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Léa Massari
Anna Maria Massetani (born 30 June 1933), known professionally as Lea Massari, is an Italian actress and singer. Massetani was born in Rome and studied architecture in Switzerland. She adopted her stage name at the age of 22, after the sudden death of her fiancé Leo. Massari became known in art cinema for two roles: the missing girl Anna in Michelangelo Antonioni's ''L'Avventura'' (1960), and as Clara, the mother of a sexually precocious 14-year-old boy named Laurent (Benoît Ferreux) in Louis Malle's ''Murmur of the Heart'' (1971). Massari worked in both Italian and French cinema. Her career includes Sergio Leone's debut '' The Colossus of Rhodes'' (''Il Colosso di Rodi'', 1961) and international commercial films such as ''The Things of Life'' (''Les choses de la vie'', 1970). Massari was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975. Massari won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress award for her appearance in Francesco Rosi's ''Christ Stopped at Ebo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Avventura
''L'Avventura'' () is a 1960 drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Developed from a story by Antonioni with co-writers Elio Bartolini and Tonino Guerra, the film is about the disappearance of a young woman ( Lea Massari) during a boating trip in the Mediterranean, and the subsequent search for her by her lover ( Gabriele Ferzetti) and her best friend ( Monica Vitti). It was filmed on location in Rome, the Aeolian Islands, and Sicily in 1959 under difficult financial and physical conditions. The film is noted for its unusual pacing, which emphasizes visual composition, mood, and character over traditional narrative development. ''L'Avventura'' was nominated for numerous awards and was awarded the Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. The film made Vitti an international star. According to an Antonioni obituary, the film "systematically subverted the filmic codes, practices and structures in currency at its time". ''L'Avventura'' is the first film of a trilogy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proibito
''Proibito'' () is a 1954 Italian drama film directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Mel Ferrer. Cast * Mel Ferrer as Don Paolo Solinas * Amedeo Nazzari as Costantino Corraine * Lea Massari as Agnese Barras * Henri Vilbert as Niccodemo Barras * Germaine Kerjean as Maddalena Solinas * Paolo Ferrara as Maresciallo Taddei * Eduardo Ciannelli as Vescovo * Decimo Cristiani as Antonio * Ornella Spegni as La vedova Casu * Memmo Luisi as Antioco * Marco Guglielmi Marco Guglielmi (6 October 1926 – 28 December 2005) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and author. Life and career Born Augusto Guglielmi in Sanremo, he graduated from ragioneria, then he enrolled at the university in the faculty of econom ... as Mareddu References External links * 1954 films 1954 drama films 1950s Italian-language films Films scored by Nino Rota Films based on works by Grazia Deledda Films shot in Sardinia Films directed by Mario Monicelli Films set in Sardinia Films with screenpl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Made In Italy (1965 Film)
''Made in Italy'' is a 1965 Italian anthology comedy film directed by Nanni Loy. Cast Usi e costumi * Lando Buzzanca * Aldo Giuffrè * Walter Chiari * Lea Massari * Claudio Gora * Marina Berti * Renzo Marignano Le donne * Virna Lisi * Giulio Bosetti * Catherine Spaak * Fabrizio Moroni * Mario Meniconi * Sylva Koscina * Jean Sorel Il lavoro * Gino Mucci * Milena Vukotic * Aldo Fabrizi * Nino Castelnuovo * Mario Pisu * Enzo Liberti Il cittadino, lo stato, la Chiesa * Nino Manfredi * Carlo Pisacane * Gigi Reder * Carlo Taranto * Ugo Fangareggi * Enzo Petito La famiglia * Peppino De Filippo * Tecla Scarano * Alberto Sordi * Rossella Falk * Claudie Lange * Marcella Rovena * Anna Magnani * Andrea Checchi * Antonio Casagrande * Franco Balducci Emigranti * Giampiero Albertini * Aldo Bufi Landi * Adelmo Di Fraia * Renato Terra Renato Terra (26 July 1922 – 28 November 2010), also known by the alias Ryan Earthpick, was an Italian actor and later a poet. Biogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Camp Followers
''The Camp Followers'' () is a 1965 Italian World War II film directed by Valerio Zurlini and starring Anna Karina. Based on a 1956 novel by Ugo Pirro, it tells the story of a young lieutenant in the Italian Army who in 1942 is ordered to take a lorryload of Greek prostitutes from starving Athens under Axis occupation to entertain the Italian troops fighting Partisans in Albania. The film was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Silver Prize. Plot In 1942, disheartened at the starvation and disease in Athens, Lieutenant Martino of the Italian Army requests a posting elsewhere. He finds himself, with a Sergeant Castagnoli, in charge of a lorry containing twelve prostitutes who he has to deliver up country to various military establishments. This is not what he joined the army for, nor does he see how it will contribute to victory. On the way, they are obliged to accept a Major Alessi as a passenger. An unpleasant character, he outranks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unvanquished (film)
''The Unvanquished'' (; ; also known as ''Have I the Right to Kill?'') is a 1964 film noir directed by Alain Cavalier and starring Alain Delon opposite Lea Massari. The film's background is the Algerian War and Alain Delon plays Thomas Vlassenroot, a deserter of the French Foreign Legion in Algeria during the 1961 uprising. When a former lieutenant who now works for the OAS proposes to him to kidnap lawyer Dominique Servet (played by Massari), Thomas agrees. Caught giving Dominique water, Thomas goes on the run after a shoot out with his OAS colleagues, who subsequently begin to hunt them down. The film was not a completely happy experience for Alain Delon. He sustained physical injuries while filming and the reception of the picture by the French public was not good. The censors insisted on a number of cuts which compromised the artistic integrity of the film. Synopsis Thomas Vlassenroot, a citizen of Luxembourg, after his divorce, decides to enlist in the French Foreign L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weeping For A Bandit
''Weeping for a Bandit'' () is a 1964 Spanish drama film directed by Carlos Saura. It was Saura's first film in color. It was co-produced with France and Italy, and starred Italian Lea Massari and French-Italian Lino Ventura. Thanks to his friendship with Saura, filmmaker Luis Buñuel has a small role. The film was entered into the 14th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Francisco Rabal – José María 'El Tempranillo' * Lea Massari – María Jerónima * Philippe Leroy – Pedro Sánchez * Lino Ventura – El Lutos * Manuel Zarzo – El Sotillo * Silvia Solar – Marquesa de los Cerros * Fernando Sánchez Polack – Antonio (as Fernando S. Polack) * Antonio Prieto – El Lero * José Manuel Martín – El Tuerto * Agustín González – Capitán Leoncio Valdés * Venancio Muro – Jiménez * Rafael Romero (actor) – El gitano * Gabriele Tinti * Luis Buñuel – El verdugo * Antonio Buero Vallejo Antonio Buero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Captive City (1962 Film)
''The Captive City'' (Italian: ''La città prigioniera'') is a 1962 Italian English-language war film directed by Joseph Anthony and starring David Niven, Lea Massari and Ben Gazzara. It is based on the 1955 novel ''The Captive City'' by John Appleby. The film was released in the US as ''Conquered City'' by American International Pictures as a double feature with '' The Day the Earth Froze''. Plot At the end of the Second World War, Athens is liberated by the Allies. Greek soldiers and partisans, fresh from waging guerilla warfare on the Germans join with local insurgents in an attempt to seize power and the British are finally compelled to vacate the city to encamp around its perimeter.Gibraltar Chronicle newspaper; dated 15th October 1966; Page 5 Meanwhile, a small group of men and women in a hotel find themselves besieged by a rebel army that wants the Nazi armaments in the basement. Cast * David Niven as Major Peter Whitfield * Lea Massari as Lelia Mendores * Ben Gazzara as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Four Days Of Naples (film)
''The Four Days of Naples'' () is a 1962 Italian film, directed by Nanni Loy and set during the Four days of Naples, uprising (28 September 1943 to 1 October 1943) which gives its name. It stars Regina Bianchi, Aldo Giuffrè, Lea Massari, Jean Sorel, Franco Sportelli, Charles Belmont, Gian Maria Volonté and Frank Wolff (actor), Frank Wolff. The film won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Director, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Writing Original Screenplay, and a BAFTA Award for Best Film. At the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival in 1963, the film was awarded with the FIPRESCI Prize. Plot Following the truce between Italy and the Allies of World War II, Allies in World War II, German forces occupy Naples and begin to shoot resisters, demolish port facilities and round up young men to be transported to Germany as forced labour under German rule during World War II, forced labour. The city's popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreams Die At Dawn
''Dreams Die at Dawn'' () is a 1961 Italian drama film directed by Mario Craveri, Enrico Gras and Indro Montanelli.Goble p.331 It is set during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Cast * Lea Massari as Anna Miklos * Ivo Garrani Ivo Garrani (6 February 1924 – 25 March 2015) was an Italian actor and voice actor. In films since 1952, Garrani is possibly best known for his role as Prince Vajda in Mario Bava's '' Black Sunday'' (1960). Biography Born in Introdacqua, ... as Andrea * Gianni Santuccio as Gianni * Aroldo Tieri as Antonio * Mario Feliciani as Mario * Renzo Montagnani as Sergio * Rina Centa as Ethel Miklos References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1961 films Italian drama films 1961 drama films 1960s Italian-language films Films directed by Mario Craveri Films directed by Enrico Gras Films scored by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino Films set in Buda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Difficult Life
''A Difficult Life'' (Italian: ''Una vita difficile'') is a ''Commedia all'italiana'' or Italian-style comedy film directed by Dino Risi in 1961. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." Plot The film tells the story of Italian politics from 1944 to 1960, from the poverty of World War II to the end of fascism and the birth of the Italian Republic and the rise of the Italian Communist Party. It follows the life of Silvio, who strongly believes his political activism should be rewarded but eventually realizes that the Italy he once knew has changed and he must change with it. In 1944, Roman student Silvio Magnozzi (Alberto Sordi), is a second lieutenant in the Royal Army serving near Lake Como. After the Italian surrender on September 8, 1943, the Italian king abandons his army and flees south. Silvio joins a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Colosso Di Rodi
''The Colossus of Rhodes'' () is a 1961 Italian sword and sandal film co-written and directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Rory Calhoun, it is a fictional account of the island of Rhodes during its classical period in the late third century BC before coming under Roman control, using the Colossus of Rhodes as a backdrop for the story of a war hero who becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow a tyrannical king: one by Rhodian patriots and the other by Phoenician agents. The film was Leone's first work as a credited director, in a genre where he already had worked before (as the replacement director for ''The Last Days of Pompeii'' and as a secondary director for both ''Ben-Hur'' and ''Quo Vadis''). It is perhaps the least known of the seven films he officially directed, and is the only one without an Ennio Morricone score. The film is set during the time following Alexander the Great’s death (323 BC) but before the rise of the Roman Empire (27 BC), known as the Hellenis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From A Roman Balcony
''From a Roman Balcony'' (, ) is a 1960 Italian–French Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It is based on several stories by Alberto Moravia, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Pier Paolo Pasolini and Marco Visconti. The Italian theatrical release suffered several censorship problems, including the blocking of screenings, and a criminal complaint against director Bolognini and screenwriters Moravia and Pasolini. The film was also shown under the alternate English titles ''Pickup in Rome'', ''A Crazy Day'' and ''Love is a Day's Work''. Plot Davide, a twenty-year-old living in the Roman suburbs, and his girlfriend Ivana have just become parents of a young son. Blamed by both his and Ivana's mother for his idle and irresponsible ways, Davide starts out to look for a day job. On his way, he meets his former girlfriend Marina, who in her own words now works as a "manicure", but is actually a prostitute. After a short sexual encounter, Marina helps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |