Aldo

Aldo comes from the Latin altus and means "the tall one."

Aldo may refer to:

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Baarìa

Baarìa can refer to:

Giuseppe Tornatore

Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is considered as one of the directors who brought critical acclaim back to Italian cinema. In a career spanning over 30 years he is best known for directing and writing drama films such as The Legend of 1900, Malèna, Baarìa and The Best Offer. Probably his most noted film is Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, for which Tornatore won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Life and career

Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo.

He worked initially as a freelance photographer. Then, switching to cinema, he made his debut with Le minoranze etniche in Sicilia (The Ethnic Minorities in Sicily), a collaborative documentary film which won a Salerno Festival prize. He then worked for RAI before releasing his first full-length film, Il Camorrista, in 1985. This evoked a positive response from audience and critics alike and Tornatore was awarded the Silver Ribbon for best new director.

Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo

Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo is a pseudonym of three Italian comedians, theater directors, film directors, television directors and film actors consisting respectively of Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti and Giacomo Poretti. Their humor is typically Milanese, involving many scenes centered on stereotypes involving north/south difference.

Biography

Early

Cataldo Baglio, better known simply as Aldo, born in Palermo but always living in Milan, we met Giovanni Storti; together studying mime and dance in school melodrama of the Teatro Arsenale of Milan. John graduated in 1977 and Aldo in 1978, and the two immediately take part in various cabaret shows including And tomorrow? (1979) and The suggestible, and performers in television dramas including Profession Holidays. Poretti Giacomo, meanwhile, is in the cabaret duo Hansel and strudel, along with Marina Massironi, at the time before his girlfriend and then wife.

Theatre

The actress Marina Massironi, shoulder female comic trio nineties beginning of the new millennium. The trio as we know it now is formed in 1985, when Aldo Giovanni and Giacomo meet and invite him to make sketches with them. A few months later the trio who called himself Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo, recites in the theater with Marina Massironi since 1991, in shows such as Summer Lightning (1992) directed by Paola Galassi, Back to the gerund with Flavio Oreglio and Antonio Cornacchione, Air storm (1993) directed by Giancarlo Bozzo, the shorts (1996) directed by Arturo Brachetti and the circus of Paolo Rossi (1995) directed by Giampiero Solari and starring Paolo Rossi. In 2005 act, along with Silvana Fallisi, entertainment Anplagghed directed by Arturo Brachetti. In 2012 the trio returns to the stage, with the theater tour Ammutta muddica.

Francesco Scianna

Francesco Scianna (Palermo, Italy, March 25, 1982) is an Italian actor.

Biography

The Beginnings

Francesco Scianna began his acting career in theater, debuting in 1997 with the recital of poems by Salvatore Quasimodo, "CEI". Later he participated in many other works and graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art Silvio D'Amico.

In 2002 he debuted in the movie Il più bel giorno della mia vita by Cristina Comencini, followed by L'odore del sangue, directed by Mario Martone, 2004. In 2007, he acted in the movie L'uomo di vetro.

After these films he performed on television: La luna e il lago and Il Capo dei Capi.

2009 Baarìa

His big break came in 2009 when he played the role of Peppino Torrenuova, the Baarìa male protagonist, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, next to newcomer Margareth Madè. The film, succeeded at the box office and was nominated to participate as an Italian film at the Oscars 2010 and also nominated for a Golden Globe.

2010-2011 Vallanzasca and other projects