
Acting
Nino Castelnuovo
Born — Died
1936-10-28 — 2021-09-06
Place of birth
Lecco, Lombardy, Italy
Known for
Acting
Credits
67 titles
Francesco "Nino" Castelnuovo (28 October 1936 - 6 September 2021) was an Italian actor of film, stage, and television. Castelnuovo appeared as Guy Foucher in the French-language musical film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and as D'Agostino in the romantic-drama The English Patient (1996). His other films include the drama Rocco and His Brothers (1960), the sexploitation Camille 2000 (1969), the black-comedy L'emmerdeur (A Pain in the ..., 1973), the giallo film Il prato macchiato di rosso (1973), and the spaghetti-westerns Massacre Time (1966) and The Five Man Army (1969).
Known for
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Midi trente
1972
7.1In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
The English Patient
1996
8.0When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
Rocco and His Brothers
1960
8.1The 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
7.4This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964
4.6A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.
On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
1967
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
2000s · 3 titles
7.7Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
The Beaches of Agnès
2008
6.3No synopsis available yet.
With the Eyes of the Killer
2001
8.3On an island in the middle of the ocean, inhabited by nine elderly people, including the ancient wizard Lucanòr, no one remembers what children are. One day, however, a boat carrying a group of helpless shipwrecked children arrives on this piece of land surrounded by the sea. Will the children manage to gain respect? Who will help them?
L'isola degli smemorati
2005
1990s · 2 titles
7.1In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
The English Patient
1996
6.9Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
The World of Jacques Demy
1995
1980s · 2 titles
1970s · 13 titles
6.4Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.
That Malicious Age
1975
7.0Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.
A Pain in the Ass
1973
5.5After a fashion model dies during a botched abortion, the doctor stages her death to exonerate himself but is murdered by a mysterious assailant who soon begins hunting down her agency colleagues.
Strip Nude for Your Killer
1975
5.1Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French mountains. Elizabeth falls in love with a strange Italian, Giovanni, while young Cecile is courted by an apprentice cook. It seems that mother and daughter are drifting apart from each other, but then their holidays are over.
Loving in the Rain
1974
2.9Earth is attacked by an intergalactic villain and his army of robotic androids.
Star Odyssey
1979
5.5Various undesirables and hippie drifters are invited to the luxury, ultra-modern country home of Dr. Antonio and his wife; when they begin to vanish, it becomes clear that something sinister — and deadly — is afoot.
The Bloodstained Lawn
1973
4.6The sexually naive Daniela returns home from boarding school only to realize that her family is involved in an excess of bed-hopping and sexual perversion.
La collegiale
1975
3.0An employee discovers the infidelity of the girlfriend and will try to take revenge.
Strip First, Then We Talk
1975
6.7Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.
The Divorce
1970
6.8Three clumsy thieves come up with a robbery scheme against the "Grandi Magazzini Romani". They call to their aid a skilled "only by reputation" French burglar, Pierre Le Compte.
The Big Deal
1972
6.5Engineer Paul Holland returns from a trip. His girlfriend Sybille has disappeared from their apartment without leaving a note. He searches for her and finds himself in the middle of a manhunt for an international drug ring.
Gott schützt die Liebenden
1973
4.9The story of a beautiful young woman who, for the love of her ambitious husband, becomes a blackmail victim and has to resort to prostitution...
Wife by Night
1971
No synopsis available yet.
I mariti
1974
1960s · 32 titles
8.0When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
Rocco and His Brothers
1960
7.4This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964
4.6A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.
On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
1967
6.6At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold.
The 5-Man Army
1969
5.0A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.
The Angel Wore Red
1960
6.2Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.
Psychout for Murder
1969
6.4A writer decides to use the strange inhabitants of a small island as a basis for characters in his new book.
The Creatures
1966
7.2Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence.
The Demon
1964
5.8Marta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda's flat. But Nanda's priority is above anything else to find a husband.
Diary of a Telephone Operator
1969
7.6When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
Everybody Go Home!
1960
6.4Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
The Shortest Day
1963
6.4In 1866, prospector Tom Corbett returns to his hometown of Laramie, Texas, now under the brutal control of gangster Jason Scott and his violent son, Junior. With his brother Jeff, a struggling drunk cared for by their maid Mercedes, Tom seeks to overthrow the Scotts' tyrannical rule and restore peace to the town.
Massacre Time
1966
5.8Marguerite, a beautiful woman of affairs, falls for the young and promising Armand, but sacrifices her love for him for the sake of his future and reputation.
Camille 2000
1969
6.0A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.
The Reward
1965
6.1A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Made in Italy
1965
6.5James Daly is an American special soldier who goes behind enemy territory during WWII. His Objective: to steal top secret SS document that can change the course of the war.
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
1968
8.5La Via del Petrolio is a three-part documentary Bernardo Bertolucci made for the Italian oil giant ENI that aired in 1967. The film was made following Bertolucci’s breakthrough second feature Before the Revolution, and the director has said that it’s a documentary made by a man who is desperate to direct another feature. The film was presented in three parts: "The Origins", "At Sea" and "In the Heart of Europe".
The Path of Oil
1967
7.0September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two meets Gino and all together will try to pass trough the Gothic Line.
A Day for Lionhearts
1961
5.2Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
Love and Anger
1969
10.0A freelance photographer falls in love with a French medical student and becomes pregnant. Faced with the situation, he pressures her to have an abortion, even sleeping with an older woman for money. She later decides to keep the baby.
A Young World
1966
NRGodard dissects movie romance as row intellectuals watch an Italian-speaking man and his French-speaking partner talk about love.
Love and Anger: Love
1969
6.4Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?
The Cavern
1964
6.5Laura, a young woman from the Verona bourgeoisie, seeks to emancipate herself, but is desperately confronted with what she considers to be the hypocrisy of men and the conformism of a society that only considers women if they marry and procreate.
Laura nuda
1961
3.4Various sketches centered on alcove stories.
The Double Bed
1965
7.5Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim.
The Eye of the Needle
1963
7.8The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all its members.
Day by Day, Desperately
1961
6.6Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.
The Hunchback
1960
7.5A building instructor cheats on his wife with a young fashion model.
The Apartment
1960
7.3"Andremo in città" (We'll Go to the City) is a 1966 Italian drama film directed by Nelo Risi. It is based on the novel of the same name by Edith Bruck, Risi's wife. Bruck, a Hungarian concentration camp-survivor, settled in Italy after the Second World War and wrote about her experiences in autobiographical and fictional formats.[1] The film stars Geraldine Chaplin and Nino Castelnuovo.
We'll Go to the City
1966
6.7American students, Tommy and Annette, find themselves in a heap of trouble when they accidentally discover an art forgery ring in Florence, Italy.
Escapade in Florence
1962
NRA gang of four boys and a woman kidnap a lawyer.
A Dirty Business
1964
10.0A man who sells counterfeit drugs decides to become a marriage counselor. Having barely started this business, he finds himself in serious trouble, threatening him with mortal danger...
Virgin Merchants
1969
1950s · 2 titles
7.2A police inspector comes into contact with people of all types and dispositions during a grueling murder investigation.
The Facts of Murder
1959
6.3The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time during the trip by train and bus) Marie decides to ask Paul to act as her husband, just to allay the suspicions of her family. After some hesitating Paul accepts, charmed by the girl and unaware of the complications such is bound to cause to his own life.
The Virtuous Bigamist
1956
Series credits
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Midi trente
1972
8.1The 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
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Questa è la mia terra
2006
7.2A look at Alessandro Manzoni's novel and the tormented love story of Renzo and Lucia during the troubled years of Spanish rule in 17th-century Lombardy.
I promessi sposi
1967
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Diamoci del tu
1967
7.0Four Edgar Allan Poe adaptations running an hour apiece, including "Night in the House of Usher," "Ligeia Forever," "The Delusion of William Wilson" and "The Fall of the House of Usher."
Racconti fantastici
1979
7.0Test driver Luigi Certaldo meets Elisa at a party. They go to Volterra in Tuscany and meet Alberto Certaldo, Luigi's cousin. In the house is a painting that portrays a veiled woman whose face is identical to Elisa's. Strange events follow one another and an Etruscan funerary urn Is found that seems to contain indication to find an Etruscan necropolis full of treasures. Two people die. Luigi and Elisa are afraid. They meet a strange child-medium and a creepy old men called "Nebbia". Something terrible is about to happen.
Ritratto di Donna Velata
1975
8.0In 1935, Pietro Spina, a communist intellectual forced to emigrate for political reasons, secretly returns to Italy, driven by nostalgia for his homeland. Under the identity of Don Paolo Spada, a priest recovering from illness, he moves to Pietrasecca, a small village in the mountains of Abruzzo.
Vino e pane
1973
9.0Non lasciamoci più is an Italian television series.
Non lasciamoci più
1999
A three-episode adaptation of Goethe's novel.
Le affinità elettive
1979




