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Armando Grottini is a Director, Production Manager and Second Assistant Director Italien born on 22 june 1909

Armando Grottini

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Nationality Italie
Birth 22 june 1909
Death 9 december 2001 (at 92 years)

Armando Grottini, né le 22 juin 1909 à Rome dans la région du Latium et décédé le 9 décembre 2001 dans la même ville, est un réalisateur, producteur de cinéma, scripte et scénariste italien. Il a réalisé quatre films au cours de sa carrière, dont deux sous les pseudonymes d'Armando Ingegnero et Armando Zorri.

Biography

Il entre dans le monde du cinéma en 1939. Il travaille d'abord comme scripte avant de devenir assistant-réalisateur et de collaborer avec Mario Mattoli, Carmine Gallone, Guido Brignone, Giorgio Ferroni, Giorgio Pàstina ou Pino Mercanti.

Il passe seul à la réalisation avec le drame La figlia del peccato réalisé sous le pseudonyme d'Armando Ingegnero en 1949. Il signe ensuite le drame napolitain Carcerato sous le pseudonyme d'Armando Zorri en 1951, suivi par le drame sentimental Rimorso l'année suivante, avec Otello Toso, Maria Grazia Francia, Mirko Ellis et Tina Pica. En 1953, il réalise son quatrième et dernier film, le mélodrame musical ...e Napoli canta! marqué par le premier rôle au cinéma de Virna Lisi, qui donne dans ce film la réplique à Giacomo Rondinella, Tecla Scarano, Beniamino Maggio et Germana Paolieri .

A partir de 1953, il devient directeur de production, collaborant avec Giorgio Simonelli, Giorgio Bianchi, Mario Bonnard, Mario Soldati, Mario Costa, Pietro Francisci, Siro Marcellini, Gian Paolo Callegari ou Vittorio Sala. Il travaille ensuite dans l'univers de la télévision.

Il décède à Rome en 2001 à l'âge de quatre-vingt douze ans.

Usually with

Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi
(3 films)
Vittorio Sala
Vittorio Sala
(2 films)
Aldo Fabrizi
Aldo Fabrizi
(2 films)
Franca Marzi
Franca Marzi
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

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Beach Casanova, 1h38
Directed by Vittorio Sala
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Curd Jürgens, Annette Stroyberg, Martine Carol, Gabriele Ferzetti, Daniela Rocca, Paolo Ferrari
Roles Production Manager
Rating57% 2.886252.886252.886252.886252.88625
Dans le cadre du jumelage d'une ville italienne avec une ville de la Côte d'Azur, quelques responsables italiens viennent s'encanailler sur la Riviera. L'occasion pour l'artiste trans Coccinelle de faire ses débuts de comédienne dans son propre rôle ainsi que la participation de quelques célèbres acteurs français de l'époque pour la couleur locale.
Pontius Pilate, 1h40
Directed by Irving Rapper, Gian Paolo Callegari
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film
Actors Jean Marais, Jeanne Crain, Basil Rathbone, Letícia Román, Massimo Serato, Riccardo Garrone
Roles Production Manager
Rating55% 2.764392.764392.764392.764392.76439
Ponce Pilate, le procurateur de Judée, revient à Rome pour se défendre devant ses accusateurs, Caligula, le nouvel empereur, et le Sénat tout entier. Pendant son procès, Ponce Pilate revoit les dernières années de sa vie, depuis son arrivée en terre palestinienne, jusqu'à l'exécution d'un prophète poursuivi par la haine des Pharisiens, Jésus de Nazareth.
Colossus and the Amazon Queen, 1h24
Directed by Vittorio Sala
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Peplum
Themes Films based on mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Dans la Grèce mythologique, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Rod Taylor, Dorian Gray, Daniela Rocca, Alberto Farnese, Gianna Maria Canale, Folco Lulli
Roles Production Manager
Rating36% 1.839071.839071.839071.839071.83907
After the Trojan War, Glauco is the strongest man amongst the Greeks. His friend Pirro meets two men who offer him a large sum of money to persuade Glauco to sail towards unexplored shores. Pirro accepts the proposal and convinces Glauco with a trick: he hits him on his head. The ship lands at a strange place where Pirro and the other men aboard are drugged and find themselves in the hands of the Amazons. Only Glauco escapes, saved from the Egyptian inventor Sofo and he falls in love with Antiope. Between loves and duels, conspiracies and ruses, maurauding pirates will bring together Amazons and Greeks.
Siege of Syracuse, 1h58
Directed by Pietro Francisci
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Tina Louise, Sylva Koscina, Enrico Maria Salerno, Rossano Brazzi, Gino Cervi, Alberto Farnese
Roles Production Manager
Rating53% 2.6778952.6778952.6778952.6778952.677895
La ville de Syracuse est dans une situation difficile, prise entre Rome et Carthage. Le roi Hiéron fait appel à Archimède, un jeune savant, pour organiser la défense de la cité. Ce dernier doit s'arracher à son amour pour la danseuse Diane qui se rend à Rome pour épouser le consul Marcellus.
Good night… lawyer!
Directed by Giorgio Bianchi
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Mara Berni, Andrea Checchi, Vittorio Caprioli, Tina Pica
Roles Production Manager
Rating66% 3.3102153.3102153.3102153.3102153.310215
Alberto Santi is a young lawyer who, although love his wife, often longingly thinks to his bachelor life. While his wife has gone to Rome for a conference of Catholic Women, a beautiful stranger named Bianca Maria suddenly swoops in his house, initiating a series of misunderstandings.
Of Life and Love, 1h32
Directed by Luigi Zampa, Aldo Fabrizi, Mario Soldati, Giorgio Pàstina
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Turi Pandolfini, Totò, Myriam Bru, Emilio Cigoli, Natale Cirino, Aldo Fabrizi
Roles Production Manager
Rating62% 3.1447253.1447253.1447253.1447253.144725
The film tells four episodes from stories written by Luigi Pirandello (from the work: Novelle per un anno).
It Happened at the Police Station, 1h38
Directed by Giorgio Simonelli
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Actors Nino Taranto, Alberto Sordi, Walter Chiari, Lucia Bosè, Riccardo Billi, Mario Riva
Roles Production Manager
Rating59% 2.9714152.9714152.9714152.9714152.971415
La scène se déroule à Rome dans un commissariat de police, théâtre pendant vingt-quatre heures de faits usuels comme des disputes, crises de ménage, enfants abandonnés et outrages qui animent la vie du bureau et entravent les projets du commissaire, qui voudrait trouver le temps de se consacrer à sa nouvelle voiture Fiat 1100 et la montrer à son épouse.

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Verginità
Verginità (1951)

Directed by Leonardo De Mitri
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Franca Marzi, Irene Genna, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Leonardo Cortese, Arnoldo Foà, Tamara Lees
Roles First Assistant Director
Rating55% 2.7592352.7592352.7592352.7592352.759235
A country girl who is a diligent devourer of picture stories, decides to participate in a beauty contest without the consent of her father. She dreams of a glamorous career in the big city. When she loses the contest, she is approached by two men who offer her a modeling job. However, they are in fact white slavers who intend to lure her to Brazil.
Marechiaro
Marechiaro (1949)
, 1h30
Directed by Giorgio Ferroni
Genres Drama
Actors Silvana Pampanini, Nada Fiorelli, Massimo Serato, Arnoldo Foà, Carlo Lombardi, Marisa Merlini
Roles First Assistant Director
Rating64% 3.217663.217663.217663.217663.21766
The Two Orphans, 1h30
Directed by Mario Mattoli
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about children
Actors Totò, Carlo Campanini, Irene Genna, Isa Barzizza, Nerio Bernardi, Annette Poivre
Roles Second Assistant Director
Rating60% 3.040763.040763.040763.040763.04076
The story is set in Paris in the middle of the 19th century. Caspar (Totò) and the Baptist (Campanini) are two poor homeless staying in an orphanage, not knowing where to stay. One day the two orphans are called by the director to solve a very special case: Susanne, a girl from the orphanage would like to marry a rich young but her father is against it because he does not know anything about the origins of his girlfriend. So Gasparre has the bright idea to cut a lock of hair to swap it with that of Susanne and so the father of the rich man discovers that the owner of the hair is of noble origins and thus a relative. Caspar along with the Baptist enters the new family but the nobles Parisians have in mind to delete the new emperor Napoleon III of France and the two tramps are involved against their bungling. Being in the real room of the emperor, Napoleon immediately catches them and makes them stop, so Caspar and Baptist are sentenced to the guillotine. But just as the ax is about to fall on their heads, the two orphans wake up with a start: it was all a dream.
Before Him All Rome Trembled, 1h38
Directed by Carmine Gallone
Genres Drama, War, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films, Films based on operas
Actors Anna Magnani, Hans Hinrich, Guido Notari, Carlo Duse, Ave Ninchi, Tino Scotti
Roles Second Assistant Director
Rating63% 3.180423.180423.180423.180423.18042
A cause de la jalousie d'une femme, la Gestapo decouvre qu'un tenor de l'opera de Rome cache un soldat anglais.