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Adriano Giannini

Actor
Adriano Giannini is an Italian actor who has secured a firm place in European cinema with his striking roles in film and television. He combines physical presence with controlled emotionality and moves confidently between arthouse cinema and internationally oriented productions. His characters often work with subtle tensions, glances, and precise gestures—a style that works well in both character dramas and genre-heavy material. A key point in his filmography is THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE (2004, directed by Paolo Sorrentino; original title: Le conseguenze dell'amore). This cool, highly concentrated drama was screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and exemplifies Giannini's ability to reveal nuances in complex character constellations. The accurate casting and production data are documented in several reputable sources and attest to his contribution to the ensemble.

Films

The Consequences of Love

The Consequences of Love

By Paolo Sorrentino

2004 | 100 min | Crime

When the introverted Titta falls in love with the young bartender Sofia, his unfamiliar feelings have consequences that go far beyond their own fates.

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Mein

2009 | 104 min | Crime

Maggie(21) and Klaus(41) are on holiday. When Maggie shows interest in another man, the balance of power between the couple shifts. MEIN is an intense thriller directed by and starring Detlef Bothe, who plays a fortysomething man. He is on the road camping with a much younger woman. They seem to be a couple, but something darker lies at the core of their relationship. “Sharp as a knife and exciting.” (Der Tagesspiegel)

I Was a Swiss Banker

I Was a Swiss Banker

2007 | 75 min | Romance

A man known only as a banker moves along the river Limmat in Zurich, drifting through the city and encountering a series of women. Each meeting takes on a different tone — sometimes seductive, sometimes enigmatic — gradually dissolving any clear distinction between reality, memory and imagination. As the journey unfolds, the encounters begin to feel less like chance meetings and more like fragments of a larger, elusive narrative. The river becomes a space of transition, where identities shift and ...

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Lovers

2019 | 78 min | Drama

Two performance artists are trying to celebrate the last 24 hours of their relationship. After their breakup, performance artists Greta and Rodi decide to spend another 24 hours together to bring their relationship to a dignified end. But their intended farewell gets mixed up with a last joint art project and things progressively get out of hand. The story begins where others end. After breaking up, a young couple decides to spend 24 hours together so they can say goodbye in style. However, this ...

On The Edge

On The Edge

2013 | 91 min | Romance

Felix is on the edge. He has got just one thing on his mind: Valerie - his wife, who has recently left him. He returns to the place of their final break-up. Valerie's ex-lover Thomas is also here, but not for sentimental reasons. By chance the two men meet in a restaurant. By chance Felix discovers who he is facing. And then starts the inscrutable game.

Love and 50 Megatons

Love and 50 Megatons

2020 | 44 min | Romance

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It Happened Just Before

It Happened Just Before

2006 | 72 min | Crime

The documentary deals with the global phenomenon of human trafficking. The stories of affected women are told by people who have no actual connection to the facts, but could have. Director Anja Salomonowitz chooses an original approach to her topic. The film is based on real stories of trafficked women, which the director has condensed into a documentary screenplay. Thus, the films constantly finds new connections between the narrative logic of cinematographic fiction, the “what could happen” and ...

Cure - The Life of Another

Cure - The Life of Another

2014 | 83 min | Drama

After playing a sexually charged game with her best friend, below the cliffs of Dubrovnik, a teenage girl doesn't return home. Dubrovnik, 1993, after the end of the Balkan War: Linda returns to Croatia with her father. Her new best friend Eta takes her to a forest above the city. Linda and Eta, two 14-year-old girls and best friends, retreat to a beach below the cliffs of Dubrovnik; the next morning, only one of them returns. They become obsessed with a sexually charged game of identity swapping. ...

Deadlock

Deadlock

1970 | 89 min | Timeless

After a bank robbery, the Bandit Kid is stranded in a Mexican Sierra ghost town named Deadlock. The only inhabitants are Charles Dump and his daughter Jessy. Dump tries to steal the bandit's loot. Klick's psychedelic manhunt in no man's land is acoustically and visually captivating and dramaturgically consistent to the end. Mario Adorf, Anthony Dawson, Marquard Bohm prowl around their prey like cats on the hunt to the soundtrack of Krautrock band CAN. "Finally a film that ticks all the boxes ...

I Do Adore (Ich Begehre)

I Do Adore (Ich Begehre)

2007 | 76 min | Independent

I DO ADORE is an experimental film full of mystery, poetic beauty, moving music, and raw energy that strives to create pure cinematic experience. Slowly the two strangers get closer to each other. There's a hold up, an assault, and the man finds himself abandoned in a deserted area. Alone, he stumbles into a bizarre, once civilized landscape and has a recollection of a ménage à trois involving another woman (Viviane Bartsch) and a man (Tamer Yigit). His odyssey slowly evolves into a nightmarish ...

That Most Important Thing: Love

That Most Important Thing: Love

1975 | 109 min | Timeless

The photographer Servais (Fabio Testi) falls in love with the unsuccessful but married actress Nadine Chevalier (Romy Schneider). Her mentally unstable husband Jacques (Jacques Dutronc) initially pretends to like the young and attractive photographer himself and to want to be friends with him. In order to be able to see Nadine more often, Servais secretly finances a play by the eccentric director Messala. In return, he demands that Nadine gets the leading role in the play. But the premiere is a ...