David di Donatello in 1971 for the starring role in De Sica's Oscar-winning film “The Garden of the Finzi Contini”, Lino Capolicchio died yesterday at the age of 78.
An actor of great flexibility, as evidenced by the variety of roles ranging from the comedy "Love and gymnastics" to Avati's horror "The house with laughing windows" who wanted him in several films, passing through the works of other great directors such as Patroni Griffi ("put, one evening for dinner"), Lizzani ("Mussolini last act) and the Taviani Brothers (" Fiorile ").
Lino Capolicchio has also linked his name to Sassari. In fact, he played the role of the prosecutor Valerio Garau in the film “An Impossible Crime” (2000) that the Sassari director Antonello Grimaldi shot in his city. In the work taken from the novel "Procedure" by Salvatore Mannuzzu, Sassari by adoption, Capolicchio actually appears only in the initial three minutes, because he is poisoned in the court of Sassari. From his death begins the investigation of Judge D'Onofrio played by Carlo Cecchi, another star of a cast that also includes Ivano Marescotti, Angela Molina and Silvio Muccino in the role of Judge Garau as a young man.
