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Fausto Russo Alesi
Born: 13th Oct 1973 Palermo, Italy
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 35
Film: 29 (83%)
Television: 6 (17%)
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Filmography
(No release date supplied. Possibly still in production.)
Based upon the true story of Ranuccio Bandinelli, an antifascist Archaeology and History of Art teacher who sought to steer clear of politics but who ... view
Character:
Mussolini
Original title: Se Posso Permettermi - Capitolo III
(No release date supplied. Possibly still in production.)
Third installment in the "If I May" trilogy by director Marco Bellocchio. ... view
Character:
Fausto
Feb 2026 (first aired)
In the early '80s, Enzo Tortora is one of the most beloved figures on Italian television. But in the midst of Italy's war against organized crime, Enz ... view
Character:
Diego Marmo (6 ep.)
2025
In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. St ... view
Character:
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Original title: Iddu - L'ultimo padrino
2024
Loosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the run. A disgraced politician is gifted a second chance ... view
Character:
Emilio Schiavon
Original title: Se Posso Permettermi - Capitolo II
2024
Over the course of a day, Fausto, invincible in his inertia, watches a paradoxical procession of visitors pass by: the mellifluous parish priest of th ... view
Character:
Fausto
2024
Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a d ... view
Character:
Cardinale
Jan 2024 (first aired)
Showcases the life of Giacomo Leopardi, an Italian poet known for his melancholic verses on fleeting happiness, existentialism, and human suffering. ... view
Character:
Pietro Giordani (2 ep.)
Original title: Rapito
2023
The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his fam ... view
Character:
Momolo Mortara
Nov 2022 (first aired)
Italy, March 16, 1978. Aldo Moro, president of Christian Democracy, the ruling party, is kidnapped by the extreme left-wing terrorist gang Red Brigade ... view
Character:
Francesco Cossiga (6 ep.)
Original title: La stranezza
2022
During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello ... view
Character:
Il padre
Original title: Esterno Notte (parte II)
2022
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists ... view
Character:
Francesco Cossiga
Original title: Il était une fois… « Le Traître »
2022
Drawing on archives and interviews, including one with Italian director Marco Bellocchio, this is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making o ... view
Character:
Himself
Original title: Esterno Notte (parte I)
2022
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists. ... view
Character:
Francesco Cossiga
Original title: La scuola cattolica
2021
Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murde ... view
Character:
Davide Rummo
Original title: Se Posso Permettermi
2021
A man wanders the streets of a small provincial town, obsessed by the idea of meddling in the lives of others. ... view
Character:
Fausto
Original title: Il cattivo poeta
2021
1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'An ... view
Character:
Achille Starace
Original title: Il traditore
2019
Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of ... view
Character:
Giovanni Falcone
Original title: L'ordine delle cose
2017
An immigration agent is torn between the job and his humanity. ... view
Character:
Le ministre
Feb 2017 (first aired)
Leonardo Cagliostro, a policeman, dies and decides to stay on Earth in order to find out more about the circumstances of his death and to save his wif ... view
Character:
Scaglianti (12 ep.)
Original title: Sangue del mio sangue
2015
In the Middle Ages, Federico, a soldier, visits the convent in Bobbio, where Sister Benedetta is facing charges of witchery for seducing Fabrizio, Fed ... view
Character:
Cacciapuoti
Oct 2013 (first aired)
Senator Merlin's battle for the abolition of houses of ill repute, told by the prostitute Maddalena through a letter. A story of redemption and female ... view
Character:
Avvocato Vaccari (2 ep.)
Original title: Il comandante e la cicogna
2012
A widowed working-class father falls in love with a struggling, poor artist. ... view
Character:
Real estate agent
Original title: Venuto al mondo
2012
Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, w ... view
Character:
Original title: Romanzo di una strage
2012
On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local an ... view
Character:
Guido Giannettini
2010
To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town. ... view
Character:
Pippo
Original title: La doppia ora
2009
A chambermaid and a former cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a turn for the ... view
Character:
Bruno
2009
The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist ... view
Character:
Riccardo Paicher
Original title: In memoria di me
2007
Investigates the life a young man who has decided to enter a Jesuit monastery in Venice, but is then overcome by agonizing doubts before his ordinatio ... view
Character:
Panella
Original title: Le rose del deserto
2006
A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, s ... view
Character:
Original title: Viaggio segreto
2006
After witnessing the murder of their mother thirty years ago, a man and his sister struggle with challenges of their adult lives. ... view
Character:
Autista
Original title: Agata e la tempesta
2004
The story of a middle-aged bookshop owner, who becomes embroiled in a surreal swirl of romance and family secrets of infidelity, her energy levels reg ... view
Character:
Ospite studio TV
Original title: Pane e tulipani
2000
An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful ... view
Character:
Man in car