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Gianni Quaranta is a Production Design Italien born on 30 august 1943
Gianni Quaranta (born August 30, 1943) is an Italian production designer and art director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and won the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design and the Nastro d'Argento for Best Production Design for La Traviata (1983). He won the Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film A Room with a View.
Il travaille également beaucoup pour l'opéra et le théâtre et signe des décors et des scénographies dans des salles aussi prestigieuses que La Scala de Milan, l'Opéra Garnier de Paris, La Fenice de Venise ou le Metropolitan Opera de New York.
(1986)
(Production Design)
(1994)
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(1976)
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Gianni Quaranta fait des études de scénographie à l'Académie des beaux-arts de Brera à Milan. Peu après, il devient l'assistant de Luciano Damiani et de Renzo Mongiardino, et il collabore aux décors du film de Zeffirelli François et le Chemin du soleil. Son travail est utilisé par de nombreux réalisateurs italiens et internationaux (Bertolucci, Olmi, Ivory, etc.).Il travaille également beaucoup pour l'opéra et le théâtre et signe des décors et des scénographies dans des salles aussi prestigieuses que La Scala de Milan, l'Opéra Garnier de Paris, La Fenice de Venise ou le Metropolitan Opera de New York.
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Mirka (2000)
, 1h47Directed by Rachid Benhadj
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Gérard Depardieu, Franco Nero, Barbora Bobulova, Arnaldo Ninchi
Roles Production Design
Rating69%
Mirka is searching for his mother in an unidentified Balkan nation, he is befriended by Strix (Depardieu) who promises to help. Kalsan (Redgrave) is surprised at the sudden arrival of Mirka, a foreign child in her midst. In a turn of events, it emerges that he is her grandson. Unlike the villagers that participated in a silent infanticide against ethnic rape children, Kalsan saved Mirka and took him to a city orphanage. The tragic story is unveiled by Kalsan's niece, Elena who became pregnant with Mirka after being the victim of an ethnic war rape. Elena has long believed her child to be dead so his appearance shakes the fabric of the household. Mirka's ethnicity leads to his persecution by the villagers.
Marquise (1997)
, 2h16Directed by Véra Belmont
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Dance films, Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Sophie Marceau, Bernard Giraudeau, Lambert Wilson, Patrick Timsit, Thierry Lhermitte, Anémone
Roles Set Designer
Rating58%
While four actresses from Molière's itinerant theatrical troupe set off looking for a latrine, Molière (Bernard Giraudeau) and his best friend Gros-Rene (Patrick Timsit) discover Marquise (Sophie Marceau) dancing before an eager crowd of men. Her movements are provocative and are heightened by a heavy rain that drenches her hair and clothes. The men offer her coins for her performance, which are pocketed by Marquise's father. Gros-Rene immediately falls in love with Marquise. While an elderly gentlemen has his way with her, Gros-Rene proposes to her, promising that she will end up on a Paris stage if she accepts, which she does.
Farinelli (1994)
, 1h51Directed by Gérard Corbiau
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein, Jeroen Krabbé, Caroline Cellier, Omero Antonutti
Roles Production Design
Rating67%
Riccardo Broschi décide de faire castrer son petit frère Carlo, futur Farinelli, en maquillant cela sous la forme d'un « accident », afin qu'il puisse conserver cette voix cristalline sensationnelle sans laquelle la musique de Riccardo, qui est compositeur, ne vaudrait rien. Le jeune homme parcourt les opéras avec son frère. Une jeune femme, Alexandra, vient un jour demander aux frères Broschi de donner une représentation dans un petit théâtre anglais en pleine faillite. Ils acceptent. C'est alors que s'engage la concurrence entre les Broschi qui veulent sauver le théâtre et Haendel, l'ancien maître des deux frères et célèbre compositeur. Le théâtre gagne considérablement en popularité, mais Haendel tente par tous les moyens de récupérer la voix exceptionnelle de Farinelli. Haendel fait une allusion à « l'accident » qui a coûté sa virilité à Farinelli. Ce dernier découvre alors la vérité et la relation privilégiée qu'il avait avec Riccardo s'efface. Farinelli et Alexandra sont amoureux. Riccardo, qui cherche à se faire pardonner et à rendre une vie « normale » à son petit frère, fait un enfant à Alexandra, puis part s'engager dans l'armée. Il disparaît de la vie de Farinelli, que l'on voit, dans l'une des dernières scènes du film, embrasser le ventre arrondi par la grossesse d’Alexandra.
The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
, 1h47Directed by Paul Schrader
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Crime, Romance
Actors Natasha Richardson, Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Helen Mirren
Roles Production Design
Rating62%
It is a movie about relationships between two distinct and very different couples. Colin (Rupert Everett) and Mary (Natasha Richardson) are a British couple vacationing in Venice for the second time. They are not married, but Mary has two children, who have been left at home with her mother. We are shown glimpses of a tall man dressed in white, who seems to be observing them from afar. Late one night, they become lost as they search for a restaurant. As they wander around, they meet Robert (Christopher Walken), the British-Italian owner of a local bar. He is the very elegant-looking man in all white. Over several bottles of wine, he tells them stories about his sadistic father who was an Italian diplomat. Robert also talks of the cruel tricks his younger sisters played upon him.
, 2h7Directed by Ermanno Olmi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about religion
Actors Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Dominique Pinon, Sandrine Dumas, Cécile Paoli, Françoise Pinkwasser
Roles Production Design
Rating70%
A drunken homeless man (Rutger Hauer) in Paris is lent 200 francs by a stranger as long as he promises to repay it to a local church when he can afford to; the film depicts the man's constant frustrations as he attempts to do so.
Waxwork (1988)
, 1h37Directed by Anthony Hickox
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about computing, Films about magic and magicians, Medical-themed films, Films based on science fiction novels, Wolves in film, Dracula films, Frankenstein films, Werewolves in film, Vampires in film, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Comedy horror films, Cyberpunk films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Disaster films
Actors Zach Galligan, Deborah Foreman, Michelle Johnson, David Warner, Dana Ashbrook, Miles O'Keeffe
Roles Production Design
Rating61%
In a small suburban town, a group of university students--Mark Loftmore (Zach Galligan), China Webster (Michelle Johnson), Sarah Brightman (Deborah Foreman), Gemma (Clare Carey), James (Eric Brown) and Tony (Dana Ashbrook)--visit a mysterious wax museum, where they encounter several morbid displays, all of which contain stock characters from the horror genre. Tony and China unintentionally enter two separate pocket worlds, as depicted by the waxwork displays, by crossing the exhibition barrier rope. Tony is at a cabin where a werewolf (John Rhys-Davies) attacks him. A hunter and his son arrive and try to kill the werewolf. The son fails and is torn in two, while the hunter shoots the werewolf, and then shoots Tony as he begins to transform into a werewolf. China is sent to a Gothic castle, where vampires attack her and Count Dracula (Miles O'Keeffe) turns her into a vampire. Two of the other students, Mark and Sarah, leave the waxwork unscathed. Later, Jonathan (Micah Grant), "a college jock", arrives at the wax museum, looking for China, but The Phantom of the Opera display gets his attention as David Lincoln (David Warner) walks him into the display. Mark goes to a pair of investigating police detectives, Inspector Roberts (Charles McCaughan), and meets Lincoln as he lets Roberts investigate the waxworks. As Mark and Roberts leave the Museum, Mark recognizes Lincoln.
Dancers (1987)
, 1h22Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Dance films
Actors Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tommy Rall, Mariangela Melato, Gianmarco Tognazzi
Roles Production Design
Rating45%
A Room with a View (1986)
, 1h57Directed by James Ivory
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands, Simon Callow, Daniel Day-Lewis
Roles Production Design
Rating71%
Miss Lucy Honeychurch is from an English village in Surrey and is on holiday in Italy with her much older cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett. Charlotte is conventionally English, with an extremely restrictive personality and tends to get her way by expressing her emotions to manipulate others. Lucy has been brought up in an upper-middle class but loving and easygoing household, and had fewer inhibitions, which creates a strong tension between herself and Charlotte. They are in contrast with the more free-thinking and free-spirited backdrop of Italy. At a small pensione Lucy meets such people as Reverend Beebe, the two Miss Alans, and the author Miss Eleanor Lavish, but most importantly, the nonconformist Mr. Emerson and his handsome, philosophical son, George, who becomes friends with Charlotte. These men, although also English, represent the forward-thinking ideals of the turn-of-the-century, seeking to leave behind the repression and caution that was the norm in Victorian times. At first, the Emersons seem strange and unfamiliar to Lucy and Charlotte. They seem sincere but unaware of finer upper class Victorian manners. Mr. Emerson offers to switch rooms with the women, who desire a room with a view. Charlotte is offended, believing him to be rude and tactless for what she perceives to be indebting them with his offer. As Lucy begins her journey to maturity, she finds herself drawn to George due to his mysterious thinking and readily expressed emotions.
Otello (1986)
, 1h58Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Transport films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Films based on operas
Actors Justino Díaz, Antonio Pierfederici, Urbano Barberini, Remo Remotti
Roles Art Direction
Rating68%
With only a few exceptions, the film follows the same plot as the opera. Iago plots and brings about Otello's downfall by convincing him that his wife Desdemona is engaged in an affair with the young lieutenant Cassio, provoking Otello to murder her in a blind rage. However, in a major change from the opera, Otello kills Iago at the end by throwing a spear at him, while in the stage version he only wounds him with his sword.
Hajji Washington (1982)
, 1h40Directed by Ali Hatami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical
Actors Ezatollah Entezami, Richard Harrison
Roles Art Direction
Rating70%
Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori, an influential Qajar politician is sent by Nasereddin Shah to the United States of America during the time of President Andrew Johnson to serve as Iran's ambassador. Once in America Hajji hires a number of employees but soon finds himself missing his family and finding his work unrewarding considering there are very few Iranians in America at the time.
Tempest (1982)
, 2h20Directed by Paul Mazursky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, Vittorio Gassman, Raúl Juliá, Molly Ringwald
Roles Art Direction
Rating63%
The movie tells the story of Phillip Dimitrius (John Cassavetes), a middle-aged New York City architect who is going through a difficult mid-life crisis.
The Day Christ Died (1980)
Directed by James Cellan Jones
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Films about virginity
Actors Chris Sarandon, Hope Lange, Colin Blakely, Keith Michell, Jonathan Pryce, Jay O. Sanders
Roles Production Design
Rating62%
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Films about virginity
Actors Robert Powell, Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Olivia Hussey, Claudia Cardinale, Abdelmajid Lakhal
Roles Production Design
Rating84%
The storyline of Jesus of Nazareth is a kind of cinematic Diatessaron, or “Gospel harmony”, blending the narratives of all four New Testament accounts. It takes a fairly naturalistic approach, de-emphasizing special effects when miracles are depicted and presenting Jesus as more or less evenly divine and human. The familiar Christian episodes are presented chronologically: the betrothal, and later marriage, of Mary and Joseph; the Annunciation; the Visitation; the circumcision of John the Baptist; the Nativity of Jesus; the visit of the Magi; the circumcision of Jesus; the Census of Quirinius; the flight into Egypt and Slaughter of the Innocents; the Finding in the Temple; the Baptism of Jesus; the woman caught in adultery; Jesus helping Peter catch the fish; the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 11-32); a dialogue between Jesus and Barabbas (non-biblical); Matthew's dinner party; the Sermon on the Mount; debating with Joseph of Arimathea; the curing of the blind man at the pool; the Raising of Lazarus (John 11:43); the Feeding of the Five Thousand; the Entry into Jerusalem; Jesus and the money changers; the Last Supper; the
1900 (1976)
, 5h20Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement, Political films, Children's films
Actors Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland, Alida Valli, Burt Lancaster
Roles Production Design
Rating76%
Born on the day of the death of renowned composer Giuseppe Verdi—27 January 1901—Alfredo Berlinghieri and Olmo Dalcò come from opposite ends of the social spectrum. Alfredo is from a family of landowners led by his populist grandfather (also called Alfredo), while Olmo is an illegitimate peasant. Olmo's grandfather, Leo, is the foreman and peasants' strong man who verbally and spiritually carries out a duel of wits with grandfather Alfredo. As Alfredo is somewhat rebellious and despises the falseness of his family, in particular his weak but abusive and cynical father Giovanni, he befriends Olmo, who was raised as a socialist.
All Screwed Up (1974)
, 1h50Directed by Lina Wertmüller
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Luigi Diberti, Lina Polito, Isa Danieli, Claudio Camaso, Eros Pagni, Aldo Puglisi
Roles Production Design
Rating63%
Two young men from the country, Gino and Carletto, arrive in Milan. They immediately meet a young woman who is also a new arrival and who is crying as she cannot locate her cousin. The men help her find her cousin Isotta and makes plans to meet again. The boys get jobs working in factories while Adelina is taken in by Isotta and taught to work as a maid by her enterprising friend Biki. Eventually they all move in to an apartment that once belonged to an artist friend of Biki's who committed suicide.