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L'Agnese Va A Morire (film)
''L'Agnese va a morire'', internationally released as ''And Agnes Chose to Die'', is a 1976 Italian drama film directed by Giuliano Montaldo. It is based on a novel of the same name by Renata Viganò which won the Viareggio Prize in 1949. Cast *Ingrid Thulin: Agnese *Stefano Satta Flores: il comandante *Michele Placido: Tom *Aurore Clément: Rina *Ninetto Davoli: La disperata * William Berger: Clinto *Flavio Bucci: il pugliese *Rosalino Cellamare: Zero *Alfredo Pea: Tonitti * Roger Worrod: British Officer *Gino Santercole: Piròn *Eleonora Giorgi: Vandina *Johnny Dorelli: Walter *Massimo Girotti: Palita *Dina Sassoli: Minghina *Gabriella Giorgelli: Lorenza *Ornella Muti See also * List of Italian films of 1976 A list of films produced in Italy in 1976 (see 1976 in film): References Footnotes Sources * * External linksItalian films of 1976at the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Italian Films Of 1976 1976 Films A film ... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuliano Montaldo
Giuliano Montaldo (born 22 February 1930) is an Italian film director. Biography While he was still a young student, Montaldo was recruited by the director Carlo Lizzani for the role of leading actor in the film ''Achtung! Banditi!'' (1951). Following this experience he began an apprenticeship as an assistant director of Lizzani and Gillo Pontecorvo, as well as appearing in the 1955 ''Gli Sbandati''. In 1960 he made his debut as a director with ''Tiro al piccione'', a film about the partisan resistance, which entered for a competition in Venice Film Festival in 1961. In 1965 he wrote and directed '' Una bella grinta'', a cynical representation of the economic boom of Italy, winning the Special Prize of the Jury at 15th Berlin International Film Festival. He then directed the production ''Grand Slam'' ( 1967) which starred an international cast including Edward G. Robinson, Klaus Kinski, and Janet Leigh. His cinema career continued with ''Gott mit uns'' (1969), ''Sacco and V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Pea
Alfredo Pea (born 17 November 1954) is an Italian stage, film and television actor. Life and career Born in Rome, Pea studied acting at the "Studio di arti sceniche" drama school by Alessandro Fersen. He became first known in the mid-seventies thanks to a series of commedia sexy all'italiana films, in which he played the typical role of a shy teenager seduced by more experienced women. In the same period he started appearing, in secondary roles, in more ambitious art films, working with Giuliano Montaldo, Mario Monicelli, Marco Tullio Giordana and Giuseppe Ferrara, among others. From the late 1970s he is also active on television, in TV-movies and series of good success such as Il Capo dei Capi. Selected filmography * '' The Visitor'' (1974) * ''Classe mista'' (1975) * ''The School Teacher'' (1975) * ''And Agnes Chose to Die '' (1976) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1976) * ''La dottoressa del distretto militare'' (1976) * ''Closed Circuit'' (1978) * ''To Love the Damned'' (1980) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Set In Italy
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Giuliano Montaldo
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Drama Films
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1976 Films
The year 1976 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1976 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January – Paramount Pictures sets up a separate motion picture division and names David V. Picker as president. *March 22 – Filming begins on George Lucas' ''Star Wars'' science fiction film. In one of the most lucrative business decisions in film history, Lucas declines his directing fee of $500,000 in exchange for complete ownership of merchandising and sequel rights. *April 1 – ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show'' is officially re-released as a midnight movie at the Waverly Theater (Now the IFC Center) in Greenwich Village in New York City, starting through the run and still being shown in there all around the world. *April 9 – Alfred Hitchcock's last film, '' Family Plot'', is released. *August 11 – John Wayne appears in his final film, ''The Shootist''. *August 26 – Alan Ladd Jr. i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Italian Films Of 1976
A list of films produced in Italy in 1976 (see 1976 in film): References Footnotes Sources * * External linksItalian films of 1976at the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Italian Films Of 1976 1976 Films A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ... Lists of 1976 films by country or language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ornella Muti
Ornella Muti (born Francesca Romana Rivelli; 9 March 1955) is an Italian actress. She made her film debut as Francesca Cimarosa in the 1970 film ''La moglie più bella.'' Early life Muti was born in Rome to a Neapolitan journalist father and Ilse Renate Krause, a Baltic German sculptor from Estonia. Her maternal grandparents emigrated from Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) to Estonia. Career Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in the 1970 film ''La moglie più bella'' (''The Most Beautiful Wife''). She has primarily worked in Italian films but made her English-speaking film debut as Princess Aura in ''Flash Gordon'' in 1980. American movies she appeared in include '' Love and Money'' (1982), ''Casanova'' (1987), ''Wait Until Spring, Bandini'' (1989), '' A Season of Giants'' (1990), ''Oscar'' (1991), '' Once Upon a Crime'' (1992), ''Somewhere in the City'' (1998) and '' To Rome with Love'' (2012). In 2008, Muti introduced her own line of jewelry and subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriella Giorgelli
Gabriella Giorgelli (born 29 July 1941) is an Italian film and television actress. She appeared in more than 70 films between 1960 and 1998. Biography Early life Born in Fossola, a frazione of Carrara, Giorgelli was the daughter of a businessman in the marble industry and a housewife. As a child her parents separated and she moved to Castelpoggio, another of Carrara's frazione and her mother's birthplace. Due to her mother's economic difficulties, at ten years of age, young old Gabriella was entrusted to the college of the Sisters of Capulet, in Carrara. At fifteen years old she started to work, including as a pizza chef and a bartender. Career Giorgelli made her film debut in 1960, in a very minor role in Luigi Comencini's ''Everybody Go Home''. After winning several local and regional beauty contests, in 1961 she was among the finalists of Miss Italia, and thanks to her participation to the popular beauty pageant she started to attract a significant media attention, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina Sassoli
Dina Sassoli (15 August 1920 – 24 March 2008) was an Italian film actress. She was born on 15 August 1920, in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was best known for her work with Italian director Mario Camerini. She died on 24 March 2008 in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * '' Kean'' (1940) * '' The Betrothed'' (1941) * ''Two Anonymous Letters'' (1945) * '' Un giorno nella vita'' (1946) * ''The Mill on the Po'' (1949) * ''Little Lady'' (1949) * '' Flying Squadron'' (1949) * '' Cameriera bella presenza offresi...'' (1951) * '' The Last Sentence'' (1951) * ''I figli non si vendono'' (1952) * '' The Other Side of Paradise'' (1953) * ''And Agnes Chose to Die'' (1976) * '' Oggetti smarriti'' (1980) * ''Voltati Eugenio ''Voltati Eugenio'' (internationally released as ''Eugenio'' and ''Turn Around Eugenio'') is a 1980 Italian comedy drama film by Luigi Comencini. It entered the 37th Venice International Film Festival. The film won the David di Donatello for b ...'' (1980) R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Girotti
Massimo Girotti (18 May 1918 – 5 January 2003) was an Italian film actor whose career spanned seven decades. Born in Mogliano, in the province of Macerata, Girotti developed his athletic physique by swimming and playing polo. While studying engineering, he attracted the attention of Mario Soldati, who offered him a small part in the film '' Dora Nelson'' (1939), but it was not until later, in Alessandro Blasetti's '' La corona di ferro'' (''The Iron Crown'') (1941) and Roberto Rossellini's '' Un Pilota ritorna'' (''A Pilot Returns'') (1942), that he began to make an impression as a serious actor. In 1943 came a turning point in his career when Luchino Visconti cast him opposite the torrid Clara Calamai in ''Ossessione'' (''Obsession''), an earlier adaptation of the same novel on which Hollywood's '' The Postman Always Rings Twice'' is based. The film marked, in a sense, the birth of Italian neo-realism. Some of his notable post-war films include ''Caccia tragica'' (''The Tragic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Dorelli
Johnny Dorelli (real name Giorgio Guidi; born 20 February 1937) is an Italian actor, singer and television host. Early life Dorelli was born in Meda, Italy. In 1946 he moved to New York City with his family, where his father, Nino D'Aurelio (born Aurelio Guidi), found work as opera singer. Dorelli studied double bass and piano at the High School of Music and Art in New York. He took the stage name Dorelli in imitation of how the surname D'Aurelio was pronounced in English. His show business career began when he was discovered by bandleader Percy Faith, who brought him on The Ken Murray Show. He later appears on the show By Popular Demand conducted by Robert Alda, accompanied by Paul Whiteman. He receive a great success, in fact some American newspapers described Dorelli as a "phenomenal Italian boy". However he returned to Italy in 1955 due to the expiry of his residence permit. He debuted as singer and pianist in the late 1950s for CGD label with cover of American standa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
