Nico Cirasola
Nico Cirasola was an Italian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
Life and career
Born in Gravina in Puglia, a film buff since childhood, in 1982 Cirasola wrote the book Da Angelo Musco a Massimo Troisi - Il cinema comico meridionale. After directing the never completed Super 8 film Tuta blu, he made his official feature film debut in 1989 with the road movie Odore di pioggia, starring Renzo Arbore.Cirasola's films were all self-produced independent productions, always set in Apulia, and often characterized by satirical and political commitments. His works include Bell’Epoker, a satire about the 1991 Teatro Petruzzelli fire, Focaccia Blues, a documentary about a successful focaccia shop in Altamura which forced the local McDonald's shop to close due to lack of customers, and Rudy Valentino - Divo dei divi, a film starring Claudia Cardinale and Alessandro Haber about a little-known 1923 trip of Rudolph Valentino in his hometown. Cirasola was also active as a character actor.
Filmography
;As Actor- Smell of Rain
- Un altro giorno ancora, directed by Tonino Zangardi
- The Summer of Bobby Charlton, directed by Massimo Guglielmi
- My name is Nico Cirasola, directed by Giovanni Piperno, documentary
- Albania blues
- Sangue vivo, directed by Edoardo Winspeare
- Francesca and Nunziata, directed by Lina Wertmüller, TV movie
- Bell'epoker
- Mr. Gi Bi, short film
- If you are like this I say yes, directed by Eugenio Cappuccio
- The Wholly Family, short film, directed by Terry Gilliam
- The confectioner, directed by Luigi Sardiello
- Smell of Rain
- Stonde, Stonde, Seneca's nettles, an episode of the film Corsica
- Da do da
- Albania blues
- Bell'epoker
- Focaccia blues
- Mr. Gi Bi, short film
- Rudy Valentino - Star of stars