Libero De Rienzo

Actor

February 24, 1977 (44 years)

† July 15, 2021

Naples, Italy

Biography

Libero De Rienzo (February 24, 1977 – July 15, 2021) was an Italian actor and onetime filmmaker best known for his breakthrough role as wisecracking Bart in Santa Maradona (2001), for which he won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor. His other notable roles include those in Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl (2001), Honey (2013), Fortapàsc (2009) and the Smetto quando voglio trilogy (2014-2017). He died from a heroin overdose at age 44.

Filmography

6.2

Fat Girl

Fernando

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such, she can only be taken. Or had. Indeed, this is the subject: a girl's loss of virginity. And, that summer, it opens a door to tragedy.

7.5

The Two Popes

Roberto

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.

7.4

I Can Quit Whenever I Want

Bartolomeo Bonelli

A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society.

7.0

Aldo Moro - Il Presidente

Valerio Morucci

At the end of the seventies the Red Brigades are plotting a new target to hit, the president of the Christian Democrats Aldo Moro. On 16 March 1978, the band of the Red Brigades went on the attack. The terrorists kidnap Aldo Moro and kill all the men in his escort.

6.9

Nassiryia - Per non dimenticare

Carabiniere scelto Maurizio Costa

November 12, 2003. A terrorist attack kills 24 Italian soldiers deployed in Nasiriyah, Iraq for a peace-keeping mission as part of "Operation Ancient Babylon".

7.4

I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass

Bartolomeo Bonelli

Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs.

6.0

Il sequestro Soffiantini

Carlo Soffiantini

In 1997, a group of bandits kidnaps businessman Giuseppe Soffiantini, keeping him imprisoned for 237 days in their hideout in the mountains of Sardinia.

6.1

My House in Umbria

Dr. Innocenti

Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.

5.5

I Killed Napoleon

Biagio

In the space of twenty-four hours the life of Anita, single and brilliant manager in career, is blown away by a hurricane of trouble.

7.1

Fort Apache Napoli

Giancarlo Siani

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.

5.0

All at Sea

Nando

Every morning, pushing the wheelchair of his mother, Maurizio along the walkway through the bush and tie him entrance to his kiosk on the beach. After being assured that his attendants, and Khaled Omar, they did a good job, going to hoist the Italian flag, which stands on top of building.

6.6

With or Without You

Luca

Alice and Tommaso have been together for fifteen years; they don’t have children, he‘s a musician, she’s an actress. Invited to dinner for an announcement, their friends think it’s going to be a marriage announcement, but instead discover that decided to break up: but without drama or emotional rifts, staying friends with each other. A legitimate but naive ambition. Love stories end, because people change. And no change is, nor can it be, painless.

6.8

Easy

Filo

A 40-year-old loser named Isidoro at the request of his brother drives from Italy to mountainous Carpathian village in Ukraine with a coffin of a diseased Ukrainian worker, who died at a construction site in Italy.

5.7

Reckless

Isp. Bartolomeo Vanzetti

A broke mechanic turns a bank loan denial into an impromptu robbery that puts him on the run with his best friend and a starlet they hold hostage.

6.6

Honey

Rocco

Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise.

5.8

Milan – Palermo: The Return

Libero Proietti

Turi Leofonte is released from prison after eleven years and asks for the surviving members of his old security detail to escort him back in Sicily to get revenge on his former associates – something the authorities indulge to seize a large stash of Mafia money he claims to have access to.

7.1

Santa Maradona

Bart

An aimless college graduate jumping from one job interview to another — killing time in between with his wisecracking and deadbeat room-mate — falls in love with an actress.

6.0

Say It Loud

Ottavio

A woman seeking treatment for her stress, suddenly finds herself unable to filter herself when she speaks.

5.9

The Ploy

Antonio

In the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate plan that will bring the great poet to his violent death.

5.4

Dirty War

Duzi

Army colonel Gabriele Moresco and twelve of his soldiers occupy a hospital in Sicily, Italy, taking every patient and doctor as hostages and giving an ultimatum to the government: if they won't admit their role in hiding proof of the use of depleted uranium in the Balkan Wars and the subsequent countless cases of cancer among Italian soldiers in 56 hours, all the hostages will be killed. Negotiator Paolo Manfredi is called to save the hostages, not knowing that his wife and daughter are among them.