Paolo Briguglia

Acting

Paolo Briguglia

Born 1974-05-27 · Palermo, Italy

Nasce a Palermo il 27 maggio del 1974, secondo di quattro figli. Dopo la maturità classica, si iscrive all'università per studiare Lettere Antiche, facoltà che abbandona dopo due anni per l'Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico di Roma, dove si diploma nel 1998 (frequenta inoltre diversi laboratori teatrali, in Italia e all'estero). Dopo aver debuttato in teatro, alterna il lavoro teatrale con quello televisivo e cinematografico. Nel 2000 appare sul grande schermo con i film Il manoscritto del principe di Roberto Andò, che parla della stesura de Il Gattopardo da parte di Tomasi di Lampedusa, e I cento passi di Marco Tullio Giordana, in cui interpreta il ruolo del fratello di Peppino Impastato, ucciso dalla mafia. Dello stesso anno è il cortometraggio L'affresco di Marco Bellocchio, a cui fanno seguito, tra l'altro, il film Paz! (2002) e vari lavori televisivi: Francesco (2002), Giulio Cesare (2002) e L'inganno (2003). Nel 2002 esce il film El Alamein, diretto da Enzo Monteleone, dove interpreta il ruolo di un soldato italiano che, nell'ottobre del 1942, è bloccato presso El Alamein insieme a suoi compagni (Pierfrancesco Favino, Emilio Solfrizzi, Silvio Orlando e Roberto Citran). Grazie alla sua interpretazione, nel 2003 vince il Globo d'Oro come migliore attore esordiente. Successivamente è nel cast di Buongiorno, notte (2003), ancora diretto da Marco Bellocchio, a cui fanno seguito i film Movimenti e Stai con me, entrambi del 2004, Ma quando arrivano le ragazze? (2005) di Pupi Avati, e La terra (2006), regia di Sergio Rubini, per cui ottiene la nomination come Migliore Attore Rivelazione. Tra gli altri suoi lavori, ricordiamo le fiction tv: Giovanni Falcone, l'uomo che sfidò Cosa Nostra di Andrea ed Antonio Frazzi (2006), Caravaggio, Il figlio della luna ed Era mio fratello, e i film: L'abbuffata e Non pensarci, tutti del 2007, ma quest'ultimo uscito nelle sale il 4 aprile 2008. Nel 2009 ritorna nelle sale cinematografiche con i film: La siciliana ribelle, regia di Marco Amenta, Baarìa, regia di Giuseppe Tornatore, Tris di donne & abiti nuziali, regia di Vincenzo Terracciano, La cosa giusta, regia di Marco Campogiani. A aprile 2010 esce nelle sale l'opera prima dell'attore/regista Rocco Papaleo, Basilicata coast to coast, che vede Briguglia tra i protagonisti insieme allo stesso Papaleo, Alessandro Gassman, Giovanna Mezzogiorno e, al suo debutto come attore, il cantante Max Gazzè. http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Briguglia

Acting credits

Scossa poster
NR

100 years ago, a terrible earthquake, followed by an equally terrible tidal wave, devastated and largely destroyed Messina and Reggio Calabria.

Scossa

2012

Baaria poster
7.2

In 1920s Bagheria, Giuseppe 'Peppino' Torrenuova works as a shepherd to financially help his poor family. Over the next fifty years, Giuseppe's life, as well as the life of the village, is observed. Giuseppe grows up, joins the Communist Party, marries a local girl, has children, and forges a political career for himself.

Baaria

2009

Basilicata Coast To Coast poster
6.3

A musical comedy, a journey filled with unexpected twists and unexpected encounters, leading a group of musicians to set out to the rhythm of their musical verses to participate in the Scanzano Jonico Song-Theatre Festival, walking across Basilicata, from the Tyrrhenian to the Ionian Sea, along the route that gives the project its name. The journey will have a therapeutic effect.

Basilicata Coast To Coast

2010

Chiara poster
5.4

Assisi, 1211. Chiara is eighteen years old and one night she runs away from home to join her friend Francesco: from that moment on her life changes forever. With charisma and conviction, she breaks free from her family's constraints and stands up to the Pope himself. She fights for herself, for the women who join her and for her dream of freedom. The story of a Saint. The story of a girl and her revolution.

Chiara

2022

Good Morning, Night poster
7.0

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.

Good Morning, Night

2003

My Tennis Maestro poster
6.3

Italy, 1989. After years of hard training, 13-year-old Felice, carrying his father's expectations on his shoulders, finally sets out to compete in the national tennis tournaments. While dreaming of a simple summer vacation, he's instead placed under the wing of ex tennis champion Raul, an unconventional coach hired by his father. Match after match, the two embark on a journey that will lead Felice to discover the taste of freedom, and Raul to glimpse the possibility of a fresh start. As they travel along the Italian coast, an unexpected, deep, and sincere bond between them develops.

My Tennis Maestro

2025

One Hundred Steps poster
7.8

Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.

One Hundred Steps

2000

The Buzz poster
7.0

Alma (20), who has ADHD, works as a beekeeper but dreams of a life in the city. The day before her university exam, Pietro, her father, expresses his concerns about his daughter’s future. During the test, Alma struggles against the distractions caused by her condition but is interrupted by a tender memory: a bee buzzing around her. This event takes her back in time, to her first encounter with the beehives. What at first seems chaotic reveals itself to her as the most intelligent of natural structures.

The Buzz

2024

The Sicilian Girl poster
6.2

Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live...

The Sicilian Girl

2008

I racconti della domenica poster
6.1

It follows Francesco Giuffrida, an honest Sicilian politician from childhood to his disappearance.

I racconti della domenica

2022

Caravaggio poster
5.6

The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius that will dare to defy the ideal vision of the world imposed by the Renaissance painters. A provoker that scandalized patrons and institutions, raising the altars the outcast figures he knew so well: drunkards, vagrants and prostitutes.

Caravaggio

2007

Don't Think About It poster
6.5

Still an unsuccessful punk rock musician at 36, Stefano returns to his hometown in the countryside to help with his family's business.

Don't Think About It

2008

David Troll poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

David Troll

2017

El Alamein: The Line of Fire poster
6.5

War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then?

El Alamein: The Line of Fire

2002

La vita è breve ma la giornata è lunghissima poster
NR

DV-shot documentary following a group of up-and-coming young Italian actors .

La vita è breve ma la giornata è lunghissima

2004

Other Fathers poster
6.8

Giulio, a skilled salesman, father and caring husband, suddenly finds himself homeless, without money, and without a family, when his wife Annalisa asks for a divorce, forcibly removing him from his children with false accusations of violence and drugs.

Other Fathers

2021

No artwork available
NR

A young man lives as a recluse in a monastery. In a sort of ecstasy, he begins to talk to nature and recite the gospels.

Fresco

2000

The Protagonists poster
5.3

An Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few years before.

The Protagonists

1999

Our Land poster
6.5

Luigi Di Santo is a professor of philosophy in Milan who returns to his Apulian hometown to finalize the sale, together with his brothers, of an old family farm. But this project is hampered by his violent stepbrother Aldo. Things degenerate further when the four brothers find themselves embroiled in a murder.

Our Land

2006

On the Clouds poster
6.0

It follows Nic Vega, a man with a successful past in music. When he he has lost everything: fame, friends and inspiration, he decides to return to Francesca, breaking into her peaceful and happy life.

On the Clouds

2022

Paz! poster
6.6

Inspired by the work of Italian underground comic book prodigy Andrea Pazienza, "Paz!" is a 24-hour slice of life of a group of university students sharing a flat in 1970s Bologna, grappling with drugs, classes, girls and half-hearted political activism.

Paz!

2002

The Desired War poster
4.9

A diplomatic incident threatens to break out a war inside Europe that only an unlikely couple of bickering lovers seems able to stop.

The Desired War

2022

Not In My Backyard poster
NR

An old man and a young one, probably father and son, go hunting together in a woodland, trying to re-establish their damaged relationship. But their gestures and the strange ordinariness of their silence seem to disguise something beyond normality.

Not In My Backyard

2011

Bare skin poster
NR

In a country villa Tommaso spent the last days of summer with his father and his new partner. Nothing went the way he was supposed to, the tensions never melted. It's the last day before they go home. Maybe there is one more thing to say.

Bare skin

2021