Lodovico Gasparini (Directing)
Little is known about Lodovico Gasparini, a figure with a modest footprint in Directing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Luisa Spagnoli
This is a true story of Luisa Spagnoli who was an Italian businesswoman, famous for creating a women's fashion store and the chocolate brand, Perugia. The show is a romantic telling of her life. Considering that women were not involved in business, it is an amazing story of someone way ahead of her time.
Release Date:2016-02-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:20
Trilussa - Storia d'amore e di poesia
Biographical movie on the life of Trilussa, aka Carlo Alberto Camillo Mariano Salustri. Italian poet, writer and journalist known for this works in Romanesco dialect.
Release Date:2013-03-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
Sarò sempre tuo padre
Release Date:2011-05-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
La leggenda del bandito e del campione
This is the story of two poor, hungry young people, as well as their desire for social reward in Italy in the early twentieth century. This is the story of the passion for the cycling that joined them, and the adventurous events that shared them forever. The two boys were called Constant Girardengo and Sante Pollastri. But for all, they were the "Campionissimo" and "Bandito Numero 1".
Release Date:2010-10-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:5
La leggenda del bandito e del campione
Release Date:2010-10-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Miacarabefana.it
Beniamina is a grandniece of a past Befana so decide to take part of the selection to become a Befana herself and when she succedes she has to bring gifts to kids in the night of 6th January becoming invisible to adults.
Release Date:2009-01-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:8
Il padre delle spose
Riccardo, a southern man of solid principles and good feelings, decides to go and visit his daughter Aurora, who has been living in Barcelona for some time. There, however, a surprise awaits him: Aurora has married a woman. Indignant, Riccardo hastily returns to Italy, determined never to see her again. But perhaps destiny has decided otherwise.
Release Date:2006-11-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:9
La signora delle Camelie
Release Date:2005-11-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1
Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
Piedmont (Italy), nineteenth century. In Turin, the priest Don Bosco, a man from a humble farming family, he gave himself totally and passionately to the task of collecting from the streets to marginalized children and care for them. Not only out of poverty, ignorance and social distress, but it got for the first time, to feel loved. He fought with extraordinary faith and tenacity to overcome obstacles and snares that both the civilian and ecclesiastical authorities, they put in their path to prevent him from completing his goal: the founding of the Congregation of the Salesians, which would guarantee the future of their children .
Release Date:2004-09-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:23
Soraya
Biopic of Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, the second wife of the last Shah of Iran, who was overthrown in the 1979's Islamic Revolution.
Release Date:2003-10-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
La guerra è finita
Release Date:2002-05-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:7
Lourdes
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.
Release Date:2000-05-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
Father Matteo
Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.
Release Date:2000-01-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:65
Trenta Righe per un Delitto: Il Serial Killer dei Metronotte
A night watchman is killed and the newspaper La Provincia tries to build a scoop, pretending there is a serial killer behind it. However, someone tries to take advantage of it and within a short time the murders of other security guards follow one another. Walter, at odds with the editorial line, decides to investigate.
Release Date:1998-03-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Trenta Righe per un Delitto: La Bambola Sull'Asfalto
A hit-and-run driver hits and kills a little girl in Pontevico. The latter's father, a long-time friend of Walter, asks the reporter to investigate the matter, before dying by suicide. Walter, not believing in this hypothesis, throws himself headlong into the search for the truth. Meanwhile, the return of the charming Candy provokes the jealousy of Federica who decides to resign from the newspaper and leave for Milan.
Release Date:1998-03-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Trenta Righe per un Delitto: La Donna Giusta
Walter investigates the death of a wealthy local businessman. The main suspect in the crime is his wife Clea, beneficiary of the life insurance, who asks the reporter for help. The widow's charm triggers the jealousy of her colleague Federica, in love with Walter, and puts the latter's lucidity to the test.
Release Date:1998-03-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Trenta Righe per un Delitto: La Lista dei Partenti
Walter Cherubini, reporter for the newspaper La Provincia di Parma, is transferred to crime news due to a dispute with the editor. Despite his inexperience in the field, he will soon find himself dealing with the case of an honorable man's suicide. The man, with the help of Candy, a journalist from a local broadcaster, discovers that the solution to the mystery lies behind a recent trip made by the politician and other fellow citizens to Cuba.
Release Date:1998-03-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Trenta righe per un delitto
Release Date:1998-03-10
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Il maresciallo Rocca
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).
Release Date:1996-01-16
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:30
Vote Count:6
Italian Fast Food
The Film centers around an American-style fast food restaurant in Milan, the employees who work there and the clients that frequent the place.
Release Date:1986-11-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
No Thanks, Coffee Makes Me Nervous
A mysterious killer eliminate the singers of a brand new music Festival in Naples. Some journalists will try to discover who is that murderer who seems to be obsessed by the song "Funiculi, Funicula".
Release Date:1982-11-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:59
The Skin
Based on the memoirs of author Curzio Malaparte, diplomatic liaison between the Allied and Italian forces after the defeat of the Nazis in Italy, The Skin follows the collapse of Italian society under the US occupation and the desperate measures required for survival.
Release Date:1981-08-27
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Vote Count:39
Arrivano i gatti
Four young comedians from Verona ('I Gatti di Vicolo Miracoli') go to Rome trying to achieve big success on cinema or TV.
Release Date:1980-02-13
Department:Directing
Job:First Assistant Director
Vote Count:12
Figlio delle stelle
Daniel, a young singer, tries to break into the world of music, but falls into a depressive crisis from which it only comes out thanks to a girl, Elisa, who has fallen in love with him.
Release Date:1979-06-14
Department:Directing
Job:First Assistant Director
Vote Count:1
Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra
Three short stories full of absurd Italian humor. Episode 1: Oddjobs man Elia is hired to be a waiter and soon finds himself caught up in a plot to knock off his mistress (in more ways than one). Episode 2: Della is convinced that aliens are on their way to consume the world and before long ends up a guinea pig on a spaceship from the planet Phobos. Episode 3: Roberto becomes a Bersaglieri in the Italian army and nearly causes a war between Italy and Switzerland over a packet of cigarettes.
Release Date:1978-09-21
Department:Directing
Job:First Assistant Director
Vote Count:30
Double Murder
Detective Baldassarre spends his forced exile sorting criminal records. He gets a chance to return to the line of fire when two people, an aristocrat and a worker are struck by lightning inside a fancy mansion. The incident would be relegated to freak accidents, but Baldassare's attention is drawn to the strangeness of the events and he begins to investigate.
Release Date:1977-12-23
Department:Directing
Job:First Assistant Director
Vote Count:2
Horse Fever
Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.
Release Date:1976-10-29
Department:Directing
Job:First Assistant Director
Vote Count:364
Oggi ho vinto anch'io
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Dear Michele
Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael’s girlfriend Mara, the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael’s increasingly conventional friends and family that she survives.
Release Date:1976-10-01
Department:Directing
Job:Script Supervisor
Vote Count:12
The Boss and the Worker
Social/sexual farce focusing on a boss and his workers in a faucet factory.
Release Date:1975-12-20
Department:Directing
Job:Script Supervisor
Vote Count:6
Flatfoot in Hong Kong
Inspector Rizzo is accused of drug trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrated his police department.
Release Date:1975-03-28
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Vote Count:136
Gun Moll
A happy-go-lucky prostitute gets mixed up with the Mafia.
Release Date:1975-01-21
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Vote Count:12
Policewoman
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.
Release Date:1974-10-24
Department:Directing
Job:Script Supervisor
Vote Count:20