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Alberto Sordi
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Alberto Sordi (Rome, June 15, 1920 – Rome, February 25, 2003) was a beloved Italian actor, director and screenwriter. Together with Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Nino Manfredi and Vittorio Gassman, he was one of the most important figures of Italian comedy, as well as the ambassador of Roman culture in Italian cinema. In a career that spanned seven decades, Sordi established himself as an icon of Italian cinema with his representative skills at both comedy and drama. Early roles included Fellini’s The White Sheik in 1952, and I Vitelloni (1953), a movie about young slackers, in which he plays a weak, effeminate immature loafer, as well as a starring role in Lo Scapolo (The Bachelor), playing a single man trying to find love. In 1959 he appeared in Monicelli's The Great War, considered by many critics and film historians to be one of the best Italian comedies. The Hollywood Foreign Press recognized his abilities when he was awarded a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Il Diavolo (1963).
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Sicilian-born Nino Badalamenti (Alberto Sordi) is a family man and an efficient middle manager at a Fiat factory in northern Italy. His boss orders him to take a vacation with his family and go back home and visit the place of his birth. Oh, yeah…and deliver a confidential package to the local Mafia chief, Don Vincenzo (Ugo Attansio). Nino eagerly complies with the request but doesn’t realize that he is about to put himself in debt to the “Mafioso.”
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Synopsis: Giovanni Vivaldi (Alberto Sordi) doesn't have many ambitions in life. As far as he is concerned, things are pretty good just as they are. He has a wonderful son, whom he is grooming for a place in the civil service, and a weekend hideaway which he loves fixing up. His wife Amalia (Shelly Winters)Read More
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Alberto Sordi arrives at 1:30 PM. Go out to the airport with Young Jay Lee and Jang Eun Cheol to retrieve him. He is a young artist (35) from La Spezia, Italy, near Genoa. He began doing mail art in 1989, after seeing a Cavellini show organized by a college professor. Drawings and collage are his main artistic activity. This is his first meeting with Mail Artists outside Italy.
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Already rotund at age 13, Italian-born "Alberto Sordi" won an "Oliver Hardy" look-alike contest sponsored by Hollywood's MGM. Sordi subsequently became a professional comedian in his own right, appearing in music halls, on the "legit" stage, and films from 1940. He maintained his connection with Hardy by dubbing the comedian's voice into Italian during the '40s (Laurel & Hardy comedies were among the few Hollywood efforts not banned by Mussolini). Sordi graduated to film stardom with his portrayal of an overaged adolescent in "Federico Fellini"'s "Il Vitelloni" (1953).
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Synopsis: Antonio (Alberto Sordi) is an Italian art-restorer working at a cathedral in France. An old friend of his, Robert (Philippe Noiret), lives there. Robert is a banker who has married into money. A sexually adventurous young woman approaches Antonio, but he resists getting involved with her. When itRead More
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