Franca Rame

Franca Rame

Born: July 18, 1929
Died: May 29, 2013
in Parabiago, Milan (Italy)
Franca Rame was an Italian theatre actress, playwright and political activist. She was married to Nobel literary laureate playwright Dario Fo. She made her theatrical debut in 1951. Shortly thereafter, she met Dario Fo, whom she married in 1954. Franca Rame appeared in a large number of feature films and plays. Together with her Dario Fo she wrote a large number of unique plays dealing with the private life of men and women.

In 1973 she was kidnapped and raped by fascists. Ten years later, she used the experience for a monologue, Lo Stupro (The Rape). Franca Rame was elected to the Italian senate in 2006 but resigned within two years, saying the assembly was an icebox of feelings.

Movies for Franca Rame...

Now and Forever Time to Reclaim Life
Title: Now and Forever Time to Reclaim Life
Character: Self (archive footage) f
Released: October 4, 2018
Type: Movie
“A future historian, if he or she is honest, will feel a legitimate need to place the decade 1968 to 1978 alongside the great events that changed the world, such as the French and Russian Revolutions”. This was the guiding idea to which we entrusted, with considerable emotion, our personal memory and the archive footage that we took and collected during those years and which represent the physical body of the battles fought and victories gained everywhere during those ten years. Their value, in a country like Italy which has lost its memory, is a rare witness to the power of human dignity in a constant struggle for its redemption.
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Extraconiugale
Title: Extraconiugale
Character: Anna (segment "Il mondo è dei ricchi")
Released: December 24, 1964
Type: Movie
Three anthological segments about sexcapades and erotic fantasies in middle-class Italy.
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Love in Four Dimensions
Title: Love in Four Dimensions
Character: Suzy (segment "Amore e alfabeto")
Released: March 21, 1964
Type: Movie
Young Italian writers and directors express themselves in four episodes about sex and love. "Love and Language," the first tale, centers on the difficulties of a Sicilian immigrant who is unable to master proper Italian. the second tale "Love and Life" centers on a jealous and unhappy wife who becomes so desperate to be free of her constantly philandering husband she takes on a lover of her own. "Love and Art" a nearly exhausted screenwriter hires a secretary to help manage his typing. She's a pretty lass and this makes his insecure wife crazy until he fires the female and hires a male secretary. "Love and Death," the final episode centers on the love affair between a middle-aged widower and the grieving young widow he meets at the cemetery. Unfortuantely for his bank statement, the young, impoverished beauty isn't as bereaved as she seems.
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Corporal of the day
Title: Corporal of the day
Character: Dorian Greco
Released: August 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A young woman brings a baby to some military barracks. There is a note on the child - it says that the baby is hers and a soldier called Felice.
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La zia d'America va a sciare
Title: La zia d'America va a sciare
Character: Caterina
Released: February 13, 1958
Type: Movie
Tecla Cammarano, following a financial crisis that has made her situation precarious, leaves America and comes to Italy with her two lovely grandchildren.
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Il cocco di mamma
Title: Il cocco di mamma
Character: Delia
Released: December 5, 1957
Type: Movie
Aldo, Vasco and "Smilzo" (Slim) are friends. They live with their parents and are training for boxing. But their real interest is in women. When casually Aldo meets Laura and falls for her. Will he succeed in winning her love?
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Rascel-Fifì
Title: Rascel-Fifì
Character: Barbara
Released: October 9, 1957
Type: Movie
Renato and Gedeon have just opened a nightclub in a disreputable area of New York, triggering the hostility of Gionata, a gang leader and owner of the nightclub across the street. Helped by the hoods of his gang, Gionata uses a couple of tricks to try and ruin his competitors. To begin with, he induces his friend Barbara, a vamp, to perform in a hot number in Renato and Gedeon's joint, so that the police intervene and close the club. The move fails, so Gionata decides to have Renatino, Renato's son, kidnapped by his men, which proves another flop. To make matters worse for Gionata, Michaela, his own daughter, has fallen in love with Renato, and sides with him and his partner...
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Amarti è il mio destino
Title: Amarti è il mio destino
Character: Jessica Blaine
Released: July 30, 1957
Type: Movie
Upon the death of her father, Anna, to escape economic ruin and save her family's honor, is forced to marry their main creditor, while her true love, Roberto, has to emigrate to Brazil.
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The Screwball
Title: The Screwball
Character: Diana
Released: March 20, 1956
Type: Movie
Achilles, a Hulot-like factotum for an evening newspaper, travels around looking for a scoop in the Milan of the "economic miracle."
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Rosso e nero
Title: Rosso e nero
Character: Herself
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: Movie
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Poppy
Title: Poppy
Character: Silvana
Released: May 3, 1952
Type: Movie
A high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets.
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Ha fatto 13
Title: Ha fatto 13
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
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Io non sono un moderato
Title: Io non sono un moderato
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie