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Michele Placido is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Script Italien born on 19 may 1946 at Ascoli Satriano (Italie)

Michele Placido

Michele Placido
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Nationality Italie
Birth 19 may 1946 (77 years) at Ascoli Satriano (Italie)

Michele Placido ([miˈkɛle ˈplatʃido]; born 19 May 1946) is an Italian actor and director. He is best known for the role of Corrado Cattani in the TV series La Piovra.

Biography

À 18 ans, après des études supérieurs à Foggia Michele Placido déménage à Rome et entre dans la Police. Il participe comme policier à la bataille de Valle Giulia. Après avoir entrepris des études de théâtre auprès de l'Académie nationale d'art dramatique italienne, il abandonne l'uniforme et commence au théâtre en 1970 avec le réalisateur Luca Ronconi, dans la transposition au théâtre l'Orlando furioso de l'Arioste. Il participe à la télévision à Il Picciotto (1973), et entre en 1974 dans le monde du cinéma, jouant aux côtés d'Ugo Tognazzi et d'Ornella Muti dans Romanzo popolare de Mario Monicelli.

De nombreux rôles à la télévision et au cinéma s'ensuivent. Il reçoit l'Ours d'argent à la Berlinale 1979, pour le rôle d'un homosexuel dans Ernesto de Salvatore Samperi. Il joue le rôle du juge Giovanni Falcone dans un téléfilm puis en 2008, Bernardo Provenzano, le parrain de la mafia (le dernier parrain).

En 1990, il présente au Festival de Cannes son premier film en tant que réalisateur, Pummarò , sur le problème de l'exploitation du travail des étrangers à l'Union européenne. Il réalise en tout une douzaine de films.


Famille
Né dans une famille pauvre, Michele Placido est le descendant du brigand Carmine Crocco. Il est le frère des acteurs Donato Placido et Gerardo Amato .

Il a cinq enfants. Avec son ex-femme Simonetta Stefanelli, l'actrice qui a interprété la femme de Michael Corleone dans le Parrain, dont il a divorcé en 1994, il a eu une fille, Violante Placido (1976), actrice et chanteuse, et deux fils, Michelangelo Placido (1990) et Brenno Placido (1991), acteur lui aussi. En 1988, il a eu un fils, Inigo, d'une relation extraconjugale avec Virginie Alexandre. Avec son épouse actuelle, Federica Vincenti, il a un fils, Gabriele (2006).

Best films

The Lookout (2012)
(Director)

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Filmography of Michele Placido (90 films)

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7 Minutes
7 Minutes (2016)
, 1h28
Directed by Michele Placido
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Cristiana Capotondi, Ambra Angiolini, Michele Placido, Gerardo Amato, Violante Placido, Ottavia Piccolo
Roles Michele Varazzi
Rating67% 3.3753153.3753153.3753153.3753153.375315
Une entreprise textile est reprise par une multinationale étrangère. Le nouveau propriétaire semble déterminé à ne pas faire de licenciements mais demande aux onze travailleuses de signer une clause spéciale prévoyant une réduction de sept minutes du temps de déjeuner. Le développement du débat entre les travailleuses conduira chacune d'entre elles à une réflexion profonde.
The Choice
The Choice (2015)
, 1h26
Directed by Michele Placido
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Raoul Bova, Ambra Angiolini, Valeria Solarino, Michele Placido, Manrico Gammarota
Roles Emilio Nicotri
Rating55% 2.761682.761682.761682.761682.76168
Giorgio and Laura live a difficult loving relationship, because she wants a child, while Giorgo is very indecisive. One night, Laura is returning home after a party, and is attacked and raped. After a few months Laura discovers she is pregnant, and Giorgio is desperate. However, the two reflect on the situation, and they think the bastard child can be the key to their future happiness.
Trilussa - Storia d'amore e di poesia
Genres Drama
Actors Michele Placido, Monica Guerritore, Renato Scarpa, Giorgio Colangeli, Alfredo Pea, Pietro De Silva
Roles Trilussa
Rating68% 3.423983.423983.423983.423983.42398
This historical biographical TV series is based on the life of the Italian poet Trilussa.
The Mongrel
Directed by Alessandro Gassmann
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about immigration
Actors Alessandro Gassmann, Manrico Gammarota, Mădălina Ghenea, Michele Placido
Roles Avv.Silvestri
Rating66% 3.310813.310813.310813.310813.31081
Roman est un immigrant roumain qui est arrivé en Italie il y a plus de 30 ans. Il s'en sort à peine et ne peut s'extraire du cercle vicieux du trafic de drogue et des voyous qu'il pense être ses amis. Mais Roman a un rêve qu'il ne veut abandonner pour rien au monde: celui de procurer à son fils Nicu, qui est élevé sans la présence d'une mère, une meilleure vie. Mais un garçon qui a connu, depuis son plus jeune âge, l'existence au fil du rasoir de son père peut-il vraiment désirer quelque chose de différent?
The Lookout, 1h29
Directed by Michele Placido
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Mathieu Kassovitz, Daniel Auteuil, Olivier Gourmet, Arly Jover, Francis Renaud, Violante Placido
Roles Giovanni
Rating56% 2.848562.848562.848562.848562.84856
Mattei is about to arrest a gang of bankrobbers, when an unknown sniper shoots most of the policemen on site under his responsibility.
Tulpa - Demon of Desire, 1h24
Origin Italie
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Claudia Gerini, Michele Placido, Michela Cescon, Ivan Franek, Giorgia Sinicorni, Crisula Stafida
Roles Roccaforte
Rating47% 2.3612052.3612052.3612052.3612052.361205
Lisa Boeri (Claudia Gerini) is a business woman with a secret double life: if during the day she is a busy and serious worker, the night she is an assiduous frequenter of the private club Tulpa, owned by a haunting Tibetan guru, where the sickest fantasies of customers become reality. But the fiery lovers who attended Lisa begin to die one by one in increasingly cruel ways, and the woman finds herself involved in the chain of murders. Forced to investigate on her own, not to discover his double life to the police, she will face a terrible escalation of death, mystery and eroticism.
Viva l'Italia, 1h40
Genres Comedy
Actors Raoul Bova, Alessandro Gassmann, Michele Placido, Ambra Angiolini, Rocco Papaleo, Maurizio Mattioli
Roles Michele Spagnolo
Rating62% 3.1033953.1033953.1033953.1033953.103395
Après un infarctus, le sénateur Michele Spagnolo perd ses inhibitions et se retrouve dans l'incapacité de mentir… ce qui complique sa vie personnelle et politique.
Ages of Love, 2h
Directed by Giovanni Veronesi
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Carlo Verdone, Robert De Niro, Monica Bellucci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Michele Placido, Laura Chiatti
Roles Augusto
Rating58% 2.9377052.9377052.9377052.9377052.937705
The film is composed of three episodes, each following a different couple:
Angel of Evil, 2h5
Directed by Michele Placido
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Kim Rossi Stuart, Michele Placido, Filippo Timi, Paz Vega, Moritz Bleibtreu, Francesco Scianna
Rating67% 3.3965353.3965353.3965353.3965353.396535
Locked up in prison serving a life sentence for his crimes, an old Renato Vallanzasca (Kim Rossi Stuart) proceeds in the memories of a youth spent as head of a crime syndicate known as the chronicle Banda della Comasina, which raged in the '70s in Milan between robberies, kidnappings, murders and evasions.
Genitori & figli - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
Directed by Giovanni Veronesi
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Teen movie
Actors Michele Placido, Luciana Littizzetto, Silvio Orlando, Elena Sofia Ricci, Margherita Buy, Vittorio Emanuele Propizio
Roles Alberto
Rating55% 2.761952.761952.761952.761952.76195
Le professeur d'italien Alberto (Michele Placido), après une nouvelle dispute avec son fils Luigi (Andrea Fachinetti), donne à la classe de Nina (Chiara Passarelli), quinze ans, un thème intitulé Parents et enfants: mode d'emploi comme devoir. Pour la jeune fille, c'est l'occasion de parler de sa famille, de sa relation avec ses parents, Gianni (Silvio Orlando) et Luisa (Luciana Littizzetto) à son amour pour Patrizio (Vittorio Emanuele Propizio ), en passant par le retour surprise de sa grand-mère (Piera Degli Esposti) où le racisme de son grand frère, Ettore (Matteo Amata).
The Big Dream, 1h41
Directed by Michele Placido
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Riccardo Scamarcio, Luca Argentero, Jasmine Trinca, Michele Placido, Alessandra Acciai, Laura Morante
Roles Adult Andrea (uncredited)
Rating57% 2.891712.891712.891712.891712.89171
In 1968, in Rome, at the famous La Sapienza University, a group of young people's occupying the institution, starting in the city's famous revolt of students. The group of students is led by the proletarian Libero, son of unemployed workers of Fiat, who wants to attack the gaming bourgeois political and Italy and permanently to change the future for the youth of the country. The police opposes him, while the upper class student Laura falls in love with Libero. In the meantime, however, the Rome police plan to stifle the student revolt, and among these is the young Nicola, who secretly loves the theater, and so wants to star in a famous company. When Laura meets Nicola, changes perspective and the two fall in love. Nicola has the task of the police to infiltrate him in the group in protest, and to discover the weak points because the police can attach the students with more simplicity.
Baaria
Baaria (2009)
, 2h40
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madé, Giorgio Faletti, Lina Sastri, Ángela Molina, Nicole Grimaudo
Roles esponente PCI
Rating69% 3.4597753.4597753.4597753.4597753.459775
The film recounts life in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in Sicilian), from the 1930s to the 1980s, through the eyes of lovers Peppino (Francesco Scianna) and Mannina (Margareth Madè).
Just Married, 2h
Directed by Luca Lucini
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Michele Placido, Moran Atias, Luca Argentero, Isabella Ragonese, Dario Bandiera, Renato Pozzetto
Roles Sabino Impanato
Rating61% 3.054863.054863.054863.054863.05486
The film is set in various locations in Italy and includes four different stories that connect to each other.
Blood of the Losers, 1h50
Directed by Michele Soavi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Michele Placido, Barbora Bobulova, Andrea Rivera, Giovanna Ralli, Philippe Leroy, Stefano Dionisi
Roles Commissario Franco Dogliani
Rating56% 2.8307852.8307852.8307852.8307852.830785
Le film se déroule pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Le commissaire Francesco Dogliani doit mener une enquête sur l'homicide d'une femme et les mystères de sa sœur jumelle. En même temps, il doit assumer les difficultés et les contradictions de la Guerre dans une situation pleine de contrastes, puisqu'un de ses frères est un résistant et un autre est engagé dans l'armée de la République sociale italienne.
The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider, 1h44
Directed by Piro Milkani
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Nik Xhelilaj, Anna Geislerová, Michele Placido, Arta Dobroshi, Violeta Manushi
Roles Count Sternberk
Rating59% 2.9983152.9983152.9983152.9983152.998315
It is 1961 and an Albanian student (Nik Xhelilaj) of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, together with a group of Czech students, is shooting his graduate movie on a motorcycle factory, in the small market-town of Český Šternberk, in then Czechoslovakia. Coming from a country that is completely isolated from the rest of Europe, he is fascinated by the lifestyle, society and "erotic exuberance" of the Czech golden youth, yet feeling strong links with his family in his homeland. He falls in love with a married woman (Anna Geislerová), the wife of a police superintendent (Paolo Buglioni) and is insecure about his future.