Sergio Castellitto, let’s celebrate the actor’s 70th birthday with his most beautiful films

Sergio Castellitto is one of the most popular Italian actors and directors. Married to the writer Margareth Mazzantini, some of his own best movies they are taken from his wife’s books. Born on 18 August 1953, at 70 the interpreter celebrates with 3 Donatello’s David and 5 Silver Ribbons a successful career. Right away some of his finest films

Dante, the cast of Pupi Avati’s film

His best performance of the first period, in the 80s, is in He looks dead… but he’s just passed out by Felice Farina, of which he also writes the story and collaborates on the screenplay. The 1985 film tells the story of two brothers, Roman and Marina, who live together. She falls in love with a neighbor who is a drug dealer and he starts dealing with racing dogs

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In 1990 he obtained two nominations for the Donatello’s Davidone for Best Actor for Little misunderstandings and one for Best Supporting Actor for Three columns in the chronicle: wins in the second category with the role of Quinto Cecconi in the film by Carlo Vanzina

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In 1993 he was on the set of The big watermelon by Francesca Archibugi, which gets him the first David di Donatello and the first Silver Ribbon as best leading actor. The film is inspired by the experience of the neuropsychiatrist Marco Lombardo Radice, an experimenter of innovative therapies in the treatment of mental disorders in minors

A cold morning in May, the film about the murder of Walter Tobagi

Two years later he repeated his victory at the Nastri D’Argento with the interpretation of the con man who gives people dreams Joe Morelli in The star man by Giuseppe Tornatore. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2006 Oscars and the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival

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Castellitto then wins another Silver Ribbon for best actor with Religion timea 2002 film by Marco Bellocchio in which he plays the painter and illustrator of children’s fairy tales Ernesto Picciafuoco. The film received a special mention from the ecumenical jury at the Cannes Film Festival

Jane Birkin, the artist’s career

Instead, 2004 is perhaps the most intense and difficult role, as an actor and as a director, in the masterpiece Do not move taken from a novel by his wife Mazzantini and interpreted together with Penelope Cruz And Claudia Gerini. The film was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section, while Castellitto won a David di Donatello as best actor for the role of Timothy

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In Raise your head2010 film by Alessandro Angelini, Sergio Castellitto is Antonio Mero, a skilled shipyard worker and single father. His only reason for living is the son he dreams of becoming a boxing champion

Also in 2010 he took part in Point of view issues by Jacques Rivette, where he plays the role of Vittorio, a tourist who happens to be in the French countryside and meets Kate. The characters of the two are opposites, yet the man will be able to overcome a trauma that oppresses the beautiful circus performer, played by Jane Birkin

In A perfect family Castellitto is directed by Paul Genoese in the remake of the Spanish film family, where he plays the role of a powerful middle-aged man who, despite his wealth, suffers greatly from his loneliness

The same year he directs Came to the world, another adaptation of a novel of the same name by Margareth Mazzantini. As the protagonist she calls again Penelope Cruz, flanked by Emile Hirsch in the frame of a Sarajevo in which the war in the Balkans is about to break out

Among Castellitto’s latest actor tests is the bad poet, which narrates the last years of life of Gabriele D’Annunzio. The 2020 film, at the end of the first weekend of programming in Italian cinemas, reached first place at the box office

For his contribution to the dissemination of Italian culture in cinema and television, Castellitto has received the honors of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2004 and of Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2022

Also interesting are the tests in some television dramas such as Father Pio, In Treatment, the famous series on Sky, Rocco Chinnici – Your kiss on the forehead is so light And Our general. At 70 years old Sergio Castellitto celebrates a career full of experiences and successes during which he demonstrated all his talent

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