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Erika (film)
''Erika'' is a 1971 Italian drama film directed by Filippo Walter Ratti and starring Pierre Brice, Patrizia Viotti and Carla Mancini.Curti p.43 The film grossed over 300 million lire on release, but was then banned due to alleged obscene content. It was shot at the Elios Studios in Rome and on location around Faleria in Lazio. It was shot back-to-back with ''The Night of the Damned'', using the same sets. The art direction was by Elio Balletti. Synopsis A free-spirited young German woman arrives to stay with an aristocratic family in Sicily, causing havoc to their lives. Cast * Pierre Brice as Renato Laurana * Patrizia Viotti as Erika * Giuseppe Fortis as Baron Giovanni Laurana * Carla Mancini as Concettina * Bernard De Vries as Luca Laurana * Antonio Anelli as Padre Gaetano * Franca Haas * Irio Fantini * Carla Calò Carla Calò (21 September 1926 – 29 December 2019) was an Italian actress. Life and career Born in Palermo, Calò started her career on stage, ...
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Filippo Walter Ratti
Filippo Walter Ratti (1914–1981) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. After working as an assistant director for several years, he made his directoral debut in 1946. The following year he directed the biopic ''Eleonora Duse''. In 1962 he directed ''Ten Italians for One German'', a portrayal of the 1944 Ardeatine massacre in Rome.Gordon p.224 Selected filmography Director * ''Eleonora Duse'' (1947) * ''The Black Mask'' (1952) * '' It's Never Too Late'' (1953) * ''Ten Italians for One German'' (1962) * '' Erika'' (1971) *''La notte dei dannati ''The Night of the Damned'' ( it, La notte dei dannati) is a 1971 film directed by Filippo Ratti. Plot The married couple Jean and Danielle Duprey receive a letter from a prince, an old friend of Jean's. The letter is in the form of a riddle, wh ...'' (1971) * ''Crazy Desires of a Murderer'' (1977) References Bibliography * Gordon, Robert. ''The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010''. Stanford University Press, ...
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The Night Of The Damned
''The Night of the Damned'' ( it, La notte dei dannati) is a 1971 film directed by Filippo Ratti. Plot The married couple Jean and Danielle Duprey receive a letter from a prince, an old friend of Jean's. The letter is in the form of a riddle, which references ''Les Fleurs du mal'' by Charles Baudelaire, which the prince gave him years ago. The Dupreys decide to leave and go to the prince's castle where Rita Lernod, the prince's wife, tells them that her husband is very ill. The prince appears to be afflicted with a disease unfamiliar to his doctors. The prince says that the disease affects everyone in his family for three generations, over thirty-five years of age. The couple finds a strange painting featuring someone dying at the stake, disturbing Danielle. Danielle begins to have nightmares about dying at the stake. The prince tells Jean that the truth behind everything is in the library and gives him a ring. At night, the prince dies and the next day a girl is found dead, with ...
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Films Set In Sicily
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ...
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1970s Italian-language 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 The terms (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used to label or number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The term is Medieval Latin and means 'in the year of the Lord', but is often presented using "our Lord" instead of "the Lord", ... 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; Roman legionary, legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Ancient Rome, Rome and has abo ...
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Italian Thriller Films
Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ... over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Italian, regional variants of the Italian language ** Languages of Italy, languages and dialects spoken in Italy ** Culture of Italy, Italian culture, cultural features of Italy ** Italian cuisine, traditional foods ** Folklore of Italy, the folklore and urban legends of Italy ** Mythology of Italy, traditional religion and beliefs Other uses * Italian dressing, a vinaigrette-type salad dressing or marinade * Italian or Italian-A, alternative names for the Ping-Pong virus, an extinct computer ...
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1971 Films
The year 1971 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1971 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour-long documentary film, ''Eat the Document'', premieres at New York's Academy of Music. The film includes footage from Dylan's 1966 UK tour. *April 23 - Melvin Van Peebles film '' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song'' becomes the highest-grossing independent film of 1971. *May - The first permanent IMAX projection system begins showing at Ontario Place's "Cinesphere" in Toronto. *May 10 - Frank Yablans becomes President of Paramount Pictures. *Britain's National Film School begins operation at Beaconsfield Film Studios. Awards Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): :''The Go-Between'', directed by Joseph Losey, United Kingdom Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): :''The Garden of the Finzi-Continis'' (''Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini''), directed by Vittorio De Sica, It ...
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Carla Calò
Carla Calò (21 September 1926 – 29 December 2019) was an Italian actress. Life and career Born in Palermo, Calò started her career on stage, notably starring in Luigi Squarzina's ''Il berretto a sonagli'', and also being active in dialectal theatre and avanspettacolo. She made her film debut in 1949, in Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia's ''Il falco rosso''. During the early part of her film career Calò played several main roles, then, from the second half of the 1950s, she became one of the most active character actresses in Italian cinema. She was sometimes credited as Carrol Brown. Calò died in December 2019 at the age of 93. Selected filmography * ''Il falco rosso'' (1949) - Marfa * '' Totò Le Mokò'' (1949) - Suleima * '' The Iron Swordsman'' (1949) - Haidée * '' The Fighting Men'' (1950) - Rosa * '' The Treasure of Bengal'' (1953) - Surama * '' La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi'' (1953) - Elena * ''Mystery of the Black Jungle'' (1954) - Sulima * ''La vendetta dei Tughs'' (19 ...
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Giuseppe Fortis
Giuseppe Fortis (20 July 1935 – 27 May 2000) was an Italian film and television actor.Kinnard & Crnkovich p.184 He was also a voice actor, dubbing foreign films for release in Italian. Selected filmography * '' The Changing of the Guard'' (1962) * '' The Sign of the Coyote'' (1963) * ''Goliath and the Rebel Slave'' (1963) * ''The Thief of Damascus'' (1964) * '' Agent 077: From the Orient with Fury'' (1965) * ''How We Robbed the Bank of Italy'' (1966) * '' Ringo the Lone Rider'' (1968) * '' Beatrice Cenci'' (1969) * '' Erika'' (1971) * ''The Working Class Goes to Heaven'' (1971) * '' Black Belly of the Tarantula'' (1971) * '' The Eroticist'' (1972) * ''La bestia nello spazio LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note * "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure ...'' (1980) References Bibliography * Roy Kinnard ...
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Sicily
(man) it, Siciliana (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = Ethnicity , demographics1_footnotes = , demographics1_title1 = Sicilian , demographics1_info1 = 98% , demographics1_title2 = , demographics1_info2 = , demographics1_title3 = , demographics1_info3 = , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = CEST , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal_code_type = , postal_code = , area_code_type = ISO 3166 code , area_code = IT-82 , blank_name_sec1 = GDP (nominal) , blank_info_sec1 = €89.2 billion (2018) , blank1_name_sec1 = GDP per capita , blank1_info_sec1 ...
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Elio Balletti
Elio is an Italian male given name. Origin A name of dual origin, Elio is primarily a revival of it, Elio, label=none (Helios), the Greek god of the Sun. it, Elio, label=none derives, through the Latin ''Helius'', from the Ancient Greek Ἥλιος (''Hélios''), which is taken from the noun of the same and means "Sun". It shares the same meaning as the Italian feminine name it, Sole, label=none, the Romanian masculine name ro, Sorin, label=none and the Lithuanian feminine name lt, Saulė, label=none. Elio is also believed to originate from the Roman ''cognomen'' ''Aelius'' (feminine ''Aelia''), which was held by the emperor Hadrian and thus dates back to the 2nd century. The origin is uncertain, perhaps Etruscan or perhaps from the Latin ''alius'', " nother". Some sources trace its origin to the Greek Ἥλιος (''Hélios''), a connection categorically rejected by others. The patronymic name Eliano is similarly derived from the Roman ''cognomen''. Elio may also be a ...
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