Gennaro Nunziante
Gennaro Nunziante is an Italian film director. He directed the three highest-grossing Italian films in Italy headed by Quo Vado?.
Gennaro Nunziante
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- Name
- Gennaro Nunziante
- Occupation
- Film director
- Born
- 1963 · Bari.
- Nationality
- Italy
- Languages
- Italian
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Gennaro Nunziante is an Italian film director. He directed the three highest-grossing Italian films in Italy headed by Quo Vado?.
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Gennaro Nunziante (born 1963) is an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter. The actor was born in Bari. Languages used include Italian.
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• Name — Gennaro Nunziante • Occupation — Film director
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He teamed up with Checco Zalone to write Cado dalle nubi (2009), with Zalone starring and Nunziante directing. They followed it up in 2011 with What a Beautiful Day. It opened with a record Italian opening weekend of $9.4 million and became the highest-grossing Italian film of all-time in Italy, grossing €43.4 million, surpassing Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful. Life Is Beautiful retained the worldwide grossing record for an Italian film with $70 million worldwide. In 2013, he and Zalone followed it up with Sole a catinelle which surpassed it with an opening record of €19.2 million and a total Italian gross of €51.9 million. In January 2016, his and Zalone's next film Quo Vado? set another opening weekend record grossing over €22m over the three-day holiday weekend and went on to become the highest-grossing Italian film of all-time with €65.3 million, second only to Avatar in Italy with €65.7 million. His and Zalone's films are currently the second, third and fifth highest-grossing films in Italy.
Filmography
Filmography
• Cado dalle nubi (2009) • What a Beautiful Day (2011) • Sole a catinelle (2013) • Quo Vado? (2016) • Il vegetale (2018) • Belli ciao (2022) • Come può uno scoglio (2023) • I Am the End of the World (2025) • Buen Camino (2025)
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Gennaro Nunziante is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as actor, screenwriter and film director.
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1963
Gennaro Nunziante was born on 30 October 1963.
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- 1.Lyman, Eric J. Italian Comedy 'Sun in Buckets' Sets New Opening Weekend Sales Record. The Hollywood Reporter. November 4, 2013.
- 2.Beautiful Day' now Italy's most successful film (Reuters). 2011-01-17.
- 3.Annuario Cinetel 2014. Cinetel.
- 4.Anderson, Ariston. Italy Box Office: Local Hit 'Quo Vado?' Sets Opening Records. The Hollywood Reporter. January 4, 2016.
- 5.Hoad, Phil. Backward-looking The Force Awakens might pay the price beyond the west. The Guardian. 4 January 2016.
- 6.Quo Vado? has beaten Star Wars at the box office. The Independent.
- 7.Niola, Gabriele. Italy box office: 'Quo Vado?' becomes biggest ever local film. Screen Daily. January 14, 2016.
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