Virna Lisi
Birthday: Born in 1936-11-08 in Ancona, Marche, Italy
Deathday: 2014-12-18
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Virna Lisi (born 8 November 1936 in Ancona - December 18, 2014) is a Cannes and César award-winning Italian film actress. She was born in Ancona, Marche, as Virna Lisa Pieralisi.
TV Credits
The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986....
The Oscars
Character: Self
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar....
Il sangue e la rosa
Character: Marchesa Lucrezia Sciarra
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L'onore e il rispetto
Character: Ersilia Romeo
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....
C'è posta per te
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Orgoglio e Pregiudizio
Character: Elizabeth Bennet
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I Misteri Della Giungla Nera
Character: Sara Corishant
In British ruled India, an army officer lost his daughter when she was a child. Now after a very long time he is about to find her. But she falls in love with a native Indian, who was also a freedom fighter....
What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions....
Cristoforo Colombo
Character: Dona Moniz Perestrello
After his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes court intrigue in Spain to gain support for his expedition....
Caterina e le sue figlie
Character: Caterina Foresi Pensiero
Caterina e le sue figlie is an Italian television series that aired from December 4, 2005 to March 3, 2010 on Canale 5. The comedy series follows single mother Catherine as she tries to balance raising three daughters alone and dating....
Balzac
Character: Laure de Berny
As Balzac prepares to die, his entire past flashes before his eyes. As a young writer, he was driven by the desire to achieve something great. With the support of Laure de Berny, he started printing and publishing without much success, but it was with his pen that he achieved fame, thanks to the constant support of Madame de Berny. Balzac became a writer that readers devoured....
Madre, aiutami
Character: Madre Germana
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Baciamo le mani: Palermo-New York 1958
Character: Donna Agnese Vitaliano
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Movie Credits
Anyone Can Play
Character: Luisa
In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society....
Casanova '70
Character: Gigliola
The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations....
Queen Margot
Character: Catherine de Médicis
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre....
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Character: Caterina Malatesta
During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army....
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Character: John's Beautiful Cousin in Rome
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days....
The Black Tulip
Character: Caroline 'Caro' Plantin
Aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux leads a double life as a masked bandit known as the Black Tulip. The Black Tulip only robs rich aristocrats, so the local peasants regard him as a hero. Baron La Mouche is convinced Guillaume is the Tulip. During a robbery, he scars the Tulip's face, and hopes to use this to expose Guillaume, but Guillaume is one step ahead....
The Best Day of My Life
Character: Irene Mazzoni
The lively goings-on of a modern family seen trough the eyes of a young girl just about to receive her first Communion....
Bluebeard
Character: Elga
Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in his castle that's filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women....
How to Murder Your Wife
Character: Mrs. Ford
Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon cha...
The Cricket
Character: Wilma Malinverni
An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel....
Assault on a Queen
Character: Rosa Lucchesi
A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the high seas....
Taste of the Sea
Character: Adriana Balestra
A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations....
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
Character: Silvia
A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery....
Made in Italy
Character: Virginia (segment "3 'La Donna', episode 1")
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants....
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
Character: Milena Zulian
An anthology film that presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso. In the first story, a husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair. In the second, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them. In the third, men of the town all seduce a promiscuous teenager, but her father eventually reveals that she is underage, and they face prosecution for statutory rape....
The 25th Hour
Character: Suzanna Moritz
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's troopers, and other happenings....
Il cardinale Lambertini
Character: Maria di Roccasibalda
Papal aspirant "Cardinal Lamberti" has to tread a fine line between the powerful Duke of Montimar and doing the right thing by a young couple in love in late 1730s Bologna....
The Dolls
Character: Luisa (segment "La Telefonata")
This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini....
Beyond Good and Evil
Character: Elizabeth Nietzsche
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a ménage-à-trois....
The Bachelor
Character: (uncredited)
Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?...
Don't Tempt the Devil
Character: Gina Bianchi, nurse
A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection....
The Christmas Tree
Character: Catherine Graziani
A French-American millionaire, his girlfriend and his war buddy try to grant his dying son's every wish....
Not With My Wife, You Don't
Character: Julie Ferris
During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash. She soon discovers Scott is alive, but remains happily married to Curtis until Scott re-enters their lives 14 years later....
A Maiden for the Prince
Character: Giulia
Young Prince Vincenzo Gonzaga, rejects his first wife Margherita Farnese, obtaining the annulment of the union and, at the same time, raising strong doubts about her virginity...
White Fang
Character: Sister Evangelina
The wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father of ridding a gold mining town of a sleazy crime lord in 1896 Yukon, Canada....
Amarsi un po'...
Character: Principessa Cellini
In an accident the young mechanic Marco Coccia meets Cristiana. The two fall in love with one another. Cristiana confesses only later that she is a genuine princess. For Marco it is not a problem, but for Cristiana's parents it is a very big problem. The two must separate. When one evening Cristiana calls Marco and lets him know about her forthcoming wedding, Marco with the car races toward Paris and has an accident......
Eva
Character: Francesca Ferrara
Best-selling author Tyvian Jones has a life of leisure in Venice, Italy, until he has a chance encounter with sultry Frenchwoman Eva Olivier. He falls for her instantly, despite already having wedding plans with Francesca Ferrara. Winning Eva's affection proves elusive; she's more interested in money than in love. But Tyvian remain steadfast in his obsession, going after Eva with a fervor that threatens to destroy his life....
Duel of the Titans
Character: Julia
Twin brothers were raised by wolves, revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city, the founders of Rome....
Follow Your Heart
Character: Olga
The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly family matriarch. Marta, her granddaughter returns from the US to attend the funeral and once in Olga's villa in Trieste, begins reading her grandmother's diary. Olga's story unfolds via flashback. As a young woman, Oldga had to marry Antonio a man she didn't love. Later she became passionately involve...
Via Panisperna Boys
Character: Signora Maiorana
The enthusiasms, fears, joys and disappointments of the (private and professional) life of a well-known group of boys fond of physics and mathematics, who just made history as the Via Panisperna boys....
Kiss the Other Sheik
Character: Dorotea
Italian comedy film in three segments...
Challenge to White Fang
Character: Sister Evangelina
Sequel to Lucio Fulci's first 'White Fang' has the wolf-dog once again trying to stop the villainous Beauty Smith from claiming a recently discovered gold mine in 1899 Yukon, Canada....
5 marines per 100 ragazze
Character: Grazia
Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful voice they take part in a show organized by the college....
The Hussars
Character: Elisa
Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid looking ridiculous, the two hussars cross the country in search of their mounts. But when they are mistaken for deserters, their regiment gives chase....
Desert of Fire
Character: Christine Duvivier
A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in search of his true parents. In Casablanca he meets French crook Jacquot, who takes him with him to Monte Carlo. They both actually manage to find Ben's mother Christine. She tells Ben that his father was a scientist on a secret mission to Africa. Christ...
Love Me Strangely
Character: Nathalie
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?...
Roma bene
Character: Silvia Santi
A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome....
Il vetturale del Moncenisio
Character: Jeanne Thibaud
During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful inheritance and his own daughter's happiness....
Time of the Wolves
Character: Stella Menzoni
Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector (Charles Aznavour), a former childhood friend. Plenty of gunplay and psychology is used to trap the killer. His only tender moments are spent with his girlfriend Stella (Virna Lisi). Dillinger is cornered by the police and kills several innocent victims in a crowd during the shootout. The mob decides to take things into their own hands as they approach the doomed man with a no...
Ripudiata
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A young countess is wrongly accused of adultery and shunned by her husband. She leaves and becomes a successful opera singer and when war comes returns to face her accusers, see her son and clear her name....
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
Character: (archive footage)
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Piccolo Mondo Antico
Character: Marchesa Orsola
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Le ali della vita
Character:
The end of the 1950s: Rosanna returns as a music teacher to the claustrophobic confines of the convent boarding school from which she escaped as a young girl. Her happy, understanding ways, unconventional teaching methods and deep love of music soon win her the hearts of her girl pupils. Vithold, a nice young doctor, is also fascinated by Rosanna and gradually manages to convince her of his deep feelings for her. Rosanna encounters rejection and hatred from Alberta, the Mother Superior, who has ...
The Pebbles of Etratat
Character: Alny
Following a car breakdown, Miss Annie, director of a weight loss center, meets a certain Mr. Kelvo, a car champion. But instead of helping her, he rapes her. She decides to take revenge and follows him....
Donne sbagliate
Character: Anna Miglio
Silvia Soriani, widow of a merchant associated with the Camorra, is arrested by the police. The commissioner and the judge Puglisi Corelli accuse her of collaborating with the mobster Franco Maresco. In jail meet three dams, Anna, Giulia and Elvira, who have been victims of Maresco. From this moment the four women join forces to find and kill the brawler....
Desiderio 'e sole
Character: Laura
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Die Jungen von der Paulstraße
Character: Edit Horváth
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Eighteen Year Olds
Character: Maria Rovani
Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with him....
Walt Disney e l'Italia - Una storia d'amore
Character:
No other country in the world has the same kind of affection and admiration toward Walt Disney and his art and characters as Italy. His movies are legendary and his stories belong to the collective imagination of generations of Italians who grew up with his world of dreams and hopes. This documentary explores this love story....
Il sangue e la rosa
Character: Lucrezia Sciarra
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Miss Right
Character: Anna
After falling for Juliette, the woman of his dreams, a womanizing journalist in Rome must dump his numerous female lovers one by one....
Arabella
Character: Arabella
A young woman uses her womanly wiles to seduce older men in order to aid her debt-ridden grandmother....
Balzac: A Life of Passion
Character: Madame de Berny
This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that he shaped into one spectacular and unforgettable blaze of passion. At the heart of the story are the women in Balzac's life. Although gruff, unsophisticated, and far from handsome, Balzac exerts an irresistible fascination on women....
The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
Character: Yolanda
Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship....
Lettera napoletana
Character: Anna Esposito
Warehouseman "Franco" is set up by the son of his boss for robbery and cigarette smuggling. Can he prove his innocence and rescue his relationship with "Anna"?...
Il conte di Matera
Character: Greta Tramontana
Rambaldo Tramontana, a count who went into battle backed by the French, returns to Matera to take revenge once he is victorious, but the city is deserted and he begins to commit abuses and violence....
La rossa
Character: Maria
Amelia, a beautiful and irrepressible girl known as "La Rossa", returns from Paris to her country, a small seaside town in southern Italy, where her father is the lighthouse keeper. To her father and her fellow villagers, she gives the impression that she is married to a rich gentleman. In reality she is only the friend of Pierre Dupont, an elegant Parisian bandit. Dupont, however, actually gives the girl a certain economic comfort. Later Pierre arrives in the country incognito, being wanted f...
Latin Lover
Character: Rita
The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career....
Vendicata!
Character:
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Venetian Lies
Character: Luisa Herrighe
A lonely 17 year old boy is looking for a couple who is ready to adopt him....
Occhi Verde Veleno
Character: Contessa Marta Dandolo
Federica Felici is a lawyer who has always been involved in cases of small marginalized, but one day is to defend Laura Conti, which is part of one of the most important families of the city, from the charge of murder....
Virna Lisi - La donna che rinunciò a Hollywood
Character:
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Better a Widow
Character: Rosa Minniti
Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to build an oil refinery on some waterfront real estate. Proby talks to the mob bosses about the project, but disagreements between different bosses complicate his efforts....
Merry Christmas... Happy New Year
Character: Elvira
In this romantic story, a couple (Michel Serrault and Virna Lisi) who have been married for over forty years are forced to separate, one to each of their two children's families, when they can no longer pay the rent on their longtime apartment. Absence, in this case, refreshes their memory of the love they have shared, and they take to meeting one another furtively in hotel rooms for sex and affection. One summer, as each of their daughters families takes them on separate vacations, they have ha...
The Girl and the General
Character: Ada
A young woman and a soldier team up to deliver an Austrian General to Italian forces during World War I. Their quest for the 1,000 Lire reward changes their lives unexpectedly....
The Statue
Character: Rhonda Bolt
Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he's a sudden sensation and receives a Nobel prize. An ambitious diplomat, capitalizing on Bolt's celebrity, arranges for the U.S. to commission a statue for a London square to honor Bolt's achievement. Bolt's Italian wife, a renowned artist, sculpts an 18-foot nude of Bolt. In a pique, because he's neglected her for years to do his work, she gives the statue a spectacular phallus, telling Bolt that he wasn't its model. Thinking he's a ...
The Serpent
Character: Mrs. Annabel Lee
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances....
Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale
Character: Sanna
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A Soldier and a Half
Character: Anita Rossi
Nicola Carletti is a middle age 50-year old man who return to Italy with his family but he is drafted to go to the mandatory military service in Italy....
Un dono semplice
Character: 主演
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Il mondo dei miracoli
Character: Laura Damiani
An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter....
Coplan, Agent 005
Character: Ingrid Carlsen
In a factory working for the National Defense, an employee steals a prototype. In charge of the investigation is Francis Coplan....
I Love N.Y.
Character: Anna Cotone
Photographer Mario Cotone is hired to cover a big N.Y. actor. When his pretty daughter Nicole Yeats (N.Y.) and Mario fall in love, this angers her father and hurts Mario's work which further infuriates his boss. Will love prevail?...
Il padrone delle ferriere
Character: Claire de Beaulieu
Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu....
The Doll that Took the Town
Character: Liliana Atteni
A struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the police eventually arrest three suspects....
The Voyeur
Character: Claude
Forty-year-old Sandro is married to Claude. Sandro has one strange obsession: he is a self-confessed voyeur. He films his wife in all walks of life on his wobbly hand held camcorder. But everything changes when Mark enters their life....
Luna nova
Character:
A young man leaves the countryside and falls for the owner of a nightclub....
Naples Sings
Character: Maria
Giorgio with some friends rehearses a show of Neapolitan songs financed thanks to an elderly artist. Having come to quarrel with the landlady, Giorgio rented a room with a good woman who lives with her beautiful daughter Maria. Love soon arises between the two....
The Shortest Day
Character: Naja, una spia austriaca
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle....
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Character: Self
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Caterina Sforza, the lioness of Romagna
Character: Caterina Sforza
Giovanni Medici, the future leader of the Black Bands, has a last meeting in a convent with his dying mother Caterina Sforza, listening to the re-enactment of her life....
Lost Souls
Character: Anna
A gang of violent criminals holds captive a group of young women and men in an abandoned mining complex....
The Possessed
Character: Tilde
While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with....
Aznavour by Charles
Character: Self - Actress (archive footage)
In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filmed diary. Wherever he goes, he carries his camera with him. He films his life and lives as he films: places, moments, friends, loves, misfortunes....
One Hundred and One Nights
Character: Self - in Cannes
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made....
Ernesto
Character: Ernesto's Mother
Ernesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees....
Marcello, una vita dolce
Character: Self (archive footage)
After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his nearly half-a-century career. Directors Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri look into the melancholic charm of one of the most famous Italian actors through interviews with his two daughters, Barbara and Chiara; directors Fellini and Luchino Visconti; actresses Claudia Cardinale and Anouk Aimee; and in archival footage of Mastroianni himself. The subject...
Violenza sul lago
Character: Laura
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Piccola santa
Character: Maria
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Ciao Marcello, Mastroianni l'antidivo
Character: Self (archive footage)
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Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Character: Self
This portrait of the Italian director & actor, Pietro Germi, explores his work, from Italian neorealism to the birth of the Italian comedy. He constructed his movies in a conventional way but also experimented new path. His favorite actresses such as Clau...