Mariangela Melato
Birthday: Born in 1941-09-18 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Deathday: 2013-01-11
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mariangela Melato (19 September 1941 – 11 January 2013) was an Italian cinema and theatre actress. Born in Milan, the daughter of a traffic policeman and a seamstress, Melato from a young age studied painting at the Academy of Brera, drawing posters and working as a window dresser at La Rinascente to pay for her acting lessons with Esperia Sperani. A striking, blonde actress, she began her stage career in 1960, entering the stage company of Fantasio Piccoli and debuting as an actress in the play Binario cieco.From 1963 to 1965 she worked with Dario Fo in Settimo: ruba un po' meno and La colpa è sempre del diavolo, then in 1967 she worked with Luchino Visconti in The Nun of Monza. In 1968, her final theater breakthrough with Orlando furioso by Luca Ronconi.She made her film debut in 1969 with Pupi Avati's Thomas e gli indemoniati.
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Rebecca, la prima moglie
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Orlando furioso
Character: Olimpia
Tales of knights and princesses, wizards and sorceresses. Featuring an invisibility ring, a hippogriff, and a trip to the moon. Based on a sixteenth-century Italian chivalric poem by Ludovico Ariosto....
L'avvocato delle donne
Character: Irene Salvi
L'avvocato delle donne is an Italian television series....
Mosè
Character: Bithia
A biopic of Moses, who led the Jewish people out of Egypt, ex. by parting the Red Sea and afterwards delivered the Ten Commandments from God....
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker...
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Moses the Lawgiver
Character: Prinzessin Bithia
The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Originally a TV Miniseries recut for theaters...
Flash Gordon
Character: Kala
A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth....
Swept Away
Character: Raffaella Pavone Lanzetti
A spoiled rich woman and a brutish Communist deckhand become stranded alone on a desert island after venturing away from their cruise....
Petomaniac
Character: Catherine
The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts....
Lost and Found
Character: Marta
Oppressed by her husband, her lover, and her obsessive mother, a bourgeois woman is reunited with a childhood companion at the central train station in Milan. Throughout 24 hours there, she will experience her particular descent into hell....
Love and Anarchy
Character: Salomè
Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Tunin, a farmer turned anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini....
Dear Michele
Character: Mara Castorelli
Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael’s girlfriend Mara, the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael’s increasingly conventional friends...
One Way or Another
Character: Giacinta
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes....
Saxofone
Character: Fiorenza
A young busker goes around in Milan with his saxophone, whereby he always plays the same tune and he experiences surrealistic adventures throughout the big city. Meanwhile, a wealthy woman from the local "jet set" falls in love with him....
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Character: Lidia
After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups....
Beach House
Character: Giulia
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time....
So Fine
Character: Lira
While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants....
To Forget Venice
Character: Anna
Nicky and Marta, brother and sister, reunite in their childhood home in the Venetian countryside. Accompanied by Claudia and her lover, as well as Nicky's partner, Picchio, they plan to spend a Sunday together when fate intervenes....
Tomorrow We Dance
Character: Mariangela
Aliens send a hypnotic signal through a TV channel, and the signal makes people dance and makes them forget their fears....
Il resto del Pap'occhio
Character: Attrice non selezionata
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Between Miracles
Character: Maestra
Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin and grace....
Di che segno sei?
Character: Marietta detta "Claquette"
Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his boss wife. A guard is too much proactive and this will cause many troubles....
Execution Squad
Character: Sandra
Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full...
Un uomo perbene
Character: Anna Tortora
In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra....
Policewoman
Character: Giovanna Abbastanzi
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department....
Basta guardarla
Character: Marisa
Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer....
Come Away with Me
Character: Maria Grande
Maria, daughter of Italian emigrants, lives with her son Santino who lives by expedients. In a small American town, inhabited mostly by children of Italian immigrants, the woman does everything to prevent her boyfriend from getting lost by taking the wrong path, so every time Santino tries to score a shot, Maria manages to blow his plans. Until one day the loving mother decides that the time has come to teach a fundamental lesson for the life of her son....
We'll Call Him Andrea
Character: Maria Antonazzi
Paolo and Maria are two elementary teachers, who love each other, but can not have a child....
Rebecca, az első feleség
Character: Signora Danvers
A naive young woman moves into the mansion that belongs to her new husband, a rich widower. She soon realizes the memory of his deceased first wife maintains a grip on her husband, as well as the staff of servants....
The Seduction of Mimi
Character: Fiorella Meneghini
Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi his livelihood. He leaves his wife, flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer - but he just can’t shake the Mafia. When they lure Mimi back to Sicily with a better job, he must keep his lover – and love child – under wraps. That’s when his wife announces she’s pregnant....
Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
Character: Fulvia Bolk
A charming billionaire manager kidnaps a criminal and locks him up in her private villa in Sardinia....
Secrets Secrets
Character: Giuliana, il giudice
Young terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a comrade, and over time her violent act becomes a thread linking the lives and fates of several other women. Each has her own secret, including the lawyer who listens to Laura as if in a ‘trance’: moments before, she discovered her husband was cheating....
Romance
Character: Carlotta
Love story between a young man and a married woman. She's married to a businessman who's neglecting her. She would like to leave him but she's afraid of the age difference between her and her lover....
La fine è nota
Character: Elena Malva
A young lawyer returns home and discovers that a man has committed suicide jumping through a window of his house. His wife, Maria, says that she let the unknown man enter because he said the lawyer was the only one who could help him. Bernardo start to investigate about the man and about the reasons of his suicide....
Eye of the Cat
Character: Giulia
Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who covets another man's wife (Mariangela Melato) as his own. He gets what he wants, but Ras wants more: in this case, to humiliate Marcello (Nino Manfredi), a dedicated musician whose life he has already ruined by leaving his cat and taking his wife. He forces Marcello to seek an annulment to his marriage through the Vatican. Ras gets everything, but Marcello's wife, Giulia, and Marcello have other ideas....
Il generale dorme in piedi
Character: Lola Pigna
A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases. Because of his fitful sleep is therefore forced to sleep standing up....
Dirty Linen
Character: Cinzia
The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth....
Come Together
Character: Nurse
An American stuntman working on spaghetti westerns in Europe picks up two pretty American tourists and they decide to take a road trip around Europe together. However, things don't turn out exactly as each of them expected....
Mortacci
Character: Jolanda
Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. Under the care of the salacious Domenico the visitors of a small cemetery recount how they arrived at eternal peace....
We Are Cinema
Character: Self (archive footage)
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema....
Love Returns
Character: Federica Strozzi
Luca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets extremely sick and, while at the hospital, rethinks his life....
C.I.A. Secret Story
Character: Tania
Faccia di spia tries to tell the story of the CIA and other government intelligence agencies with lots of re-creations and dramatizations and points out some of the more brutal aspects of the intelligence community from around the world. Wars are started, all facets of everyday life are controlled, innocent people are tortured needlessly and subjected to extreme violence....
My Dearest Son
Character: Stefania
A respectable lawyer finds out his son is a heroin addict. Heartbroken, he'll do anything to help his only child, even if it means sharing his hell....
La vita cambia
Character: Viola
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Thomas
Character: Zoe
A modest theatrical company, soon to debut, organizes a superstitious spiritual session. During the evening the spirit of little Thomas is evoked....
Par le sang des autres
Character: La fille du maire
In a little French town everything goes on as usual and people seem friendly and good-natured, until the day two women arrive from Paris. A man gets off the same bus, and that very night he seizes the two women and asks for the most beautiful woman in town as their ransom. After the initial shock, the mayor, his brother, the prefect, the police, and the gendarmerie gather around the house where the two woman are imprisoned. It will be a test for everyone and each of them will show his/her real s...
The Tree of Guernica
Character: Vandale
The fictional town of Villa Romero is the set upon which the events of Spain's civil war play out. Villa Romero is home to Vandale (Mariangela Melato) a witch, count Cerralbo (Bento Urago) a powerless land baron, and his four sons. Three of Cerralbo's sons are ruthless sadists who pillage the countryside, but the fourth, Goya (Ron Faber), is an artist challenging authority and the church....
La Presidentessa
Character: Yvette Jolifleur
Gobette, a young avant-garde dancer, finds herself unemployed after the closure of the provincial club where she performs. By pure coincidence, Cipriano Gaudet, Minister of Justice, meets her at a judge's house and, convinced that she is the wife of the subordinate, gives promotions to the unsuspecting representative of the law in order to remove him from the woman and be able to get married with the soubrette. .....
Let's Have a Riot
Character: Moglie di Riccardo
Episodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish....
The Married Priest
Character: Prostitute
A young Sicilian priest who moved to Rome comes into contact with the high bourgeoisie and receives a lot of sexual attention....
Probably Love
Character: Herself
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Filumena Marturano
Character: Filumena Marturano
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Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Character: Self
A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers....
Help Me Dream
Character: Francesca
In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her. Francesca has a passion for everything that comes from America, like music and cinema. She even tells her daughters that her husband who died in the war would actually leave for the USA, where he would live....
My Darling, My Dearest
Character: Armida
Gennarino Laganà is a poor Sicilian who struggles with menial jobs to support his family, while his parents pressure him to seek his fortune in the North. Gennarino would never leave his beloved island if he had not stumbled into a love affair with Donna Egeria, wife of the Mafia boss Don Mimì. To escape certain revenge, he boards a goods train. In a dream, Saint Totino appears to him and promises him protection in exchange for a regulated life. He thus arrives in Milan, where he meets Armida, a...
The Days Are Numbered
Character: Angela
After a close call on on the highway, Marco--a very famous singer/songwriter in 1968--climbs onto the roof of his car and starts to sing. After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, he tries to take his life back into his own hands....
The Sicilian Checkmate
Character: Rosaria Licata
Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily....
Dancers
Character: Contessa
A successful aging dancer takes a young female protegee....
Invasion
Character: Valentina
A professor and his wife suffer humiliation at the hands of an invading college dissidents protest....
The Cat
Character: Ofelia Pecoraro
Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life. Amedeo starts to court the young Wanda and Ofelia seduces the priest Don Pezzolla. In the meantime police is looking for the cat killer......
The Good Soldier
Character: Marta
As a young boy, Tommaso's (Gerard Darier) interest in women and in his cousin Marta (Mariangela Melato) in particular, inspired him to bore peep holes into her wall and vicariously partake of her forbidden private life, including her wedding day. Time goes by, and after living through many changes going on around him, Tommaso has grown up and is now a soldier in the military. When he sees cousin Marta at a train station one day, he jumps off his train, talks to her for awhile, and tries to give ...
The Nada Gang
Character: Veronique Cash
Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the diplomat's fate, while the police purge suspects in their attempts to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the States and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conf...
In the Pope's Eye
Character: unselected actress
The Pope is disturbed by the fact that today's youth are not as spiritually inclined as they should be, and so he decides to set up a Vatican television station and entice them back into the religion of their ancestors. In order to particularly grab the wandering flock, a priest invites the comedians from "The Other Sunday," an actual comedy program on Italian television, to perform on this new channel....
Behind the White Glasses
Character: Self (archive footage)
It is a musical portrait that shines a spotlight on unknown aspects of the creative, visionary and groundbreaking talent of filmmaker and writer, Lina Wertmüller....
Orestea
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The story of the “Oresteia” begins with King Agamemnon's return to Argos after the fall of Troy. The chorus, composed of old Argives, recalls the sacrifice offered to the gods by Agamemnon, in Aulis, of his daughter Iphigenia to gain their favor....