Giancarlo Giannini is an Italian actor and voice actor. He won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in Love and Anarchy (1973) and received an Academy Award nomination for Seven Beauties (1975). He is also a four-time recipient of the David di Donatello Award for Best Actor.
Valeria Carla Federica Bruni Tedeschi, also written Bruni-Tedeschi, is an Italian and French actress, screenwriter and film director. Her 2013 film, A Castle in Italy, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Valeria Golino is an Italian actress and film director. She is best known to English-language audiences for her roles in Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee, and the two Hot Shots! films, particularly the olive-in-the-belly-button scene. In addition to David di Donatello, Nastro d'Argento, Ciak d'oro and Globo d'oro awards, she is one of four actresses to have twice won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival.
Bitter Rice is a 1949 Italian neorealist crime drama film directed and co-written by Giuseppe De Santis, produced by Dino De Laurentiis, and starring Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, and Raf Vallone. The story follows a pair of fugitives, who hide among the rice fields of northern Italy. The Italian title of the film is based on a pun; since the Italian word riso can mean either "rice" or "laughter", riso amaro can be taken to mean either "bitter laughter" or "bitter rice".
Paulo Branco is a Portuguese film producer.
Alessandra Martines is an Italian French dancer and actress mainly working in the English, French and Italian speaking-worlds. She started young in ballet on opera stages in Switzerland, France, the United States and then Italy before becoming a lead on television for RAI captured ballets and entertainment shows in the eighties.
The Profession of Arms is a 2001 Italian film directed by Ermanno Olmi.
Paolo Virzì is an Italian film director, writer and producer.
Francesca Archibugi is an Italian film director and scriptwriter.
The 54th Cannes Film Festival started on 14 May and ran until 20 May 2001. Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann was the Jury President. The Palme d'Or went to the Italian film The Son's Room by Nanni Moretti.
Torrents of Spring is a 1989 drama film written and directed by Jerzy Skolimowski and starring Timothy Hutton, Nastassja Kinski and Valeria Golino. It is based on the 1872 novel of the same name by Ivan Turgenev. It is a British, French, and Italian co-production. Set in 1840, the film follows a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, who is torn between the love of a beautiful German pastry-shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, and a Russian seductress, Princess Maria Nikolaevna. The film competed for the Golden Palm Award at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
Claudio Amendola is an Italian actor, director and television presenter. He starred in the 1993 film The Escort, which was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
Wild Love is a 1955 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
The King's Whore is a 1990 drama film directed by Axel Corti and starring Timothy Dalton. It was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.
The Flesh is a 1991 Italian drama film directed by Marco Ferreri. It was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.
Rehearsals for War is a 1998 Italian drama film directed by Mario Martone. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
The Nanny is a 1999 Italian drama film directed by Marco Bellocchio. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
Francesca Comencini is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She attended the Lycée français Chateaubriand school with her sisters. She has directed 14 films since 1984. Her film Le parole di mio padre was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. In 2012, her film Un Giorno Speciale was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. She was married to French producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier.
Maxime Alexandre, ASC, CCS is a Belgian Italian cinematographer, who was most recently cinematographer on the Netflix Oxygen, the films Role Play directed by Vincent Thomas, Shazam! directed by David F. Sandberg, and Crawl, directed by Alexandre Aja.
Like Crazy is a 2016 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Paolo Virzì, starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Micaela Ramazzotti. It tells the story of two women from different backgrounds who become friends while being treated at a mental institution. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
