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Salvatore Ficarra has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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In 1920s Bagheria, Giuseppe 'Peppino' Torrenuova works as a shepherd to financially help his poor family. Over the next fifty years, Giuseppe's life, as well as the life of the village, is observed. Giuseppe grows up, joins the Communist Party, marries a local girl, has children, and forges a political career for himself.
Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore · With Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Lina Sastri

During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello takes an interest in the odd couple, having been suffering from writer's block while working on his eventual masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author.
Dir. Roberto Andò · With Toni Servillo, Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone

6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident.
Dir. Giambattista Avellino, Valentino Picone, Salvatore Ficarra · With Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Eleonora Abbagnato
Salvo and Valentino are two happy Sicilian friends, who do not want to work, because they know that if they find a permanent job, their girlfriends will ask them to marry them.
Dir. Dominick Tambasco · With Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Stefania Bonafede
Two cousins haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward one another. But an accident suddenly brings the cousins back together and thrusts them deep into the heart of the mafia.
Dir. Valentino Picone, Giambattista Avellino, Salvatore Ficarra · With Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Anna Safroncik

A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.
Dir. Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone · With Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Vincenzo Amato

1860. Giuseppe Garibaldi began from Quarto the adventure of the Thousand surrounded by the enthusiasm of the young idealists who had come from all regions of Italy, and with his loyal group of officers, among whom a new profile stands out. Having landed in Sicily, at Marsala, the Thousand begin fighting with the Bourbon army, whose numerical preponderance is immediately evident. Under these conditions, it appears almost impossible for the general to breach the enemy defense and penetrate Palermo. But when he is almost forced to retreat, Garibaldi devises an ingenious plan.
Dir. Roberto Andò · With Toni Servillo, Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone

as Salvo · Director · Writer
Salvo and Valentino are two Sicilian friends who have moved to Turin, and now run a small business together. They drive foreign tourists around in a double-decker bus, and Salvo always tries to approach the pretty girls.
Dir. Valentino Picone, Salvatore Ficarra · With Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Ambra Angiolini

as Salvo · Director · Writer
Valentino and Salvo, unemployed and in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for Valentino’s home town, Monteforte, where they will try to survive the Italian crisis by opening some sort of hospice.
Dir. Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone · With Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Tiziana Lodato

as Salvo · Director · Writer
A thief and a priest end up magically transported in the year 0's Palestine, where they'll have to make sure that the Nativity will follow its course.
Dir. Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone · With Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Massimo Popolizio

After two hapless TV technicians stumble upon a murder scene, every step they take to avoid becoming suspects lands them in deeper trouble.
Dir. Maddalena Ravagli, Leonardo Fasoli · With Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Anna Favella
In paradise, a group gathers to discuss why people still act selfishly, even though Jesus sacrificed himself for them 2,000 years ago. As a result, a new Messiah is sent to Earth to address the issue.
Dir. Francesco Amato · With Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Barbara Ronchi
Anna and Piero fighting routine of a long marriage, when Piero loses his memory, Anna reconstructs his way. For its part, the concierge Rocco and his friend Michele play in a group that emulates the Beatles and face opposition from their partners. Finally, Marcello and Paola are a divorced couple who, from time to time, pretend they are still together to avoid problems. They are victims of a relentless war of sexes.
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Claudio Bisio, Nancy Brilli, Salvatore Ficarra
Old and forgotten, comedian Aldo is brought by his sons into a nursing home called Reuma Park where he finds his old friends and partners Giovanni and Giacomo.
Dir. Giacomo Poretti, Giovanni Storti, Aldo Baglio, Morgan Bertacca · With Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti
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