Francesco Nuti is an Italian actor, film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

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Biography

Born in Prato, Nuti began his professional career as an actor in the late 1970s, when he formed the cabaret group Giancattivi together with Alessandro Benvenuti and Athina Cenci. The group took part in the TV shows Black Out and Non Stop for RAI TV, and shot their first movie, Ad ovest di Paperino (1981), under Benvenuti's direction,

The following year Nuti abandoned the trio and began a solo career with three movies directed by Maurizio Ponzi

Maurizio Ponzi

Maurizio Ponzi is an Italian film director, screenwriter and cinema critic.Born in Rome, he wrote cinema reviews in several Italian magazines during the early 1960s...

: Madonna, che silenzio c'è stasera (1982), Io, Chiara e lo Scuro and Son contento (1983). Starting in 1985, he began to direct his movies, scoring an immediate success with the films Casablanca, Casablanca  and Tutta colpa del Paradiso (1985), Stregati (1987), Caruso Pascoski di padre polacco (1988), Willy Signori e vengo da lontano 1990 and Donne con le gonne (1991). In 1988 he also participated to the Sanremo Festival with the song "Sarà per te", later recorded by Mina

Mina (singer)

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. In 1992 he sang with Mietta

Mietta

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 in "Lasciamoci respirare", written by singer-songwriter Biagio Antonacci

Biagio Antonacci

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The 1990s were however a period of decline for the Tuscan director, with poorly successful movies such as Occhio Pinocchio (1994), Il signor Quindicipalle (1998), Io amo Andrea (2000) and Caruso, zero in condotta (2001). In the following years Nuti also started to suffer from depression and alcoholism

Alcoholism

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. Just before returning to direct a movie (Olga e i fratellastri Billi), on 2 September 2006 he was admitted to the hospital Policlinico Umberto I

Policlinico Umberto I

Located in the Quartiere San Lorenzo, the Policlinico Umberto I of Rome is the polyclinic of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the Sapienza Università di Roma...

 in Rome, after a severe fall.

In 2008 http://quotidianonet.ilsole24ore.com/gossip/2008/06/10/95969-francesco_nuti_felice_essere_tornato_vivere.shtml, it was reported that Nuti got out from the hospital and is rehabilitating his walking capacities.

Selected filmography

• Tutta colpa del paradiso (1985)
• Casablanca, Casablanca (1985)
• Stregati (1987)
• Caruso Pascoski di padre polacco (1988)
• Willy Signori e vengo da lontano (1990)
• Donne con le gonne (1991)
• Occhio Pinocchio (1994)
• Il Signor Quindicipalle (1998)
• Io amo Andrea (2000)
• Caruso, zero in condotta (2001)

Screenwriter

• Madonna che silenzio c'è stasera (1982)
• Io, Chiara e lo scuro (1982)
• Son contento (1983)
• Casablanca, Casablanca (1985)
• Tutta colpa del paradiso (1985)
• Stregati (1987)
• Caruso Pascoski di padre polacco (1988)
• Willy Signori e vengo da lontano (1990)
• Donne con le gonne (1991)
• OcchioPinocchio (1994)
• Il Signor Quindicipalle (1998)
• Io amo Andrea (2000)
• Caruso, zero in condotta (2001)

Actor

• Ad ovest di Paperino (1982)
• Madonna che silenzio c'è stasera (1982)
• Io, Chiara e lo scuro (1982)
• Son contento (1983)
• Sogni e Bisogni (1984, TV)
• Casablanca, Casablanca (1985)
• Tutta colpa del paradiso (1985)
• Stregati (1987)
• Caruso Pascoski di padre polacco (1988)
• Willy Signori e vengo da lontano (1990)
• Donne con le gonne (1991)
• OcchioPinocchio (1994)
• Il Signor Quindicipalle (1998)
• Io amo Andrea (2000)
• Caruso, zero in condotta (2001)
• Concorso di colpa (2005)

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