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Maria Michi
Maria Michi (24 May 1921 – 7 April 1980) was an Italian supporting actress who worked with Roberto Rossellini on his two early Neorealism (art), neorealism films: ''Rome, Open City'' and ''Paisan, Paisà''. Michi worked first as a typist at a law firm, then as an usherette at Teatro Quattro Fontane in Rome. She was noticed and given small parts in the company of Sergio Tofano and Diana Torrieri during the 1942–1943 season. Critic Irene Bignardi called her "a woman very near the resistance and the Communist Party". In 1948, she worked with Christian-Jaque in ''La Chartreuse de Parme''. She was married in September 1949 to Duke Augusto Torlonia, and left the world of cinema for the theater, particularly working with director Guido Salvini. The marriage was annulled in San Marino in 1956. She resumed her film career in the 1960s and 1970s, when she did 12 films, including Bernardo Bertolucci's ''Last Tango in Paris'' and Tinto Brass's ''Salon Kitty (film), Salon Kitty'', her la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome, Open City
''Rome, Open City'' (), also released as ''Open City'', is a 1945 Italian Italian neorealism, neorealist war film, war drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini and co-written by Sergio Amidei, Celeste Negarville and Federico Fellini. Set in Rome in 1944, the film follows a diverse group of characters coping under the Operation Achse, Nazi occupation, and centers on a Italian resistance movement, Resistance fighter trying to escape the city with the help of a Catholic priest. The title refers to the status of Rome as an open city following its declaration as such on 14 August 1943. The film is the first in Rosselini's "Neorealist Trilogy", followed by ''Paisan'' (1946) and ''Germany, Year Zero'' (1948). ''Open City'' is considered one of the most important and representative works of Italian neorealism, and an important stepping stone for Italian filmmaking as a whole. It was one of the first post-war Italian pictures to gain major acclaim and accolades internationally, winning t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Bianchi (director)
Giorgio Bianchi (18 February 1904 – 9 February 1967) was an Italian film director and actor. Selected filmography * '' Mother Earth'' (1931) * '' Resurrection'' (1931) * '' The Charmer'' (1931) * '' Before the Jury'' (1931) * '' The Blue Fleet'' (1932) * '' Two Happy Hearts'' (1932) * '' Five to Nil'' (1932) * ''Venus'' (1932) * '' Saint John, the Beheaded'' (1940) * '' The Little Teacher'' (1942) * '' A Little Wife'' (1943) * '' Crime News'' (1947) * '' Twenty Years'' (1949) * '' Hearts at Sea'' (1950) * '' Porca miseria'' (1951) * '' Il caimano del Piave'' (1951) * '' Amor non ho... però... però'' (1951) * '' The Enemy'' (1952) * ''The Shadow'' (1954) * '' Io piaccio'' (1955) * '' Buonanotte... avvocato!'' (1955) * '' Count Max'' (1957) * ''Vacations in Majorca ''Vacations in Majorca'' () is a 1959 Italian comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down The Ancient Staircase
''Down the Ancient Staircase'' () is a 1975 Italian-French drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. Cast * Marcello Mastroianni - Professor Bonaccorsi * Françoise Fabian - Anna Bersani * Marthe Keller - Bianca * Barbara Bouchet - Carla * Pierre Blaise - Tonio * Maria Teresa Albani * Maria Michi Maria Michi (24 May 1921 – 7 April 1980) was an Italian supporting actress who worked with Roberto Rossellini on his two early Neorealism (art), neorealism films: ''Rome, Open City'' and ''Paisan, Paisà''. Michi worked first as a typist at ... * Paolo Pacino * Silvano Tranquilli - Professor Rospigliosi * Charles Fawcett - Doctor Sfameni * Enzo Robutti * Ferruccio De Ceresa - Fascist Official in train * Lucia Bosé - Francesca * Adriana Asti - Gianna Plot In Italy, in 1930, Professor Bonaccorsi, renowned psychiatrist, conducts research on madness in the asylum where he works as a doctor in Tuscany. He has three mistresses: Bianca, his assistant; Carla, a colleague's wife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvio Narizzano
Silvio Narizzano (8 February 192726 July 2011) was a Canadian film and television director, who lived and worked primarily in the United Kingdom. He is best known for directing the acclaimed 1966 comedy-drama film '' Georgy Girl,'' which is considered a classic of the Swinging London era. He was also a prolific director of television dramas. Over the course of his career, he was nominated for four BAFTA Awards, winning once for Best Drama Series for the legal drama ''Court Martial''. He was also nominated for the Golden Bear, the Palme d'Or, and a Directors Guild of America Award. Early life and education Narizzano was born in Montreal, Quebec to Italian American parents, and was educated at Bishop's University. After graduation, he worked at the Mountain Playhouse in Montreal, and before joining the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as an assistant to Norman Jewison, Arthur Hiller and Ted Kotcheff. During this time, he directed a documentary about Tyrone Guthrie. Narizzan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redneck (film)
''Redneck'' () is a 1973 Italian-British crime-thriller film directed by Silvio Narizzano. Plot Memphis, the “American”, assaulted a jewelry store with “Moskito”, whose real name is Dino Bianco, while Dino's hippie-esque friend Maria is waiting in the getaway car. The action is poorly prepared and the implementation fails, which causes Memphis to react brutally. On their escape, they find the 13-year-old son of the British consul in a stolen car, whom they take hostage. The American's actions are becoming more and more confused and brutal; so he shoots Maria and forces Moskito to drown a German family so that they - Memphis is now wounded - can get to safety. Moskito becomes friends with Lennox, the kidnapped boy, and tries to stop the American from doing what he is doing. A few meters before the border they are caught by the police and are killed. Cast *Franco Nero as Mosquito * Telly Savalas as Memphis * Mark Lester as Lennox Duncan * Ely Galleani as Maria * Duilio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Have You Done To Solange?
''What Have You Done to Solange?'' () is a 1972 ''giallo'' film directed by Massimo Dallamano and starring Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Joachim Fuchsberger, Cristina Galbó, and Camille Keaton. The plot follows a series of violent murders occurring at a Catholic girls' school in London, where a young student has gone missing. The film is a co-production between Italian production companies Italian International Films S.r.l., Clodio Cinematografica and West German studio Rialto Film. It was released in Germany as ''Das Geheimnis der grünen Stecknadel'' (" The Clue of the New Pin"), where it was promoted an Edgar Wallace ''krimi'' film. Plot While in a boat making out with her Italian college professor, Enrico Rosseni, Elizabeth Seccles witnesses a man with a knife stabbing another woman in the woods on the nearby shore. Rosseni convinces Elizabeth to keep silent about what she saw, especially after it turns out that the dead victim was one of her classmates and was killed by ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Breach (film)
''The Breach'' (), also titled ''The Breakup'', is a 1970 French–Italian–Belgian drama film written and directed by Claude Chabrol, based on the novel ''The Balloon Man'' by Charlotte Armstrong. It follows a mother's struggle for custody of her son against her husband's parents. Plot Hélène Régnier, confronted with her drug-addicted husband Charles injuring their son Michel in a violent outburst, resorts to physical retaliation, beating Charles to the floor with a frying pan. She escapes with Michel and relocates to a boarding house near the hospital where Michel is recuperating. Initiating divorce proceedings, Hélène seeks legal assistance from Allan Jourdan, who, despite her financial constraints, supports her case. Simultaneously, Charles' affluent and controlling parents, disapproving of his marriage, reclaim their son, aiming to obtain custody of Michel. Ludovic Régnier, Hélène's father-in-law, engages Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance, to dig up compromisin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eriprando Visconti
Eriprando Visconti di Modrone, Visconti di Vimodrone, Modrone, Count of Vico Modrone (September 24, 1932 – May 26, 1995) was an Italian people, Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was the nephew of the more famous Luchino Visconti. Born in Milan into a Visconti di Modrone, noble family, in the early 1950s Visconti moved to Rome, against the wishes of his family, to pursue his dream to enter the cinema industry. After a few experiences as an actor and an assistant film editor under Mario Serandrei, he wrote an early draft of the script and collaborated on the screenplay of Francesco Maselli's ''The Abandoned (1955 film), The Abandoned'' in 1955. In the second half of the 1950s he started working as assistant director, notably collaborating with Michelangelo Antonioni and his uncle Luchino Visconti. In 1959, he collaborated with Luigi Malerba to the libretto of the Franco Mannino's opera ''Hatikwa'', and in the same period he started working in theatre as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady Of Monza
''The Lady of Monza'' (, also known as ''The Awful Story of the Nun of Monza'' and ''The Nun of Monza'') is a 1969 Italian historical drama film directed by Eriprando Visconti. It is loosely based on the real life events of Marianna de Leyva, better known as " The Nun of Monza", whose story was made famous by Alessandro Manzoni's novel '' The Betrothed''. Premise A nun is raped and then falls in love with her attacker. She is tortured and burned alive. Cast * Anne Heywood: Virginia de Leyva * Hardy Krüger: Father Paolo Arrigone * Antonio Sabàto: Giampaolo * Tino Carraro: Monsignor Barca *Luigi Pistilli: Count de Fuentes *Carla Gravina: Caterina da Meda * Margarita Lozano: Sister Benedetta Homati * Caterina Boratto: Sister Francesca Imbersaga * Giovanna Galletti: Sister Angela Sacchi * Anna Maria Alegiani: Sister Ottavia Ricci * Laura Belli: Sister Candida Colomba *Renzo Giovampietro: Vicar Saraceno * Pier Paolo Capponi: Count Taverna *Maria Michi Maria Michi (24 Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Paolinell
Bruno may refer to: People and fictional characters * Bruno (name), including lists of people and fictional characters with either the given name or surname * Bruno, Duke of Saxony (died 880) * Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologne, Duke of Lotharingia and saint * Bruno (bishop of Verden) (920–976), German Roman Catholic bishop * Pope Gregory V (c. 972–999), born Bruno of Carinthia * Bruno of Querfurt (c. 974–1009), Christian missionary bishop, martyr and saint * Bruno of Augsburg (c. 992–1029), Bishop of Augsburg * Bruno (bishop of Würzburg) (1005–1045), German Roman Catholic bishop * Pope Leo IX (1002–1054), born Bruno of Egisheim-Dagsburg * Bruno II (1024–1057), Frisian count or margrave * Bruno the Saxon (fl. 2nd half of the 11th century), historian * Saint Bruno of Cologne (d. 1101), founder of the Carthusians * Bruno (bishop of Segni) (c. 1045–1123), Italian Roman Catholic bishop and saint * Bruno (archbishop of Trier) (died 1124), Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Chartreuse De Parme (film)
''The Charterhouse of Parma'' () is a novel by French writer Stendhal, published in 1839. Telling the story of an Italian nobleman in the Napoleonic era and later, it was admired by Balzac, Tolstoy, André Gide, Lampedusa, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway. It was inspired by an inauthentic Italian account of the dissolute youth of Alessandro Farnese. The novel has been adapted for opera, film and television. The title refers to a Carthusian monastery, which is only mentioned on the last page of the novel and does not figure significantly in the plot. Synopsis ''The Charterhouse of Parma'' chronicles the adventures of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo from his birth in 1798 to his death. Fabrice spends his early years in his family's castle on Lake Como, while most of the rest of the novel is set in a fictionalized Parma (both locations are in modern-day Italy). The book begins with the French army sweeping into Milan and stirring up the sleepy region of Lombardy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Paolucci
Giovanni may refer to: * Giovanni (name), an Italian male given name and surname * Giovanni (meteorology), a Web interface for users to analyze NASA's gridded data * ''Don Giovanni'', a 1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the legend of Don Juan * Giovanni (Pokémon), boss of Team Rocket in the fictional world of Pokémon * Giovanni (World of Darkness), a group of vampires in ''Vampire: The Masquerade/World of Darkness'' roleplay and video game * "Giovanni", a song by Band-Maid from the 2021 album ''Unseen World'' * ''Giovanni's Island'', a 2014 Japanese anime drama film * ''Giovanni's Room'', a 1956 novel by James Baldwin * Via Giovanni, places in Rome See also * * *Geovani *Giovanni Battista *San Giovanni (other) San Giovanni, the Italian form of Saint John, is a name that may refer to dozens of saints. It may also refer to several places (most of them in Italy) and religious buildings: Places Albania * Shëngjin, a coastal town formerly known as San Gio . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |