Francesco Nuti
Francesco Nuti (17 May 1955 – 12 June 2023) was an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter. Nuti began his professional career as an actor in the late 1970s, when he took part in the cabaret group Giancattivi together with Alessandro Benvenuti and Athina Cenci. The group took part in some TV shows for RAI TV, and shot their first feature film, West of Paperino (1981), written and directed by Benvenuti. The following year Nuti abandoned the trio and began a solo career with three movies directed by Maurizio Ponzi. Starting in 1985, he began to direct his movies, scoring an immediate success with the films "Casablanca, Casablanca" and "All the Fault of Paradise" (1985), "Stregati" (1987), "Caruso Pascoski, Son of a Pole" (1988), "Willy Signori e vengo da lontano" (1989) and "Women in Skirts" (1991). The 1990s were however a period of decline for the Tuscan director, with unsuccessful movies such as OcchioPinocchio (1994), Mr. Fifteen Balls (1998), Io amo Andrea (2000) and Caruso, Zero for Conduct (2001). In the following years Nuti also started to suffer from depression and alcoholism. On 2 September 2006, following a severe fall from the the stairs of his home, he had serious cerebral damage, leaving him unable to speak or move. Nuti died on 12 June 2023, at the age of 68.
Blame it on Paradise
as Romeo CasamonicaA former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and...
Movie pageMr. Fifteen Balls
as FrancescoFrancesco is a Tuscan who is very good at playing American pool, so much so that he is nicknamed...
Movie pageDonne con le gonne
as Renzo CalabreseRenzo falls in love with feminist Margherita, too emancipated for him: they start a troubled...
Movie pageCaruso Pascoski (di padre polacco)
as Caruso PascoskiPsychiatrist Caruso is arguably as nutty as his patients. He can remember at two years old being...
Movie pageCasablanca Casablanca
as Francesco Piccioli detto "Il Toscano"Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would...
Movie pageThe Pool Hustlers
as Francesco Piccioli detto "Il Toscano"Francesco, nicknamed 'Toscano', is a very good pool player but he never wins when he plays for...
Movie pageFarewell to Enrico Berlinguer
as SelfA film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the...
Movie pageWilly Signori e vengo da lontano
as Willy SignoriWilly is involved in a fatal car accident. Willy takes on the responsibility of supporting the...
Movie pageI Love Andrea
as DadoDado likes the beautiful Francesca who likes Andrea, a girl that lives with her.
Movie pageStregati
as LorenzoLorenzo is the conductor of Radio Strega's night show, making up false court sentences for those...
Movie pageOcchioPinocchio
as PinocchioA man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers...
Movie pageAd ovest di Paperino
as FrancescoIt is the first film of the comedy trio "I GianCattivi", formed by Athina Cenci, Francesco Nuti...
Movie pageCaruso, zero in condotta
as Lorenzo CarusoLorenzo Caruso is a piscologist who lives in a provincial town with his daughter Giulia, the...
Movie pageConcorso di colpa
as Francesco De BernardiThe chief commissioner of the homicide squad, with an anti-globalization activist for a son,...
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