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Lina Sastri
Pasqualina "Lina" Sastri is an Italian actress and singer. Life and career Born in Naples, Lina Sastri started acting in amateur dramatics at very young age. She made her professional debut with the theatrical company Teatro Libero, and had her breakout in 1974, starring in the musical drama ''Masaniello''. On stage, she worked intensively with Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, and her collaborations include Eduardo De Filippo, Fabio Carpi and Memè Perlini. Sastri made her film debut in '' Il prefetto di ferro'', in 1977. In 1984 she won a Silver Ribbon for Best Actress and a David di Donatello in the same category for her performance in '' Where's Picone?''. One year later, she won the same two awards for her role in '' Secrets Secrets''. In 1987 she was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress for Damiano Damiani's '' L'inchiesta''. As a singer she has released numerous albums, mainly sung in the Neapolitan dialect. She participated at the Sanremo Festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naples
Naples ( ; ; ) is the Regions of Italy, regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its Metropolitan City of Naples, province-level municipality is the third most populous Metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 2,958,410 residents, and the List of urban areas in the European Union, eighth most populous in the European Union. Naples metropolitan area, Its metropolitan area stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately . Naples also plays a key role in international diplomacy, since it is home to NATO's Allied Joint Force Command Naples and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean. Founded by Greeks in the 1st millennium BC, first millennium BC, Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in the world. In the eighth century BC, a colony known as Parthenope () was e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanremo Festival
The Sanremo Music Festival ( ), officially the Italian Song Festival (), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria, organized and broadcast by (RAI). It is the longest-running annual TV music competition in the world on a national level (making it one of the world's longest-running television programmes) and it is also the basis and inspiration for the annual Eurovision Song Contest. Unlike other awards in Italy, the Sanremo Music Festival is a competition for new songs, not an award to previous successes (like the for television, the for stage performances, and the Premio David di Donatello for motion pictures). The first edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, held between 29 and 31 January 1951, was broadcast by RAI's radio station Rete Rossa, and its only three participants were Nilla Pizzi, Achille Togliani, and Duo Fasano. Starting from 1955, all editions of the festival have been broadcast live by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Excellent Cadavers (film)
''Excellent Cadavers'' (, and also known as "Falcone") is a 1999 television film directed by Ricky Tognazzi. The film is based on the book with the same name by Alexander Stille and tells the real life events of judge Giovanni Falcone. It was filmed in Palermo and Rome. The TV movie was broadcast by HBO October 16, 1999. Plot In 1978, Judge Giovanni Falcone, while in Favignana attending a mattanza, learns that he has been transferred from the court of Trapani to that of Palermo. There, the investigating judge Gaetano Costa, a friend of Falcone, is assassinated just two months before retirement. After the death of his colleague, Falcone is assigned a bodyguard, Mario Fabbri. In 1984, he interrogates Tommaso Buscetta. Falcone would then have to fight, alongside his friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino, against Totò Riina and Cosa Nostra, but also against the growing hostility directed at him—even from other magistrates. Both Sicilian judges would lose their lives in two se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Chiamarono
Li, li, or LI may refer to: Businesses and organizations * Landscape Institute, a British professional body for landscape architects * Leadership Institute, a non-profit organization located in Arlington, Virginia, US, that teaches "political technology." * Li Auto (Nasdaq: LI), a Chinese manufacturer of electric vehicles * Liberal International, a political federation for liberal parties * Linux International, an international non-profit organization * Lyndon Institute, an independent high school in the U.S. state of Vermont * The Light Infantry, a British Army infantry regiment Names * Li (surname), including: ** List of people with surname Li ** Li (surname 李), one of the most common surnames in the world ** Li (surname 黎), the 84th most common surname in China ** Li (surname 栗), the 249th most common surname in China ** Li (surname 利), the 299th most common surname in China ** Li (surname 厉), a Chinese surname ** Li (surname 郦), a Chinese surname * Li Andersson ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strangled Lives
''Strangled Lives'' (, ) is a 1996 French-Italian crime film directed by Ricky Tognazzi. It was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Alfred Bauer Prize. Cast * Vincent Lindon as Francesco * Sabrina Ferilli as Miriam * Luca Zingaretti as Sergio * Ricky Memphis as Claudio * Lina Sastri as Sauro * Francesco Venditti as Robertino * Violante Placido as Laura * Vittorio Amandola as Antiquario * Giuseppe Manfridi as Brizzi * Marilyn Pater Marilyn may refer to: People * Marilyn (given name) * Marilyn (singer) (born 1962), English singer * Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962), an American actress Places * Marilyn (hill), a type of mountain or hill in the British Isles with a prominence ... as Consuelo * Giuppy Izzo as Daniela * Antonello Morroni as Faina References External links * 1996 films Italian crime drama films 1990s Italian-language films 1996 crime drama films Films directed by Ricky Tognazzi Films scored by Ennio Morricone Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celluloide
''Celluloide'' is a 1996 Italian historical drama film directed by Carlo Lizzani from a screenplay by Furio Scarpelli, Ugo Pirro and Lizzani, based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Pirro. It stars Giancarlo Giannini, Massimo Ghini, Anna Falchi, and Lina Sastri. Plot The story revolves around the difficult production of Roberto Rossellini's film ''Rome, Open City'' (1945). Cast *Giancarlo Giannini as Sergio Amidei * Massimo Ghini as Roberto Rossellini * Anna Falchi as Maria Michi * Lina Sastri as Anna Magnani * Massimo Dapporto as Giuseppe Amato * Antonello Fassari as Aldo Fabrizi *Milva as The Countess *Christopher Walken as US Officer Rod E. Geiger * Massimo Ciavarro as Massimo Serato *Francesca Ventura as Jone Tuzi, the script supervisor *Francesco Siciliano as Federico Fellini Giuliano Montaldo has an uncredited cameo as Civalleri, one of the film's early financers. Production The film was a passion project of Lizzani's, who tried to get it financed since 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women In Arms (film)
''Women in Arms'' (also known as ''Donne armate'') is 1991 Italian television action-drama film directed by Sergio Corbucci. It was Corbucci's final work. Plot Nadia Cossa is a political prisoner who manages to escape during a transfer to a new prison. The young policewoman who was escorting her is suspended but starts investigating on her behalf and follows her trail. Cast * Lina Sastri as Nadia Cossa * Cristina Marsillach as Angela Venturi * Donald Pleasence as Dreyfuss * Franco Interlenghi as the prosecutor * Massimo Bonetti as Marco La Valle * Glauco Onorato as Locasciulli * Mariangela Giordano as Miss Locasciulli * Cochi Ponzoni as Luigi Russo * Biagio Pelligra as Antonio Guidotti * Imma Piro as Angela's sister * Lucio Rosato as Luigi Cosantini * Marzio Honorato as Renzi * Vassili Karis as the killer * Arnaldo Ninchi as the blind man * Raffaella Baracchi as Cora Cardinali * Adriana Russo as Clara Production The film was co-produced by Fulvio Lucisano, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Misunderstandings
''Piccoli equivoci'' (internationally released as ''Little Misunderstandings'') is a 1989 Italian comedy film directed by Ricky Tognazzi. It was shown at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, in the section "Quinzaine des Réalisateurs". For this film Nancy Brilli won a David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress and a Silver Ribbon in the same category. The director Ricky Tognazzi was instead awarded with a David di Donatello for Best New Director and a Silver Ribbon in the same category. Cast *Sergio Castellitto: Paolo *Lina Sastri: Francesca *Roberto Citran: Giuliano *Nancy Brilli: Sophie * Nicola Pistoia: Enrico *Pino Quartullo Giuseppe "Pino" Quartullo (born 12 July 1957) is an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and playwright. Life and career Born in Civitavecchia, after getting a degree in architecture, Quartullo graduated in directing at the Silvio d’Amico ...: Piero References External links * 1989 films Commedia all'italiana Films directed by Ricky T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Strangeness Of Life
''Strana la vita'', internationally released as ''The Strangeness of Life'', is a 1987 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. It is based on a novel by Giovanni Pascutto. Cast * Diego Abatantuono: Dario * Monica Guerritore: Anna * Domiziana Giordano: Silvia * Amanda Sandrelli: Ester * Massimo Venturiello: Mario * Lina Sastri: Nora * Felice Andreasi Felice Andreasi (8 January 1928, in Turin – 25 December 2005, in Cortazzone) was an Italian film, television, and stage actor. He appeared in over 50 films in Italy between 1972 and 2005. Biography He was considered one of the leading stage a ...: father of Nora * Maria Monti: mother of Anna * Nick Novecento: Giacomino * Anita Laurenzi: mother of Nora * Claudio Bisio: a patient References External links * 1987 films 1987 comedy-drama films Films directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci Italian comedy-drama films Films scored by Nicola Piovani 1980s Italian films 1980s Italian-language films [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Inquiry (1986 Film)
''L'inchiesta'' (internationally released as ''The Inquiry'') is a 1986 Italian historical drama film directed by Damiano Damiani. For this film Lina Sastri was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress. The film had a remake with the same title in 2006. Plot Tiberius sends Titus Valerius Taurus to Judea to investigate Jesus, whose followers say he has risen. However, he is stopped by Pontius Pilate, who has sentenced Jesus to death. Claudia Procula, Pilate's wife, helps Taurus because she liked Jesus's teachings. She shows Taurus where Jesus's body was buried. A few more questions are asked, and Pilate makes up a story about finding the body to end the investigation. Taurus knows it is not Jesus's body. After many ups and downs, he meets Mary of Magdala, who cares for lepers outside Jerusalem. He goes to her community to keep a promise and learns about Jesus' disciples serving the suffering. Valerio Tauro is killed in the desert by Pilate's vengeance. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woman Of Wonders
''Woman of Wonders'' () is a 1985 Italian film directed by Alberto Bevilacqua and based on a novel with the same name by him. It entered the competition at the 1985 Venice International Film Festival. Cast *Ben Gazzara as Alberto * Lina Sastri as Luisa *Claudia Cardinale as Maura *Orazio Orlando Orazio Orlando (14 June 1933 – 18 December 1990) was an Italian film, stage and television actor. Life and career Born in Naples, Orlando attended the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica, Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome for two seasons, in 1953 ... as Ulisse * Flavio Bucci as Astolfo * Fabrizio Bentivoglio as Gianni References External links * 1985 films Italian romantic drama films 1980s Italian-language films Films directed by Alberto Bevilacqua Films based on Italian novels Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli 1980s Italian films {{1980s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hearts And Armour
''Hearts and Armour'' () is a 1983 Italian adventure film directed by Giacomo Battiato. It is loosely based on the stories of the Paladins especially the epic poem ''Orlando Furioso'' by Ludovico Ariosto. The film was generally panned by critics, but appreciated on its visual side. The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' wrote "The settings are sensational, the costumes are magnificent. The story, on the other hand, is almost non-existent". '' Starburst'' said it's "the best film to come out of Italy in a long while." ''Hearts and Armour'' won the David di Donatello for Best Costumes. A much longer version of the film was broadcast as a mini-series on Italian television. Cast * Zeudi Araya as Marfisa * Barbara De Rossi as Bradamante * Rick Edwards as Rolando * Ronn Moss as Ruggiero * Maurizio Nichetti as Atlante * Tanya Roberts as Isabella * Giovanni Visentin as Gano * Tony Vogel as Ferraù * Leigh McCloskey as Rinaldo * Lina Sastri as Maga * Lucien Bruchon as Aquilante * Alfr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
