Carlo Cecchi
Acting
Biography
Carlo Cecchi (born January 25, 1939) is an Italian actor. Born in Florence, Cecchi studied under the Living Theatre and with the Workshop of Eduardo De Filippo. In 1968 he made his debut for cinema in La sua giornata di gloria. In 1971 he directed in Florence a theatre cooperative playing works by Shakespeare, Mayakovsky, Brecht, Chekhov and Molière. In 1992 he returned to cinema in The Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician by Mario Martone, and later worked for directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Pupi Avati, Ferzan Ozpetek. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carlo Cecchi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Born: January 25, 1939
Place of Birth: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Known For
The Damned Of The Earth
Upon his death, a young African director, Abramo Malonga, bequeathed his first and last unfinished film to his former teacher, the Italian director Fausto Morelli. Morelli, who after seeing the work, is confronted with a confusing, complex and, in part, incomprehensible work. Helped by the young widow of Abramo Malonga and by the notes left by his deceased friend, and again by his personal memories, the Italian director attempts to reconstruct and complete the film. Fausto's work progresses with difficulty, not only because of the problems the film poses for him, but because of the problems that arise in his daily life. After a long crisis, after which he returns to Pisa with his former party companions and abandons himself to love and his own solitude, Fausto takes up the work of his African friend, closing it with a final invention, in which , with a bold metaphor, has refigured the human condition of our time.
The Red Violin
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.
La fine è nota
A young lawyer returns home and discovers that a man has committed suicide jumping through a window of his house. His wife, Maria, says that she let the unknown man enter because he said the lawyer was the only one who could help him. Bernardo start to investigate about the man and about the reasons of his suicide.
Martin Eden
The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.
Arcane Sorcerer
Shunned by his church, a seminary student takes refuge with an excommunicated priest who teaches him wizardry and black magic.
The Goodbye Kiss
Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—hiding out in Latin America since the 1970s—turns himself in as soon as the Berlin Wall falls. Wishing to lead a comfortable, bourgeois life in his native Italy, he cuts a deal with a dirty cop, getting his sentence reduced in return for ratting former comrades out. Once released, Giorgio obsessively pursues his dream of becoming an upright citizen, but his old police aquaintance keeps dragging him down...
Le Mans
Filmed during the annual 24-hour endurance race at Le Mans, Michael Delaney is a Porsche driver haunted by the memory of an accident at the previous year's race in which a competing driver was killed. Delaney also finds himself increasingly infatuated with the man's widow.
Stealing Beauty
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.
Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician
Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.
Honey
Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise.
Filmography
as Russ Brissenden
as Signor Grimaldi
as Erode
as Priest
as Sante Brianese
as Cardinale Federigo Borromeo
as Vittorio Nobile
as Vittorio Nobile
as Cardinal Mattia Carcano
as Cardinale Mattia Carcano
as Antonino
as Piero D'Onofrio
as Character A
as Nicolo Bussotti (Cremona)
as Oscar
as Achille Ropa Sanuti
as Carlo Lisca
as Giuseppe
as Assistant Prosecuting Magistrate Michele de Francesco
as il Cervello
as Renato Caccioppoli
as Paolo Scadenza
as Ingardo
as Claude
as Signore calvo che compra le caramelle a teatro