Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#182505
of 909177 performers
Top 25%
Stefano Satta Flores works on quiet performance rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Stefano Satta Flores appears in 2 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Stefano. We All Loved Each Other So Much is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, screen presence, charisma. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, drama, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ettore Scola, Dario Argento, Stefano Satta Flores helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974) as Nicola Palumbo · Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971) as Andrea
Career snapshot
Ranked #182505 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
2
1971–1974
Career length
3 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Most frequent director
Ettore Scola
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ettore Scola
Most common genre
Comedy
1 title
Average runtime
1h 55m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1970s
7.1 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. We All Loved Each Other So Much, Four Flies on Grey Velvet — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
7.1
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
7.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1970s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. We All Loved Each Other So Much, Four Flies on Grey Velvet.
Most productive era
1970s
2 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1970s |
|---|---|
| Drama | 7.71 film |
| Thriller | 6.41 film |
| Comedy | 7.71 film |
| Horror | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Andrea.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
1974We All Loved Each Other So Much
7.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Nicola Palumbo.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
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2 of 2 films
as Andrea
Directed by Dario Argento
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Nicola Palumbo
We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Nicola Palumbo gives Stefano Satta Flores a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Andrea
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
Performance score6.5
Four Flies on Grey Velvet asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Andrea is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Nicola Palumbo
Start here. We All Loved Each Other So Much is the clearest statement of what Stefano Satta Flores does — accessible, 125 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Stefano at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
A deliberate change of key after We All Loved Each Other So Much — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ettore Scola
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We All Loved Each Other So MuchDario Argento
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Four Flies on Grey VelvetSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
We All Loved Each Other So Much
as Nicola Palumbo
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
We All Loved Each Other So Much
as Nicola Palumbo
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
We All Loved Each Other So Much
as Nicola Palumbo
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
as Andrea
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
We All Loved Each Other So Much
as Nicola Palumbo
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Stefano Satta Flores has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
We All Loved Each Other So Much
as Nicola Palumbo
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
as Andrea
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
We All Loved Each Other So Much
as Nicola Palumbo
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
as Andrea
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
We All Loved Each Other So Much
as Nicola Palumbo
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
We All Loved Each Other So Much
as Nicola Palumbo
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
We All Loved Each Other So Much
as Nicola Palumbo
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
as Andrea
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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