Eduardo De Filippo
Eduardo De Filippo (Naples, 24 May 1900 - Rome, 31 October 1984), was an Italian playwright, actor, director, screenwriter and poet. Considered one of the most important Italian theatrical authors of the twentieth century, he was the author of numerous theatrical works which he himself staged and interpreted and, later, translated and performed by others also abroad. A prolific author, he also worked in the cinema with the same roles covered in the theatrical activity. For his artistic merits and contributions to culture, in 1981, he was appointed senator for life by the President of the Republic Sandro Pertini and was awarded two honorary degrees in literature from the University of Birmingham in 1977 and from the University of Rome La "Sapienza" in 1980. It was also proposed for the Nobel Prize for literature [2]. Eduardo is still today, together with Luigi Pirandello, Dario Fo and Carlo Goldoni, one of the most appreciated and represented Italian theater authors abroad He was born in Naples on May 24, 1900. Natural son of the actor and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta and of the theater dressmaker Luisa De Filippo, Eduardo and his brothers were recognized as children by their mother whose surname they took De Filippo. Eduardo Scarpetta, married on March 16, 1876 to Rosa De Filippo, with whom he had three children (Domenico, Maria and Vincenzo), had an extra-marital relationship with his granddaughter Luisa De Filippo (daughter of Luca, brother of Rosa De Filippo) from which Titina, Eduardo and Peppino were born.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9805 |
| Birthday | 1900-05-24 |
| Place of Birth | Napoli, Campania, Italy |
| Also Known As | Eduardo, Edoardo De Filippo, Эдуардо Де Филиппо, Eduardo de Fillipo, |
1933
I Sing for You Alone
8/1
Marcello, a shy tenor, is afraid of singing in public. Two friends of his think of having an elegant youth on the stage pretending to be singing while...
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I Sing for You Alone
1950
Side Street Story
7.429/42
A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to...
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Side Street Story
1961
Ghosts of Rome
7.232/71
An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real...
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Ghosts of Rome
1954
The Anatomy of Love
6.4/15
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
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The Anatomy of Love
1978
Quei figuri di tanti anni fa
0/0
Two wise guysmanage a messed up underground casino and brothel. A "hunting club" as a cover up. The place is frequented by all kind of characters, fro...
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Quei figuri di tanti anni fa
1978
Il cilindro
0/0
The comedy, centered on five characters (Rita, Rodolfo, Agostino, Bettina, and Don Attilio - "o viecchio pazzo"-), has as background the Italy of the...
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Il cilindro
1942
A che servono questi quattrini?
7.125/4
Marquis Eduardo Parascandolo, after having squandered all his possessions for not having cared about his finances, spends his time professing to some...
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A che servono questi quattrini?
1949
Yvonne of the Night
5.5/13
Carlo Rutelli falls in love with the beautiful variety singer Yvonne la Nuit, but his father opposes the wedding. World War I breaks out and Carlo is...
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Yvonne of the Night
1960
Everybody Go Home!
7.582/122
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
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Everybody Go Home!
1953
Traviata 53
6.9/11
An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover...
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Traviata 53
1943
Il fidanzato di mia moglie
8.5/2
Enrico breaks up his marriage to Renata because he discovers that in the registry office she is already married to a certain Giulio, an inhabitant of...
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Il fidanzato di mia moglie
1954
The Gold of Naples
7.343/137
A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a...
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The Gold of Naples
1952
Three Girls from Rome
6.021/24
Three gorgeous seamstresses meet on the historic steps of the Piazza de Spagna in Rome to discuss one another's love lives.
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Three Girls from Rome
1951
Position Wanted
8.3/5
Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matte...
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Position Wanted
1959
Ferdinand I King of Naples
6.722/27
The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the in...
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Ferdinand I King of Naples
1942
Casanova farebbe così!
9/1
A country braggart bets that he can spend a night with a local beauty. When he is surprised by her husband, he is not only forced to pay his friends m...
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Casanova farebbe così!
1963
The Shortest Day
6.397/29
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
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The Shortest Day
1964
Il sindaco del rione Sanità
8/3
Antonio Barracano is an old Camorra member who administers justice according to his own unique criteria. Magnanimous and tough, severe and affectionat...
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Il sindaco del rione Sanità
1962
Christmas at the Cupiello House
8.9/48
Luca Cupiello lives with the wife Concetta, the son Tommasino, and a brother, Pasquale. The son is wild, living by gimmicks and stealing from his uncl...
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Christmas at the Cupiello House
1964
Bene mio e core mio
0/0
Lorenzo, a restorer, and Chiarina, his unmarried and God-fearing sister, live in their deceased parents' house. When Lorenzo returns from America, whe...
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Bene mio e core mio
1948
Assunta Spina
7.15/10
Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy.
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Assunta Spina
1957
La canzone del destino
8/1
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La canzone del destino
1953
Neopolitans in Milan
7.1/7
Afterfive people die in crumbling Naples housing run by Northerners, the Southern relatives trek to Milan to sue for damages.
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Neopolitans in Milan
1935
Three Cornered Hat
6.583/6
A comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting the miller in jail.
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Three Cornered Hat
1959
Sogno di una notte di mezza sbornia
7.875/4
Pasquale Grifone, who lives in Naples with his family, receives in a dream the visit of Dante Alighieri. The poet suggests to the man, clouded by the...
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Sogno di una notte di mezza sbornia
1943
I Do Not Move
6.5/5
Former batsman Carlo Mezzetti, who has been left homeless with his daughter Annuccia, takes advantage of favorable situations and legal loopholes to f...
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I Do Not Move
1964
La paura numero uno
8/2
Exasperated by her husband Matteo, who lives with the nightmare of an imminent third world war, Virginia asks her brother Arturo for help. He decides...
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La paura numero uno
1964
Mia famiglia
0/0
Television adaptation of the three-act play of the same name written in 1955.
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Mia famiglia
1976
De Pretore Vincenzo
7.2/2
Vincenzo De Pretore explains to his girlfriend Ninuccia, who threatens to commit suicide if they don't get married, that he wants to wait until he can...
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De Pretore Vincenzo
1962
Questi fantasmi
8.1/6
A husband is persuaded to move his new bride into an old palace that is supposedly haunted. But the so called ghost is really the bride's former lover...
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Questi fantasmi
1964
La grande magia
8.5/2
Amongst the guests of the Metropole Hotel there is Calogero Di Spelta ridiculed for his unnecessary jealousy towards Marta, his beautiful wife. The il...
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La grande magia
1978
Le voci di dentro
8.5/6
Having withdrawn his complaint from the police station, Alberto now finds himself in trouble: the public prosecutor, suspicious, believes that he acte...
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Le voci di dentro
1962
Ditegli sempre di sì
7.2/5
Michele, recently released from the asylum, returns home where his sister Teresa, the only one who knows about his past madness, is waiting for him.
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Ditegli sempre di sì
1956
Sei atti unici in bianco e nero
0/0
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Sei atti unici in bianco e nero
1978
Due atti unici a colori
0/0
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Due atti unici a colori
1954
100 Years of Love
7.5/2
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love st...
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100 Years of Love
1952
Marito e Moglie
7.5/2
Two episode about the married life. In the first one a paralyzed man is forced by her wife to brood eggs while the mother hen is gone. In the second e...
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Marito e Moglie
1964
Chi è cchiù felice 'e me
7/2
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Chi è cchiù felice 'e me
1955
Courtyard
9/1
A teenager escapes from a reformatory and is accused of theft.
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Courtyard
1942
Non ti pago!
7.25/18
The owner of a lottery store refuses to pay a large sum won by one of his workers that he hates, because that man received the winning numbers in a dr...
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Non ti pago!
1954
I morti non fanno paura
0/0
Enrico, a traveling salesman who lives in a room in Amalia's house, returns from a long trip to find that his room has been turned into a funeral cham...
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I morti non fanno paura
1956
Il dono di Natale
0/0
Attilio and Emilia are two newlyweds who love each other madly despite the extreme poverty in which they live. Their relationship is contrasted by tha...
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Il dono di Natale
1956
Friendship
0/0
The story of a certain Alberto Califano who has not visited his friend Bartolomeo Ciaccia for several years. When he meets him, he learns that the man...
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Friendship
1951
Filumena Marturano
8.6/7
Filumena, an ex-prostitute and for decades Domenico Soriano's lover, discovers that he intends to get married and so pretends to be on the verge of de...
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Filumena Marturano
1956
Quei figuri di tanti anni fà
0/0
Two local toughs run a ramshackle gambling and dating den under the cover of a "hunting club." The place is frequented by all sorts of characters, fro...
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Quei figuri di tanti anni fà
1956
La chiave di casa
0/0
On his way home, Don Simone meets his friend Ciccillo, who asks him for a favor: to entertain the husband of a woman, his lover, until they find the k...
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La chiave di casa
1952
Ragazze da marito
7.25/6
Oreste is known for his deliberation and caution in handling license forms at his office.But when he needs money to send his 3 girls off to Capri to f...
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Ragazze da marito
1937
I Was to Blame
4.667/3
A comedy about an unemployed fellow who goes to live with his brother and runs into trouble with his brother's overbearing wife.
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I Was to Blame
Eduardo ultima lezione, ultimo spettacolo: il punto di arrivo il punto di partenza
0/0
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Eduardo ultima lezione, ultimo spettacolo: il punto di arrivo il punto di partenza
1952
The Lucky Five
7.375/4
Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it aft...
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The Lucky Five
1946
Uno tra la folla
10/1
Paolo Bianchi, an average young man, picks up an underground newspaper on the street: he lives in northern Italy during the Nazi occupation and is mis...
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Uno tra la folla
1943
Ti conosco, mascherina!
9/1
An unscrupulous theatrical agent introduces his latest "discovery" to an elderly baron who becomes infatuated with her.
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Ti conosco, mascherina!
1945
Life Begins Anew
8/5
A compelling portrayal of postwar Rome
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Life Begins Anew
1939
In campagna è caduta una stella
9/1
An American starlet inflames two Italian peasants who forget about their respective fiance's. One of them even thinks of marrying her and begins to pl...
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In campagna è caduta una stella
1962
Napoli milionaria
8.8/19
In Naples, during World War II, Amalia Jovine, in order to survive, smuggles food and coffee in her crowded and dilapidated basement, in partnership w...
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Napoli milionaria
1935
Quei due
6.417/6
Adventures of two provincial actors looking for anyway done with something to eat. They are joined by a girl, Lili. They represent a magic number, but...
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Quei due
1952
The Seven Deadly Sins
6/15
A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.
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The Seven Deadly Sins
1958
L'uomo dai calzoni corti
7.25/4
Salvatore, known as "bread loaf", escapes from Caltanissetta's brewery to find his mother he never met. Before arriving in Venice, he stays in a small...
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L'uomo dai calzoni corti
1959
Tre calzoni fortunati
7/2
Don Felice Sciosciammocca, a poor and simple man, goes to the day, hoping that sooner or later will come the right opportunity to change his life. A n...
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Tre calzoni fortunati
1975
'Na santarella
5/1
Happy Sciosciammocca has a double life: he plays sacred music in the convent of Rondinelle and teaches music to the educators, at night he goes to Nap...
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'Na santarella
1975
Uomo e galantuomo
8.9/7
Guests of the wealthy young Don Alberto De Simone, the ramshackle troupe of actors known as "L'eclettica," led by Gennaro De Sia, rehearse a new play...
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Uomo e galantuomo
1958
Fortunella
6.35/10
A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince.
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Fortunella
1975
Li nepute de lu sinneco
4.8/2
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Li nepute de lu sinneco
1964
Non ti pago
7.1/5
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Non ti pago
1977
Christmas at the Cupiello Household
8.79/69
Luca Cupiello, like every Christmas, prepares the crib, amid the disinterest of his wife Concetta and his son Tommasino. Ninuccia, the other daughter,...
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Christmas at the Cupiello Household
1955
Miseria e nobiltà
7.1/4
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Miseria e nobiltà
1980
My Name Is Anna Magnani
8.667/3
Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity .....
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My Name Is Anna Magnani
1949
Campane a martello
6.25/8
Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. A...
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Campane a martello
1958
Raw Wind in Eden
6.1/5
Passengers struggle to survive after their plane crashes on a remote island. Director Richard Wilson's 1958 drama stars Esther Williams, Jeff Chandler...
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Raw Wind in Eden
1966
Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
5.889/9
Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito, sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his g...
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Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
1975
'O tuono 'e marzo
7/3
Sofia, Don Saverio's sister, confesses to her brother that she was the victim of a fateful event: while she accompanied her brother to Rome, while he...
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'O tuono 'e marzo
1964
L'abito nuovo
6/1
In Naples, where the modest clerk Michele Crispucci lives with his daughter Assuntina, his ex-wife arrives with her circus. The young Concettino confi...
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L'abito nuovo
1978
L'arte della commedia
7.3/3
Oreste Campese is the leader of a traveling troupe of actors—made up of his family—who find themselves in the middle of winter in an unspecified town...
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L'arte della commedia
1981
Il contratto
7.5/1
Geronta Sebezio is revered by his fellow villagers for his miraculous ability to bring the dead back to life. However, anyone who wishes to benefit fr...
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Il contratto
1959
Il medico dei pazzi
7.5/2
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Il medico dei pazzi
1981
Il berretto a sonagli
0/0
Donna Beatrice is determined to expose her husband's alleged affair with the beautiful wife of the scribe Ciampa. The woman, heedless of her own famil...
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Il berretto a sonagli
1976
Gli esami non finiscono mai
9.2/3
Guglielmo Speranza is a young man who, having just graduated from university, decides to ask his beloved to marry him, convinced that the most challen...
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Gli esami non finiscono mai
1979
The Mayor of Rione Sanità
7.8/6
Antonio Barracano is a man who enforces his own law in the Sanità district, which is why he is recognized as the neighborhood's "mayor." He dispenses...
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The Mayor of Rione Sanità
1959
La fortuna con l'effe maiuscola
6/1
In a miserable, freezing two-room apartment on the first floor of a building, the Ruòppolo family lives in complete poverty. Giovanni, a clerk, strugg...
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La fortuna con l'effe maiuscola
1978
Gennareniello
8.5/1
Gennareniello, a crazy inventor, is married to Concettina and lives at home with his son Tommasino, full of tics, his spinster sister and with Matteo,...
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Gennareniello
1975
Lu curaggio de nu pumpiero napulitano
6/1
Thanks to the legacy of an English lord, the cobbler Andrea has become a baron and now has delusions of nobility: he wants a high-ranking marriage for...
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Lu curaggio de nu pumpiero napulitano
1953
It Happened in the Park
6.5/10
Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.
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It Happened in the Park
1962
Filumena Marturano
9/2
Filumena Marturano is a former prostitute who has been living for years with Domenico Soriano, a wealthy Neapolitan pastry chef who was once her clien...
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Filumena Marturano
2021
Eduardo De Filippo, Lezioni Di Teatro All’università Sapienza Di Roma
0/0
De Filippo agreed to teach a series of drama classes to the students of the Università di Roma Sapienza, with whom he would continue to collaborate un...
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Eduardo De Filippo, Lezioni Di Teatro All’università Sapienza Di Roma
1956
Pericolosamente
0/0
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Pericolosamente
1973
Pulcinella - Ieri e oggi
0/0
The renowned director Franco Zeffirelli interviews Eduardo De Filippo to discuss the famous Neapolitan mask Pulcinella.
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Pulcinella - Ieri e oggi
1940
Il sogno di tutti
0/0
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Il sogno di tutti
1938
L'amor mio non muore!
8/1
A young man with no solid income is rejected by a wealthy industrialist when he dares to ask for his daughter's hand. After 20 yeas he has become a we...
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L'amor mio non muore!
1939
Il marchese di Ruvolito
0/0
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