Lina Sastri
Birthday: Born in 1953-11-17 in Napoli, Italy
Deathday: Alive
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L'onore e il rispetto
Character: Maria Pia Giordano
L'onore e il rispetto is an Italian television series. There are three seasons, each with six episodes: first season aired in 2006, second in 2009 and third in 2012. First season was directed by Salvatore Samperi, second by Samperi and Luigi Parisi, third by Parisi and Alessio Inturri. On October 2, 2012 Gabriel Garko announced through an interview with Tgcom 24 [1], which will soon turn a fourth season of the TV series....
Christian
Character: Italia
Christian lives in a "city-palace" where he earns his living doing dirty work for LINO, the criminal boss of neighborhood. When stigmata appear on his hands, Christian finds physically impossible to carry out his work, but also discovers he has gained mysterious healing powers to fight against Lino. But MATTEO, a mysterious Vatican postulator in search of signs and confirmations, is tracking him down bringing too close to a truth that could upset his life and that of the whole world....
Crimini
Character: Teresa
Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)...
Nati ieri
Character: Alberta Statera
A chief-commander gynaecologist and a young and lovely team of professionals: obstetricians, neonatal doctors, paediatricians, nurses: they all have different histories, they cross their lives in this small, forgotten hospital. Together they will succeed in making it a jewel of efficiency and humanity....
La vita promessa
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Vincenzo Malinconico, avvocato d'insuccesso
Character: Assunta
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St. Peter
Character: Maria
The life of Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own....
Vita di Antonio Gramsci
Character: Eugenia Schucht
The life and times of Antonio Gramsci from the establishment of L'Ordine Nuovo newspaper in 1919 to his untimely death in 1937, encompassing the birth of the Italian Communist Party (PCd'I), Gramsci's visits to Moscow where he met his future spouse, his election to Parliament, anti-fascism, trial and conviction....
Il bello delle donne... alcuni anni dopo
Character: Delia Di Cioccio
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David
Character: Abigail
A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to be king, under the watchful eyes of prophet Samuel....
Saint Rita
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Cascia, 14th century, Rita Liotti falls in love, gets married and has two children. Her dream of love is soon hindered by a masculine and violent society, that Rita faces with peace and forgiveness. When she loses her husband and her children, she understands she has a mission: pursuing her path of peace, that will lead her to take the vows, and then to become Saint. Rita is a Saint of these days, who lived in a very violent age and was so brave to break free from the vengeance chain, through a...
Ecce Bombo
Character: Olga
Michele, Goffredo, Mirko and Vito are four friends who have participated in the battles of the student in Sixties. Now in the Seventies, the four friends don't know what to do, though young and with so many possibilities to find a job in life. Intellectuals marginalized and misunderstood, the four friends find themselves when they can in a restaurant to discuss their outlandish theories. A girl named Olga disrupts their life, but Michele is her favorite, although he does not know what to do with...
Excellent Cadavers
Character: Agnese Borsellino
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight....
A Brighter Tomorrow
Character: Self
An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems....
Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!
Character: Vincenza Ciaramella
A talented guitarist tries to make a living out of his music, ending up to collaborate with an unreliable manager and a famous pianist....
Discovery at Dawn
Character: Marianna Dall'Acqua
Thirty years after the disappearance of her father, a university professor who was targeted by radicals in the '70s, a woman discovers a way to communicate with her past self and tries to prevent the tragedy that marred the life of her family, but she learns that not everything was as she thought....
Passione
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John Turturro tells, shooting alleys and testimonies of real neapolitan people, the history and musical culture of Napoli, attending every event and tale with a song....
Li chiamarono... briganti!
Character: Corifea
The story of a group of brigands who fought against Victor Emmanuel II during Italian unification....
Where's Picone?
Character: Luciella Picone
During a debate in Naples' town hall in the early 1980s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker who has recently lost his job, sets himself on fire in front of the Municipal Council....
Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
Character: Margherita Bosco
Piedmont (Italy), nineteenth century. In Turin, the priest Don Bosco, a man from a humble farming family, he gave himself totally and passionately to the task of collecting from the streets to marginalized children and care for them. Not only out of poverty, ignorance and social distress, but it got for the first time, to feel loved. He fought with extraordinary faith and tenacity to overcome obstacles and snares that both the civilian and ecclesiastical authorities, they put in their path to pr...
Strangled Lives
Character: Sauro
Francesco is an entrepreneur in the building industry. His company is near to collapse if it doesn't win a deal to build a new school complex. It needs at least 60 million liras to participate to the deal, but all the banks refuse to lend the money. A corrupt bank employee introduces him to Claudio, apparently an assistant of Sergio, Francesco's old school friend. Sergio is an accountant available to lend Francesco the money he needs. Francesco wins the deal, but soon he discovers that Claudio i...
Celluloide
Character: Anna Magnani
June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on the tragic events that occurred during the Nazi occupation: Rome, Open City ....
Poker Generation
Character: Lucia
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La ballata dei gusci infranti
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Four stories set in the Sibillini mountains, in the heart of Italy...
The Inquiry
Character: Maria di Magdala
A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal....
La posta in gioco
Character: Renata Fonte
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Piccoli equivoci
Character: Francesca
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St. Peter
Character: Maria
Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film's first half dramatizes the New Testament's "Acts": early fear, the renewal of Pentecost, Saul's conversion, the decision to baptize pagans, and the Apostles' dispersal. In the second half, an aged Peter goes to Rome to join Paul, arriving on the day of Paul's arrest. Paul's death brings a crisis to Rome's Christians and to Peter; lessons from Jesus's teachings guide his decision to stay. Events wi...
'o Tuono 'e Marzo
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Secrets Secrets
Character: Laura
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....
Sophia!
Character: Sé stessa
A documentary crossing all aspects of Sophia Loren's life: cinema, entertainment, private life, triumphs, challenges, suffering. How was the star born? How was a cinematographic archetype built? Childhood during the war in Naples, a beloved family, her mother Romilda, her beginnings at Cinecittà, her triumphs of Hollywood and her great love with Carlo Ponti....
Hearts and Armour
Character: La Maga
Love during wartime blossoms between crusader Bradamante—a female knight wearing an invincible suit of armor—and Moorish prince Ruggero. A sorceress predicts to Bradamante that her beloved will die in battle at the hand of a fellow Christian paladin, Rolando, whom in turn is in love with Isabella, Ruggero's sister....
Women in Arms
Character: Nadia Cossa
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Brown Bread Sandwiches
Character: Giulia Buonanotte
A 1957 period piece about Italian immigrants in Toronto....
La casa di Ninetta
Character: Lucia
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Laura's Wedding
Character: Maria
When love blossoms between a young Italian woman and an African student, her family’s disapproval — and a secret — threatens to tear the lovers apart....
Woman of Wonders
Character: Luisa
In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a writer/director approaching the hill though not yet over it, director Alberto Bevilacqua has used his own experiences to fashion a conventional tale about a search for the "perfect woman." His mettlesome neighbor Luisa (Lina Sastri) just will not leave him alone; she was the reason why he ended his marriage to Maura (Claudia Cardinale), but Alberto considers their affair dead and buried. Recently, ...
Sun in My Eyes
Character: Miriam
After her longtime marriage ends painfully, a lawyer finds new purpose by working at a refugee center, where she meets a child that changes her life....
'Na Santarella
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Happy Sciosciammocca has a double life: he plays sacred music in the convent of Rondinelle and teaches music to the educators, at night he goes to Naples where he is known as the actor....
Baaria
Character: Tana
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community....
To Rome with Love
Character: Friend at Cinema
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man....
Li nepute de lu sinneco
Character: Nannina
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Naples in Veils
Character: Ludovica
In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana, overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime....
Prigioniero della mia libertà
Character: G.I.P
Alejandro Torres, a young architect, lives a quiet life with his family until the day he is unjustly arrested. Traumatized by the miscarriage of justice and desperate for the truth, he will carry out his "revenge" on those who have turned his life upside down....
Strana la vita
Character: Nora
A psychologist acquires wife and lover of a friend of him. But he has two more relationships yet. What will he do with four women following him?...
La bella Otero
Character: Carmen Otero
The story tells the life, the successes, the loves and the decadence of Augustine Caroline Otéro Iglesias, called "La Bella Otéro". The history of a Spanish actor, who - despite being born poor - became a symbol of the Belle Époque and one of the first dives of silent cinema....
Christmas at the Cupiello Household
Character: Ninuccia
Luca Cupiello, like every Christmas, prepares the crib, amid the disinterest of his wife Concetta and his son Tommasino. Ninuccia, the other daughter, writes a letter to her husband in which she communicates that she leaves him for her lover. The letter happens in the hands of Luca who hands it over to his son-in-law, who thus learns of his wife's betrayal. During lunch on Christmas Eve, the two rivals, who were confronted by Luca's carelessness, clash violently....
I Am the Law
Character: Woman from Gangi
Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and entrusts him with the arduous task of putting an end to the Mafia, a sinister criminal organization that has sown terror on the island for centuries....
Lu Curaggio De Nu Pumpiero Napulitano
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Thanks to the legacy of an English lord, the cobbler Andrea has become a baron and now has delusions of nobility: he wants a high-ranking marriage for his stepdaughter Virginia and does not recognize the brothers of his wife, Rosina and Michele, even after the latter has saved the his house from a fire. Virginia does not like her promised Marchese Alberto, but Felice Sciosciammocca, a shy and poor master of calligraphy, who reciprocates her. But when Felice learns that the girl will soon marry a...
Ballerina
Character: Maria
The film tells the story of an aspiring dancer who from Eastern Europe is reached in Italy with the mirage of realizing the dream of her life which instead turns into a nightmare. Against her will she will be forced into prostitution....
Yaya & Lennie - The Walking Liberty
Character: Zia Claire (voce)
Immersed in the jungle, among relics of a "forgotten future", two kids, Yaya and Lennie, meander. The two live freely in their Eden until armed men, who carry with them an "ancient" concept of civilization, force them to leave their territory. It is the beginning of a journey in search of their place in a world that no longer belongs to man....
Buon Lavoro
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The Magic Screen
Character: Nives
The time is the late 1920s, and Angelo and Tonino are two brothers traveling around the country in a rattle-trap truck, showing moving pictures to any group of people willing to pay. When they arrive in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Angelo strikes up a relationship with a wealthy marchesa connected to the fascist movement. Tonino, on the other hand, starts to follow the rebellious Giovanni, locked up for his anti-fascist stance, and the farmers who have joined in the anti-fascist forces. As the ...