Silvio Orlando
1957 (68 лет)Orlando was born in Naples. He worked with numerous Italian directors such as Nanni Moretti, Daniele Luchetti, Carlo Mazzacurati, Gabriele Salvatores and others. He also took part to several TV series.
Orlando in 1988 directed two theatre works written by Peppino De Filippo: Don Rafelo 'o trumbone and Cupido scherza e spazza. In 2008 he was protagonist of Roberto Paci Dalò's play L'assedio delle ceneri.
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Palombella rossa
Nanni Moretti
Nanni Moretti, Silvio Orlando
Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election day, he begins to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors the one of Italian communism.
Palombella Rossa
El Alamein
Enzo Monteleone
Paolo Briguglia, Pierfrancesco Favino
War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then?
El Alamein
I magi randagi
Sergio Citti
Silvio Orlando, Rolf Zacher
Three tumblers wander throughout Italy with their show. A priest asks them to perform the Three Kings in a Nativity play, in a village where there are no children. That night a comet runs across the sky, so the three decide to follow it to search for the new Messiah.
We Free Kings
La scuola
Daniele Luchetti
Silvio Orlando, Anna Galiena
In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.
La scuola
Matilda
Antonietta De Lillo, Giorgio Magliulo
Carla Benedetti, Silvio Orlando
Matilda is an unlucky girl: her boyfriends keep dying in strange accidents. The last of them, Torquato, a shy filing clerk, is a little afraid of this situation and doesn't know how to continue the relationship.
Matilda
Luce dei miei occhi
Giuseppe Piccioni
Luigi Lo Cascio, Sandra Ceccarelli
Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur in Rome, who relates only to the lonely heroes in the science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance meeting with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, does he discover a hope that's been in his detached existence.
Light of My Eyes
After Midnight
Davide Ferrario
Giorgio Pasotti, Francesca Inaudi
The magical Mole Antonelliana (the cavernous Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy) is the setting for a very unlikely love story. One fateful evening the museum's timid night watchman, comes to the aid of an enchanting young fast-food cook on the run from the police. The museum's dreamy kingdom of silent movie characters becomes a sanctuary for her as she awaits rescue by her devilish boyfriend.
After Midnight
