''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
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Lina Sastri as Nadia Cossa
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Cristina Marsillach
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Biography
She was born in Madrid in a family of actors, the daughter of the actor Adolfo Marsillach and the actress and model María Teresa del Río Martínez del Cerro, who was ...
as Angela Venturi
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Donald Pleasence as Dreyfuss
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Franco Interlenghi as the prosecutor
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Massimo Bonetti as Marco La Valle
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Glauco Onorato
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As an actor and dubber popular with audiences throughout Italy, he was renowned for voicing over nearly all of Bud Spencer's roles as Spencer had a thick ...
as Locasciulli
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Mariangela Giordano as Miss Locasciulli
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Cochi Ponzoni as Luigi Russo
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Biagio Pelligra
Biagio Pelligra (born 24 June 1937, in Comiso) is an Italian stage, film and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Comiso, Province of Ragusa, Pelligra started his acting career in the second half of the sixties, and after several minor rol ...
as Antonio Guidotti
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Imma Piro as Angela's sister
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Lucio Rosato
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Lucio is also an Italian surname.
Given name
* Lúcio (Lucimar Ferreira da Silva) (born 1978), Brazilian f ...
as Luigi Cosantini
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Marzio Honorato
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as Renzi
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Vassili Karis as the killer
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Arnaldo Ninchi as the blind man
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Raffaella Baracchi
Raffaella Baracchi (born Turin, Italy on 25 March 1964) is a retired Italian actress and 1983 Miss Italia.
Miss Italia
Raffaella Baracchi, by the year 1983 and as ''Miss Piedmont'', won the Miss Italia contest and represented Italy at the Miss U ...
as Cora Cardinali
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Adriana Russo as Clara
Production
The film was co-produced by
Fulvio Lucisano,
Rai 2 and
Odeon TV, marking the first co-production between
RAI and a private television channel.
It had a budget of about 6 billion
lire.
Release
The film was broadcast on
Rai 2 in two parts on 9–10 January 1991, about a month after Corbucci's death.
References
External links
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{{Sergio Corbucci
1991 films
Italian crime drama films
1990s Italian-language films
Italian action films
Films directed by Sergio Corbucci
Films scored by Manuel De Sica