Giuseppe Battiston
Birthday: 1968-07-22
Place of Birth: Udine, Italy
Biography: Giuseppe Battiston (22 July 1968) is an Italian film, TV, and stage actor, director, writer, and producer. Born in Udine, he graduated from the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Arts in Milan. He is the winner of 3 David di Donatello awards. He is perhaps best known to worldwide audiences for Pinocchio (2022) on Disney + where he played Stromboli. His most notable films are Perfect Strangers (2016), Bread & Tulips (2000), La Passione (2010). Giuseppe made his directorial debut with Io Vivo Altrove! (2023) Giuseppe, or Beppe Battiston as he is sometimes credited, has frequently collaborated with directors Silvio Soldini, Carlo Mazzacurati, and Antonio Padovan. On screen he plays the title character of Stucky, a Treviso detective.
Movies
The Queen of Hearts
Alice is 18 and afraid of falling asleep. Every night she relives the same nightmare, made of endles...
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Bread and Tulips
An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her fam...
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The Tiger and the Snow
Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul,...
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Le acrobate
A chemical analyst and a supermarket clerk strike up a friendship after they are brought together by...
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The Prince of Rome
In 19th-century Papal Rome, Bartolomeo is a wealthy and greedy parvenu who craves a noble title. Whi...
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Days and Clouds
Set in Genoa, the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after Michel...
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Agatha and the Storm
The story of a middle-aged bookshop owner, who becomes embroiled in a surreal swirl of romance and f...
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The Short Night
After twenty-five years, lawyer Lara Degli Esposti finds the son she had abandoned at birth is the m...
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Come Undone
Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a ...
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La passione
To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebra...
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Don't Tell
Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares ...
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Billy
Billy was a child prodigy who had invented and hosted a successful music podcast at nine. He is now ...
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Brucio nel vento
For ten years, immigrant Tobias has worked at a Swiss clock factory and, in the relentless ticking, ...
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Unlikely Revolutionaries
Five ordinary people disillusioned with politics—a perennial temp, a docker, a university professor,...
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The Right Distance
The arrival of an attractive young teacher in a small town in the Po valley disturbs the drowsy life...
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The Hush
Argentina, 1978. On the occasion of the World Cup, two Italian journalists travel to the South Ameri...
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L'uomo perfetto
Lucia is a young and talented advertiser but is out of luck when it comes to love. Madly in love wit...
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Bar Sport
Inside Bar Sport, a bar on the outskirts of Bologna managed by the histrionic Onassis, the adventure...
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Our Country
Set in Milan, where people's lives are invisibly lead by money in its different shapes: too much, to...
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Don't Make Any Plans for Tonight
A man jumps into the Tiber two days before Christmas. Alessandro and Irene chat over coffee, while G...
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Garibaldi's Lovers
A widowed working-class father falls in love with a struggling, poor artist....
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The Desired War
A diplomatic incident threatens to break out a war inside Europe that only an unlikely couple of bic...
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Zoran: My Nephew the Idiot
Paolo, 40 years old, lives in a small Friulian town close to the north-eastern border. Unreliable an...
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The Human Factor
A world-weary, widowed police inspector has to break his vow of self-isolation and get back on the f...
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The Swing Girls
During the Fascist Regime in Italy, three Dutch sisters, Alexandra, Judith and Kitty, try to make a ...
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La sedia della felicità
Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician; their studies are facing each other. They learn ...
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At the End of the Sea
Todor, a Serbian smuggler in Trieste, Italy, earns his daily bread by smuggling fake brand cigarette...
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In nome del figlio
Gianluca Sciortino is a child in the midst of the vitality of his ten years. On November 9, 1992, in...
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The Body
Rich entrepreneur Rebecca Zuin has died from an alleged heart attack, raising suspicions on the part...
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Story of a Night
Piero and Elisabetta loved each other very much, despite the opposition of her parents, and had thre...
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Pizza and Dates
After their mosque is expropriated and turned into a hairdresser by the landlord, a community of Mus...
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What a Life!
Biasutti and Perbellini have the same name, Fausto, and they both hate life in the big city. They me...
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The Worst Days
Four episodes – Christmas, May 1st (Labour Day), August 15th (Ferragosto), Halloween – to tell four ...
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The Complexity of Happiness
Enrico is a corporate man whose job is to manipulate inexperienced scions into selling their flailin...
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Perfect Strangers
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive...
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We Can Do That
The film follows Nello, the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former ...
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After the War
Bologna, 2002. Amidst protests against the labor reform, the assassination of a lawyer opens old wou...
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The Last Prosecco
The suicide of a prominent wine producer unleashes a series of mysterious murders....
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Ask Me If I'm Happy
Aspiring thespians Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while nurturing their dream product...
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A Soul Split in Two
Store security guard Pietro spends his days catching shoplifters, his weekends visiting his children...
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Just Believe
The owner of a dilapidated B&B has an idea: in order to dodge bankruptcy, he has to turn his busines...
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Hotel Gagarin
An highly heterogeneous group of people go to Armenia to make a movie, all ignoring what will happen...
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Lucia's Grace
During the evaluation of a plot of land, surveyor and distressed single mother Lucia meets a woman w...
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Stay Still
These young women are an odd couple. Julie is quick-witted and stubborn. She celebrates idleness and...
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La prima neve
Michele is eleven years old and lives in a small town in the mountains of Trento, with his mother an...
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Three Perfect Daughters
Three families go into crisis when their daughters get engaged because they are convinced that their...
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Guarda il cielo: Stella, Sonia, Silvia
Three situations about women's lives in three different periods....
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Moon Landing
At six, Dario watched the first Moon landing on TV, sparking a lifelong dream to reach the stars. Fo...
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Don't Think About It
Still an unsuccessful punk rock musician at 36, Stefano returns to his hometown in the countryside t...
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Nemmeno in un sogno
A shepherd from the mountains of a remote Asian region travels to Southern Italy, in love with what ...
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Shun Li and the Poet
A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia ...
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Carlo Mazzacurati - A Certain Idea of Cinema
Explore the life and work of acclaimed Italian filmmaker Carlo Mazzacurati, who passed away in 2014....
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Come fratelli
Two friends who got pregnant at the same time die in an accident. Left to face the challenge of bein...
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The Last Slap
Siblings Petra and Jure want to re-purpose their old lakeside house. To raise money for such a ventu...
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