Stefano Rulli (Writing)
Little is known about Stefano Rulli, a figure with a modest footprint in Writing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
La casa degli sguardi
Release Date:2025-04-10
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
The Young Pope
Lenny Belardo, the youngest and first American Pope in the history of the Church, must establish his new papacy and navigate the power struggles of the closed, secretive Vatican.
Release Date:2016-10-21
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:561
Suburra
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
Release Date:2015-10-14
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1266
L'Oriana
Release Date:2015-02-16
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
L'Oriana
The life of Italian journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci.
Release Date:2015-02-03
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:18
Those Happy Years
A narcissistic artist's world turns upside down after his wife's affair and a disastrous exhibition of his work.
Release Date:2013-10-03
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:67
Siberian Education
The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour of the ‘honest criminal’ brotherhood.
Release Date:2013-02-27
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:537
Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno
A movie about Domenico Modugno, famous singer.
Release Date:2013-02-18
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:31
Dormant Beauty
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
Release Date:2012-09-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:68
Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.
Release Date:2012-03-30
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:229
Longlasting Youth
Release Date:2010-12-13
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:3
Our Life
Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life.
Release Date:2010-05-21
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:132
What Do You Know About Me
Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. But what are the true causes and circumstances of this decline? In an attempt to provide an answer to this question, Di Me Cosa Ne Sai strives to depict this great cultural change. Begun as a loving examination of Italian cinema, the film transformed into a docu-drama that alternates between interviews with the great names of the past and fragments of cultural and political life of the last 30 years. It is a travel diary that shows Italy from north to south, through movie theatres; television-addicted kids; Berlusconi and Fellini; shopping centers; TV news editors; stories of impassioned film exhibitors and directors who fight for their films; and interviews with itinerant projectionists and great European directors.
Release Date:2009-10-16
Character:Self
Vote Count:2
Anti-Mafia Squad
Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.
Release Date:2009-03-31
Department:Writing
Job:Story Editor
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:13
'O professore
The story of Pietro Filodomini, professor of Italian in a middle school in the Sanità district of Naples, who tries to offer with books an alternative to life on the street and a possibility for the future.
Release Date:2008-09-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:2
My Brother Is an Only Child
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents' chagrin. After the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite, but his flimsy beliefs are put to test when he falls for Manrico's like-minded girlfriend.
Release Date:2007-03-28
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:398
Nassiryia - Per non dimenticare
November 12, 2003. A terrorist attack kills 24 Italian soldiers deployed in Nasiriyah, Iraq for a peace-keeping mission as part of "Operation Ancient Babylon".
Release Date:2007-03-12
Department:Writing
Job:Story Editor
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:10
Cefalonia
Cefalonia tells the real story about what happened in September 1943 on the Greek island of Kefalonia (Cefalonia in Italian), when the 12,000 men in the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division, following Italy's surrender to the Allied, refused to put themselves under German command and also refused to surrender their weapons. The local German force, supported by Stuka dive-bombers and additional troops, attacked the Italians and after several days of combat the Italians surrendered, having lost 1,300 men. As punishment, the German High Command ordered that all surviving Italians should be executed. Some 5,000 were executed during a week of killings. A handful were rescued by locals and the Greek guerrilla, while the rest were shipped off as prisoners, whereof 3,000 drowned when their ships hit mines. The film "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" is based on a novel about the Italian occupation of Cefalonia, but the massacre was much toned down in the Hollywood version.
Release Date:2005-10-29
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:10
Romanzo Criminale
After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio the most powerful gangsters in Rome. Libano loves their new status, and seeks to spread their influence throughout the underworld, while the other two pursue more fleshly desires. For decades, their gang perpetrates extravagant crimes, until paranoia threatens to split the friends apart.
Release Date:2005-09-30
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:656
Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide
The life of a Northern Italian middle-class family is turned upside down after their 12-year-old son falls overboard during a sea trip, only to be picked up by a boat of illegal immigrants.
Release Date:2005-05-13
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:28
Cefalonia
Release Date:2005-04-11
Department:Writing
Job:Storyboard
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:2
Un silenzio particolare
A Donatello award nominated documentary following the life of an autistic boy and his family.
Release Date:2005-02-09
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Character:
Vote Count:3
The Keys to the House
Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Release Date:2004-09-10
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:80
The Best of Youth
A family saga set in Italy which chronicles the life of a middle-class family. It explores the relationship between two brothers Nicola and Matteo as their life paths separate during youth, encompassing major political and social events in post–World War II Italian history.
Release Date:2003-12-07
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:18
Doppio agguato
Italy, 1989. After a prominent coffee industrialist is kidnapped by elusive Sardinian bandits, authorities turn to NOCS (Central Security Operative Unit) commander Valerio Attico, who hastily assembles a task force made of rookies. Based on the true story of the Dante Belardinelli kidnapping.
Release Date:2003-10-05
Department:Writing
Job:Story Editor
Vote Count:4
The Best of Youth
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
Release Date:2003-06-22
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:547
Il sequestro Soffiantini
In 1997, a group of bandits kidnaps businessman Giuseppe Soffiantini, keeping him imprisoned for 237 days in their hideout in the mountains of Sardinia.
Release Date:2002-01-30
Department:Writing
Job:Story Editor
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1
Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man
The true story of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian cattle dealer and avowed fascist who — trapped in Nazi-occupied Budapest after Italy's armistice with the Allies — nevertheless saved more than 5,000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust through a combination of lies, bribery and derring-do.
Release Date:2002-01-28
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:2
Uno bianca
Uno bianca thriller
Release Date:2001-02-05
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1
Girotondo: Giro Attorno al Mondo
Angelo is an orphan who grew up with a nomad woman. He reacts to his pain over the death of his best friend for overdose, thanks to the encounter with Serena. She survives being a prostitute, but she has not lost hope. Angelo moves along an axis of characters in a desolate and poetic day without end.
Release Date:1999-01-01
Department:Crew
Job:Thanks
Vote Count:10
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:Screenplay
Vote Count:49
Don Milani - Il priore di Barbiana
Release Date:1997-12-02
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:14
The Truce
After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.
Release Date:1997-02-14
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:74
Vesna Goes Fast
Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation.
Release Date:1996-09-04
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:29
Who Killed Pasolini?
November 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered in the outskirts of Rome. The suspect, a 17-year-old hustler, pleads to have acted in self-defense, citing Pasolini's notorious sexual habits as proof. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also killed for another reason?
Release Date:1995-09-03
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:48
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:Story
Vote Count:110
The Only Country In The World
Anthology short film with segments by nine directors against Silvio Berlusconi and its Forza Italia party — released ahead of the 1994 Italian general elections, which Berlusconi nevertheless won in a landslide. In Nanni Moretti's segment, he and Silvio Orlando reprise their roles from The Yes Man (1991).
Release Date:1994-12-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Il toro
After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former employer and smuggles it to Hungary, planning to sell it for a large sum of money.
Release Date:1994-09-30
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:36
Arriva la bufera
Depressed magistrate Damiano Fortezza relocates from Milan to a small town in Campania, where the three Fontana sisters, owners of a chain of incinerators, dominate. The youngest, Eugenia, is about to marry a well-known crook Fortezza has to prosecute. However, he ends up falling in love with Eugenia and questioning the priorities of his job.
Release Date:1993-03-25
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:13
The Invisible Wall
June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on board. The official version blames the "structural failure" of the plane, but a young journalist smells a cover-up and starts to uncover the truth out of the 'invisible wall' of lies built by politicians and air force higher-ups.
Release Date:1991-09-13
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:45
The Yes Man
Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.
Release Date:1991-04-05
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:57
Tomato
Kwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nicknamed Pummarò.) This one is a tomato picker in the Naples region and works in extreme conditions to be able to pay his brother's studies. But to Kwaku's dismay, Job has disappeared. The young student then decides to do everything he can to trace missing Pummarò.
Release Date:1990-03-25
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:2
Mary Forever
A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamoured of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?
Release Date:1989-05-04
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:230
Una vittoria (TV)
Release Date:1988-02-07
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
The Ferrywoman
Giulì is a traveling puppeteer who meets Viola, a young ferrywoman who transports passengers on a raft. Giulì's desire is to have a child, so he builds one out of wood. One morning, in place of the puppet , he finds a child of flesh and blood.
Release Date:1986-04-09
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
The Cinema Machine
Directed by a group of avant-garde filmmakers, the film is an investigation of the less edifying aspects of film industry.
Release Date:1979-10-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
In the Highest of Skies
A group of pilgrims in the Vatican is trapped in an enclosed elevator. Then chaos erupts, and repressed urges come to the surface.
Release Date:1977-09-23
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:10
The Seagull
A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force of character.
Release Date:1977-07-02
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:8
Fit to Be Untied
This documentary was distilled from a 3 1/2-hour television film Nessuno o Tutti, to make the point that many inmates now in mental hospitals could be released without harm to society, and to their advantage.
Release Date:1975-01-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Himself (uncredited)
Vote Count:6
Almost America
Antonia travels with her children and sister from Italy to Canada to reunite with her husband Vincenzo. But when Antonia discovers Vincenzo has been seeing another woman, she begins live as a signle mother.
Department:Writing
Job:Writer