"Le avventure di Pinnochio", starring Nino Manfredi

Movie Synopsis
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man sis institution very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Cherry, he decides to build a puppet that faces him company. The puppet is Pinocchio. On night comes the Fairy in the carpenter’s shop to visit Pinocchio. The woman makes a deal with the puppet: if he behaves well, giving honor to the father, he will become a human being, otherwise he will remain a piece of wood. Pinocchio promises, and magically becomes a kid. But the temptations of life are many, and Pinocchio runs away from home, not going to school, like his father Geppetto wants, and he enters illegally in the company of puppets of the cruel Mangiafoco. Pinocchio, helped by the Fairy, tries to be kind and respectful, but by his brat character, he always brings himself in the midst of trouble…
 
 

Actor and Director Nino Manfredi
An actor and director, Nino Manfredi studied a the Accademia D’Arte Drammatica with Tino Buazzelli, Paolo Danelli, Giancarlo Sbragia, Luciano Salce and Luigi Squarzina. A student of Orazio Costa, he also worked alongside Eduardo De Filippo and appeared in skits, musical comedies and television and radio shows. A great interpreter of Italian comedy, under the guidance of famous directors such as Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Antonio Petrangeli, he added to the realistic base of his performance a unique flash of surrealism or a vein of bitter sarcasm, almost always bringing to the surface a deep yet completely controlled irony which often takes on a dramatic hue.

 
As a director, in 1971, he won the Best First Work Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his autobiographical film Per Grazia Ricevuta. He also won the Nastro d’Argento Award for Best Actor: in 1966 with Lina Wertmüller’s Questa Volta Parliamo di Uomini, in 1970 with Luigi Magni’s film Nell’anno del Signore and in 1978 with the film In nome del Papa re. He also worked with other well-known directors such as: Nanni Loy, Mario Camerini, Luigi Zampa, Damiano Damiani, Sergio Corbucci, Giuliano Montaldo, Giulio Paradisi, Maurizio Ponzi, Castellano and Pipolo.He has taken part in many important European productions such as Helsinki Napoli All Night Long (1987), Mika Kaurismäki’s Napoli-Berlino, un taxi nella notte, Jos Stelling’s De Vliegende Hollander (1995).

Fiction, Duration: 134 minutes, Italy, 1972
Direction: Luigi Comencini 
Performing: Andrea Balestri, Nino Manfredi, Gina Lollobrigida, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia
From Wednesday 26th of November to Sunday 30th of November 2014