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Hanja Kochansky
Hanja Kochansky is a Croatian writer and actress. A refugee to Italy during the Second World War, in 1948 she went to Johannesburg as an emigrant. In 1966, she played one of Elizabeth Taylor's handmaidens in the film ''Cleopatra''. In 1972, her book, ''Freely Female: Women's Sexual Fantasies'', was published by Ace Books in New York and was on the reading list for women’s studies programmes at a number of American universities. It was published by Aim Books in Australia in 1975 and by Granada Publishing Ltd. in the UK in 1977. She married Hugh Bebb in 1963. They had a daughter, Katia, in 1966. In 1974, she had a son, Kasimir, with the Spaghetti Western actor, William Berger. He starred with his father in the TV mini-series, ''Christopher Columbus'' in 1985. He also acted in the film '' Absurd'' aka ''Rosso sangue'' (1981) with his mother and sister. After living in Rome for thirty years, she moved to London in 2010. From 10 March to 19 June 2011, a photograph of her taken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demographia, the Johannesburg–Pretoria urban area (combined because of strong transport links that make commuting feasible) is the 26th-largest in the world in terms of population, with 14,167,000 inhabitants. It is the provincial capital and largest city of Gauteng, which is the wealthiest province in South Africa. Johannesburg is the seat of the Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa. Most of the major South African companies and banks have their head offices in Johannesburg. The city is located in the mineral-rich Witwatersrand range of hills and is the centre of large-scale gold and diamond trade. The city was established in 1886 following the discovery of gold on what had been a farm. Due to the extremely large gold de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Portrait Gallery, London
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was arguably the first national public gallery dedicated to portraits in the world when it opened in 1856. The gallery moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square, and adjoining the National Gallery (London), National Gallery. It has been expanded twice since then. The National Portrait Gallery also has regional outposts at Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire and Montacute House in Somerset. It is unconnected to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, with which its remit overlaps. The gallery is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Collection The gallery houses portraits of historically important and famous British people, selected on the basis of the significance of the sitter, not that of the artist. The collection includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian Film Actresses
Croatian may refer to: *Croatia *Croatian language *Croatian people *Croatians (demonym) See also * * * Croatan (other) * Croatia (other) * Croatoan (other) * Hrvatski (other) * Hrvatsko (other) * Serbo-Croatian (other) Serbo-Croatian or Croato-Serbian, rarely Serbo-Croat or Croato-Serb, refers to a South Slavic language that is the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Serbo-Croatian, Serbo-Croat, Croato-Serbian, Croato-Serb ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Cena
''La cena'', internationally released as ''The Dinner'', is a 1998 Italian commedia all'italiana film directed by Ettore Scola. For their performance the male ensemble cast won the Nastro d'Argento for Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor, while Stefania Sandrelli won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress. Cast * Fanny Ardant : Flora * Antonio Catania : Mago Adam * Francesca D'Aloja : Alessandra * Riccardo Garrone : Diomede * Vittorio Gassman : Maestro Pezzullo * Giancarlo Giannini : Professore * Marie Gillain : Allieva * Nello Mascia : Menghini * Adalberto Maria Merli : Bricco * Stefania Sandrelli : Isabella * Lea Gramsdorff: Sabrina * Corrado Olmi: Arturo, husband of Flora * Eros Pagni: Duilio * Daniela Poggi: the stranger * Giorgio Tirabassi: Franco * Giorgio Colangeli Giorgio Colangeli (born 14 December 1949) is an Italian stage, television and film actor. Life and career Born in Rome, Colangeli graduated in nuclear physics, then he started a stag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Una Casa A Roma
Una and UNA may refer to: Places * 160 Una, the asteroid "Una", an asteroid named after the Faerie Queene character * Una River (other), numerous rivers * Una, Himachal Pradesh, a town in India ** Una, Himachal Pradesh Assembly constituency, the state assembly constituency centered around the town ** Una District ** Una Himachal railway station * Una, Gujarat, a town in India ** Una, Gujarat Assembly constituency * Una, Mississippi, an unincorporated community in the United States * Una, Bahia, a town in Brazil * Uña, a municipality in Castile-La Mancha, Spain * Una National Park, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Una (Sava), a river in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia People * Úna, an Irish given name ** Oona, an Irish given name (Anglicised spelling of ''Úna'') ** Oonagh, an Irish given name (Anglicised spelling of ''Úna'') * Ùna, a Scots-Gaelic given name * Saint Hunna (aka St. Una) (d. 679) a French saint Women with the given name * Una Abell-Brinker (1874–1952), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Famiglia
''The Family'' ( it, La famiglia) is a 1987 Italian film directed by Ettore Scola and starring Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Philippe Noiret, and Stefania Sandrelli. It was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Plot The film depicts a bourgeois Italian family seen through the eyes of Carlo, an old retired professor who is the last patriarch of his family. The memoirs of Carlo characterize the entire film, from the time of the Belle Époque until the 1980s, through two world wars, the economic boom, love, friendship, and all the events which constitute human life. The film unfolds all around the apartment bought by the grandfather of Carlo. It shows the family, its dynastic succession, and its many traditions. Cast * Vittorio Gassman - Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather * Stefania Sandrelli - Beatrice as a woman * Andrea Occhipinti - Carlo as a young man * Fanny Ardant - Adriana as a woman * Philippe Noiret - Jean Luc * Carlo Dapporto - Giulio as a man * Massimo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liebeskonzil
''Liebeskonzil'' is a 1982 film by Werner Schroeter, based on an 1894 play by Oskar Panizza. It was banned by the Austrian government in 1985, on the grounds that it insulted the Christian religion. In 1994, in the case of ''Otto-Preminger-Institut v. Austria'', the European Court of Human Rights The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR or ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights. The court hears applications alleging that a ... held by 6 votes to 3 that the banning of the film was a justifiable limitation on the freedom of expression, because the film would offend Austrian Roman Catholics. External links ECHR judgement* 1982 films 1980s avant-garde and experimental films German avant-garde and experimental films West German films 1980s German-language films German films based on plays Films critical of the Catholic Church Article 10 of the European Conven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danger Man
''Danger Man'' (retitled ''Secret Agent'' in the United States for the revived series, and ''Destination Danger'' and ''John Drake'' in other overseas markets) is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. ''Danger Man'' was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. Series development The idea for ''Danger Man'' originated with Ralph Smart an associate of Lew Grade, head of ITC Entertainment. Grade was looking for formats that could be exported. Ian Fleming was brought in to collaborate on series development, but left before development was complete. Like James Bond, the main character is a globetrotting British spy (although one who works for NATO rather than MI6), who cleverly extricates himself from life-threatening situations and introduces himself as "Drake...John Drake." Fleming w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ida Kar
Ida Kar (8 April 1908 – 24 December 1974) was a photographer active mainly in London after 1945. She took many black-and-white portraits of artists and writers. Her solo show of photographs at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1960 was the first of its kind to be held in a major public gallery in London. Kar thus made a significant contribution to the recognition of photography as a form of fine art. Life and work Kar was born Ida Karamian (or Karamanian) at Tambov in Russia on 8 April 1908. Her parents were Armenian; her father taught mathematics and physics. The family moved to Iran when Kar was eight, and to Alexandria in Egypt when she was thirteen. She studied at the Lycée Français there. When she was twenty she went to Paris to study chemistry and medicine, but soon began to study singing instead. She frequented the ''avant-garde'' artists and writers of the Parisian Rive Gauche, among them Piet Mondrian and Yves Tanguy, and became interested in socialist politics, in ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute named her the seventh- greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood cinema. Born in London to socially prominent American parents, Taylor moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1939. She made her acting debut with a minor role in the Universal Pictures film ''There's One Born Every Minute'' (1942), but the studio ended her contract after a year. She was then signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and became a popular teen star after appearing in ''National Velvet'' (1944). She transitioned to mature roles in the 1950s, when she starred in the comedy ''Father of the Bride'' (195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absurd (film)
''Absurd'' (Italian: ''Rosso Sangue'', literal translation: ''Red Blood''; also known as ''Anthropophagus 2'', ''Zombie 6: Monster Hunter'', ''Horrible'' and ''The Grim Reaper 2'') is a 1981 Italian slasher film directed, lensed and co-produced by Joe D'Amato and starring George Eastman (actor), George Eastman, who also wrote the story and screenplay. Plot Mikos Tanoupoulos is a man who was experimented on in a church-sanctioned scientific experiment that gave him a healing factor but inadvertently drove him insane. The Vatican City, Vatican priest who helped create him pursues the homicidal Mikos to a small American town, attempting to kill him by impaling him on a set of railings which Disembowelment, disembowel him, but he is revived later in a local hospital. After brutally murdering a nurse, the madman escapes and goes on a killing spree. The priest informs the hospital and authorities that the only way to kill Mikos is to "destroy the cerebral mass." While attacking a moto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
