Uno, Nobody, One Hundred Thousand Elio Germano: the Roman actor born in 1980 and among the most appreciated of his generation is an artist who has always loved to travel unconventional paths. He was a damned and brilliant painter I wanted to hide, a melancholy and immortal poet in The fabulous young maneven an Italian politician of immense greatness (The great ambition). His consistent filmography shows that he has never chosen roles to please the public but to experimenttransform, become one with his character even at the cost of failure.
Films by Elio Germano: all the titles, the latest, the best
Film on Netflix with Elio Germano: The incredible story of Rose Island
Sydney Sibilia directs Elio in a comedy based on a true story but with fairytale tones. In 1968 ithe young engineer Giorgio Rosa (Germano), pursuing his personal idea of freedom, builds a platform off the coast of Rimini and create a true Republic with norms and rules. The experiment did not last long but Giorgio became a legend. A character dragged by the utopia and naivety of an unrepeatable historical period.
Elio Germano, last film: Berlinguer, the great ambition
Andrea Segre’s film tells a piece of Italian history, from 1973 to 1978, through the human and political figure of Enrico Berlinguer (German). The reasoned attempt of the man symbol of the PCI, the dialogue with the Christian Democrats and the season of historical compromise. The actor avoids any banal adherence to portraits and caricatures but chooses the path of measure and rigor, working on intonation and gestures.
Germano is Enrico Berlinguer in “The Great Ambition”. (Off press)
Films by Elio Germano: I wanted to hide
David di Donatello 2021 for best leading actorfor the role of the painter Antonio Ligabue (1899-1965). One of the most exciting interpretations of Elio’s career, in which he immersed himself totally in the mind and soul of an outsider, always on the fringes of society.
The biography of the self-taught artist, a proudly naive figure, he explores the childhood of a sick child who, over the years, lived for a long time in a mental hospital. His inspiration comes from the phantasmagoric fusion of exotic animal figures, in contrast with the landscape of Emilia.
Elio Germano in “I wanted to hide”. (Press Office)
New film by Elio Germano: Iddu, the last godfather
Loosely based on a an event that actually happened during the inaction of the godfather Matteo Messina Denarodirected by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza comes out outside the box of the classic Mafia film. It shows and explores the meaning of true power, what cannot be seen but is there. The former politician Catello Palumbo (Toni Servillo), in prison for mafia associationin exchange for freedom he contemplates repenting and bringing his godson Matteo to justice (German). The actor conveys the unpleasantness of a personality without giving in to the charm of the criminal.
Elio Germano and Barbora Bobulova in “Iddu. The Last Godfather”. (Press office)
What film did Elio Germano make? The lord of the ants
Another controversial character and really existed for the actor, directed for the second time by Gianni Amelio. The film tells the genesis of the trial of the writer and politician Aldo Braibanti in the 1960s (Luigi Lo Cascio), accused of plagiarizing a young student. A controversial news story in which at the center of the discussion is Braibanti’s homosexual relationship and a bigoted and conservative Italy, incapable of not being blinded by prejudice. Germano plays a courageous journalist who, challenging conventions, decides to tell the truth of the facts.
Elio Germano in “The Lord of the Ants”. (Off press)
Three bowlsfilm with Elio Germano and Alba Rohrwacher
One of the Roman actor’s last performances in a film based on the novel of the same name by Michela Murgia (1972-2023). Martha (Alba Rohrwacher) and Antonio (German) they are engaged and they live in Rome. Suddenly the man decides to leave her. Marta feels the pinch even though she begins to have many problems which first considers caused by the trauma, then the diagnosis of an inoperable tumor.
Knowing she is dying, the woman takes unexpected and happy paths. The Germano and Rohrwacher couple works like Yin and Yang. She is emotional and full of warmth, he chooses many silences and calm reactions.
“Three bowls”. (Press office)
The fabulous young manElio Germano plays Giacomo Leopardi
Mario Martone tells the life of Giacomo Leopardifrom his youth in Recanati to his final years between Florence and Naples. Rather than choosing a biographical line, it focuses on feelings, the sensitivity and talent of a literary genius in the face of life’s difficulties. Elio Germano is totally transformed to take on the body and mind of this outsider of the time, isolated from his own illusions and aspirations. A child at heart, who loves without being loved in return and transforms pain into poetry.
Elio Germano with Anna Mouglalis in “Il Giovane Favoloso”. (01 distribution)
All films by Elio Germano: Confidence
Based on the novel of the same name by Domenico Starnone, Elio Germano directed by Daniele Lucchetti he turns into a professor forced to live with a secret. Pietro teaches in a high school of Rome and he takes the school destiny of his student Teresa to heart (Federica Rosellini), talented in mathematics but confused about her future.
After convincing her to take up university studies, tOne of them begins a love story. When the man reveals a secret to his partner never confessed to anyone, the relationship changes and Teresa vanishes into thin air. Excellent the way Germano plays with the contrast between calmness of his character and the explosive potential of the never said.
“Confidence”. (Press office)
Latin Americafilm with Elio Germano
In a metaphysical thriller directed by the D’Innocenzo brothers, Elio Germano is a dentist who lives happily in Latina in a luxurious home with his wife and two daughters. One day he discovers a little girl tied and gagged in his cellar. Not knowing what to do, the man decides to keep her as a prisoner and does not tell anyone about what happened.
A secret that however leads him to suspect everyone, even himselfuntil the incredible finale. Germano manages to convey the right amount of ambiguity and suspense of a character who has much, far too much to hide.
Elio Germano in “Latin America”. (Off press)
The man who could change the world, latest film (out at the end of 2026)
The indefatigable Elio Germano has just finished filming The man who could change the world by Anne Paulicevich. A historical drama in which he plays an important Italian archaeologist of the age of fascism. Although it is far from the Duce’s ideologies, it will be forced to meet Adolf Hitler (Albrecht Schuch) with the aim of promoting Italy’s cultural superiority. Also in the cast are Fausto Russo Alesi (Mussolini) and Edoardo Pesce.
It arrives at the cinema on April 29th Return to the sheep track, docufilm directed by Francesco Cordio. The actor says, through local stories and testimonies, of the resistance of the agricultural territories of Molise against the bureaucracy and blindness of the Statewhich risks condemning an entire habitat to civil death.
