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Giorgio Cantarini is a Actor Italien born on 5 december 1992 at Orvieto (Italie)
Giorgio Cantarini (12 April 1992) is an Italian actor who, to date, has appeared in two Academy Award winning films: 1997's Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita è bella) and 2000's Gladiator.
Raised in Orvieto, Italy, Giorgio Cantarini is born to Giuseppe Cantarini and Giovanna Martini. The couple separated after Giorgio's fifth birthday. His family nickname is "Gio".
Giorgio made his film debut in the 1997 Roberto Benigni directed comedy-drama Life is Beautiful, playing Benigni's four-year-old son 'Giosuè Orefice', who is sent with his Jewish-Italian father to a German concentration camp during World War II. The film won three Academy Awards. In 1998, Giorgio was awarded alongside his castmates of Life Is Beautiful with a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and the same year he won the Young Artist Award.
His second film appearance was in the 2000 Ridley Scott-directed period action/drama Gladiator. Giorgio was cast as the son of Oscar winner Russell Crowe's character 'Maximus'. The film would win five Oscars at the 73rd Academy Awards.
In 2001, Giorgio appeared in the Hallmark Hall of Fame American television film adaptation of author Eric Newby's autobiographical novel Love and War in the Apennines (retitled In Love and War) as 'Slavko'. The film was shot on location in Italy.
In 2005 Giorgio competed in Ballando con le Stelle, the Italian reality television version of the series Dancing With The Stars.
Giorgio currently resides in Viterbo, Italy with his mother and brother Lorenzo.
Il est le fils de Maximus, interprété par Russell Crowe dans le film Gladiator de Ridley Scott.
En 2005, il participe à l’émission de la Rai Uno Ballando con le stelline, version enfant de Ballando con le stelle (le Dancing with the Stars italien) animée par Milly Carlucci.
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Raised in Orvieto, Italy, Giorgio Cantarini is born to Giuseppe Cantarini and Giovanna Martini. The couple separated after Giorgio's fifth birthday. His family nickname is "Gio".
Giorgio made his film debut in the 1997 Roberto Benigni directed comedy-drama Life is Beautiful, playing Benigni's four-year-old son 'Giosuè Orefice', who is sent with his Jewish-Italian father to a German concentration camp during World War II. The film won three Academy Awards. In 1998, Giorgio was awarded alongside his castmates of Life Is Beautiful with a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and the same year he won the Young Artist Award.
His second film appearance was in the 2000 Ridley Scott-directed period action/drama Gladiator. Giorgio was cast as the son of Oscar winner Russell Crowe's character 'Maximus'. The film would win five Oscars at the 73rd Academy Awards.
In 2001, Giorgio appeared in the Hallmark Hall of Fame American television film adaptation of author Eric Newby's autobiographical novel Love and War in the Apennines (retitled In Love and War) as 'Slavko'. The film was shot on location in Italy.
In 2005 Giorgio competed in Ballando con le Stelle, the Italian reality television version of the series Dancing With The Stars.
Giorgio currently resides in Viterbo, Italy with his mother and brother Lorenzo.
Biography
Giorgio Cantarini fait ses débuts à l'âge de 5 ans dans le film La vie est belle, dans lequel il joue le rôle de Giosuè Orefice, le fils du personnage principal, interprété par Roberto Benigni et de sa femme, Dora, jouée par Nicoletta Braschi.Il est le fils de Maximus, interprété par Russell Crowe dans le film Gladiator de Ridley Scott.
En 2005, il participe à l’émission de la Rai Uno Ballando con le stelline, version enfant de Ballando con le stelle (le Dancing with the Stars italien) animée par Milly Carlucci.
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Genres Drama
Actors Elio Germano, Laura Chiatti, Martina Stella, Carlo Monni, Corrado Fortuna, Umberto Orsini
Roles Baldini piccolo
Rating60%
In Love and War (2001)
, 1h30Directed by John Kent Harrison
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Actors Callum Blue, Barbora Bobulova, Roberto Nobile, Peter Bowles, Nick Reding, Silvia De Santis
Roles Slavko
Rating64%
After being released from an Italian prison, British officer Eric Newby (Blue) must find his way out of Italy before the Germans come. However, he is injured on the way and is left behind from his fellow soldiers. He is helped out by the local Italians, and he meets Wanda (Bobulova), a beautiful local girl who helps him learn Italian so that he can escape. Their friendship slowly blossoms into quite a strong and close genuine romance. But with the Germans looking for Eric, they are kept apart from one another, not knowing what will happen to them.
Gladiator (2000)
, 2h35Directed by Ridley Scott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about slavery, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Sports films
Actors Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Derek Jacobi
Roles Maximus' Son
Rating82%
In AD 180, Spanish-Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius leads the Roman army to a decisive victory against the Germanic tribes near Vindobona, ending a long war on the Roman frontier and winning the favor of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Maximus, weary of battle, decides to retire at his Spanish farm estate at the Emperor's behest, but the Emperor tells him that his son and heir to the throne, Commodus, is unfit to rule and thus appoints him as regent to help save Rome from corruption. Before he makes his decision, Commodus is confronted by his father who tells him that he will not be emperor. Burdened by grief and believing he was never valued by his father, Commodus kills him.
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
, 1h56Directed by Roberto Benigni
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Horst Buchholz, Pietro De Silva
Roles Giosué
Rating85%
In 1939 Italy, Guido Orefice is a young Jewish man who is leaving his old life and going to work in the city where his uncle lives. Guido is comical and sharp, making the best from each situation he encounters. From the start he falls in love with a girl Dora. Later he sees her again in the city where she is a teacher. Dora is set to be engaged to a rich but arrogant man. He is a local government official with whom Guido has run-ins from the beginning. Guido is still in love with Dora and performs many stunts in order to see her. Guido sets up many "coincidental" incidents to show his interest. Finally Dora sees Guido's affection and promise and gives in against her better judgement. He steals her from her engagement party on a horse, humiliating her fiancé and mother. Soon they are married and have a son, Giosuè.