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And Agnes Chose To Die
''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. Plot Agnese is a middle-aged woman from Comacchio who lives with her husband Palita, a member of the Italian Resistance. One day her husband is deported to a concentration camp, where he will die; due to her loss she wants to help her companions by bringing food, information, weapons and news from one country to another. She therefore becomes a partisan relay: her life continues like this for six months but one day a German soldier kills his black cat for fun and that same night Agnese hits him by breaking his head with the butt of a machine gun and leaving him for dead. Agnese must escape and, consequently, become part of the clandestine life of the Resistance, becoming "mother Agnese": she prepares meals for partisans, checks that there are sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuliano Montaldo
Giuliano Montaldo (22 February 1930 – 6 September 2023) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He was known internationally for his biographical docudrama Sacco & Vanzetti (1971 film), ''Sacco & Vanzetti'' (1971), which was nominated for the Palme d'Or, and the historical miniseries ''Marco Polo (mini-series), Marco Polo'' (1982), which won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series. He served as the 5th President of the Accademia del Cinema Italiano. Biography Early life and career Montaldo was born in Genoa in 1930. He had his first acting experiences in "mass theatre" productions conducted by the Italian Communist Party. While he was still a young student, Montaldo was recruited by the director Carlo Lizzani for a role in the war drama ''Attention! Bandits!'' (1951). Following this experience he began an apprenticeship as an assistant director of Lizzani, Elio Petri, and Gil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Resistance
The Italian Resistance ( ), or simply ''La'' , consisted of all the Italy, Italian Resistance during World War II, resistance groups who fought the occupying forces of Nazi Germany and the fascist collaborationists of the Italian Social Republic during the Second World War in Italy from 1943 to 1945. As a diverse anti-fascism, anti-fascist and anti-Nazist movement and organisation, the opposed Nazi Germany and its Fascist puppet state regime, the Italian Social Republic, which the Germans created following the Nazi German invasion and military occupation of Italy by the and the from 8 September 1943 until 25 April 1945. General underground Italian opposition to the Kingdom of Italy under Fascism (1922–1943), Fascist Italian government existed even before World War II, but open and armed resistance followed the German invasion of Italy on 8 September 1943: in Nazi-occupied Italy, the Italian Resistance fighters, known as the (Partisan (military), partisans), fought a ('nati ... [...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 known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of Visual arts, visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are gen ... Lists of 1976 films by country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ornella Muti
Francesca Romana Rivelli (born 9 March 1955), professionally known as Ornella Muti, is an Italian actress. Among the best-known Italian actresses, in her career, she has worked across various genres, working alongside Italian directors such as Damiano Damiani, Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Marco Ferreri, Carlo Verdone, Ettore Scola, Francesca Archibugi, Paolo Virzì, Umberto Lenzi, Francesco Nuti and many others. Outside of Italy, she is best known for her role as Princess Aura in the science fiction cult film ''Flash Gordon'' (1980). Career Muti was born in Rome to a Neapolitan journalist father and Ilse Renate Krause, a Russian Baltic German sculptor from Estonia. Her maternal grandparents emigrated from Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) to Estonia. Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in the 1970 film '' La moglie più bella'' (''The Most Beautiful Wife'') at the age of fourteen. In the early seventies, thanks to the great success of the film, sh ... [...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. When she was 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 in the popular beauty pageant she started to attract a significant me ... [...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) * '' Captain Tempest'' (1942) * '' The Lion of Damascus'' (1942) * '' Two Anonymous Letters'' (1945) * '' No Turning Back'' (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 ''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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Dorelli
Giorgio Guidi (born 20 February 1937), known professionally as Johnny Dorelli, is an Italian actor, singer and television host. Early life Giorgio Guidi was born in Meda, Lombardy, Italy. In 1946, he moved with his family to New York City, where his father, Aurelio Guidi, found work as an opera singer under the stage name Nino D'Aurelio. He studied double bass and piano at the High School of Music and Art in New York. His stage name Dorelli was chosen in imitation of how ''D'Aurelio'' was pronounced in English. Career Dorelli's show business career began when he was discovered by bandleader Percy Faith, who brought him on '' The Ken Murray Show''. He later appeared on the show ''By Popular Demand'' conducted by Robert Alda, accompanied by Paul Whiteman. He received great acclaim, with some American newspapers describing 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 pianis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gino Santercole
Gino Santercole (21 November 1940 – 8 June 2018) was an Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor. He was well known for his breakthrough hit "Questo vecchio pazzo mondo" ("This old crazy world"), a cover of P. F. Sloan's " Eve of Destruction", and for the song "Ma che freddo stasera (Such a Cold Night Tonight)" that he sang in the movie ''Yuppi du'' (1975). Life Early life Santercole was born in Milan, Italy, on 21 November 1940. His family is originally from the south eastern region of Apulia. Santercole's mother, Rosa, was the sister of the singer-songwriter, comedian, and movie director Adriano Celentano. Santercole lost his father as a child. He spent some years in college, and was then forced to go to work by himself. He was fond of rock n' roll, and in his free time he learned to play the guitar. Celentano recruited Santercole for his group, the Rock Boys, when his second guitarist, Ico Cerutti, left the group. Santercole became a Rock Boy just in time to par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Worrod
Roger is a masculine given name, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic languages">Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ("spear", "lance") (Hrōþigēraz). The name was introduced into England by the Normans. In Normandy, the Franks, Frankish name had been reinforced by the Old Norse cognate '. The name introduced into England replaced the Old English cognate '. ''Roger'' became a very common given name during the Middle Ages. A variant form of the given name ''Roger'' that is closer to the name's origin is '' Rodger''. Slang and other uses From up to , Roger was slang for the word "penis". In ''Under Milk Wood'', Dylan Thomas writes "jolly, rodgered" suggesting both the sexual double entendre and the pirate term "Jolly Roger". In 19th-century England, Roger was slang for another term, the cloud of toxic green gas that swept through the chlori ... [...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) * '' The Lady Medic'' (1976) * '' Closed Circuit'' (1978) * '' To Love the Damned'' (1980) * '' Control'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalino Cellamare
Rosalino Cellamare (born 13 August 1953), better known as Ron, is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. Born in Dorno, province of Pavia, he debuted under his true name at the 1970 edition of the Sanremo Festival, together with Nada. In the following years he distinguished as songwriter for Lucio Dalla and others. After a period as actor, he returned collaborating with Dalla and De Gregori in their ''Banana Republic'' tour of 1979, and issuing the LPs ''Una città per cantare'' (1980) and ''Anima'' (1982). These were followed by ''Joe Temerario'' (1984) and ''Il mondo avrà una grande anima'' (1988). The song "Una città per cantare" is an Italian cover of "The Road", song Danny O'Keefe, with Italian lyrics are written by Lucio Dalla. In 1996, he won the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Vorrei incontrarti fra cent'anni", sung alongside Tosca, and in 2018 he won the Mia Martini Domenica Rita Adriana Bertè (; 20 September 1947 – 12 May 1995), known professio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flavio Bucci
Flavio Bucci (25 May 1947 – 18 February 2020) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film producer. Biography Born in Turin, Bucci began appearing in film and television in 1971, making his debut appearance in the film '' The Working Class Goes to Heaven''. He is known for playing Daniel, the blind pianist, in Dario Argento's ''Suspiria'' and for playing the thuggish Blackie in Aldo Lado's 1975 '' Night Train Murders''. Another one of Bucci's iconic appearances was in the 1978 film '' Closed Circuit'' directed by Giuliano Montaldo, with whom he made several film collaborations with. On stage, Bucci appeared in adaptations of ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''; '' The Clown'' and more. He also recited poems written by Giacomo Leopardi. Bucci had a rare career as a voice dubber during the 1970s and 1980s. He dubbed John Travolta in his earlier films as well as Sylvester Stallone in ''The Lords of Flatbush''. His character dubbing roles for television include Potsie Weber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
