Domenico Starnone (Writer)

Trust

Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illicit and tempestuous. After one fight, Teresa suggests that each tell the other a secret, one so shameful or shocking that were it to be made public, it would destroy that person’s life. Time passes, Pietro’s stature as a writer grows and his family settles into the comfort of a bourgeois life. But he is haunted by the possibility that Teresa may one day reappear and tear apart his world with the secret she knows.

Release Date: 2024-04-24

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 126

The Ties

Naples, early 1980s. The strained marriage between Aldo and Vanda is fractured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, his infidelity. Equally hurt and bewildered, Vanda attempts to hide her pain from the couple's two school-age kids, lest they discover that their cramped apartment is not a home of trust and love. 30 years later, Aldo and Vanda are still tied together, but their relationship with each other and their children continues to be defined by what happened all those years ago.

Release Date: 2020-10-01

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 169

Autobiografia erotica

Aristide and Mariella see each other again after 20 years in an apartment in Rome. They're not friends, rather two strangers that met once for a few hours and had a rushed sexual encounter. They start a game in which they relive and analyze their first encounter, comparing two very different sexual experiences, searching for common ground.

Release Date: 2018-04-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Fuoriclasse

Fuoriclasse is an Italian television series, directed by Riccardo Donna, filmed in 2011, starring Luciana Littizzetto, based on the books by Domenico Starnone. The synopsis of the miniseries is similar to the story of the film La scuola, scripted always by Starnone.

Release Date: 2011-01-23

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 5

The Cézanne Affair

Gabriele returns home in southern Italy to bid farewell to his father Ernesto, a former stationmaster in a small town not far from Bari. The old man reawakens in Gabriele memories of his childhood, of his loving mother, his uncle, his friends... but also of his father's rage and bitterness over his failure in achieving his artistic ambitions: Ernesto was convinced he was destined to be a famous painter, and was willing to sacrifice everything for this belief, even his own dignity – and this made his son swear that he wouldn't turn out like him. Only now, many years later, through chance and circumstances, Gabriele begins to understand Ernesto and to see what sort of person his father really was.

Release Date: 2009-12-03

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 11

Signorina Effe

A white and a blue collar worker fall in love during the 1980 strike at FIAT that marked the end for labor movement in Italy.

Release Date: 2008-01-18

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 7

Corleone

The story of Salvatore Riina, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily.

Release Date: 2007-10-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 64

La febbre

Release Date: 2005-03-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 27

Wherever You Are

A doctor's life takes a mysterious turn when his ambulance plunges into a river.

Release Date: 2004-10-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 16

Love Returns

Luca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets extremely sick and, while at the hospital, rethinks his life.

Release Date: 2004-04-19

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 12

Il posto dell'anima

Three workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company owner of the factory who wants to close the Italian branch in which they work.

Release Date: 2003-05-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 9

Soul Mate

In a small Southern Italian village, young Tonino is engaged to Teresa, but secretly loves her cousin Maddalena—who reciprocates. After discovering it, Teresa seeks revenge and vows to divide them.

Release Date: 2002-09-07

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 31

My Name Is Tanino

During a sunny Sicilian summer Tanino has a sweet and tender story with Sally, a young American tourist. But when summer is over, Sally flies back to the States forgetting Tanino and her camera. He instead cannot forget the girl and he decides to go to the States with the excuse of bringing back her the camera and to see the dreamland of any Sicilian. Tanino will discover that dreams don't always match with reality...

Release Date: 2002-09-05

Character: Professore

Vote Count: 191

Teeth

Antonio is a man born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth made him an outcast as a child and as man he has become obsessive and controlling in his relationships with women. Convinced that his girlfriend cheated on him (with her dentist, ça va sans dire), Antonio insults her in a fit of anger and in the fight she breaks off one of his teeth. Antonio now must travel across the country, going from dentist to dentist in search of someone who can make a crown that will suit his extra-large smile.

Release Date: 2000-10-13

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 46

Tutto l'amore che c'è

The story takes place in an unspecified town in Apulia. We are in the '70s. The arrival of three beautiful and uninhibited girls from the North, the daughters of an engineer who has moved to run a factory, brings the turmoil amongst the young people of the town. Stories of love, betrayals, state money (stolen) and broken promises intertwine. All through the eyes of Carlo (alter ego of the director Sergio Rubini), the youngest.

Release Date: 2000-03-24

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 26

La guerra degli Antò

The story of four implausible young rebellious in the Italy of the 90's.

Release Date: 1999-10-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 30

Del perduto amore

Release Date: 1998-09-18

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 4

I piccoli maestri

During the 20 months before Italy's liberation from Fascism, a group of university students trade empty rhetoric for action by joining the Partisans into the mountains of Nazi-occupied northern Italy. There, group leader Gigi falls in love with his best friend's girl. As the Resistance struggle continues, some of the "little teachers" are killed, and the brutal reality of war leaves its mark on their youthful idealism.

Release Date: 1998-09-05

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 19

Auguri professore

Professor Lipari teaches in a public school and is in a full-on existential crisis. He has no faith in himself and in the possibility of changing the world for the better. At school, a former student of his who is also a teacher will change his attitude.

Release Date: 1997-12-19

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 51

La scuola

In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.

Release Date: 1995-04-06

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 114