
Acting
Edy Vessel
Born 1940-10-23 · Trieste, Italy
Acting credits
8.1Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
8½
1963
5.5Sir Francis Drake fights to take over Spain's treasure routes for Queen Elizabeth I.
Seven Seas to Calais
1962
5.6Trojan hero Aeneas battles to save his city from the Greeks, but once Troy falls, he leads the 600 survivors to Italy and founds the city of Rome.
The Trojan Horse
1961
6.9On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.
The Passionate Thief
1960
5.5When Karim impersonates a prince Osman, he steals the heart of Amina the Sultans daughter. The real prince intends to get Amina back by giving her a love potion. But his plan backfires and Amina becomes deathly ill. Karim must make it through 7 doors to retrieve the only thing that can save his love-a mystical blue rose. A timeless, enchanting story!
The Thief of Baghdad
1961
6.8Four penniless friends from a small theatre troupe go to Taormina, a famous Italian beach resort, to forget their troubles.
Beach Types
1959
9.0A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977
6.1Alboino, the Lombard ruler, wants to marry the daughter of a neighboring king, but she loves another. Her father arranges the marriage to Alboino, which he believes will be beneficial to him, only to have Alboino kill him and leave Amalchi, his daughter's real love, beaten and left for dead. Amalchi recovers to lead a revolt against the murderous Alboino and reclaim his woman.
Sword of the Conqueror
1961
6.7Two bumbling actors get wrapped up in a scheme to murder a rich man's wife.
Psycosissimo
1961
6.7In London in 1903, during a reception at the German embassy, the legendary swindler Rocambole, thought to have died in the penal colony, helps the British secret service compromise a Prussian diplomat. His mission completed, Rocambole, under the identity of the Comte de Chamery, returns to Paris, where Baron Keller, an arms manufacturer in the service of the Kaiser, entertains the famous prima ballerina Cléo Santelli at Maxim's every evening, with whom he is madly in love. Despite her attentions, the young dancer falls in love with the false Chamery, who seems to have sworn the Baron's doom and ridicules him in the salons.
Rocambole
1963
7.0An American military aircraft with some female soldiers crash lands in an Italian air base to the delight of the Italian soldiers.
Guardatele ma non toccatele
1959
7.5An Italian clerk has been helped to his position by a fake kickback letter from a politician who, meanwhile has become a state secretary. His colleagues thus send him to Rome to settle an important matter with the powerful character. The poor fellow goes hoping the truth will not come out.
Il raccomandato di ferro
1959