Giovanni Morassutti

Acting

Giovanni Morassutti

Born

1980-03-15 (46)

Place of birth

Padova (Italy)

Known for

Acting

Credits

15 titles

Son of a German mother and Italian father, Giovanni Morassutti is an actor, director, and cultural entrepreneur currently living in New York. He studied acting and directing since he was a teenager approaching the work of the realistic school first with Susan Strasberg, then as an auditor at the Actors Studio in New York, as a student of Salem Ludwig at the HB studio and then with John Strasberg with whom now works as an assistant and coordinator for his workshops in Berlin. In America, Giovanni worked with Ellen Stewart founder of La Mama e.t.c. , Ted Mornel, Kathleen M. Wilce, and Gus Van Sant. In Italy, after graduating from the National Film School in Rome directed by actor Giancarlo Gia…

Known for

The Marshal Rocca poster
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The adventures of the marshal of the carabinieri Giovanni Rocca, played by the great Gigi Proietti. Definitely one of the most successful Rai fictions ever, the series, after the first eight episodes broadcast in 1996, went on for six seasons, ending only in 2008. For over a decade the investigations and the private life of the marshal of Viterbo , born from an idea by Laura Toscano, have fascinated the television audience, making them become attached to characters such as the beautiful pharmacist Margherita (Stefania Sandrelli) or the brigadier Cacciapuoti (Sergio Fiorentini).

The Marshal Rocca

1996

Duse poster
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In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. Struggling with the brutality of historical events unfolding and clinging to the possibility of utopia, she makes her art a revolutionary act, even at the cost of sacrificing health and affection—facing her final journey aware she could give up life itself, but not her own true nature.

Duse

2025

Last Days poster
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The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday life involves friends and family seeking financial aid and favors, inspired by rock music legend Kurt Cobain and his final hours.

Last Days

2005

Di Padre in Figlia poster
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Women's emancipation in the history of the Venetian Franza family, owners of a distillery in Bassano del Grappa. Management in the hands of the founder and patriarch of the family passed into the hands of the three daughters Maria Teresa, Elena and Sofia over a period of time from 1958 to 1985.

Di Padre in Figlia

2017

P.O.E. Poetry of Eerie poster
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Poetry of Eerie features 13 Poe-inspired short segments directed by a cadre of international filmmakers, filmed under tight constraints, offering abstract, atmospheric takes on the macabre.

P.O.E. Poetry of Eerie

2011

I Vicerè poster
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In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands—fights to preserve its waning power in the face of the newly unified Italian regime.

I Vicerè

2007

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 5 titles

2000s · 4 titles

Series credits