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Massimo Troisi began his acting career in the theater and became famous for roles in television series.
He is best known for his roles in his own film Ricomincio da tre (1981), and in Michael Radford's The Postman (Il Postino) (1994).
The filmmaker Ettore Scola has also made him one of his leading performers, with three consecutive works: Splendor, What time is it? and The Voyage of Captain Fracasse.
Heart disease when he had to shoot The Postman. His doctor had advised him not to do the filming to have the operation. He decided to postpone the operation after the shooting, this film being close to his heart.
He died of a heart attack, barely twelve hours after the end of filming.
He was posthumously nominated for two Oscars and two Golden Globes.
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An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category w...
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local...
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring t...
Splendor is the name of an old movie theater managed by Jordan (Mastroianni), who inherited it from his father....
Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to al...
Marco Veniera goes to Bogotá, Colombia to find his brother, Luca who supposedly committed suicide. In his searc...
Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to im...
Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and mee...
The life and artistic journey of Neapolitan actor Massimo Troisi.
A mysterious killer eliminate the singers of a brand new music Festival in Naples. Some journalists will try to...
The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a...
Set in Italy during the 1920s, a barber is in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness after he lost the...
A father and his son who lived seperated for some time meet each other one day and try to talk their problems o...
Tommaso goes incredible lengths to win back the love of his former girlfriend Cecilia, but sometimes things cha...
Based on a supposed screenplay by Fellini that fell out of a window, Arbore tells the southern story of a shagg...
The fake report about Troisi's death, with the direction of Troisi himself with Lello Arena and Anna Pavignano....