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Esterina
''Esterina'' is a 1959 Italian drama film directed by Carlo Lizzani. It was entered into the main competition at the 20th Venice International Film Festival, in which Carla Gravina received a special mention for her performance. Cast *Carla Gravina: Esterina *Geoffrey Horne: Gino *Domenico Modugno Domenico Modugno (; 9 January 1928 – 6 August 1994) was an Italian singer, actor and, later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament. He is known for his 1958 international hit song " Nel blu dipinto di blu", for which he received the fir ...: Piero * Anna Maria Aveta: Piero's Wife * Silvana Jachino: Landlady * Laura Nucci: Hooker * Raimondo Van Riel: Old man References External links * 1959 films Films directed by Carlo Lizzani Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli Italian drama films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Horne
Geoffrey Horne (born August 22, 1933) is an American actor, director, and acting coach at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. His film and television credits include '' The Bridge on the River Kwai'', '' Bonjour Tristesse'', '' The Strange One'', '' Two People'', ''The Twilight Zone'' (episode " The Gift", 1962), and '' The Outer Limits'' (as Wade Norton in " The Guests" episode, 1963). Early life Horne was born in Buenos Aires on August 22, 1933, to American parents (his father was a businessman in the oil trade). When he was five, he went to live with his mother in Havana. Ten years later, he was sent to "a little school in New England for troubled children," in his words. He attended the University of California, where he decided to be an actor. Career Horne moved to New York where he appeared in an off-Broadway flop, then began to get regular work on television, including an adaptation of ''Billy Budd''. He also joined the Actors Studio. In July 1956, he successf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Venice International Film Festival
The 20th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 23 August to 6 September 1959. Italian film critic Luigi Chiarini was the Jury President for the main competition. The Golden Lion was awarded to '' The Great War'' directed by Mario Monicelli and '' General della Rovere'' directed by Roberto Rossellini. Jury * Luigi Chiarini, Italian - Jury President * Georges Altman, French journalist * Sergei Bondarchuk, Soviet filmmaker and actor * Ralph Forte, American * Ernst Kruger, German * Roger Maxwell, British actor * Vinicio Marinucci, Italian * Luis Gómez Mesa, Spanish * Dario Zanelli, Italian Official Sections Main Competition Official Awards *Golden Lion: **'' The Great War'' by Mario Monicelli **'' General della Rovere'' by Roberto Rossellini * Special Jury Prize: '' The Magician'' by Ingmar Bergman *Volpi Cup for Best Actor: James Stewart for ''Anatomy of a Murder'' * Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Madeleine Robinson for ''Web of Passion'' * Volpi Cup Specia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla Gravina
Carla Gravina (born 5 August 1941) is an Italian actress and politician. She received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her role in '' La Terrazza'' (1980). Her other notable roles were in '' Love and Chatter'' (1957), '' Esterina'' (1959), and '' The Long Silence'' (1993). Gravina used to be a member of the Chamber of Deputies. Life and career Born in Gemona del Friuli, Gravina made her film debut at fifteen years old in Alberto Lattuada's '' Guendalina''. Very active in films and television series, both in comedic and dramatic roles, from the late 1970s, she gradually focused her activities on stage and in political activism, being a PCI deputy between 1980 and 1983. Gravina was involved in a long-term relationship with fellow Italian actor Gian Maria Volontè, with whom she had a child. Awards During her career, Gravina won a number of international awards, including the Best Actress Award for her performance in Alessandro Blasetti's '' Love and Chat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimondo Van Riel
Raimondo Van Riel (22 January 1881, in Rome – 9 May 1962, in Mentana) was an Italian actor. Raimondo Van Riel was born on January 22, 1881, in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is known for his work on Quo Vadis? (1924), The Magnificent Rogue (1935) and Scipione l'africano (1937). He was married to Aidé Bongini. He died on May 9, 1962, in Rome. Selected filmography * ''Fiamma simbolica'' (1918) * ''La ladra di fanciulli'' (1920) * '' The Sack of Rome'' (1920) * ''L'amica'' (1920) * ''Primavera'' (1921) * ''La morte piange, ride e poi...'' (1921) * ''Le tre ombre'' (1921) * '' The Youth of the Devil'' (1921) * ''L'amico'' (1921) * ''Un fiore nel fango'' (1921) * ''La congrega dei ventiquattro'' (1921) * ''Tre persone per bene'' (1922) * ''La tormenta'' (1922) * '' The Betrothed'' (1922) * ''La madre folle'' (1923) * ''Un viaggio nell'impossibile'' (1923) * '' Quo Vadis?'' (1924) - Tigellinus * ''Il cammino delle stelle'' (1924) * Nfama!'' (1924) * ''La giovinezza del diavolo'' (1925) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvana Jachino
Silvana Jachino (2 February 1916 – 28 August 2004) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 65 films between 1936 and 1970. Partial filmography * ''Cuor di vagabondo'' (1936) * '' Beggar's Wedding'' (1936) * ''Cavalry'' (1936) - Carlotta di Frasseneto * ''Fiordalisi d'oro'' (1936) - Agnese di Fitz-James * ''Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno'' (1937) - Principessa Fiorella * '' It Was I!'' (1937) * ''Gatta ci cova'' (1937) - Iole - la figlia di Antonia * ''The Black Corsair'' (1938) - Honorata * ''Ballerine'' (1938) * '' Departure'' (1938) - Mimì * '' Battles in the Shadow'' (1938) - Dora * ''L'ultimo scugnizzo'' (1938) - Antonio's girlfriend * ''Crispino e la comare'' (1938) - La marchesina * ''Lancieri di Savoia'' (1939) * ''Fascino'' (1939) - Liliana * ''Il ladro'' (1939) - Nelly * '' We Were Seven Widows'' (1939) - Barbara * ''L'aria del continente'' (1939) * '' The Boarders at Saint-Cyr'' (1939) - Gemmina Merian * ''Diario di una stella'' (1940) * '' The Thrill of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Lizzani
Carlo Lizzani (3 April 1922 – 5 October 2013) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic. Biography Born in Rome, before World War II Lizzani worked as a scenarist on such films as Roberto Rossellini's '' Germany Year Zero'', Alberto Lattuada's '' The Mill on the Po'' (both 1948), and Giuseppe De Santis' '' Bitter Rice'' (1949), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story. After directing documentaries, he debuted as a feature director with the admired World War II drama '' Attention! Bandits!'' (1951). Respected for his awarded drama '' Chronicle of Poor Lovers'' (1954), he has proven a solid director of genre films, notably crime films such as '' The Violent Four'' (1968) and '' Crazy Joe'' (1974) or crime-comedy '' Roma Bene'' (1971). His film '' Gold of Rome '' (1961) examined events around the final deportation of the Jews of Rome and the Roman roundup, ''grande razzia'', of October 1943. For his 1968 film '' Bandits in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Arlorio
Giorgio Arlorio (27 February 1929 – 25 July 2019) was an Italian screenwriter and director. Biography Born in Turin, Arlorio began his career in 1951 as an assistant director for Pietro Germi, Mario Soldati and Michelangelo Antonioni, while between the 1960s and the 1970s became a regular collaborator of Gillo Pontecorvo and Carlo Lizzani, with whom he co-wrote some of their films. He also directed some political documentaries. For many years, Arlorio taught Screenwriting at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Arlorio died in his home in Rome on 25 July 2019, at the age of 90. Partial filmography Screenwriter * '' Esterina'' (1959) * '' Crimen'' (1960) * '' The Golden Arrow'' (1962) * '' The Shortest Day'' (1963) * '' The Head of the Family'' (1967) * ''Arabella'' (1967) * '' The Mercenary'' (1968) * ''Burn!'' (1969) * ''Zorro Zorro ( or , Spanish for "fox") is a fictional character created in 1919 by American Pulp magazine, pulp writer Johnston McCulley, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as List of islands of Italy, nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares land borders with France to the west; Switzerland and Austria to the north; Slovenia to the east; and the two enclaves of Vatican City and San Marino. It is the List of European countries by area, tenth-largest country in Europe by area, covering , and the third-most populous member state of the European Union, with nearly 59 million inhabitants. Italy's capital and List of cities in Italy, largest city is Rome; other major cities include Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, and Venice. The history of Italy goes back to numerous List of ancient peoples of Italy, Italic peoples—notably including the ancient Romans, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama Film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject matter, or they combine a drama's otherwise serious tone with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis) characters. In this broader sense, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Serandrei
Mario Serandrei (23 May 1907 – 17 April 1966) was an Italian film editor and screenwriter. Born in Naples, he started in the film industry in 1931 as an assistant director. He edited over two hundred films during his career, and worked steadily until his death in 1966. As an editor, Serandrei's credits included Federico Fellini's '' Il bidone'' (1955), Pietro Francisci's ''Hercules'' (1958) and '' Hercules Unchained'' (1959), Valerio Zurlini's '' Violent Summer'' (1959), '' La ragazza con la valigia'' (1961) and '' Cronaca familiare'' (1962), and the Robert Aldrich/Sergio Leone film of ''Sodom and Gomorrah'' (1963). He enjoyed a long working relationship with director Luchino Visconti, editing '' Ossessione'' (1943), '' Bellissima'' (1951), '' Senso'' (1954), ''Rocco and His Brothers'' (1960) and '' The Leopard'' (1963). At the end of his career, he edited many films directed by Mario Bava, including '' Black Sunday'' (1960) (which he also co-wrote), ''Black Sabbath'' (1963 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Gerardi
Roberto Gerardi (18 October 1919 – 1995) was an Italian cinematographer. Born in Rome, Gerardi began his career as an assistant of Carlo Montuori, then pursued his career as an assistant operator of Anchise Brizzi, with whom he worked in one of the masterpieces of neorealism, Vittorio De Sica's '' Shoeshine''.Stefano Masi, ''Dizionario mondiale dei direttori della fotografia'', Le Mani, 2007, pp. 336-337. . He made his debut as a cinematographer in 1957 with the film '' I colpevoli'' by Turi Vasile, in which he experienced an innovative camera system, with the simultaneous use of three cameras to frame different cuts of long shots. After having accompanied Giuseppe Rotunno as an additional cinematographer in '' The Great War'' (1959), in the early sixties he worked in art films such as Damiano Damiani's '' Arturo's Island'' and '' The Empty Canvas'', but also to international co-productions such as '' Madame Sans-Gene'' by Christian-Jaque Christian-Jaque (byname of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ennio De Concini
Ennio De Concini (9 December 1923, Rome – 17 November 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and film director, winning the Academy Award in 1962 for the Best Original Screenplay for '' Divorce Italian Style''.Fox, Margalit (28 November 2008)Ennio De Concini, Oscar-Winning Writer, Dies at 84.''The New York Times'' Life and career He was the co-screenwriter of '' The Red Tent'' a 1969 film starring Sean Connery which was based on Umberto Nobile's disastrous 1928 expedition to the North Pole in the airship Italia. Among the 60 films to his credit are '' The Twist'' (1976), '' Four of the Apocalypse'' (1975), '' Hitler: The Last Ten Days'' (1973), '' Battle of the Worlds'' (1961), '' Black Sunday'' (1960), '' Long Night in 1943'' (1960), '' Il Grido'' (1957), '' War and Peace'' (1956), and '' Mambo'' (1954). With his wife, Ninni, he had a son, Corrado De Concini, who is a noted mathematician. Selected filmography * '' Vacation with a Gangster'' (1951) * '' The Angels of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
