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Massimo Popolizio is a Actor Italien born on 4 july 1961 at Genoa (Italie)
Massimo Popolizio (born July 4, 1961) is an Italian actor and voice actor.
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Massimo Popolizio (born July 4, 1961) is an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Massimo Popolizio studied at the 'National Academy of Dramatic Art Silvio D'Amico' in Rome in 1984, Popolizio started his career as a stage actor and, after graduation, started a fruitful artistic collaboration with theater director Luca Ronconi. In 1995 he won a UBU Award as Best Actor for his work in Shakespeare's King Lear and Towards Peer Gynt inspired by Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, and again in 2001 for his role in Carlo Goldoni's 1747 play The Venetian Twins. In 2006 he won the Golden Aeschylus, conferred by the National Classic Drama Institute (INDA). In 2012, Popolizio returned to Ibsen in the title role of the stage work John Gabriel Borkman, with Lucrezia Lante della Rovere and Manuela Mandracchia. In 2013 he played Don Palma in the TV show Una grande famiglia.Usually with
Filmography of Massimo Popolizio (14 films)
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Amici come noi (2014)
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about writers
Actors Alessandra Mastronardi, Massimo Popolizio, Mohamed Zouaoui, Anna Rita del Piano
Roles Uncle Ettore
Rating50%
Leopardi (2014)
, 2h17Directed by Mario Martone
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Anna Mouglalis, Isabella Ragonese, Elio Germano, Michele Riondino, Massimo Popolizio, Salvatore Cantalupo
Roles Monaldo Leopardi
Rating67%
The film tells the short life of the great Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. A noble, his birth's in Recanati, and soon Giacomo learns to study Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and English in the rich library of his palace that his father built. Giacomo, however, possessing an inquisitive, restless spirit, would like to know to travel abroad to widen his views and enrich his knowledge, as was usual for European landed gentry in the 19th century. Still this desire of his lies at odds with his parents (his father, while possessing a sensibility akin to his, is too bound by the social conventions and the expectations tied to his role as 'Pater Familias'; his mother, on the other hand, is too busy shoring up the household declining fortunes to even care about intellectual aspirations). So the poet begins to write his first works, reflecting about human condition, coming to the conclusion that unhappiness is a costant factor of human existence, and that in life there is no way to remedy this problem. In 1820s, Leopardi can finally leave the native Recanati, and travels to Rome and Florence where, however, his high expectations of intellectual rewards and public recognition are frustrated. Suffering from repeated instances of unrequited love: chiefly that he felt towards the Countess Fanny Targioni Tozzetti, contribute to Leopardi's negative view of life and human experience. Finally he moves to Naples, where a physical decadence led him to death.
The Great Beauty (2013)
, 2h22Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about writers
Actors Toni Servillo, Sabrina Ferilli, Isabella Ferrari, Carlo Verdone, Carlo Buccirosso, Serena Grandi
Roles Alfio Bracco
Rating76%
The film opens with a quote from Céline's Journey to the End of the Night: "To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength." The main character is an aging socialite, Jep Gambardella, who once wrote a famous novel in his twenties, only to retire into a comfortable life writing cultural columns and throwing parties in Rome. After his 65th birthday party, he walks through the ruins and city streets, encountering the various characters, reflecting on his life, his first love, and sense of unfulfillment.
Steel (2012)
, 1h35Directed by Stefano Mordini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Vittoria Puccini, Michele Riondino, Massimo Popolizio, Luca Guastini
Rating55%
Il y a la Méditerranée, la lumière, l'île d'Elbe au loin. Mais ce n'est pas un lieu de vacances. C'est une terre sur laquelle ont poussé brutalement les usines et les barres de béton. Anna et Francesca, bientôt quatorze ans, sont les souveraines de ce royaume cabossé. Ensemble, elles rêvent d'évasion et parient sur une amitié inconditionnelle pour s'emparer de l'avenir.
Boris: The Film (2011)
, 1h48Genres Comedy
Actors Carolina Crescentini, Antonio Catania, Paolo Calabresi, Alberto Di Stasio, Giorgio Tirabassi, Claudio Gioè
Roles Massimo
Rating68%
Drifters (2011)
Directed by Matteo Rovere
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Miriam Giovanelli, Claudio Santamaria, Michele Riondino, Asia Argento, Massimo Popolizio, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Roles Sergio
Rating54%
Mete doit lutter contre son attirance inappropriée pour sa demi-sœur de 17 ans, qui vient d'emménager dans son appartement à Rome.
The Big Dream (2009)
, 1h41Directed by Michele Placido
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Riccardo Scamarcio, Luca Argentero, Jasmine Trinca, Michele Placido, Alessandra Acciai, Laura Morante
Roles Domenico
Rating57%
In 1968, in Rome, at the famous La Sapienza University, a group of young people's occupying the institution, starting in the city's famous revolt of students. The group of students is led by the proletarian Libero, son of unemployed workers of Fiat, who wants to attack the gaming bourgeois political and Italy and permanently to change the future for the youth of the country. The police opposes him, while the upper class student Laura falls in love with Libero. In the meantime, however, the Rome police plan to stifle the student revolt, and among these is the young Nicola, who secretly loves the theater, and so wants to star in a famous company. When Laura meets Nicola, changes perspective and the two fall in love. Nicola has the task of the police to infiltrate him in the group in protest, and to discover the weak points because the police can attach the students with more simplicity.
Il Divo (2008)
, 1h50Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Mafia films, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Political films, Gangster films
Actors Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Piera Degli Esposti, Anna Bonaiuto, Paolo Graziosi, Flavio Bucci
Roles Vittorio Sbardella
Rating72%
As the film opens, Giulio Andreotti gives an inner monologue observing how he has managed to survive his tumultuous political career while his various detractors have died. A montage shows the murders of various people connected to Andreotti, including journalist Mino Pecorelli, Carabinieri general Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, bankers Michele Sindona and Roberto Calvi, and former prime minister Aldo Moro.
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution
Actors Filippo Nigro, Massimo Popolizio, Donatella Finocchiaro, Tosca D'Aquino, Agostina Belli
Roles Bernard
Rating54%
My Brother Is an Only Child (2007)
, 1h40Directed by Daniele Luchetti
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical
Actors Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Luca Zingaretti, Vittorio Emanuele Propizio, Angela Finocchiaro, Anna Bonaiuto
Roles Ettore Benassi
Rating69%
Accio (Elio Germano) and Manrico (Riccardo Scamarcio) are working class brothers who live in Italy in the 1960s. While his brother becomes drawn into left-wing politics, Accio, the hotheaded younger brother, is taken under the wing of a market trader and while under his influence, joins the Fascist party. Accio ("Bully") is a nickname he is proud of because it makes him seem tough. Manrico and their sister Violetta are alarmed to hear their brother listening to Benito Mussolini's speeches in his room. Manrico often physically torments his brother, including stuffing his head in the barrel under the drain pipe of their house.
Romanzo Criminale (2005)
, 2h32Directed by Michele Placido
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, Gangster films
Actors Kim Rossi Stuart, Anna Mouglalis, Pierfrancesco Favino, Claudio Santamaria, Stefano Accorsi, Jasmine Trinca
Roles Terribile
Rating71%
In 1960s Rome, four young delinquents, nicknamed Cold, Lebanese, Dandi and Grand steal a car. Crashing through a police road block, the driver, Grand is crushed by the steering column. Back at their hideout, a small disused caravan near a beach, they are discovered by the police. Cold, Lebanese and Dandi run away, but are captured. Grand, who is mortally wounded, dies in the caravan. Roll opening credits. Some years later, in the 1970s, Cold is released from prison and joins up with Lebanese, who tells him he has come up with a plan to kidnap and hold to ransom Baron Rossellini, a wealthy aristocrat for whom Lebanese's parents worked. He has formed a gang with Dandi - they are Black, Bright Eye, Ricotta, Bufalo, Rat and Ciro and Aldo Buffoni. After negotiating the ransom of 3 billion lire, the Baron is shot by one of the Cannizzari brothers who have been entrusted by Lebanese to guard him. Nonetheless, they fake the proof of life and get the 3 billion lire. However, the local Police Commissioner Nicola Scialoja manages to record the serial numbers of the ransom money before the gang receive it, setting out to capture the gang. As the gang divide up the money, Lebanese proposes to split 500 million lire between them, and use the remaining 2.5 billion to build a foothold in the criminal underworld of Rome, starting with drug dealing. However, the drugs racket is owned by the dealer Terrible, and so the gang wipe his gang out apart from Gemito, who Lebanese bribes to help them. After his home is raided and his body guards killed, Terrible wakes to find Cold, Lebanese and Dandi in his bedroom. Cornered, he reluctantly agrees to let give control of the racket to the gang.
Elective Affinities (1996)
, 1h38Directed by Frères Taviani
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Marie Gillain, Massimo Popolizio, Giancarlo Giannini
Roles Marchese
Rating60%
Après de nombreuses années de séparation, le baron Edoardo et la comtesse Carlotta, se retrouvent lors d'une réception dans la villa médicéenne de Poggio a Caiano. Jadis, ils se sont aimés passionnément et décident de se marier afin de connaître un bonheur certes tardif, mais réciproquement souhaité.
Pereira Declares (1995)
, 1h44Directed by Roberto Faenza
Origin Portugal
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Joaquim de Almeida, Daniel Auteuil, Nicoletta Braschi, Stefano Dionisi, Marthe Keller
Roles Dr. Cardoso (voice)
Rating70%
In Lisbon, during the António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo dictatorship, Pereira (Marcello Mastroianni), a journalist that works in the culture section of a newspaper, discovers the real dark side of the regime when he meets and helps an anti-fascist young man Monteiro Rossi (Stefano Dionisi).
Heartless (1995)
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Kim Rossi Stuart, Massimo Ghini, Massimo Wertmüller, Massimo Popolizio, Valerio Mastandrea, Paolo Calabresi
Roles Ministro
Rating64%