Luciano Zanussi
Known For & Full Filmography57 Titles
Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as Colonel
Doctor Eva Marini takes up a position at an army base to investigate the sexual behavior of the Italian male soldier and soon finds out she's taken on more than she bargained for.
Movie - 1988, 2h 15m • as Citizen (uncredited)
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Salon Kitty Naked Client (uncredited)
In Nazi Germany, Kitty runs a brothel where the soldiers come to 'relax'. Recording devices have been installed by a power-hungry official who plans to use the information to blackmail and usurp Hitler. One of the girls discovers the ploy and, with the madam's help, takes on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.
Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes • as Conference Member (uncredited)
The renowned Insurance International Co. has created an enquiry network, headed by detective Jack Clementi, to defend itself against insurance fraud. Jack has saved the company enormous amounts of money throughout his successful investigations and his bosses are more than willing put up with his brusque manners, his disconcerting frankness, and his intolerance for any form of company bureaucracy. Yet he is a big guy with a huge heart.
Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes • as Conference Audience Member (uncredited)
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2025, 16 episodes • as Secret Service Man (uncredited)
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as PANTAC Board Member (uncredited)
A lusty young woman decides to use her sexual powers to "tame" the evil and murderous Dr. Jekyll.
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as inserviente della regina
Eduardo accidentally discovers that he is adopted. His real father is dying, but before his death he said that his mother was the "Queen of England", failing to clarify that this is the nickname of Italian prostitute. But Eduardo is already rushing to the capital of England...
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as Secret Service Man (uncredited)
Young Franco is imprisoned for murder and rises to become the feared and powerful 'Professor', taking control of Naples' underworld from behind bars.
Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as Client at Crazy Night
The adventures of Gianna, a sexy policewoman who wants to help a child in search of his mother.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Waiter (uncredited)
A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die.
Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as Man in the Traffic Jam (uncredited)
A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passes, the more we witness personal dramas, hysteric reactions and other grotesque situations. All the episodes are linked as if in a single plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a larger universe: the congestion.
Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as cliente del ristorante
Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Doctor at Autopsy (uncredited)
A series of random suicides in Rome, Italy are attributed to a heatwave, but a young pathologist named Simona—who is working on a thesis about murders disguised as suicides—suspects otherwise. When a young girl associated with Simona's playboy father ends up dead in another supposed suicide, Simona teams up with the girl's priest brother to prove she was murdered and track down the unknown serial killer.
Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as vecchietto
A group of policemen and policewomen from different municipalities are in Rome to take a course that will take them on a study trip to London.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Partibon's Friend (segment "La visita") (uncredited)
Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Member of the International Congress (uncredited)
Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?
Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as tiratore scelto
Luigi, a middle-aged engineer who, getting increasingly worried about the rising crime rate in his surroundings, follows the advice and example of his sleazy drinking cronies to arm himself with the titular weapon; the problem is that he starts carrying – and, occasionally, brandishing – it with him everywhere.
Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and entrusts him with the arduous task of putting an end to the Mafia, a sinister criminal organization that has sown terror on the island for centuries.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Party Guest
Two police officers attempt to hunt down and arrest a trio of rich kids who rob, assault and kill for fun.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Cop (uncredited)
An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. Conspiracies and horrors pile up, as do the body parts.
Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as uomo all'ospedale
3 episodes set in Monte Carlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a princess. In the second, a con woman tries to cheat an insurance man. In the third, a man has to deal with his wife's suicidal attempts.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Hippodrome Spectator (uncredited)
Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as autista carro funebre
The third film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Man at Airport (uncredited)
Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Spiritual Practitioner (uncredited)
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.
Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as Senator (uncredited)
The misadventures of Attila and his band of barbarians as they take up arms against the Roman Empire in their native Milano
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Private Screening Audience Member (uncredited)
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.
Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as Soldier
Five forty-year-old boys, who had been soldiers together, find themselves, once again in uniform, for a forty-day update period, during which they should learn the use of a new NATO-supplied missile.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Journalist (uncredited)
A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families.
Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as Cameriere
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Contestatore (uncredited)
The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts.
Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as giocatore di Poker
A stories of three really unlucky characters are discovered during the trial.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Dinner Guest (uncredited)
A police inspector is called to Milan to investigate a murder case since he grew up in the same ghetto as the suspect.
Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • as Priest (uncredited)
Saverio and Filippo are two friends and religious leaders of a travel agency in Rome. However, Filippo has trouble with his wife, because she finds out that he cheated on her with a comely girl named Alice.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Man at Funeral (uncredited)
Four bandits commit a robbery in a villa. The maid calls the police and Commissioner Carli immediately orders patrols to chase them.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Bank Clerk (uncredited)
The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their activities in Italy. Mr. Chips has chosen Eddie Mordace to open the Italian branch of the multinational American Love Company. So Eddie opens in Milan a small branch of the Company whose purpose is to comfort women. Eddie hires Simbad, Adone and later, when business starts to go well, Ugolino, a real Count, and Ivanoe, a raper, who becames the attraction of the House.
Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Journalist (uncredited)
In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo and take on the Mafia. Dalla Chiesa approaches the job with the same focus and methods he used in hunting down the Red Brigade.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Ospite alla festa
Gianna Amicucci works in the house of the head of her hometown police force and enters the academy with a kickback from him. She is a beautiful woman (she generously sheds clothes during the film) and has to overcome her male colleagues prejudices, but she gains their respect through a series of brilliant operations.
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Italian comedy in two episodes starring a house painter who emigrated to Switzerland who pretends to be a millionaire and an employee on holiday in Kenya, the victim of catastrophic misadventures.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Dentist Patient #1
A dentist buys a small yacht and takes his two children on a cruise of the Mediterranean. His ex-wife stows away to keep an eye on the children and the inevitable happens.
Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Invitato Matrimonio (uncredited)
Two deadbeat friends barely pass the entrance exam for the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, but love for the same woman gets in the way.
Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as Pizza Restaurant Customer (uncredited)
A meek accountant buys himself a gun and finds out he's a natural marksman. After the friend who introduced him to shooting is killed by gangsters, he seeks revenge.
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Prof. Zinno
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Man at Gambling Room
Paolo Mancuso is a gang boss whose rivals want dead. During a failed assassination attempt, he is bitten by an infected lab rat. In the short time he has left to live, he tracks down his enemies and kills them one by one.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Singing Man in Church
A young man comes back to his provincial home town to visit his dying uncle who is being attended to by a night nurse and novice nun. Before long, the young man develops a deep longing for the young, beautiful nun.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Conference Host (uncredited)
Faccia di spia tries to tell the story of the CIA and other government intelligence agencies with lots of re-creations and dramatizations and points out some of the more brutal aspects of the intelligence community from around the world. Wars are started, all facets of everyday life are controlled, innocent people are tortured needlessly and subjected to extreme violence.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Secretary (uncredited)
Fabio Testi is an undercover cop doubling as the bodyguard (hence, “Gorilla”) of a cantankerous middle-aged industrialist targeted for extortion.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Uomo al night club (uncredited)
The Godfather Don Vito Monreale knows, by chance, the Italian-American singer Nick Bouillon. Since the two are alike, Don Vito decided to exploit this similarity in his favour.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Card Player (uncredited)
After a female art student purchases a life-size wooden sculpture of a crucifixion from an abandoned church, she has a vision of herself being nailed to a cross and soon becomes sexually tormented by the sculpture when it comes to life.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Politician (uncredited)
Spain, occupied by the French. Zorro, the intrepid swordsman, has an accident. As a result, his friend, Father Donato, is forced by oath to find a temporary replacement for him.
Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as Employee (uncredited)
"L'amore e' cieco "Discovered by the usher Capocchia in intimacy with an employee, Ernesto Rossi is fired by Mr. Bani. Pretending to be blind, Rossi retaliates by seducing Mrs. Bani in the sleeping car; but in the morning, he surprised to have been robbed of the 9 million from the liquidation. "Pane sicuro" The industrialist Santucci, attracted by the graces of the servant Margherita, takes her to his villa where, blackmailed by her and her husband Carlo, he will have to promise a job to them and to the Margherita's brother. "Un bisogno urgente" Franco Pennacchi, because of his wife who forced him to gulp down a yogurt, is in urgent need to satisfy needs that put him in serious embarrassment at the airport. in the house of the lover and in the inside of the immobilized elevator of his own house. "L'erede" Having died Adolfo III of the Bisi counts, the notary Guidi communicates the will of the deceased to the widow Countess Ada and the parish priest Don Enzo.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Capo cantiere (uncredited)
Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself becomes increasingly difficult.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Medico (uncredited)
Luigi Tagrana, a hopeless social outcast living on the industrial outskirts of northern Italy, scrapes together a meager living by gathering worms to sell as bait. His days are spent in a bleak, repetitive cycle of labor and solitude amidst a decaying landscape, moving in and out of hospitals and prisons where he is treated as a number rather than a person.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Dipendente della società Federici Fontana
Viviana and Giovanni Renzelli are a married couple living in Turin. He works as a switchboard operator for a large plumbing supplies company. Suddenly, the couple’s life changes when Giovanni hits the jackpot on the Totocalcio, winning 850 million lire.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Man in Church (uncredited)
A young man comes out of a reform school properly reformed, but life outside will bring him to the underworld again. His second reform will be short-lived.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Restaurant Guest (uncredited)
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.