ABOUT THIS FILM
Synopsis | Cast Biogs | Director's Biog
Synopsis | Cast Biogs | Director's Biog
CAST BIOGS
ELIO GERMANO (Accio)
Elio Germano was born in Rome in September 1980. He started taking
theatre courses when he was very young. He has always liked to act but
also enjoys writing stories too, some of which have been published. He
likes rap and hip hop and plays music with a group called “Bestie Rare”.
He speaks English and Spanish.
His debut as a lead actor was in the film Il Cielo In Una Stanza, directed by Carlo Vanzina. His subsequent films include Ettore Scola’s Concorrenza Sleale, Emanuele Crialese’s Respiro, Quo Vadis Baby directed by Gabriele Salvatores, and Michele Placido’s Romanzo Criminale.
Other credits include Liberi by Tavarelli, Sangue Libero De Rienzo, Melissa P by Luca Guadagnino, Do You Like Hitchcock? by Dario Argento. He received two ’Best Supporting Actor’ nominations (one for a Nastro d’Argento, the one for the David di Donatello Award) for What Will Happen To Us?? by Veronesi, in 2004.
More recently he co-stared with Daniel Auteuil in Napolèon, directed by Paolo Virzì, and won a Best actor David, a Ciak d’Oro, a Golden Globe and was nominated as Best European Actor 2007 for his role in My Brother is An Only Child.
He recently completed IIl Mattino Ha L’oro in Bocca by Francesco Paterno and Ill Passato è Una Terra Straniera directed by Daniele Vicari. In February 2008 he will start the new film by Gabriele Salvatores, Come Dio Comanda, from the book of Niccolò Ammaniti.
Elio likes to be part of the creative process and feels he is like an instrument playing in accordance with the director.
FIILMOGRAPHY
2007 Mio fratello è figlio unico by Daniele Luchetti
Nessuna qualità agli eroi by Paolo Franchi
2006 Sangue by Libero Di Rienzo N (Io e Napoleone) by Paolo Virzì
2005 Melissa P. by Luca Guadagnino
Maryby Abel Ferrara
Quo vadis baby? by Gabriele Salvatores
Romanzo Criminale by Michele Placido
2003 Che ne sarà di noi? by Giovanni Veronesi
2002 Ora o mai più by Lucio Pellegrini
Liberi by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli
2001 Respiro by Emanuele Crialese
Ultimo stadio by Ivano De Matteo
2000 Concorrenza sleale by Ettore Scola
1999 Il cielo in una stanza by Enrico and Carlo Vanzina
RICCARDO SCAMARICO (Manrico)
Actor Riccardo Scamarcio could well be described as Italy’s answer to
Leonardio di Caprio. The 27year-old who has been making films for just
five years, has provoked gushing media attention, inspired hordes of
female fans and, perhaps most importantly, helped to reignite the local box office.
Born in Trani, Italy in November 1979, son of a painter he moved to Rome at the early age of 16 and studied acting at the Rossellini-founded Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. His career started on the Italian TV series Compagni di Scuola. However his real debut on the big screen was in the film by Mario Tullio Giordana The Best of Youth (2003). His breakout role was in 2004 teen hit Three Steps Over Heaven which lead to the sequel I Want You, for which he was awarded the Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe for Best Upcoming Actor. He starred in the Italian box-office hit Romanzo Criminale directed by Michele Placido (2005), Manuaale d'Amore 2 by Giovanni Veronesi (2007) and Go Go Tales by Abel Ferrara (2007).
Already an international rising star Riccardo Scamarcio is in pre production of his lead role in the new Costa-Gravas film Eden is West. He is also already slated for Ferrara’s next project, a noir film based on the best-selling book Pericles The Black Man by Giuseppe Ferrandino and has recently completed the thriller Colop D'Occchio by Sergio Rubini where he plays the central protagonist, an artist.
FIILMOGRAPHY
2007 Mio fratello è figlio unicoby Daniele Luchetti
Ho voglia di teby Luis Prieto
Go go tales by Abel Ferrara
Manuale d’ amore 2by Giovanni Veronesi
2005 Texas by Fausto Paravidino
Romanzo Criminale by Michele Placido L’uomo perfettoby Luca Lucini
2003 Tre metri sopra il cieloby Luca Lucini
Il motore del mondo by Lorenzo Cicconi Massi
2002 Ora o mai piùby Lucio Pellegrini
La meglio gioventùby Marco Tullio Giordana
ELIO GERMANO (Accio)
Elio Germano was born in Rome in September 1980. He started taking
theatre courses when he was very young. He has always liked to act but
also enjoys writing stories too, some of which have been published. He
likes rap and hip hop and plays music with a group called “Bestie Rare”.
He speaks English and Spanish. His debut as a lead actor was in the film Il Cielo In Una Stanza, directed by Carlo Vanzina. His subsequent films include Ettore Scola’s Concorrenza Sleale, Emanuele Crialese’s Respiro, Quo Vadis Baby directed by Gabriele Salvatores, and Michele Placido’s Romanzo Criminale.
Other credits include Liberi by Tavarelli, Sangue Libero De Rienzo, Melissa P by Luca Guadagnino, Do You Like Hitchcock? by Dario Argento. He received two ’Best Supporting Actor’ nominations (one for a Nastro d’Argento, the one for the David di Donatello Award) for What Will Happen To Us?? by Veronesi, in 2004.
More recently he co-stared with Daniel Auteuil in Napolèon, directed by Paolo Virzì, and won a Best actor David, a Ciak d’Oro, a Golden Globe and was nominated as Best European Actor 2007 for his role in My Brother is An Only Child.
He recently completed IIl Mattino Ha L’oro in Bocca by Francesco Paterno and Ill Passato è Una Terra Straniera directed by Daniele Vicari. In February 2008 he will start the new film by Gabriele Salvatores, Come Dio Comanda, from the book of Niccolò Ammaniti.
Elio likes to be part of the creative process and feels he is like an instrument playing in accordance with the director.
FIILMOGRAPHY
2007 Mio fratello è figlio unico by Daniele Luchetti
Nessuna qualità agli eroi by Paolo Franchi
2006 Sangue by Libero Di Rienzo N (Io e Napoleone) by Paolo Virzì
2005 Melissa P. by Luca Guadagnino
Maryby Abel Ferrara
Quo vadis baby? by Gabriele Salvatores
Romanzo Criminale by Michele Placido
2003 Che ne sarà di noi? by Giovanni Veronesi
2002 Ora o mai più by Lucio Pellegrini
Liberi by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli
2001 Respiro by Emanuele Crialese
Ultimo stadio by Ivano De Matteo
2000 Concorrenza sleale by Ettore Scola
1999 Il cielo in una stanza by Enrico and Carlo Vanzina
RICCARDO SCAMARICO (Manrico)
Actor Riccardo Scamarcio could well be described as Italy’s answer to
Leonardio di Caprio. The 27year-old who has been making films for just
five years, has provoked gushing media attention, inspired hordes of
female fans and, perhaps most importantly, helped to reignite the local box office. Born in Trani, Italy in November 1979, son of a painter he moved to Rome at the early age of 16 and studied acting at the Rossellini-founded Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. His career started on the Italian TV series Compagni di Scuola. However his real debut on the big screen was in the film by Mario Tullio Giordana The Best of Youth (2003). His breakout role was in 2004 teen hit Three Steps Over Heaven which lead to the sequel I Want You, for which he was awarded the Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe for Best Upcoming Actor. He starred in the Italian box-office hit Romanzo Criminale directed by Michele Placido (2005), Manuaale d'Amore 2 by Giovanni Veronesi (2007) and Go Go Tales by Abel Ferrara (2007).
Already an international rising star Riccardo Scamarcio is in pre production of his lead role in the new Costa-Gravas film Eden is West. He is also already slated for Ferrara’s next project, a noir film based on the best-selling book Pericles The Black Man by Giuseppe Ferrandino and has recently completed the thriller Colop D'Occchio by Sergio Rubini where he plays the central protagonist, an artist.
FIILMOGRAPHY
2007 Mio fratello è figlio unicoby Daniele Luchetti
Ho voglia di teby Luis Prieto
Go go tales by Abel Ferrara
Manuale d’ amore 2by Giovanni Veronesi
2005 Texas by Fausto Paravidino
Romanzo Criminale by Michele Placido L’uomo perfettoby Luca Lucini
2003 Tre metri sopra il cieloby Luca Lucini
Il motore del mondo by Lorenzo Cicconi Massi
2002 Ora o mai piùby Lucio Pellegrini
La meglio gioventùby Marco Tullio Giordana
