million and a total Italian gross of €51.9 million. [2] [4] [1]

In January 2016, his and Zalone's next film Quo Vado? set another opening weekend record grossing over €22m over the three-day holiday weekend [1] [5] [6] and went on to become the highest-grossing Italian film of all-time [7] with €65.3 million, second only to Avatar in Italy with €65.7 million. [7]

His and Zalone's films are currently the second, third and fifth highest-grossing films in Italy.

Filmography

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