Mario Capanna is an Italian politician and writer.
Walter Annicchiarico, known as Walter Chiari[ˈvalter ˈkjaːri], was an Italian stage and screen actor, mostly in comedy roles.
Alessandro Gassmann is an Italian actor and film director.
Sergio Rubini is an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter.
Massimo Girotti was an Italian film actor whose career spanned seven decades.
Ugo Pirro was an Italian screenwriter and novelist.
Aldo Lado is an Italian film director, screenwriter and writer. Lado was born in Fiume, Italy. Lado wrote the screenplays for 21 films between 1968 and 2004 and directed 14 films between 1971 and 1994, and one in 2012.
Agostina Belli is an Italian film actress. She has appeared in more than 50 films since 1968.
Gianni Cavina was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 40 films from 1968 to 2022. Born in Bologna, Cavina trained as a stage actor at the Teatro Stabile di Bologna, under the direction of Franco Parenti. He made his film debut in the 1968 horror Balsamus, l'uomo di Satana, directed by Pupi Avati, with whom he had a long collaboration, starring in many of his films.
Piero Lulli was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 111 films between 1942 and 1977. He was the brother of actor Folco Lulli.
Fred Otto Robsahm was a Norwegian film actor. He worked on a few Italian Spaghetti Westerns in the 1960s and 1970s. He was married to Italian film actress Agostina Belli for 15 years. The story of Robsahm's life was told by Even Benestad in the documentary Natural Born Star, which premiered in 2007. His sister is the model, film director, and editor Margarete Robsahm.
Eva Czemerys was a German-born film actress, mainly active in Italy.
Sepolta viva is an Italian drama film directed by Aldo Lado. The film obtained a great commercial success and launched a short-living revival of "feuilleton films". It has a sequel, Il figlio della sepolta viva.
Luciano Ercoli was an Italian film director, screenwriter, producer and unit production manager. Ercoli's career spanned approximately two decades before his retirement in the late 1970s, and saw him direct several films in the giallo genre, as well producing several Spaghetti Westerns. Ercoli was married to Spanish actress Nieves Navarro, who has appeared in several of the films he worked on.
Enio Girolami, sometimes credited as Thomas Moore, was an Italian film and television actor.
Per un figlio (පුතෙකුට) is a film by Suranga Deshapriya Katugampala, an Italian citizen of Sri Lankan (Ceylonese) origin. It is set in northern Italy, and portrays the relationship between an immigrant Sri Lankan mother and her adolescent and partially-acculturated son. It thus explores issues of multiculturalism and of small marginalised communities. The principal rôle is played by Kaushalya Fernando. In July 2016, the film received a special mention at the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema of Pesaro, in the Marche in eastern central Italy. In November 2016 it was presented at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia.
The Song of Life is a 1945 Italian melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Alida Valli, Carlo Ninchi and María Mercader. It is set during the German occupation of Rome in the Second World War before the Liberation of the city in 1944.
Amalia Ercoli Finzi is an Italian engineer and professor, Principal Investigator of the SD2 drill aboard the Philae spacecraft.
Buried Alive is a 1949 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Milly Vitale, Paul Muller and Evi Maltagliati. It is based on the novel of the same title by Francesco Mastriani, set during the campaign for Italian unification.
Antonio Scurati is an Italian writer and academic. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Strega Prize for his novel M. Il figlio del secolo (2018).
