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Antonino Bruschetta
Born: 6th Jan 1962 Messina, Sicily, Italy
Dept: Acting
Ninni Bruschetta (born Antonino Bruschetta on 6 January 1962) is an Italian actor, film and stage director and screenwriter.
Born in Messina, in 1983 Bruschetta co-founded with Maurizio Puglisi 'Nutrimenti terrestri', a stage company which primarily focused on subjects of social value, and was active both as an actor and a director. In 1987 he debuted as a screenwriter with the indie drama La gentilezza del tocco, and in 1989 he co-directed the indie film Private Screening. He is also very active as an actor in films and television series.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 110
Film: 81 (74%)
Television: 29 (26%)
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Filmography
2026
Didi, a Hungarian noblewoman who survived war and communism, has lived in Salento for years, cared for by Vita, a young woman from Puglia. She spends ... view
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2026
A group of former high school classmates reunite after seventeen years for the funeral of an old friend. Aided by alcohol and a forgotten video, they ... view
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Original title: Ricchi a tutti i costi
2024
When a grandmother falls for a cheeky suitor with dubious intentions, her family devises a secret plan to protect her life — and their inheritance. ... view
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Nunzio Zampa
2023
On Christmas Eve, a curious child embarks on a hilarious adventure with a man he believes to be Santa Claus — but is actually an undercover thief. ... view
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Original title: Io e mio fratello
2023
Sofia is the black sheep of her family. She is a 28-year-old gay girl who can’t help but cheat on her partner and struggles to find a stable job. Sh ... view
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Prof. Cocco
Jan 2023 (first aired)
The efforts of a special paramilitary anti-terrorism unit set up in the 1970s by a high-ranking police official, Gen. Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa. ... view
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Tommaso Buscetta (2 ep.)
Original title: Spaccaossa
2022
Inside a warehouse in Palermo, a group of people smashes a man’s arm to pieces with a wheelie bag packed with weights. This is the method used by an ... view
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Francesco
Sep 2022 (first aired)
Viola Vitale, Miss Italy and fashion journalist, returns to Sicily to look for her father. She starts working for a digital news company and joins pol ... view
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Leonardo Piazza (12 ep.)
Original title: Gli anni belli
2022
Summer 1994. Berlusconi has come into power and 16-year-old Elena, listening to Nirvana and starting to develop a political consciousness, can't wait ... view
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Eugenio
Original title: Nekoč so bili ljudje
2021
Leo is an Italian who lives in Slovenia. Vučko is a Bosnian who arrived to Slovenia as a child refugee. Leo continues to stay in Slovenia because of ... view
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Massimo
Feb 2021 (first aired)
Deputy Chief Lolita Lobosco returns to her hometown, Bari, to direct a team of men only. In a world stubbornly ruled by males, she chooses to remain h ... view
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Questore Jacovella (14 ep.)
2020
Although Pippo Genuardi seems to have cleared his mind by marrying Taninè Schilirò, daughter of the richest man in Vigàta, he is in fact someone wh ... view
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Father Macaluso
2019
Roberto is a student in a corrupt university where teachers sell exams and only hire friends and relatives. ... view
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Giovanni Mancuso
2019
Claudio is 50 years old and tired of his job as an real estate agent. He is also separated from his wife who left him for the "King of Zumba". ... view
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Uomo poker
2019
Vigàta, Sicily, Italy, 1880. Shortly after the return to the village of Fofò La Matina, pharmacist and son of the late Santo La Matina, jealous guar ... view
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Father Macaluso
2018
Fabio struggles with a cumbersome father and a capricious and spoiled little sister who consider him a good for nothing, a “vegetable” in fact. Th ... view
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Bruno Rovazzi
Jan 2018 (first aired)
Heartfelt Italian comedy-drama about the patients and staff of a hospital oncology ward. ... view
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Unknown/various (8 ep.)
Jan 2018 (first aired)
The series, which follows the film, will see old classmates reunite at high school after the Ministry of Education has canceled their state exams. To ... view
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Gianni (8 ep.)
2017
Sicily, 1965. Franca is being forced to marry her rapist to avoid becoming a pariah in her traditionalist community but she rebels against the establi ... view
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Bernardo Viola
Original title: Paolo Borsellino. Adesso tocca a me
2017
The true story of the 1992 car-bombing murder of Paolo Borsellino, an anti-Mafia crusader and Palermo judge, is recounted in this documentary drama. ... view
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Rino Germanà
Original title: La mia famiglia a soqquadro
2017
A kid tries splitting his boring parents to join the group of his schoolmates who are all children of divorced mums and dads ... view
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Direttore di banca
2017
To save his crumbling and rapidly-depopulating rural town, its mayor fakes a gruesome murder to attract media attention. His plan initially succeeds, ... view
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Agente Viaggi
Original title: Come diventare grandi nonostante i genitori
2016
More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and co ... view
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Igor Alessi
2016
On his deathbed, a powerful Mafia boss names his estranged son heir to his criminal empire: however, his men discover too late that the son at issue i ... view
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Enrico Greco
Original title: Quo vado?
2016
Checco is 39 and lived his entire life with his parents. He loves his job where he does nothing the whole day, until something happens that will chang ... view
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Ministro Magno
Original title: La terra dei santi
2015
Ambitious magistrate Vittoria (Valeria Solarino) makes the dramatic decision to relocate from the north to the south of Italy with one mission in mind ... view
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Domenico Mercuri
2014
What are we talking about when we talk about negotiations? About the state's concessions to the Mafia in exchange for ending the massacres? About who ... view
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Prof. di Teologia / PM Processo Dell'Utri
Original title: La mafia uccide solo d'estate
2013
While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and s ... view
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Fra Giacinto
2013
A ne'er-do-well who's married to a millionnaire realizes his financial trouble might be solved if his wife was dead - and sets out a plot to achieve j ... view
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Perlasca
Original title: Buongiorno papà
2013
Andrea is a handsome and cocky 38-year old man with a successful business career. Shallow, womanizing and a confirmed bachelor, his life seems to be j ... view
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Adriano
2013
Biographical movie on the life of Trilussa, aka Carlo Alberto Camillo Mariano Salustri. Italian poet, writer and journalist known for this works in Ro ... view
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2012
The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surround ... view
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Himself
Original title: Come non detto
2012
Mattia is about to move to Madrid by his boyfriend Eduard. When the day before leaving for Spain, Eduard announces his arrival in Rome to know the "la ... view
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Rodolfo
2012
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful in ... view
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Hotel Detective
2012
Marco, a shy teenager, learns that he has... what it takes to be a great porn star, but he doesn't know how to tell his parents. Hell breaks loose whe ... view
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Rasero
Original title: L'uomo in più
2012
Two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, see their lives go downhill in 1980s Naples. One is a crooner embroiled in a sex scandal; the other is a football ... view
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Genny
2011
Based on a crime book by Italian authors Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, first published in 1972. The story is set in the city of Turin, and deal ... view
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Vicecommissario De Palma
Original title: Boris - Il film
2011
A director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen. ... view
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Duccio Patané
Jan 2011 (first aired)
Fuoriclasse is an Italian television series, directed by Riccardo Donna, filmed in 2011, starring Luciana Littizzetto, based on the books by Domenico ... view
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Salvatore "Totò" Lobascio (28 ep.)
Original title: Cosa voglio di più
2010
Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship w ... view
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Domenico's brother
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Commissario Cavaterra (2 ep.)
Mar 2009 (first aired)
Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the regio ... view
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Fabrizio Lorri alias "Alfiere" (14 ep.)
May 2008 (first aired)
At the end of the seventies the Red Brigades are plotting a new target to hit, the president of the Christian Democrats Aldo Moro. On 16 March 1978, t ... view
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Oreste Leonardi (2 ep.)
2008
Angela Latella is a Neapolitan entrepreneur who runs a paint shop with her children. When a Camorra boss decides to target her business with increasin ... view
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Ispettore Piccolo
Oct 2007 (first aired)
"Il testimone" (i.e. The witness) is a tv show created, made and presented by Pif. Every episode consists of a "mini-reportage", filmed through a lit ... view
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Self (1 ep.)
Apr 2007 (first aired)
Boris is an Italian television series created by Luca Manzi and Carlo Mazzotta, initially produced from 2007 to 2010, with a revival season premiered ... view
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Duccio Patanè (50 ep.)
Original title: Mio fratello è figlio unico
2007
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Acc ... view
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Secretary Bombacci
Dec 2006 (first aired)
Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois.. ... view
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Merli (1 ep.)
Original title: Nuovomondo
2006
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all ... view
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Italian Emigrant (voice)
Original title: Attacco allo Stato
2006
The return of the Red Brigade in Italy, after 11 years of silence from this terrorist organization, was a traumatic event for the entire country. Espe ... view
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Spano
May 2006 (first aired)
After the shocking assassination of a labor lawyer, an Italian anti-terrorism unit races against time to stop the new incarnation of the Red Brigades ... view
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Giancarlo Spano (2 ep.)
Nov 2004 (first aired)
From 1980 to 1993, the story of the pool antimafia, guided by Rocco Chinnici with judges Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone in a desperate and unfo ... view
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Antonio Cassarà (2 ep.)
Original title: Paolo Borsellino
2004
In 1980 Paolo Borsellino was appointed with the preliminary investigations and the task of setting up a team which would later become the famous anti- ... view
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Antonio Cassarà (as Ninni Bruschetta)
Original title: La vita che vorrei
2004
A relationship develops between seasoned actor Stefano and his young, ambitious co-star Laura when they are cast as the two leads in a film. Stefano m ... view
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Luca
Original title: Volevo solo dormirle addosso
2004
A well-liked employee in a multinational firm, formerly working on peers' motivation and professional training, is given the task to fire 25 of his co ... view
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Sindacalista
Original title: Il siero della vanità
2004
A troubled detective investigates the disappearance of junk TV celebrities who hosted the same controversial talk show. ... view
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Vittorio Terracciano (as Ninni Bruschetta)
2003
Giancarlo, a young Neapolitan animated by a great passion for journalism, is called as a correspondent in Torre Annunziata for the newspaper IL MATTIN ... view
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Comandante Starace
Original title: Perduto amor
2003
Ettore, a young boy in Sicily in the 50's, is surrounded by women and is always surprised by what is happening around him. In Milan a few years later ... view
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Luigi
2000
Police chief Romeo becomes convinced that affluent professional Velasco is a serial killer known for mauling his victims with his teeth, but nobody be ... view
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Anatomopatologo
Sep 2000 (first aired)
The events of Police District unfold in the rooms of the 10th Tuscolano, a police station on the outskirts of Rome where current events intertwine wit ... view
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Marco Gallo (26 ep.)
Original title: I cento passi
2000
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps fr ... view
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Anthony
Original title: Prime luci dell'alba
2000
Lucio Gaudino directs this family drama about a pair of brothers grudgingly reunited after their parents are killed by Mafia extortionists. After lear ... view
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Mirko Zappalà
Original title: Il manoscritto del principe
2000
A solitary, disappointed, proud and educated old man meets and becomes the teacher of an intelligent, clumsy, middle-class, young would-be writer. ... view
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Jan 2000 (first aired)
Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never me ... view
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Rino (1 ep.)
Vittorio Mella (1 ep.)
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: Prima del tramonto
1999
A young Moroccan immigrant, living in southern Italy, escapes from his forthcoming wedding to the daughter of a local Mafia member to a hotel where he ... view
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Domenico
1998
Five untitled episodes: a businessman visits prostitutes before returning to his wife; an extra falls asleep at the cinema; a farmhand faces an Easter ... view
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Francesco
Original title: I buchi neri
1995
The impossible love between one prostitute, managing a bunch of handicapped prostitutes, and the homosexual Adamo. In the horrible suburb of Napoli we ... view
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Cliente
Original title: Il giudice ragazzino
1994
The true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the Repu ... view
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Sostituto procuratore Di Salvo
1993
Three episodes. In the first, Aurora lives in a luxurious apartment. Among some workers called to her house, she recognizes an old lover, who returns ... view
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Pistoletta (segment "Aurora")
1992
Everyday people, everyday stories. Normal, therefore special. They crave for a tomorrow what they haven't got today: the man or the woman of their dre ... view
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Corrado
