Gianni Amelio
January 20, 1945 · 81 years old
Gianni Amelio (born 20 January 1945; Catanzaro) is an Italian film director. His film "The Way We Laughed" (1998) won a Golden Lion at the 55th Venice Film Festival. Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He sp…
Known For
4 titles
The Stolen Children
Cop Antonio is ordered to take 11-year-old Rosetta and her brother Luciano from Milan to an orphanage in Sicily. Their mother has been jailed for forcing Rosetta into prostitution. Reluctant Antonio soon learns to sympathize with ...
Lord of the Ants
Italian poet, playwright and director Aldo Braibanti is jailed in 1968 under a law criminalizing grooming. The informant is his partner's father.
Tenderness
Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstairs to his top-floor apartment in Naples when he meets Michela. The charming young woman, who has just moved to the facing apartment...
Battlefield
In WWI, Dr. Stefano Zorzi works at a clinic, treating soldiers' wounds and cases of self-injury to avoid combat.Dr. Giulio, who helps soldiers, becomes a silent competition that also involves nurse Anna. The Spanish flu strikes th...