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The Last Day Of School Before Christmas
''The Last Day of School Before Christmas'' ( it, L'ultimo giorno di scuola prima delle vacanze di Natale) is a 1975 drama film written and directed by Gian Vittorio Baldi. It was screened at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section. Plot Cast *Macha Méril as Egle *Lino Capolicchio as Erasmo *John Steiner as The Lieutenant *Luca Bonicalzi as Athos *Delia Boccardo as Germana *Riccardo Cucciolla as Ambro *Lidia Biondi as Prostitute *Laura Betti as Passenger * Giovanella Grifeo as Girl of Remembrance *Lou Castel Lou Castel (born Ulv Quarzell; 28 May 1943) is a Swedish actor who became known through his work in Italian films. Life and career The son of a Swedish father and an Irish mother, Castel was born Ulv Quarzell in Bogotá, Colombia, where his fat ... as Partisan See also * List of Christmas films References External links * 1970s Christmas drama films Italian Christmas drama films 1975 drama films 1975 films 1970s Italian film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gian Vittorio Baldi
Gian Vittorio Baldi (30 October 1930 - 23 March 2015) was an Italian film producer, director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Baldi graduated in Social science at the Sapienza University in Rome and then enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. He debuted as a director of documentary shorts, and in 1958 he won the Golden Lion for best short film at the Venice Film Festival with ''Il pianto delle zitelle'' ("''The crying of spinsters''"). He directed a number of independent films, generally characterized by social criticism. His film ''Fuoco!'' entered the main competition at the 29th Venice International Film Festival, while the film ''L'ultimo giorno di scuola prima delle vacanze di Natale'' (aka '' The Last Day of School Before Christmas'') was screened at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section. Baldi also worked as a producer of art films, producing films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Robert Bresson, Nelo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lidia Biondi
Lidia Biondi (3 February 1941 – 14 June 2016), often credited as Lydia Biondi, was an Italian film and television actress who appeared in more than 40 Italian and foreign films since the 1960s. Her international film credits included ''Eat Pray Love'' (2010), starring Julia Roberts, and ''Letters to Juliet'' (2010), directed by Gary Winick, in which she appeared opposite Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave. Most recently, Biondi appeared in a series of television dramas, including '' La squadra'', ''Compagni di banco'', ''Il bello delle donne'', ''Diritto di difesa'', ''L'onore e il rispetto'', ''Il Sangue e la Rosa'', and ''Aldo Moro - Il presidente'' during the 2000s and 2010s. Biondi was born and brought up in Livorno, Tuscany. She died in Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 Drama Films
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Italian Christmas Drama Films
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1970s Christmas Drama Films
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Christmas Films
Many Christmas stories have been adapted to feature films and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on television; since the popularization of home video in the 1980s, their many editions are sold and re-sold every year during the holiday shopping season. Theatrical Christmas-themed films which received a theatrical release. File:It's a Wonderful Life.png, ''It's a Wonderful Life'' File:Meet Me In St Louis Judy Garland Margaret O'Brien 1944.jpg, ''Meet Me in St. Louis'', Judy Garland Margaret O'Brien 1944 File:IngridBergmanTheBellsofSaintMarysTrailerScreenshot1945.jpg, Ingrid Bergman, '' The Bells of Saint Marys'', 1945 File:The Bishop's Wife (1948 poster).jpg, ''The Bishop's Wife'', 1948 ''A Christmas Carol'' adaptations ''The Nutcracker'' adaptations Christmas action films Christmas horror films Christmas Thriller films Short films Made-for-television and direct-to-video These are films that were made for television (including streamin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Castel
Lou Castel (born Ulv Quarzell; 28 May 1943) is a Swedish actor who became known through his work in Italian films. Life and career The son of a Swedish father and an Irish mother, Castel was born Ulv Quarzell in Bogotá, Colombia, where his father was working as a diplomat. He and his twin brother grew up in Cartagena. When Castel was 6, his parents separated. He followed his mother to Europe and went to school in London, briefly at Dartington Hall School with his sister Solveig, then in Stockholm. He subsequently went to live in Rome where his mother was working in the local film industry. A communist, Castel's mother also introduced her son to politics. Interested in acting from an early age, he attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, but was quickly kicked out. His first movie role was an uncredited extra in ''The Leopard'' (1963). Two years later, he gained international fame for his performance in ''Fists in the Pocket'', in which he played the epileptic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanella Grifeo
''Giovanella'' is a genus of blow fly in the family Mesembrinellidae Mesembrinellidae is a family of Neotropical flies in the order Diptera, and formerly included in the Calliphoridae. There are 36 described species. Taxonomy *Subfamily Laneellinae Guimarães, 1977 :*''Laneella'' Mello, 1967 ::*'' L. nigripes'' Gu .... Species *'' G. bolivar'' Bonatto and Marinoni, 2005 *'' G. carvalhoi'' Wolff et al., 2013 References {{Taxonbar, from=Q18112904 Mesembrinellidae Diptera of South America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Betti
Laura Betti ( Trombetti; 1 May 1927 – 31 July 2004) was an Italian actress known particularly for her work with directors Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci. She had a long friendship with Pasolini and made a documentary about him in 2001. Betti became famous for portraying bizarre, grotesque, eccentric, unstable or maniacal roles, like Regina in Bernardo Bertolucci's ''1900'', Anna the medium in ''Twitch of the Death Nerve'', Giovanna la pazza in ''Woman Buried Alive'', hysterical Rita Zigai in '' Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina'', Therese in '' Private Vices, Public Virtues'', Emilia the servant in Pier Paolo Pasolini's ''Teorema'' for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and Mildred the protagonist's wife in Mario Bava's ''Hatchet for the Honeymoon''. Early life Born Laura Trombetti in Casalecchio di Reno, near Bologna, she grew up to be interested in singing. She first worked professionally in the arts as a jazz singer and moved to Rome. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riccardo Cucciolla
Riccardo Cucciolla (5 September 1924 – 17 September 1999) was an Italian actor and voice actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1953 and 1999. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for the film '' Sacco & Vanzetti''. Biography Born in Bari, in southern Italy, Cucciolla gained a degree in law, then made his stage debut in an amateur production in his home city. From 1946, he started working in radio as a voice actor and as the narrator of documentaries; at the same time, he started working in cinema, as a dubber and a voice actor. Cucciolla made his film debut in 1953, in Anton Giulio Majano's ''Good Folk's Sunday''. After some minor roles, he had his first important role in ''Italiani brava gente'' (1965), followed by a further significant role in Giuliano Montaldo's ''Grand Slam'' (1967). Cucciolla came to national and international recognition with the leading role in Montaldo's '' Sacco e Vanzetti'', for which he was awarded best actor at Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macha Méril
Macha Méril (; born Princess Maria-Magdalena Vladimirovna Gagarina on 3 September 1940) is a French actress and writer. Biography Méril is descended by her father from the Russian princely house Gagarin and by her mother from a Ukrainian noble family. She appeared in 125 films between 1959 and 2012, including films directed by Jean-Luc Godard (''A Married Woman'' / ''Une femme mariée''), Luis Buñuel ('' Belle de jour''), and Rainer Werner Fassbinder ('' Chinese Roulette''). She also appeared in the Quebec television series ''Lance et Compte''. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Helga Ulmann in Dario Argento's ''Deep Red'' and in Aldo Lado Aldo Lado (born 5 December 1934) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and writer. Lado was born in Fiume, Italy (today Rijeka, Croatia). Lado wrote the screenplays for 21 films between 1968 and 2004 and directed 14 films between 1971 and 1 ...'s '' Night Train Murders'' (1975). Theater Filmography References Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delia Boccardo
Delia Boccardo (born 29 January 1948) is an Italian film, television and stage actress. Life and career Born in Genoa, Boccardo spent her childhood and adolescence in Nervi, then studied at a Swiss college, at the Poggio Imperiale girls' school and, for about three years, at a college in Sussex, England. In 1965 she moved to Rome where she attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Boccardo made her film debut in 1966, in the Spaghetti Western '' Death Walks in Laredo''; she made her stage debut in 1967, alongside Raf Vallone in ''Uno sguardo dal ponte''. From the mid-1980s she focused her appearances on stage, where she worked intensively with Luca Ronconi, and on television. Partial filmography * '' Death Walks in Laredo'' (1966) - Mady * ''The Wild Eye'' (1967) - Barbara Bates * ''Inspector Clouseau'' (1968) - Lisa Morrel * ''Snow Job'' (1969) - Lorraine Borman * ''Detective Belli'' (1969) - Sandy Bronson * '' The Adventurers'' (1970) - Caroline de Coyne * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
