Pif

Born: 1972-06-04

Pierfrancesco Diliberto, nicknamed Pif (born 1972), is an Italian television host, film director, actor and writer. Pif was born in Palermo, Italy on 4 June 1972. He is the son of the Italian director Maurizio Diliberto and has had a passion for cinema since his youth. In 1998 he worked as assistant director to Marco Tullio Giordana for I cento passi (The Hundred Steps), a famous film against the mafia. In the same year he started working as a television author at Mediaset. In 2001 he started participating in Le Iene (The Hyenas), an Italian TV show with journalistic reporting characterized by a sharp satirical style. In 2007 he started his own TV show, Il Testimone (The Witness), on MTV. In the show, he uses an Autovox to create amateur-like reports in Italy and abroad. In the same year he published his book Piffettopoli. Le fatiche di un quasi vip. In 2012 he published the short story Sarà stata una fuga di gas (It Must Have Been a Gas Leak) in the book Dove eravamo. Vent'anni dopo Capaci e Via D'Amelio (Where We Were. Twenty Years After Capaci and Via D'Amelio), a miscellaneous volume commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the death of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, two famous Sicilian judges who fought against the mafia and, after being assassinated, became symbols of the fight against the mafia in Italy. In 2013 he started his film career by writing and directing The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer, in which he also plays the leading role, and from which he created the homonym TV series, directed by Luca Ribuoli. In 2016 at the Rome Film Festival his second film as director: In guerra per amore. Source: Article "Pif (television host)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.


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At War for Love

as Arturo
Released: 2016-10-27

It's 1943 and World War II is raging in Europe. In New York, Arturo and Flora the daughter of a...

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The Mafia Kills Only in Summer

as Arturo Giammaresi
Released: 2013-11-28

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On Our Watch

as Raffaello
Released: 2021-10-25

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Ordinary Happiness

as Paolo
Released: 2019-03-14

Died in a car crash, Paolo is allowed to come back to life for 92 minutes more, thanks to a...

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Crazy Me

as Ludovico
Released: 2013-01-24

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Roberto Saviano: Writing Under Police Protection

as Self - Interviewer / Narrator (voice)
Released: 2016-10-17

An upbeat and humorous account of the hard life under police protection led by Italian writer...

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Montalbano and Me: Andrea Camilleri

as uncredited
Released: 2014-09-06

A profile of the author of the highly successful INSPECTOR MONTALBANO series, originally...

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Caro Battiato

as Narrator
Released: 2022-01-07

A special night dedicated to Franco Battiato, who passed away on 18th May 2021 at 76 years old....

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Ridendo e scherzando - Ritratto di un regista all'italiana

as Self
Released: 2015-10-18

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Mafia Only Kills in Summer

as Narratore (voice)
First aired: 2016-11-21

Palermo, 1979. The Giammarresi are a normal family — father, mother, a ten year old son and a...

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Il Testimone

as Self - Host
First aired: 2007-10-08

"Il testimone" (i.e. The witness) is a tv show created, made and presented by Pif. Every...

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Le Iene

as uncredited
First aired: 1997-09-22

Comedy/satirical show, with sketches and reports into political affairs and consumer issues....

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Caro Marziano

as uncredited
First aired: 2017-05-03

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Il candidato va alle elezioni

as uncredited
First aired: 2018-02-20

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