Mimmo Calopresti

Mimmo Calopresti

70 (1955-01-04)
Polistena, Calabria, Italy

Domenico "Mimmo" Calopresti (born 4 January 1955 in Polistena, Calabria) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker and actor. His fictional feature film debut The Second Time was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

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Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten 2019 (6.338)

At the end of the 1950s in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time. No road connects Africo with the other villages. In the wake of this tragedy, all of Africo’s citizens -including children - abandon their usual occupations and unite to build their own road. Giulia, the new schoolteacher, comes from the North with a mission to teach standard Italian to help bring cultural cohesion with Africo and the rest of Italy. But she will have to contend with the local mafioso Don Totó, who is determined to ensure this the town remains cut off, and thus, under his power.
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The Second Time 1995 (5.8)

A convicted terrorist out on parole meets the man she nearly killed 15 years before without recognizing him. He does so but decides to keep quiet and starts to spend time with her — desperate to know the motivation behind her violent acts.
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Uno per tutti 2015 (4.5)

The relationship between three lifelong friends is put to the test by a long-ago secret and a present-day crime committed by one of their children.