Shanks, I can try to give " a decent rendition", even if it is clear - even in this simple case - that it will require a lot of explanations - I don't think that a translation software can take into account of the whole context...
So
That man - who was before working in an English Hospital as "portantino" ( see below)- 52 years old - works today sometimes in science fiction movies of "serie Z" (see below) and in telefilms (?? I don’t know if this is an English noun, we use this as "movie for TV") . He played a small part ( as the body guard of Hotblack Desiato) in a TV movie based on the ...
Portantino ( from portare , to bring) works carrying people who cannot walk by themselves
Something of Serie Z: the worst kind of that - since footbaal games are organized in
Serie A (the best)
Serie B ( just below)
and so on...
Serie Z does not exist, but it suggests that you cannot find anything worst...
Boring explanation, and - I imagine - no longer surreal charme at all!
Ciao
Emanuela
