LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Giancarlo Giannini
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Giovanni (Giancarlo Giannini) is a top penal lawyer whose life is characterised by professional success and extra-marital conquests. The unexpected arrival of the beautiful, ruthless Sara (Francesca Neri), a woman practiced at seducing powerful men like him, upsets his ordered existence. Sara controls their love affair, alternating moments of great passion with sudden moments of distance when she cuts herself off from her lover with an indifference that is almost cruel. Giovanni leaves his family, but Sara’s fear of a stable relationship makes her abandon him. He then falls into a serious state of physical and psychic prostration, a pathology known as a “scratched spirit”. Giovanni is taken for treatment to a specialised clinic, where, despite the attention of psychologist Doddoli, he goes into steep decline, losing interest in life, and after a desperate attempt to run away one night, dies.
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Born August 1, 1942 in La Spezia, Italy, Giancarlo Giannini began his performing career in the early 1960s. In Italy, he is known for a unique, professional association with Italian director Lina Wertmüller who has cast Giancarlo in numerous roles. After almost a decade, he was finally cast in the lead role of Wertmüller's Love and Anarchy, released in 1973. When Wertmüller directed her first English-speaking film, she cast Giancarlo alongside Candice Bergen in the 1978 disappointment A Night of Full Rain. Some of Giancarlo's most successful movie roles include Manzano in Man on Fire, Albert Rua in Darkness, and Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi in Hannibal. A unique contribution to the silver screen was Giancarlo's invention of the "smoking" jacket worn by comedic actor Robin Williams in the movie Toys, released in 1992.
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In an interview with Italian newspaper Il Giornale, actor Giancarlo Giannini has announced that he will make an unexpected return as the character of Mathis in the next, as-yet-untitled James Bond adventure. If you've seen Casino Royale by now, you remember that Mathis was Bond's MI6 contact in Montenegro who was ultimately revealed to be up to no good. He was last seen being tasered in the back by MI6 people and dragged away, presumably to some dank holding cell. Giannini ... went further, stating that in the new film, Mathis will be revealed to have been an ally of Bond after all! This makes no sense whatsoever, since, at the end of Casino Royale, James Bond and M have a frank conversation about Mathis and his double-dealing. By 'ally,' he probably means 'still useful.'
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A junior executive (Giancarlo Giannini) is exasperated with his sexually repressed wife (Angela Molina) in this black comedy dripping with satire. The couple later ends up in bed with the man's mistress (Ombretta Colli) for a menage a trois. The man is pestered by his frantic friend Gualitiero (Paolo Bonacelli), who is convinced that someone is out to kill him. Ada (Aurore Clement) is the worried man's nymphomaniacal wife who is always on the outlook for some kinky sex. The theme is that human triviality and hang-ups hamper the quests of basic needs that can lead to a satisfying existence. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
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Giancarlo Giannini was born on August 1, 1942, in La Spezia, Italy. He lived and studied for ten years in Naples, Italy, where he earned a diploma in electronics. At 18 he enrolled and made his theatrical debut in the “Silvio D’Amico Academy of Dramatic Art” in Rome.
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Pasqualino (Giancarlo Giannini), a small-time crook, lives in Naples with his mother and seven sisters. When his older sister is persuaded into prostitution by her lover, Pasqualino - faithful to the family’s strict code of honour - murders him, and mails pieces of the body all over Italy. Pleading insanity, he’s sent to an asylum, where as a result of further unseemly behavior, he’s sent to fight on the Eastern front. Soon captured by the Nazi's and incarcerated in a concentration camp, Pasqualino offers sexual favours to the grotesque female commandant who, knowing he’s only doing it to stay alive, shows her contempt by forcing him to choose the prisoners to be executed…
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