Gianni Cavina

Acting

Gianni Cavina

Born 1940-12-09 · Bologna, Italy

Acting credits

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway poster
8.0

Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway

1988

Il prigioniero poster
7.0

Italian TV movie. Based upon a novel by Anton Chekhov.

Il prigioniero

1978

The House with Laughing Windows poster
7.2

Stefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.

The House with Laughing Windows

1976

Porzûs poster
5.7

In 1945, at the huts above Porzûs, a hundred partisans from the Garibaldi Brigade and the Gap massacred about twenty partisans from Osoppo. They were commanded by Geko, who later went around saying that the group was accused of treason and collusion with the fascists, all to avoid consequences. But at the end of the war, Storno, who had escaped the massacre, sentenced Geko and his men to life imprisonment in absentia.

Porzûs

1997

Fancy a Woman poster
3.7

An erotic, comedic anthology film in which a young couple becomes addicted to having their trysts recorded, a woman cheats on her husband with an older man and desperately attempts to avoid the traps set for her, and a man, with the help of a mad scientist, is able to have an amorous encounter with Cicciolina.

Fancy a Woman

1978

Welcome Mr. President! poster
6.2

In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends, the library where he works as a precarious employee. He is an optimistic person even if his child accuse him of being a wannabe. One day, due to a mess of politicians, an amazing thing happens: Peppino is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic. Pulled out from his quiet life, is to play a role for which he knows he is obviously inappropriate, but his common sense and his instinctive gestures are incredibly effective, except for the etiquette, for which he is in trouble. The inflexible and fascinating Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Janis Clementi, is anxious to no avail in an attempt to regulate the unpredictable actions of the President...

Welcome Mr. President!

2013

Traffic Jam poster
6.8

A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passes, the more we witness personal dramas, hysteric reactions and other grotesque situations. All the episodes are linked as if in a single plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a larger universe: the congestion.

Traffic Jam

1979

Una lepre con la faccia di bambina poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Una lepre con la faccia di bambina

Cream Horn poster
5.7

Mariana and Domenico are on the run from her jealous boyfriend who just happens to be an over-jealous professional football player.

Cream Horn

1981

All The Souls... Except the Dead poster
6.2

Dante arrives at the castle of the recently deceased Marquis Zanetti to sell a book which contains a prophecy that the death of nine members of the Zanetti family will reveal a hidden treasure.

All The Souls... Except the Dead

1977

Caffè Capo poster
6.0

A wealthy professor stops off at a motorway café for a late night snack. What now ensues in the place is certainly not what he was expecting.

Caffè Capo

2010

Mr. Devil poster
6.0

In 1950s Italy, a government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a grisly child murder. The culprit is a young boy who claims he acted in order to kill the Devil itself.

Mr. Devil

2019

Venticinque anni di culto poster
NR

Documentary about Pupi Avati's film.

Venticinque anni di culto

2002

Quando c'era lui... caro lei! poster
6.9

No synopsis available yet.

Quando c'era lui... caro lei!

1978

Dante poster
5.1

The tormented life of Dante Alighieri, from solitary childhood to death in exile, seen through Giovanni Boccaccio’s journey to rehabilitate his memory.

Dante

2022

Blood Relations poster
6.1

The story about a sinister magician-dwarf, physically unable to love a woman. His wife's betrayals and an obsessive isolation drive him to despair.

Blood Relations

1970

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Per non dimenticare

1992

Non chiamarmi Omar poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Non chiamarmi Omar

1992

Christmas Present poster
7.3

On Christmas night, four estranged friends reunite to rip off a wealthy businessman in a game of poker, but old grudges get in the way.

Christmas Present

1986

House of Pleasure for Women poster
5.8

The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their activities in Italy. Mr. Chips has chosen Eddie Mordace to open the Italian branch of the multinational American Love Company. So Eddie opens in Milan a small branch of the Company whose purpose is to comfort women. Eddie hires Simbad, Adone and later, when business starts to go well, Ugolino, a real Count, and Ivanoe, a raper, who becames the attraction of the House.

House of Pleasure for Women

1976

The Big Operator poster
4.6

The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire.

The Big Operator

1976

The Wedding Director poster
6.0

Franco Elica is a film director casting a remake of a pious melodrama in Rome. He's melancholy, heading south for a break. On a beach, he meets a man who films weddings and is roped into helping film the wedding of the daughter of a severe and imperious prince. The wedding is one of convenience - the prince needs money, the groom is a mama's boy. Elica is attracted to the bride, Boda, and tries to convince her not to marry. No matter how outrageous his behavior, the prince keeps Elica on as the wedding director. As the wedding approaches, what's real blurs with Elica's imagination. Is he mad?

The Wedding Director

2006

The Kiss poster
3.5

Countess Elena marries the charming Guido Rambaldi, only for him to be seduced by dancer Nara during their Venice honeymoon.

The Kiss

1974

La locandiera poster
5.5

The innkeeper Mirandolina is a beautiful girl, and for her beauty the Count of Albafiorita and the Marquis of Forlimpopoli fall in love.

La locandiera

1980

Behind the camera