
Acting
Ottavia Piccolo
Born
1949-10-09 (77)
Place of birth
Bolzano, Italy
Known for
Acting
Credits
54 titles
Known for
7.7As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life.
The Leopard
1963
6.8Alessandro and Anna, just over the age of 18, meet by chance during an Interrail trip to Spain. It is a hot summer in the late 1990s, and the two immediately fall in love. Their lives, however, are much more complicated than the fate that brought them together, and soon the two are forced to separate. Over the years they remain linked by an intense correspondence, never able to muster the courage to see each other. However, 20 years after their first meeting and now adults, they meet again in Bologna. Their feeling, which has never faded over time, will have to clash with the interferences of a reality more complex than the one they had created only through words.
Un Amore
2024
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Questa è la mia terra
2006
8.5Stendhal's epic tale of a young French officer in the Napoleonic wars, and his aunt - a duchess of legendary beauty and resourcefulness.
The Charterhouse of Parma
1982
6.8The relationship between a middle-aged French widow and a young drifter takes a turn when her young niece pays a visit.
The Widow Couderc
1971
6.6A newly arrived governor finds his province under the control of the corrupt Colonel Huerta. To avoid assassination by Huerta, he pretends to be weak and indecisive so Huerta will believe he poses no threat. But secretly he masquerades as Zorro, and joins the monk Francisco and the beautiful aristocrat Hortensia in their fight for justice against Huerta and his soldiers.
Zorro
1975
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
2010s · 2 titles
2000s · 3 titles
5.5Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up undercover among college students protesting the government, the Vietnam War and the values of their parents' generation. However, he complicates his mission by falling for Laura, a bourgeois girl dreaming of a better world.
The Big Dream
2009
6.7Claudia is married with Giovanni, a rather dull type. Meek Giacomo is happily divorced, until he meets her. Aldo is a colorful cabbie with whom she had an affair. Who'll win her heart?
Have You Met Claudia?
2004
No synopsis available yet.
Le ragazze di Milano
2007
1990s · 11 titles
5.8A young recruit to the Italian army discovers and rejects the seedy world of soldiers who prostitute themselves to supplement their income. But before leaving this world he is raped by a highly-respected senior officer and must decide whether to risk bringing proceedings against him.
Marching in Darkness
1996
4.7An advertiser who lives in Milan learns from a former teacher that his mother is dying. He leaves immediately in his car; as he drives thinks back to his childhood and the time he believed his mother had a relationship with the teacher.
In The Rose Garden
1990
6.5Sophie investigates the death of her sister who disappeared while taking pictures in the mountains with Bastien, a rather taciturn guide accused of being a dangerous criminal.
Le ciel pour témoin
1993
8.0After years, Eric decides to track down his mother.
Deux mamans pour Noël
1998
7.0Carla Aldrovandi, a gynecologist, and her husband Marco Canova, a magistrate live on the front line of criminal and political powers in Italy. She is surrounded by terror and threats.
The Long Silence
1993
7.6During the Nazi regime in France in World War II, Pastor Fontaine and the town of Chambon undertake a mission to protect and shelter the children of many of the Jews sent to concentration camps.
Le Chambon
1994
8.0The film covers the last year of Pier Giorgio Frassati life, son of the family that owned the newspaper La Stampa, who lived between 1901 and 1925 and was beatified in 1990.
Se non avessi l'amore
1991
NRIn Calabria in the seventies, Max leads a group of his friends as they set up a private television network "TV Sila".
Angeli a sud
1992
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Bidoni
1995
5.8No synopsis available yet.
Condominio
1991
4.0After leaving her boyfriend, a girl wanders for a few days meeting new people and experiencing new emotions
Barocco
1991
1980s · 3 titles
7.5Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo can't really decide until it's too late.
The Family
1987
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Sposi
1988
6.0Marco, a nine year old boy, is in love with his elementary teacher, and feels neglected by his workaholic parents. When they forget about his birthday he wishes he could grow up at once. This really happens and Marco begins a new life as an adult. He rents a room in his teacher's flat and she falls in love with him. He even fakes a kidnapping when he runs out of money but he is mistaken for the kidnapper.
Big
1987
1970s · 12 titles
6.8The relationship between a middle-aged French widow and a young drifter takes a turn when her young niece pays a visit.
The Widow Couderc
1971
6.6A newly arrived governor finds his province under the control of the corrupt Colonel Huerta. To avoid assassination by Huerta, he pretends to be weak and indecisive so Huerta will believe he poses no threat. But secretly he masquerades as Zorro, and joins the monk Francisco and the beautiful aristocrat Hortensia in their fight for justice against Huerta and his soldiers.
Zorro
1975
7.0An heiress (Piccolo) fakes her own kidnapping in order to get money from her parents and hides in the river Po's delta among eel fisherman and is helped by a small time smuggler (Toffolo).
Million Dollar Eel
1971
4.8A young elementary school teacher falls in love with a Venetian woman who is the daughter of a wealthy industrialist.
La cosa buffa
1972
5.4Bubu leaves his job in a bakery, forces his girl-friend into prostitution, and from then on lives out of the money she makes. The young couple find their place in the world of prostitutes and pimps, but the lack of perspective in their life - which is permanently haunted by the possibility of an incurable and fatal venereal infection - and the humiliations the girl endures strain their relationship and lead to conflicts.
Bubu
1971
4.9Colinot is a young, happy man, until the day three highway robbers abduct his fiancée. The search leads him to meet so many young, lovely women – that when he finally encounters his fiancée, he's no longer sure he loves her.
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
1973
5.8The story of a young man of the working class, who has grown up practically an orphan due to his father’s repeated jailings for anarchistic activism. Struggling with life in 19th-century Italy, Metello Salani is determined to change his situation for the better - but love, marriage and politics complicate things considerably...
Metello
1970
5.3After a bank robbery gone wrong, a crook goes on the run across Belgium to escape the police, clear himself of a crime that he did not commit, and protect his girlfriend from a shady lawyer.
One Way Ticket
1971
6.8A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter.
Trastevere
1971
6.4A middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's unscrupulous offer to buy his company. Determined to avoid the trap, he finds an unexpected solution through a prostitute.
Mado
1976
4.7Valeria and Gianni are students and soon begin a love affair. When she becomes pregnant, they have to face the decision to have the child or an abortion.
To Kill in Silence
1972
7.7Antoine has raised Sébastien, the son of a friend who was killed in a plane crash. Sébastien is doing his military service and Antoine would like him to marry Nathalie, the girl he grew up with. But Nathalie is in love with an American, and the day Sébastien has a leave, she leaves with her lover.
Antoine and Sebastian
1974
1960s · 6 titles
7.7As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life.
The Leopard
1963
6.0Serafino, a young and innocent shepherd, inherits a huge fortune. He immediately starts spending the entire sum on presents for his friends, causing the envy of his family.
Serafino
1968
5.3Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money. So he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair. On the way he meets many strange people who would like to help or to swindle him.
Twelve Plus One
1969
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Felicita Colombo
1968
6.0Faustina, the offspring of a black G.I. and a Roman woman who met during the conflict of World War II, must choose between two Italian men who desperately vie for her attention.
Faustina
1968
6.1Mademoiselle de Maupin escapes from her uncle's castle, invaded by Hungarian troops, under the guise of a clergyman named Theodore. An army recruiter forces Theodore to enlist in the King's army, and not even the religious robe is an insurance against it. Theodore is assigned to be aide-de-camp to Alcibiade, a man as virile in combat, as he seems troubled for the figure of his aid. D'Albert, an aristocrat, will expose Theodore's true sex, and after a number of confusing, comedy situations, Alcibiade will appease his troubled feelings.
Mademoiselle de Maupin
1966
Undated · 1 titles
Series credits
6.8Alessandro and Anna, just over the age of 18, meet by chance during an Interrail trip to Spain. It is a hot summer in the late 1990s, and the two immediately fall in love. Their lives, however, are much more complicated than the fate that brought them together, and soon the two are forced to separate. Over the years they remain linked by an intense correspondence, never able to muster the courage to see each other. However, 20 years after their first meeting and now adults, they meet again in Bologna. Their feeling, which has never faded over time, will have to clash with the interferences of a reality more complex than the one they had created only through words.
Un Amore
2024
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Questa è la mia terra
2006
8.5Stendhal's epic tale of a young French officer in the Napoleonic wars, and his aunt - a duchess of legendary beauty and resourcefulness.
The Charterhouse of Parma
1982
8.4Miniseries dramatizing the life of the Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci.
The Life of Leonardo da Vinci
1971
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Per Amore
2002
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Il mulino del Po
1963
Julien Mauriès, the youngest of a perfumer's family was forced to go into exile after having an unfortunate experience in the estate business. He spent 20 years in Venezuela and made fortune in the perfume business. Now, Julien has decided to come back in France in order to start again and to cleanse his honour.
Le Paria
1985
No synopsis available yet.
Donna
1996
Set against the gorgeous backdrop of the Trentino region, this Italian-language drama follows the winemaking Masci family.
Una Buona Stagione
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Una sera d'ottobre
2009
NRA four-part Italian RAI television adaptation that brings to life Fyodor Dostoevsky's three "ministerial novels": The Double, Notes from Underground, and A Nasty Story. The series delivers a psychological and social portrait of low-ranking state officials caught in their own deep inner turmoil, social alienation, and moral decay.
Il lungo viaggio
1975
7.0A RAI miniseries, based on the novel by Italo Svevo.
La coscienza di Zeno
1988
8.0Tales of knights and princesses, wizards and sorceresses. Featuring an invisibility ring, a hippogriff, and a trip to the moon. Based on a sixteenth-century Italian chivalric poem by Ludovico Ariosto.
The Frenzy of Orlando
1975






