The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the "Big Five" International film festivals worldwide, which include the Big Three European Film Festivals alongside the Toronto Film Festival in Canada and the Sundance Film Festival in the United States. The Festivals are internationally acclaimed for giving creators the artistic freedom to express themselves through film. In 1951, FIAPF formally accredited the festival.
Carlo Rustichelli was an Italian film composer whose career spanned the 1940s to about 1990. His prolific output included about 250 film compositions, as well as arrangements for other films, and music for television.
Giorgio Gaslini was an Italian jazz pianist, composer and conductor.
Maurizio Arcieri was an Italian singer who was a member of 1960s Italian beat band the New Dada, and 1970s/'80s band Krisma.
Eleuterio Pagliano was an Italian painter of the Romantic period as well as an activist and fighter of the Risorgimento.
Anna Maria Ferrero was an Italian actress.
Luigi Cozzi is an Italian film director and screenwriter. At a young age, Cozzi became a fan of science fiction and began his career as an overseas correspondent for Western film magazines. After directing his first film The Tunnel Under the World, Cozzi befriended director Dario Argento and began working with him in film and television as well as directing his own features including Hercules as well as continuing work with Argento. In the 2010s, he returned to directing with the film Blood on Méliès' Moon.
The Four Days of Naples refers to World War II uprising in Naples, Italy, on September 28 to September 30, 1943 against Nazi German occupation forces, immediately prior to the arrival of Allied forces in Naples on October 1.
Luca Beltrami was an Italian architect and architectural historian, known particularly for restoration projects.
The Five Days of Milan was an insurrection and a major event in the Revolutionary Year of 1848 that started the First Italian War of Independence. On 18 March, a rebellion arose in the city of Milan, and in five days of street fighting drove Marshal Radetzky and his Austrian soldiers from the city.
Baldassare Verazzi was an Italian painter.
Five Paupers in an Automobile is a 1952 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Eduardo De Filippo.
Scilla Gabel is an Italian film, television and stage actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1954 and 1982.
Enzo Cerusico was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1951 and 1984.
Marilù Tolo is an Italian film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1960 and 1985.
Raimondo Boucheron was an Italian composer, chiefly of sacred music. During his life, he was known primarily for the song "Inno per le cinque giornate". Today he is remembered as one of the contributors to the Messa per Rossini, for which he wrote the Confutatis and Oro supplex of the Sequentia. He also served for a time as maestro di cappella of Milan Cathedral, being succeeded in the post by Guglielmo Quarenghi.
The Caffè Cova is one of Milan, Italy's oldest pastry shops, delicatessens and coffeehouses, today property of the French group Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. Founded in 1817 by a soldier, Antonio Cova near the Teatro alla Scala, since 1950 situated in the fashionable Via Montenapoleone, part of Milan's quadrilatero della moda or fashion quadrilateral.
Dada Gallotti is an Italian actress.
Porta Vittoria was a city gate in the Spanish walls of Milan, Italy. While the walls and the gate have been demolished, the name "Porta Vittoria" has remained to refer to the district ("quartiere") where the gate used to be. This district is part of the Zone 4 administrative division of Milan.
Romina Daniele is an Italian exponent of the vocal extended technique, an avant-garde and blues singer, a composer of electronic and experimental music, vocalist and performer associated with contemporary music, writer, photographer. Since 2005, she has been working on sound research in the fields of vocalism and electronic music, and since 2013 she has been working as blues singer as well.
