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Katya Berger
Katya Bebb Cobham (Berger) (born 13 December 1966) sometimes credited as Katia Berger or Katja Berger, is a film actress. Biography Katya Berger was born on 13 December 1966 in London, England. She is the daughter of Hugh Russell Bebb and Croatian singer and actress Hanja Kochansky. She is the step-daughter of veteran Austrian actor William Berger (actor), William Berger, known for his roles in Spaghetti Western. Katya's half-brother is former child actor Kasimir Berger, and she is the step-sister of actress Debra Berger. She appeared in a series of films from 1978 to 1983, often in very sexually explicit roles and scenes. After a hiatus of over two decades from acting, she returned to the screen in Ingrid Gogny's short film, ''13/14''. She quit acting to be a stay-at-home mom of two children with her husband. Her daughter, Maleah Sky Cobham, works as a lifeguard most summers and attends university in the state of Pennsylvania as an education major. Filmography * ''Piccole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanja Kochansky
Hanja Kochansky is a Croatian writer and actress. A refugee to Italy during the Second World War, in 1948 she went to Johannesburg as an emigrant. In 1966, she played one of Elizabeth Taylor's handmaidens in the film ''Cleopatra (1963 film), Cleopatra''. In 1972, her book, ''Freely Female: Women's Sexual Fantasies'', was published by Ace Books in New York and was on the reading list for women’s studies programmes at a number of American universities. It was published by Aim Books in Australia in 1975 and by Granada Publishing Ltd. in the UK in 1977. She married Hugh Bebb in 1963. They had a daughter, Katya Berger, Katia, in 1966. In 1974, she had a son, Kasimir, with the Spaghetti Western actor, William Berger (actor), William Berger. He starred with his father in the TV mini-series, ''Christopher Columbus (miniseries), Christopher Columbus'' in 1985. He also acted in the film ''Absurd (film), Absurd'' aka ''Rosso sangue'' (1981) with his mother and sister. After living in R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Berger (actor)
William Berger, also known as Bill Berger and Wilhelm Berger, born Wilhelm Thomas Berger (June 20, 1928 – October 2, 1993) was an American actor, mostly associated with Euro and spaghetti Westerns. Biography Career A former roommate of Keith Richards, his earliest work was in Broadway theatre, but while visiting Italy, he was cast in his first Western, ''Break Up'', in 1965. A series of Westerns followed, including '' Faccia a faccia'' (1967), '' Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!'' (1968), '' If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death'' (1968), '' Sabata'' (1969), and '' Keoma'' (1975). He also starred in the horror films '' Five Dolls for an August Moon'', '' My Dear Killer'', '' Monster Shark'', and ''The Murder Clinic''. Berger was heavily into drug experimentation, which frequent co-star Brett Halsey said sometimes interfered with filming, recounting one incident where they were shooting a scene on horseback and without warning Berger leant forwards and slid off his horse. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spaghetti Western
The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most of these Westerns were Cinema of Italy, produced and directed by Italians. The majority of the films in the spaghetti Western genre were international Co-production (media), co-productions by Italy and Spain, and sometimes France, West Germany, Britain, Portugal, Greece, Yugoslavia, and the United States. Over six hundred European Westerns were made between 1960 and 1978, including nearly five hundred in Italy, which dominated the market. Most spaghetti Westerns filmed between 1964 and 1978 were made on low budgets, and shot at Cinecittà, Cinecittà Studios and various locations around southern Italy and Spain. Leone's films and other core spaghetti Westerns are often described as having eschewed, criticized or even "demythologized" many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debra Berger
Debra Berger (born March 17, 1957) is an American actress, artist, and designer. Life She was the daughter of actor William Berger from his first marriage in 1957. She was the step-sister of actress Katya Berger and half-sister of child actor Kasimir Berger. She is also the stepdaughter of Croatian singer and actress Hanja Kochansky. She was the star of Marcel Carné's ''La merveilleuse visite''. Personal life Berger was linked romantically to Alessandro, Principe Ruspoli (December 9, 1924 – January 11, 2005), 9th Principe di Cerveteri, 9th Marchese di Riano, and 14th Conte di Vignanello. They had two sons: * Tao Ruspoli (born in Bangkok on November 7, 1975). He married actress Olivia Wilde on June 7, 2003 in Washington. They divorced in 2011. * Bartolomeo Ruspoli (born in Rome on October 6, 1978). He married Aileen Getty, daughter of John Paul Getty Jr. and his first wife Gail Harris, in November 2004. They have no children. He appeared as himself in his brother's docu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrid Gogny apple cultivar
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Ingrid may refer to: * Ingrid (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Ingrid Burley (born 1986), rapper known mononymously as Ingrid * Ingrid (record label), also an artist collective * Tropical Storm Ingrid, various cyclones * 1026 Ingrid, an asteroid * InGrid, the grid computing project within D-Grid See also * * * In-Grid * Ingrid Marie Ingrid Marie is an apple cultivar. It was cultivated by accident around 1910 on the premises of a school in Høed on the island of Funen in Denmark. It is a cross of the two English cultivars Cox's Orange Pippin and Cox's Pomona. The apple ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Almost Perfect Affair
''An Almost Perfect Affair'' is a 1979 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Keith Carradine and Monica Vitti. The plot is about an affair between a filmmaker and a film producer's wife, set during the Cannes Film Festival. Despite several favourable reviews the film did not perform well upon release, and Paramount Pictures quickly withdrew it from circulation. It thus has a reputation as a 'lost' movie, although it has since been broadcast on television and is now available on DVD. Plot Hal Raymond, a young tyro filmmaker fresh from graduate school, arrives in France to attend the Cannes Film Festival, where he hopes to sell a movie he has made about the life and times of famed murderer Gary Gilmore. Unbeknown to him, he has failed to observe the proper bureaucratic procedures when bringing his film reels into the country, which forces customs officials at Nice Airport to seize them until further notice. In another queue at the airport is Maria Barone, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storie Di Ordinaria Follia
''Tales of Ordinary Madness'' (, ) is a 1981 film by Italian director Marco Ferreri. It was shot in English in the United States, featuring Ben Gazzara and Ornella Muti in the leading roles. The film's title and subject matter are based on the works and the person of US poet Charles Bukowski, including the short story '' The Most Beautiful Woman in Town'' (published by City Lights Publishing in the 1972 collection '' Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness''). The film's protagonist, Charles Serking, is based on Bukowski's autobiographical character Henry Chinaski. At the time, the director Taylor Hackford owned the rights to the Chinaski name, having acquired them when he optioned Bukowski's 1971 novel ''Post Office''. Plot The film follows the meandering (sexual) adventures of the poet and drunk, Charles Serking, laying bare the sleaze of life in the less reputable neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Serking's life takes a turn for the better whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absurd (film)
''Absurd'' (Italian: ''Rosso Sangue'', literal translation: ''Blood Red''; also known as ''Anthropophagus 2'', ''Zombie 6: Monster Hunter'', ''Horrible'', and ''The Grim Reaper 2'') is a 1981 English-language Italian slasher film directed, lensed, and co-produced by Joe D'Amato and starring George Eastman, who also wrote the story and screenplay. Plot Mikos Stenopolis is a man who was experimented on in a church-sanctioned scientific experiment that gave him healing powers but inadvertently drove him insane. The Vatican priest who helped create him pursues the homicidal Mikos to a small American town, attempting to kill him by impaling him on a set of railings that disembowel him. Still, he revives later in a local hospital. After brutally murdering a nurse, the madman escapes and goes on a killing spree. The priest informs the hospital and authorities that the only way to kill Mikos is to "destroy the cerebral mass." While attacking a motorcyclist after escaping from the hospi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana (1982 Film)
''Nana, the True Key of Pleasure'' () is a 1983 English-language Italian comedy drama film directed by Dan Wolman, loosely based on Émile Zola's 1880 novel ''Nana''. The music is by Ennio Morricone. The film was produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan. Plot Winsome Nana performs as an attraction in the magic show of Mellies the magician at the Minotaure, including in erotic shadow play and "moving photographs". She afterwards puts in work as a prostitute. Zoe acts as her confidante and chambermaid. Many rich and influential men are besotted by Nana's youthful beauty and want to make her their own. The banker Steiner buys her a house, but she soon throws him out and uses it to pursue her business. At one point, Nana hosts an erotic hunt for her guests, who can watch through looking glasses a real-life pornographic show unfold itself before their eyes. She also engages in a lesbian encounter with Satin, one of the female customers at the Minotaure. Count Muffat as well as his s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Lune Dans Le Caniveau
''The Moon in the Gutter'' () is a 1983 French drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix. It was entered into the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. Although it immediately followed Beineix's big, commercial success ''Diva'' and featured two very big stars, Gérard Depardieu and Nastassja Kinski, ''The Moon in the Gutter'' was not well received by critics or audiences and failed at the box office with only 625,000 admissions in France. Its vivid visual style was noted by critics. It preceded a much better-appreciated cult success from the same director, known in the U.S. and UK as ''Betty Blue''. The film was based on a 1953 pulp-noir novel of the same name, written by David Goodis, but it was transferred in the film script from the docksides of Philadelphia to Marseille. ''La Lune dans le caniveau'', according to AllMovie, "received uneven reviews on its initial release". It won a French Cesar Award for its production design. Plot Two women: Loretta (Nastassja Kinski), a wealthy am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
