Franco Castellano

Actor

January 11, 1957 (69 years)

San Vito al Tagliamento, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

Biography

Franco Castellano was born June 20, 1925 in Rome Italy, and died December 28, 1999, was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 94 films between 1958 and 1997, He also directed 21 films between 1964 and 1992. His 1984 film Il ragazzo di campagna was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. He was born and died in Rome, Italy. About - Franco Castellano was born on 20 June 1925 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and dir…

Filmography

7.8

The Octopus

Calogero Cinisi

An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.

6.7

Orgoglio

Herman Ludovici

1912. The dramatic love story between Anna Obrofari e Pietro Pironi.

6.5

Shopgirls

Romeo

Six very different people - Marta, Roberta, Fiorenza, Paola, Lucia and Romeo - work together in an elegant fashion boutique in the centre of Rome. They are all in thrall to the demands of their overbearing manager, Francesca. Each character knows that between the dramas of their own lives, the journeys to and from work, the children to care for, husbands, lovers, and parents, they will find solidarity with their fellow shop workers.

7.2

Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man

Adam

The true story of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian cattle dealer and avowed fascist who — trapped in Nazi-occupied Budapest after Italy's armistice with the Allies — nevertheless saved more than 5,000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust through a combination of lies, bribery and derring-do.

5.5

Barabbas

Pietro

Billy Zane plays Barabbas, the man whose life was spared because of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Based on the novel by Par Lagerkvist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Barabbas is a story rooted in the Bible that will come to life on REELZ as a four-hour miniseries, telling the ultimate story of redemption. Barabbas was filmed in Tunisia and is directed by Emmy Award winner Roger Young.

7.0

Il sangue e la rosa

Rudolf Kruger

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8.7

Wuthering Heights

Ivory

Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.

6.0

Barabbas

Pietro

Barabbas or Jesus Barabbas (literally "son of the father" or "Jesus, son of the father" respectively) is a figure in the account of the Passion of Christ, in which he is the insurrectionary whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem, instead of Jesus Christ.

7.8

Gino Bartali - L'intramontabile

Mario Carità

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6.8

Jeremiah

Babylonian Minister

The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on several occasions, and makes it clear that he has been selected to announce God's message to the people of Jerusalem.

N/A

Anna e i cinque

il Secco

Anna e i cinque is an Italian comedy television series starring Sabrina Ferilli about a woman who is a nanny for a wealthy family by day and stripper by night.

6.8

Angel Face

dottor Arosio

The story of the rise and fall of Toso, the leader of the criminal organization Mala del Brenta. A ruthless and cunning criminal who for two decades, through robberies, kidnappings, murders, trafficking in drugs and weapons, built an empire. Miniseries based on the autobiographical book by Felice Maniero.

5.0

Luisa Spagnoli

Leone Cravero

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2.0

Tango for Freedom

avvocato Solanas

Tango per la Libertà is a television miniseries broadcast on Rai1 on 12 and 13 January 2016. Freely inspired by Enrico Calamai's book No political asylum, it tells the story of an Italian diplomat in Argentina who managed to save more than 300 men and women persecuted by Jorge Rafael Videla's regime.

10.0

Mafalda of Savoy

Aldo Maggio

The story of Mafalda is like the one of Cinderella, just the other way round. The dramatic real story of a Italian princess, born and raised in the comforts of a golden court, who will be forced by war to share the fate of ordinary people in a concentration camp. Mafalda di Savoia was chosen to represent the decline of nobility and the errors of war, which separate and destroy even noble families. Mafalda is a victim of political strategies that overlook her, and her tragic death shows the levelling power of war, that forces poor and rich alike to share the same destiny.

7.9

Costanza

A young Sicilian pathologist wins a one-year research grant in Verona and leaves her homeland to pursue new professional opportunities.

N/A

La donna della domenica

Architetto Garrone

Based on a crime book by Italian authors Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, first published in 1972. The story is set in the city of Turin, and deals with the investigation of commissioner Santamaria about the murder of an architect of dubious fame, Garrone. Among the protagonists are Anna Carla Dosio, a beautiful and rich woman, and her friend Massimo Campi, a rich homosexual.

6.1

Un uomo perbene

Sostituto Procuratore Felice Di Persia

In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.

5.4

L'ultimo Dei Corleonesi

Piero Grasso

The rise and fall of sicilian most important mafia bosses after WWII: Luciano Liggio, Totò Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, all from Corleone. Their friendship and struggle against italian state.

N/A

Cine Tempestose

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