Cesare Gelli
Acting
Biography
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Born: November 28, 1932
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known For
Night Voices
A group of young people get in touch with an occultist sect which has been active since before W.W.II.
One Way or Another
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.
The Hawks and the Sparrows
A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.
Be Sick… It's Free
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Let's Have a Riot
Episodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.
All Screwed Up
A group of workers from the south of Italy live collectively in Milan, where money isn't everything, it's the only thing, in 1974.
Mille bolle blu
The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino, a little kid who is awaiting for a total eclipse of the sun, that really happened during summer of '61, and it was was fully visible from Italy. He sees his family life, a young girl who is about to marry a man she doesn't love, an old man who has just died and whose relatives fight for his inheritance, a blind trumpet player who hopes to recover, his little friends...
Thrilling
An anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes.
The Black Sheep
Mario and Filippo are two twin brothers, the honorable one want to bring morality back into Italian political life, as president of the Commission for the investigation of corruption. The other brother is a cynical trickster.
Mademoiselle de Maupin
Mademoiselle de Maupin escapes from her uncle's castle, invaded by Hungarian troops, under the guise of a clergyman named Theodore. An army recruiter forces Theodore to enlist in the King's army, and not even the religious robe is an insurance against it. Theodore is assigned to be aide-de-camp to Alcibiade, a man as virile in combat, as he seems troubled for the figure of his aid. D'Albert, an aristocrat, will expose Theodore's true sex, and after a number of confusing, comedy situations, Alcibiade will appease his troubled feelings.
Filmography
as Padre Speranza
as Conte De Blasi
as Don Niccolò Paritelli
as Dottor Acciai
as procuratore capo Tarquinio Druso
as Sr. Valentí
as Boris
as Burgess
as regista del film erotico
as sig. Franzi
as Arras
as Commissario
as Cook
as Ferruccio Consagra
as Franco
as Dr. Filopanti
as Ambrogio
as John
as Barluzzi
as Cesare
as Ernesto
as Cesare
as (uncredited)
as Second Maestro
as Cesarino (segment "Il vittimista")