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Carla Gravina
Carla Gravina (born 5 August 1941) is an Italian actress and politician. She received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her role in '' La terrazza'' (1980). Her other notable roles were in ''Love and Chatter'' (1957), ''Esterina'' (1959), and '' The Long Silence'' (1993). Gravina used to be a member of the Chamber of Deputies. Life and career Born in Gemona, Gravina made her film debut at fifteen years old, in Alberto Lattuada's ''Guendalina''. Very active in films and on television series, both in comedic and dramatic roles, from the late 1970s she gradually focused her activities on stage and in political activism, being a PCI deputy between 1980 and 1983. Gravina was involved in a long-term relationship with fellow Italian actor Gian Maria Volontè with whom she had a child. Awards During her career Gravina won a number of international awards, including the Best Actress Award for her performance in Alessandro Blasetti's ''Love and Chatter'' at the 1958 Locar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Segno Del Comando
''Il segno del comando'' (i.e. "The sign of the command") is a 1971 Italian giallo-fantasy television miniseries directed by Daniele D'Anza and starring Ugo Pagliai, Carla Gravina and Massimo Girotti. It was broadcast on Programma Nazionale.Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. ''Enciclopedia della Televisione''. Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003. . It was remade in 1992 by Giulio Questi. Main cast *Ugo Pagliai as Lancelot Edward Forster *Carla Gravina as Lucia *Massimo Girotti as George Powell *Carlo Hintermann as Lester Sullivan *Rossella Falk as Olivia *Paola Tedesco as Barbara * Franco Volpi as Prince Raimondo Anchisi * Augusto Mastrantoni as Col. Marco Tagliaferri * Angiola Baggi as Giuliana *Andrea Checchi as Inspector Bonsanti * Silvia Monelli as Miss Giannelli * Roberto Bruni as Prospero Barengo * Amedeo Girardi as Paselli *Laura Belli Laura Belli (born 11 November 1947) is an Italian actress and singer. Born in Naples, Belli studied acting at the Centro Spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locarno International Film Festival
The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, short, avant-garde, and retrospective programs. The Piazza Grande section is held in an open-air venue that seats 8,000 spectators. The top prize of the festival is the Golden Leopard, awarded to the best film in the International Competition. Other awards include the Leopard of Honour for career achievement, and the Prix du Public, the public choice award. History The Festival del film Locarno kicked off on 23 August 1946, at the Grand Hotel of Locarno with the screening of the movie ''O sole mio'' by Giacomo Gentilomo. The first edition was organized in less than three months with a line-up of fifteen movies, mainly American and Italian, among which was ''Rome, Open City'' directed by Roberto Rossellini, ''And Then There Were None'' dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandits In Milan
''Bandits in Milan'' ( it, Banditi a Milano; also known as ''The Violent Four'') is a 1968 Italian crime film directed by Carlo Lizzani. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. It is the debut film of Agostina Belli. Production Like director Carlo Lizzani's previous film ''Wake Up and Die'' is based on a real life event, specifically a bank robbery that went wrong in Milan on 25 September 1967. Cast * Gian Maria Volonté as Piero Cavallero * Tomas Milian as Commissario Basevi * Don Backy as Sante Notarnicola * Ray Lovelock as Donato 'Tuccio' Lopez * Ezio Sancrotti as Adriano Rovoletto 'Bartolini' * Piero Mazzarella as Piva * Laura Solari as Tuccio's Mother * Peter Martell as The Protector * Margaret Lee as Prostitute * Carla Gravina as Anna * Luigi Rossetti as Robber * María Rosa Sclauzero as Piero's Secretary * Ida Meda as Moglie di Piero * Tota Ruta as Club Hitman * Evi Rossi Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Bullet For The General
''A Bullet for the General'' ( es, Quién sabe?; original title means "Who knows?", in the Spanish language), also known as ''El Chucho Quién Sabe?'', is a 1966 Cinema of Italy, Italian Zapata Western film directed by Damiano Damiani and starring Gian Maria Volonté, Lou Castel, Klaus Kinski and Martine Beswick. The film, a Zapata Western, tells the story of El Chuncho, a bandit, and Bill Tate (or El Niño/The Kid), a counter-revolutionary contract killer in Mexico. Chuncho soon learns that social revolution is more important than mere money. Plot During the Mexican Revolution, a Durango-bound government munitions train is forced to stop due to the presence of a crucifixion, crucified Federales, federal army officer on the tracks. El Chuncho Muños, a gun runner loyal to the revolutionary leader General Elías, leads his gang in an assault on the train. Lieutenant Alvaro Ferreira commanding the rurales of the escort attempts to save the officer, but upon being fatally wounded by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Day For Lionhearts
''Un giorno da leoni'' (internationally released as ''A Day for Lionhearts'') is a 1961 Italian war - drama film directed by Nanni Loy. The film describes the gradual evolution towards anti-fascism of Italian people during the Second World War. Cast *Renato Salvatori: Orlando *Tomas Milian: Gino Migliacci * Nino Castelnuovo: Danilo *Romolo Valli: Edoardo *Leopoldo Trieste: Michele *Carla Gravina: Mariuccia *Anna Maria Ferrero: Ida *Valeria Moriconi: Orlando's wife *Saro Urzì: the sergeant *Corrado Pani: Mortati *Carlo D'Angelo: the priest *Tino Bianchi: the father of Danilo *Gigi Ballista: the friar *Enzo Turco: Commissioner of Police *Regina Bianchi: Edoardo's wife *Rina Franchetti Rina Franchetti (23 December 1907 – 18 August 2010) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1932 and 1990. Selected filmography * '' Two Happy Hearts'' (1932) * '' La segretaria per tutti'' (1933) * ''The Peddler and ...: the plebeian References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Branded Women
''Five Branded Women'' is a 1960 Italian-American film directed by Martin Ritt (his only war film) and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It features an international cast including Silvana Mangano, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau and Vera Miles. The film is set during the Nazi Germany, Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia and was shot in Italy and Klagenfurt, Austria.` Plot Five Yugoslavian women are accused of consorting with the Nazis who have taken over their town. The women are banished from the town and meet up with guerillas in the mountains. Cast See also * List of American films of 1960 References External links * 1960 films Italian war drama films Films about capital punishment Films directed by Martin Ritt Paramount Pictures films Films with screenplays by Ugo Pirro 1960s war drama films Films with screenplays by Michael Wilson (writer) War films set in Partisan Yugoslavia Films produced by Dino De Laurentiis American war drama films Films scored by Angelo Francesco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everybody Go Home
''Everybody Go Home'' ( it, Tutti a casa) is a 1960 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Luigi Comencini. It features an international cast including the U.S. actors Martin Balsam, Alex Nicol and the Franco-Italian Serge Reggiani. Nino Manfredi was rejected for the starring role because Alberto Sordi wanted it. The film is set during the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943. It is one of the most famous films of the Commedia all'italiana genre. It also belongs to a large genre of Italian films about Italy during the chaos after the invasion and double occupation of September 1943 - others include ''Rome, Open City'', ''Paisan'', '' General Della Rovere'', ''Violent Summer'', ''Long Night in 1943'', '' Escape by Night'', ''Two Women'', ''The Fascist'', '' The Abandoned'', '' The Four Days of Naples'', and ''Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom''. Plot Along the Venetian seaside, on the morning of September 8, 1943, Alberto Innocenzi, junior NCO of the Royal Italian Army is shocked when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Policarpo (film)
''Policarpo'' ( it, Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura) is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Soldati. It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Policarpo De 'Tappetti is a modest ministerial employee of Umbertine Rome: he is precise and diligent, but his excesses of zeal attract him the antipathy of Cavalier Cesare Pancarano di Rondò, his severe office manager, as well as aristocratic aristocrat convinced that he is related to the reigning Savoy dynasty, which is why he spends good money on complex genealogical research in order to ascertain its veracity. The respective families of the two meet by chance while walking on the Pincio, and the son of Pancarano di Rondò, Gerolamo, falls in love with Celeste, the young and pretty daughter of Polycarp; in front of her insistent court that Gegè of her, a fatuous and superficial character of her, the girl appears rather perplexed, but she agrees to become engaged to him at the insistence of her parents, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Love (1959 Film)
''First Love'' ( it, Primo amore) is a 1959 Italian romantic drama film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Carla Gravina. Plot Cast *Carla Gravina as Betty Hauptmann * Lorella De Luca as Francesca * Raf Mattioli as Piero *Geronimo Meynier as Luigi Lojacono, aka Giggi *Christine Kaufmann as Silvia * Luciano Marin as Marco *Paola Quattrini as Andreina Palazzi * Marcello Paolini as Lello Amaduzzi * Nicolò De Guido as Enrico Boschetti *Katie Boyle as Miss Luciana *Luciana Angiolillo as Anna *Mario Carotenuto as Armando Amaduzzi *Emma Baron as Miss Maria Lojacono * Barbara Florian as Daniela Fabbri *Carlo Giuffré as Michele Lojacono * Salvo Libassi as Dr. Arrigo Lojacono * Mario Pisu as Paolo * Edoardo Toniolo as Pietro * Raimondo Van Riel as Professor Palazzi * Mario Meniconi as The Doorman *Fabrizio Capucci as Marco's Friend * Gian Paolo Rosmino as Pino *Nietta Zocchi Nietta Zocchi (10 July 1909 – 23 April 1981) was an Italian film actr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Deal On Madonna Street
''Big Deal on Madonna Street'' ( it, I soliti ignoti; released in the UK as ''Persons Unknown'') is a 1958 Italian comedy caper film directed by Mario Monicelli and considered to be among the masterpieces of Italian cinema. Its original Italian title literally translates as "the usual unknown ones", which is roughly equivalent to the English phrase "the usual suspects". The name of the Roman street in the English title is a slight mistranslation, as the Italian name of the fictional Roman street on which the midnight burglary in the film takes place is the ''Via delle Madonne'' (The Street of the Madonnas) rather than "Madonna Street". Compounding the confusion is the fact that the real Roman street on which the scene was filmed is the ''Via delle tre cannelle'' (The Street of the Three Spouts), rather than the ''Via delle tre Madonne'' (The Street of the Three Madonnas). The film is a comedy about a group of small-time thieves and ne'er-do-wells who bungle an attempt to burgle a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love And Chatter
''Amore e chiacchiere'', internationally released as ''Love and Chatter'', is a 1958 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It is based on a Cesare Zavattini's play with the same title. For this film Carla Gravina was awarded best actress at the Locarno International Film Festival.S. Masi, E. Lancia, "Carla Gravina", in ''Stelle d'Italia. Piccole e grandi dive del cinema italiano 1945-1968'', Roma 1989, pp. 82-84. Plot A commendatore owns a splendid villa, which stands in a seaside resort facing a picturesque inlet. The view that can be enjoyed from the villa is however threatened by the presence of an asylum for old people, which the war has partly destroyed, and which is now being rebuilt. The commendatore has high-ranking acquaintances and could prevent the project, but the deputy mayor supports popular demands. A lawyer, who is also a municipal councilor acting as mayor, has the defect of considering himself a skilled speaker, and from this the commendatore trie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal World Film Festival
The Montreal World Film Festival (WFF; french: le Festival des Films du Monde) was one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF (although the Toronto International Film Festival is North America's only accredited non-competitive festival). The public festival, which was founded in 1977 as a replacement for the defunct Montreal International Film Festival (1960–68), is held annually in late August in the city of Montreal in Quebec. Unlike the Toronto International Film Festival, which has a greater focus on Canadian and other North American films, the Montreal World Film Festival has a larger diversity of films from all over the world. The festival was cancelled in 2019. In 2022, former festival president Serge Losique announced plans to revive the festival as the Global Montreal Film Festival, with a 2022 edition featuring free screenings of a selection of films that had previously screene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
