Carla Gravina
Birthday: Born in 1941-08-05 in Gemona del Friuli, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy
Deathday: Alive
Carla Gravina (born 5 August 1941) is an Italian actress and politician. She appeared in 40 films between 1957 and 1993. Born in Gemona, Gravina made her film debut at fifteen years old, in Alberto Lattuada's Guendalina. Very active in films and on television series, both in comedic and dramatic roles, from the late 1970s she gradually focused her activities on stage and in political activism, being a PCI deputy between 1980 and 1983. During her career Gravina won a number of international awards, including the Best Actress Award for her performance in Alessandro Blasetti's Love and Chatter at the 1958 Locarno International Film Festival, the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ettore Scola's La terrazza at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, and the award for Best Actress for Margarethe von Trotta's The Long Silence at the 1993 Montreal World Film Festival.
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Il segno del comando
Character: Lucia
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Nero Wolfe
Character: Helen Frost
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I fratelli Karamazov
Character: Katerina Ivànovna
Italian adaptation of Dostoevskys famous novel....
Orient-Express
Character: Hélène
A six-part French tv series first broadcast in 1979, each episode of Orient Express focuses on a different tale of a journey on the legendary train; each one is set between the outbreak of the First World War and the outbreak of the Second....
Madame Bovary
Character: Emma Bovary
Italian adaptation of the novel by Gustave Flaubert, starring Carla Gravina and Paolo Bonacelli as Emma and Charles Bovary. Originally aired in 1978....
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Big Deal on Madonna Street
Character: Nicoletta
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems....
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Character: Celeste
Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo has been seeking a promotion and a raise that never comes, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerónimo, the son of Don César, meets Celeste, the daughter of Policarpo, and falls in love with her. Policarpo sees in that relationship the solution to his aspirations at work, and does everything in his power to make this relationship fruitful. Don César, who presumes to...
Everybody Go Home!
Character: Silvia Modena
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes....
The Violent Four
Character: Anna
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers....
Tony Arzenta
Character: Sandra
A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue....
The Inheritor
Character: Liza Rocquencourt
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well......
The Terrace
Character: Carla
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-to-gather. They discuss about their past, present and future....
Alfredo, Alfredo
Character: Carolina
Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected....
The Antichrist
Character: Ippolita Oderisi
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress....
The Lady of Monza
Character: Caterina da Meda
A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan. Based on the life of Marianna De Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," a 17th century nun accused of and tried by the church for breaking celibacy and plotting murder....
Five Branded Women
Character: Mira
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves....
Without Apparent Motive
Character: Jocelyne Rocca
A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders....
Boomerang
Character: Muriel
A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer....
A Day for Lionhearts
Character: Mariuccia
September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two meets Gino and all together will try to pass trough the Gothic Line....
The Seven Cervi Brothers
Character: Verina, moglie di Aldo Cervi
The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World War 2....
Days of Inspector Ambrosio
Character: Tullia Bandelli
A few days before Inspector Ambrosio's holiday, a bank robbery takes place opposite his house....
Mother's Heart
Character: Lorenza Garrone
A mute mother stands by idly as her young children radicalise as a result of a society that thrives on conflict and manipulation. As she is drawn to a group of political activists, her absence allows her children to become increasingly extreme in their behaviour and lethal games they play....
Il gioco della verità
Character: Anna Incoronato
In the slums of Naples, a prostitute, when questioned by police about the death of one of her clients who fell from the gutter, claims it was an accident. Later the woman gives another version, accusing the owners of the boarding house of being murderers. A trial will begin that will decide which side is the "truth."...
The Invisible Woman
Character: Delfina
Drama about the fading relationship between a professor and his wife. Based upon a short story by Alberto Moravia....
First Love
Character: Betty
Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her for several romantic places until the money ends. Ugo will try to get the girl engaged on a local TV station, but Renata falls in love with a manager....
The Pisciotta Case
Character: Gemma
The magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the imprisoned assassin of Salvatore Giuliano. He very soon finds himself struggling against a conspiracy of silence, which Scauri must therefore overcome in order to indict two powerful mafia bosses. His only hope comes for a brief moment from the testimony of the young prosecutor Lojacono. But The Organization is the most strong: the young prosecutor withdraws his deposition and the magistrate disappears...
Esterina
Character: Esterina
Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern Italy. She wants to find her luck in the big city, but her dreams turn into disappointing experiences. She falls in love with Gino but he is not interested in her, until she disappears......
Love and Chatter
Character: Maria Furlani
Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage destroyed during the war. Reconstruction would take the view of the Paseroni villa, big industrial and political traffic. Bonelli's lawyer, a great speaker, becomes a mayor for the death of his predecessor and is bought by Paseroni, while rejecting...
Mon Ami Washington
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La Locandiera
Character: Mirandolina
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The Long Silence
Character: Dr. Carla Aldrovandi
Carla Aldrovandi, a gynecologist, and her husband Marco Canova, a magistrate live on the front line of criminal and political powers in Italy. She is surrounded by terror and threats....
Hail the Artist
Character:
Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Nicolas attempts a reconciliation with his ex-wife. But in this, as in his professional life, Nicolas is doomed to disillusionment and failure....
And Now My Love
Character: Sarah's Italian Girlfriend
The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents....
A Bullet for the General
Character: Rosario
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware of his true intentions....
Nella vita di Sylvia Plath
Character: Sylvia Plath
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Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich
Character:
Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat and respectable married lives. One day, they are summoned to the notary public's office and learn that Anna, one of their peers in high school who got a bad name as a "whore" in the town because of them and was forced to leave is now dead. Furthermore, she had amassed a great fortune abroad and decided to bequeath it to the three. However, she has a strange condition: Claudia, Rita, and ...
Mother and Daughter
Character: Mother
In a wealthy Italian home, the daughter of the family is trying to cut her mother's apron strings. Not only is she having difficulty with this, for her mother is extremely protective, but she cannot even cut vegetables skillfully. Despite that, she wants to go out and party, mother or no mother....
Caravaggio
Character: Tullia
A miniseries about Caravaggio's life....
Come quando fuori piove
Character: Anita
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Guendalina
Character: Amica di Guendalina (uncredited)
Wealthy teenager Guendalina is a child of divorce. Oberdan, likewise a teenager, is a boy from a blue-collar family. Escaping from the tribulations of her home life, Guendalina creates a dream world of her own, casting Oberdan as her personal Prince Charming. Despite parental objections, girl and boy fall in love. Interestingly enough, the relationship between Guendalina and Oberdan remains pure and chaste throughout their film, which is more than can be said for their parents. their respective ...
Scano Boa
Character: Clara
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Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Character: Self
A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly became one of the most famous and beloved actresses of Italian and international cinema, told through the words of her unpublished letters and diaries, photographs, homemade films in 8 mm, and new interviews with her relatives, friends, and collaborators....
Sierra Maestra
Character: Carla
An Italian journalist is arrested in Venezuela by the military, accused of being a revolutionary. The journalist, interviewed by the press, says he has no connection with the guerrilla organizations and is thrown into jail and subjected to psychological and physical violence....