Gianni Cavina

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Gianni Cavina (born December 9, 1940 in Bologna ) is an Italian actor and screenwriter .

Life

Cavina began his career at the “Teatro Stabile” in Bologna and then played under Franco Parenti and Franco Enriquez in Rome. With his fellow director Pupi Avati from Bologna , he made his breakthrough in film and television; Avati regularly used the massive Cavina, with strange facial features and ostensibly aggressive but ironic diction, in his films and television works, where he used reserved and slightly melancholy characters such as in Jazz Band , Cinema !!! and embodied Dancing Paradise . In the 1970s, Cavina was also involved in the scripts for these productions.

He rarely found similar potentials in the works of other directors; however, Paolo Cavara's Atsalút päder is an exception, in which Cavina interpreted the complicated figure of Father Lino da Parma. The television series about the Commissioner Sarti he portrayed was also successful.

Cavina's appearances have decreased quantitatively since the turn of the millennium, but mostly took place in high-quality films. His artistic connection to Pupi Avati still persists.

In 1997 Cavina received a Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Avatis Festival .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1968: Balsamus, l'uomo di Satana
  • 1969: Flashback
  • 1976: The great show-off (Le Grand escogriffe)
  • 1979: Atsalút päder
  • 1979: traffic jam (L'ingorgo)
  • 1980: The Diamond Tree (L'albero dei diamanti) (TV movie)
  • 1982: Mirandolina (La locandiera)
  • 1984: The three of us (Noi tre)
  • 1986: Christmas present (Regalo di natale)
  • 1988: Meeting point Trieste (Appuntamento a Trieste)
  • 1993: Inspector Sarti (L'ispettore Sarti) (six-part television series)
  • 1997: Festival
  • 2013: Un grande famiglia (TV miniseries)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi, Article Gianni Cavina , in: Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Andrea Orbicciani, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Rome, Gremese 1998, pp. 111/112
personal data
SURNAME Cavina, Gianni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna