Ornella Muti

Ornella Muti

Born: March 9, 1955
in Rome, Italy
Ornella Muti (born March 9, 1955) is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Estonian mother. She has an older sister, Claudia (1951).

Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La moglie più bella (aka The Most Beautiful Wife).

She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her British film debut as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon in 1980. American movies she appeared in include Oscar (1991) and Once Upon a Crime (1992). She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a TV commercial of Giovanni Panzani pasta.

Muti has been married twice, to Alessio Orano (her fellow actor in the film "The Most Beautiful Wife", 1975–1981), and Federico Facchinetti (1988–1996).

Muti has three children: Naike Rivelli (b. 1974), who is also a model and actress having a close resemblance to her mother, and whose father is Spanish film producer José Luis Bermúdez de Castro Acaso; a son, Andrea, and a second daughter, Carolina, both from her marriage to Facchinetti.

Since 1998, Muti has been living with Stefano Piccolo, a plastic surgeon.

Muti was voted "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" in 1994 by a worldwide poll of readers of the magazine Class.

In 2008, Ornella Muti introduced her own line of jewellery. She opened new shops in Paris, Milan, Rome, Riga, Moscow and Almaty. She insured her breasts for $350,000.

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Title: The Undecided Groom
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Type: Movie
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Title: Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 21, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: The Christmas Show
Released: November 17, 2022
Type: Movie
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Character: Se stessa
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Title: La voglia matta di vivere
Character: Self
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Type: Movie
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Title: Ti vogliamo bene Francesco Nuti
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Character: Self
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Magical Nights
Title: Magical Nights
Character: Federica, the diva
Released: November 8, 2018
Type: Movie
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Title: Sirens
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Type: TV
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Title: Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
Character: Self
Released: May 9, 2017
Type: Movie
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Character: Self
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Type: TV
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Character: Pia Fusari
Released: April 20, 2012
Type: Movie
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Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
Title: Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 26, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano
Character: Self
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Type: Movie
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Character: Self
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Character: Self
Released: June 2, 2010
Type: TV
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Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 2
Title: Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 2
Released: February 14, 2010
Type: Movie
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Doc West II
Title: Doc West II
Character: Debra 'Tricky' Downing
Released: September 14, 2009
Type: Movie
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Title: Io non ci casco
Character: Professoressa Lamberti
Released: December 5, 2008
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Character: Barbara Forleis
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Character: Nina
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Title: Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
Character: Herself
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Type: Movie
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Title: The Final Inquiry
Character: Maria Maddalena
Released: April 2, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
Character: Maria Maddalena
Released: April 2, 2007
Type: TV
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Title: Yo-Rhad - Un amico dallo spazio
Character: Marianna (voce)
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Type: Movie
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Title: French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
Character: Graziella Lespinasse
Released: February 1, 2006
Type: Movie
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Title: A Life in Suitcases
Character: Mathilde Figura
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Title: The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Character: Grandmother
Released: September 15, 2004
Type: Movie
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
Title: The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
Character: Mathilde Figura
Released: September 6, 2004
Type: Movie
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People - Jet set 2
Title: People - Jet set 2
Character: Aphrodita
Released: May 19, 2004
Type: Movie
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Title: The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Character: Mathilde Figura
Released: February 9, 2004
Type: Movie
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Say I Do
Title: Say I Do
Character: Francesca, la dircetora
Released: January 13, 2004
Type: Movie
An unlikely couple fake a relationship to win a TV game show prize. Wannabe actress Estrella dreams of becoming a hostess on a romance reality-TV show presented by Amador Rosales. Meanwhile, movie usher and film buff Victor, who hates such reality shows, is being pressured by his mother to be a contestant.
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The Lion
Title: The Lion
Character: Sybil Bullit
Released: December 25, 2003
Type: Movie
In Africa in the fifties, during the Mau-Mau war, young Patricia's friendship with a lion she raised for years.
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Title: The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Character: Mathilde Figura
Released: May 24, 2003
Type: Movie
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On the Run
Title: On the Run
Character: Cécile Costes
Released: January 8, 2003
Type: Movie
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After Life
Title: After Life
Character: Cécile Rivet
Released: September 12, 2002
Type: Movie
The final installment in director Lucas Belvaux's trilogy follows Pascal, a cop who sees a return to credibility in the capture of escaped convict Bruno--who in turn is harbored by Pascal's morphine-addicted wife Agnes. Pascal's already precarious ties to Agnes are strained further when he meets and falls for her fellow schoolteacher friend Cecile. With Pascal focused on Bruno and Cecile, Agnes is forced to find a fix on her own.
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An Amazing Couple
Title: An Amazing Couple
Character: Cécile Costes
Released: September 12, 2002
Type: Movie
A woman, concerned by her husband's eccentric behavior, hires a detective to follow his every move -- which yields unexpected results.
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Title: Lo zio d'America
Character: Maria Monticelli
Released: February 17, 2002
Type: TV
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Hotel
Title: Hotel
Character: Flamenco Spokesperson
Released: September 12, 2001
Type: Movie
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Last Run
Title: Last Run
Character: Danny
Released: July 1, 2001
Type: Movie
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Favorite Son
Title: Favorite Son
Character: Claudia Maccari
Released: June 6, 2001
Type: Movie
Claudia Maccari, an Italian doctor who has a Brazilian adopted son suffering from leukemia, goes to Rio de Janeiro to find the child's biological mother for a transplant. She is reluctantly helped by a Detective.
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A Long Long Long Night of Love
Title: A Long Long Long Night of Love
Character: Egle
Released: February 23, 2001
Type: Movie
Reporter Marcello has a brief encounter with Irene while waiting for a train. A young woman who has lost her sight finds herself falling for the voice of a ship's captain she hears over a radio broadcast. Egle, a massage therapist who is soon to be married, finds herself pursuing one last fling with Gabriele -- though the odds are not in her favor, since he happens to be gay. Elena is a young woman with a child who wants to abandon her husband. And Carla wonders if she has any future at all with her lover -- who is married to someone else.
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Tomorrow
Title: Tomorrow
Character: Stefania Zerenghi
Released: January 26, 2001
Type: Movie
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Un Colpo al Cuore
Title: Un Colpo al Cuore
Character: Giulia Pascoli
Released: October 15, 2000
Type: Movie
The Prosecutor Andrea Martinez is transferred to a town in the province of Turin for the love of Marina Ardenzi.
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Jet Set
Title: Jet Set
Character: Camilla Balbeck
Released: June 14, 2000
Type: Movie
In the working-class Paris suburb of Montreuil, Jimmy's restaurant, the Bombay Bar, is on the verge of being closed down by creditors. Jimmy is despondent -- the fact that his wife is about to have a baby isn't helping matters -- when he and his business partner Fifi find unlikely inspiration in the form of "Riches et Sympas," a TV show dedicated to the lives of the rich and famous. Figuring that getting the "right" people to frequent their business will ensure its reputation, Jimmy and Fifi persuade Jimmy's friend, the laid-back, unemployed Mike, to pose as a nobleman and lure his moneyed associates to the Bombay Bar. Mike agrees, and after crashing a posh charity ball, he finds himself being taken in by the likes of society fixture Arthus de Poulignac and Evrard, the latter of whom ensconces Mike in his private mansion. Unfortunately, Mike soon becomes a little too fond of his newly-acquired lifestyle, leaving Jimmy to wonder what to do with the monster he unwittingly created.
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The Unscarred
Title: The Unscarred
Character: Rafaella
Released: June 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Four exchange students meet in Berlin 20 years after graduating but picking up where they left off doesn't turn out to be as easy as they had hoped.
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Tierra del fuego
Title: Tierra del fuego
Character: Armenia
Released: May 19, 2000
Type: Movie
The film is based on the novel (of the same name) by the Chilean writer Francisco Coloane, and on the chronicles of the Romanian engineer Julius Popper, a nationalized Argentine and one of the principle actors in the genocide of the Selk'nam, one of the indigenous peoples who inhabited the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago.
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Esther
Title: Esther
Character: Königin Waschti
Released: March 29, 1999
Type: Movie
Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, intervenes to save the Jewish people from a bloody massacre.
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Dirty Linen
Title: Dirty Linen
Character: Bruna
Released: January 29, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Ciao Darwin
Character: Presidente di giuria
Released: October 3, 1998
Type: TV
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Der Graf von Monte Christo
Title: Der Graf von Monte Christo
Character: Mercédès de Morcerf
Released: September 7, 1998
Type: Movie
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Character: Mercédès Herrera
Released: September 7, 1998
Type: TV
A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego.
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L'Inconnu de Strasbourg
Title: L'Inconnu de Strasbourg
Character: Madeleine Wals
Released: August 19, 1998
Type: Movie
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Somewhere in the City
Title: Somewhere in the City
Character: Marta
Released: June 11, 1998
Type: Movie
The film portrays life of New York City's Lower East Side inhabitants. Introvert therapist Betty is befriended with Chinese immigrant Lu Lu, leftist radical Che is also Lu Lu's friend. Italian immigrant and wife of supervisor of building where they all live, Marta, is having an affair with her neighbour Frankie who likes scams. One of his scams goes terribly wrong.
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Title: Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show
Character: Self
Released: May 23, 1998
Type: TV
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Widows
Title: Widows
Character: Maria Sommer
Released: January 22, 1998
Type: Movie
A black comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulty of obtaining this: While Molly (Eva Mattes), Elisabeth (Katja Flint) and Maria (Ornella Muti) are great friends, but at the same time completely different. Molly is a difficult stressed housewife and mother of three children, Elisabeth is the perfect career woman and Maria uses already in their third marriage sex appeal to get ahead in life. But one day it turns out that the three except their friendship still connects another great thing in common: They are all tired of her life as a wife. And so begins the story of a rabenscharzen comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulties to achieve this. The only question is: How are they merely their husbands going on?
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Title: L'avvocato Porta
Character: Chiara
Released: October 20, 1997
Type: TV
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Mordbüro
Title: Mordbüro
Character: Madame Behar
Released: July 9, 1997
Type: Movie
The neologistic title of this film translates as "Death Bureau," a secret vigilante organization used by ordinary working folk to rid the city of criminals through secret executions. Woodworker Leo Stoychev (Maurice Bennichou) goes to the organization for help because his boss Branco (Herve Briaux) won't repay a loan and may have had something to do with the accident that crippled Leo. The Mordburo is responsible for the death of a crooked lawyer, and Inspector Raoul (Patrick Catalifo) becomes suspicious.
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Just for Laughs
Title: Just for Laughs
Character: Maître Alice Obini
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Michel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel's affair with the much younger Romance. Alice and Nicolas are still together, but maybe this is because Nicolas does not know of Alice's affair with handsome sports photographer Gaspard. This sly sex comedy, the sophomore effort of Belgian filmmaker Lucas Belvaux, follows the covert sexual misadventures of the troubled foursome.
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Stella's Favor
Title: Stella's Favor
Character: Stella
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Stella works in a restaurant in Rome. She feels frustrated about her life. In spite she has turned 40, she dreams of a film career.
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Love Deal
Title: Love Deal
Character: Tatiana
Released: December 21, 1995
Type: Movie
Joaquín goes to Russia for business. There he falls in love with Tatiana, a young and beautiful interpreter who asks her to accompany him on his return as a maid - secretary - interpreter - lover or whatever.
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Title: Die Harald Schmidt Show
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 1995
Type: TV
The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.
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Il Grande Fausto
Title: Il Grande Fausto
Character: Giulia Occhini
Released: October 29, 1995
Type: Movie
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El amante bilingüe
Title: El amante bilingüe
Character: Norma
Released: April 2, 1993
Type: Movie
Joan Mares obsession for the lovely and luscious Norma Valenti takes epic proportions because he cannot let go of her. After he is injured by some skin heads, he uses his scars to pursue his life as a street musician. He devices a plan to get to Norma and she never catches on to his deceit, except she realizes that as Juan Faneca his performance in bed is exactly what she had experienced with Joan Mares because she concludes they were taught sex by the same prostitute.
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Title: Zone interdite
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1993
Type: TV
The zone interdite refers to two distinct territories established in German-occupied France during the Second World War after the signature of the Second Armistice at Compiègne.
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Non chiamarmi Omar
Title: Non chiamarmi Omar
Character: Viola
Released: November 5, 1992
Type: Movie
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Once Upon a Crime
Title: Once Upon a Crime
Character: Elena Morosco
Released: March 6, 1992
Type: Movie
On their way to Monte Carlo, Monaco, Marilyn and her husband, Neil, meet several other married couples, including Julian and Phoebe, who are traveling with a lost dog they plan to return to its wealthy owner for a large reward. But, when the dog's mistress is murdered, the travelers become the prime suspects, and Inspector Bonnard is determined to track them all down.
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Vacanze di Natale '91
Title: Vacanze di Natale '91
Character: Giuliana
Released: December 20, 1991
Type: Movie
This coarse bedroom farce takes place at the St. Moritz ski resort over a Christmas vacation. Among the couples whose lives intersect are a widowed artist honeymooning with his second wife, a gay man traveling with his son and his lover (and hiding each from the other), a snobbish couple from Milan who have been forced to share a suite with a pair of crass Romans, etc.
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Especially on Sunday
Title: Especially on Sunday
Character: Anna
Released: September 26, 1991
Type: Movie
Four lighthearted stories set in the idyllic Italian countryside: an old grouch is befriended by a stray dog; a lonely widow spies on her newly-wed son and daughter-in-law; a German tourist tries to seduce a younger nurse. The fourth segment was cut in the US by its distributor Miramax.
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Il conte Max
Title: Il conte Max
Character: Isabella Matignon
Released: September 26, 1991
Type: Movie
Alfredo is a crude Roman motorcycle repairman who is a friend of Count Max, a gentleman and ex-pleasure lover. The latter invites Alfredo to his residence in Campo dei Fiori and teaches him etiquette, French and how to play poker. The laughter will begin when Alfredo meets and chases the beautiful model Isabell Bellissima in Paris.
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Oscar
Title: Oscar
Character: Sofia Provolone
Released: April 26, 1991
Type: Movie
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise.
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Stasera a casa di Alice
Title: Stasera a casa di Alice
Character: Alice
Released: December 20, 1990
Type: Movie
Saverio and Filippo are two friends and religious leaders of a travel agency in Rome. However, Filippo has trouble with his wife, because she finds out that he cheated on her with a comely girl named Alice.
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A Season of Giants
Title: A Season of Giants
Character: Onoria
Released: November 4, 1990
Type: Movie
At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leonardo Da Vinci (John Glover) create their masterpieces, while dealing with religious persecution, political turmoil, and the discovery of America.
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The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
Title: The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
Character: Serafina
Released: October 31, 1990
Type: Movie
Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th century, leaving in their wake a crop of broken hearts. This picaresque romantic comedy is based on the 1863 novel Le Capitaine Fracasse by Theophile Gauthier. In the story, the company stops at a castle owned by the scruffy young Baron de Sigognac, who is deeply smitten with the charms of the middle-aged (and somewhat morose) beauty Serafina. He decides to travel with the company, and Serafina perversely tries to get him to woo the youngest of the company, the newly bereaved Isabella.
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Wait Until Spring, Bandini
Title: Wait Until Spring, Bandini
Released: November 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Rocklin Colorado, 1925. A hard cold winter. Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers. Even though his bricklayer father wastes the little money he has in the Imperial Poolhall and his time with the rich American widow, Hildegarde. Even though his beautiful and pious mother lets his father get away with that, even if his little brother wets the bed. Arturo loves them all. He also loves to play baseball, even though he has to wait until spring. And he also loves the movies ... and Rosa. But she doesn't love him ...
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'o Re
Title: 'o Re
Character: regina Maria Sofia
Released: January 27, 1989
Type: Movie
One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his Queen, Maria Sofia. This seriocomic drama follows the deposed royals as they adapt to their new lives. The former king has recognized the political finality of his deposition, but his queen has taken to traveling in men's clothing all over Italy trying to foment an uprising to restore them to the throne. She is also frantic to have a baby, an heir, but the king has become celibate as a kind of homage to his beloved mother; he spends all his time lobbying the Vatican to get her declared a saint.
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Codice privato
Title: Codice privato
Character: Anna
Released: September 8, 1988
Type: Movie
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The Sparrow's Fluttering
Title: The Sparrow's Fluttering
Character: Silvana
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A woman, who has been the mistress of a man who has just died, thinks about leaving the little Italian village where they lived and moving to another place. An old and rich man offers her a place in his house, however, she will have to listen to him telling his past love stories.
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My Sister and I
Title: My Sister and I
Character: Silvia
Released: December 19, 1987
Type: Movie
Carlo is a responsible sibling who deals with his black-sheep sister Silvia in this situation comedy. When Silvia returns after many years to attend her mother's funeral, Carlo deals with the fallout caused by her many love affairs. Carlo is convinced to kidnap Silvia's child whom she left in a Hungarian children's home, but she soon abandons Carlo and the baby when she takes up with a British rock star.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Title: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Character: Angela Vicario
Released: May 8, 1987
Type: Movie
This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year absence to investigate the murder that occurred just before he left.
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Title: live - die ZDF-talkshow
Character: Self
Released: March 26, 1987
Type: TV
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Casanova
Title: Casanova
Character: Henriette
Released: March 1, 1987
Type: Movie
The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he's viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and families of the women he seduces.
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Stregati
Title: Stregati
Character: Anna
Released: December 19, 1986
Type: Movie
Lorenzo is the conductor of Radio Strega's night show, making up false court sentences for those who suffer from insomnia.
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Department Store
Title: Department Store
Character: Se stessa / Luisa, commessa del reparto abbigliamento per bambini
Released: June 6, 1986
Type: Movie
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
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Blame it on Paradise
Title: Blame it on Paradise
Character: Celeste
Released: December 19, 1985
Type: Movie
A former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and tries to establish a contact with him
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The Future Is Woman
Title: The Future Is Woman
Character: Malvina
Released: September 5, 1984
Type: Movie
In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for awhile, the relationship between the three is strange, at the very least.
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Swann in Love
Title: Swann in Love
Character: Odette de Crécy
Released: February 23, 1984
Type: Movie
In early 20th century, Charles Swann, a young and wealthy dandy, spends most of his time hanging out with the old nobility, notably the Duke and Duchess of Guermantes. He is madly in love with a pretty demi-mondaine, Odette de Crécy. Idle, Swann surrenders complacently to the torments of jealousy. After hours of suffering, he manages to spend a night with Odette. In the morning, he believes that ultimately, this one is "not his type". However, we find him, many years later, alongside Odette who, now his wife, gave him a daughter. In the company of Baron de Charlus, brother of the Duchess of Guermantes, he wonders about the failure of his sentimental life, so far removed from this absolute he dreamed of.
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Rich and Poor
Title: Rich and Poor
Character: Marta
Released: March 30, 1983
Type: Movie
Pozzetto is a rich man obsessed by the idea of becoming poor. So, his psychiatric suggests him to leave home and live just like a poor man for some days. He will then become familiar with this way of living, and fear less the idea of becoming poor. So he does, and his old family & friends soon forget about him. They don't miss him at all.
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Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style
Title: Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style
Character: Rosetta Foschini
Released: February 17, 1983
Type: Movie
Two stupid lowlifes are "forced" into a life of violent crime on the streets of Italy. What follows is a mocking takeoff of the American crime classic "Bonnie and Clyde."
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The Girl from Trieste
Title: The Girl from Trieste
Character: Nicole
Released: October 28, 1982
Type: Movie
A middle-aged artist (Ben Gazarra) sketching on the beach witnesses a young woman (Ornella Muti) being rescued from drowning. He loans her a blanket. Later she returns the blanket and they have sex several times, but she always leaves right afterward, leaving the man to wonder who she is and where she goes. Things become more complicated as he begins to fall in love with her, and after his regular girlfriend (Mimsy Farmer), with whom he has a curiously open relationship, returns. He eventually begins to realize his mysterious new lover may be very much insane.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Famous T & A
Title: Famous T & A
Character: Lisa (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A collection of nude and/or topless scenes from various films featuring actresses who were either famous at the time or who became famous later on.
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Madly in Love
Title: Madly in Love
Character: Principessa Cristina
Released: December 18, 1981
Type: Movie
Cristina is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble intentions get derailed when Barnaba, a zany bus driver enters their lives and falls madly in love with the gorgeous Cristina. He is nuts enough to succeed in this romantic chase after royalty, as love seems to fuel his determination to rid Cristina of her elitism and to make her see his own irrepressible attractions.
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Nobody's Perfect
Title: Nobody's Perfect
Character: Chantal
Released: October 22, 1981
Type: Movie
Guerrino, a prematurely widowed businessman, falls in love with Chantal, a former paratrooper in the German army who changed sex a few years earlier.
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Tales of Ordinary Madness
Title: Tales of Ordinary Madness
Character: Cass
Released: September 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.
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Love and Money
Title: Love and Money
Character: Catherine Stockheinz
Released: August 28, 1981
Type: Movie
An investment planner, bored with his job and his girlfriend, is given the opportunity to help open a new firm in South America. Once in the new country, he finds himself dealing with dictators and revolutionaries during a time of intense political upheaval, and to complicate his life further, he begins an affair with his new employer's wife.
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Title: Wetten, dass..?
Character: Self
Released: February 14, 1981
Type: TV
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
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The Taming of the Scoundrel
Title: The Taming of the Scoundrel
Character: Lisa Silvestri
Released: December 20, 1980
Type: Movie
A rich farmer is well known for being very unkind. He's misanthropic, misogynous and cantankerous. Until he meets by chance a gorgeous girl...
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Flash Gordon
Title: Flash Gordon
Character: Princess Aura
Released: September 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
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Life Is Beautiful
Title: Life Is Beautiful
Released: December 21, 1979
Type: Movie
Antonio is a retired aviator in an unnamed country ruled by a military junta which violently suppresses any free thought. He falls in love with a member of the resistance against the dictatorship. He is arrested but escapes with his love. The code word among the resisters is: ‘Life is Beautiful’.
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Atrocious Tales of Love and Death
Title: Atrocious Tales of Love and Death
Character: Lucia Navarro
Released: April 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Raphael, a restaurant mandolin player with a limp, a father to support, and a lot of debt, accepts a job offered by his friend, Giardino, to play a serenade under an apartment window at the behest of a mysterious blonde. As he’s playing, a man high up on a balcony is pushed to his death. Raffaele is compelled to conduct his own investigation and becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a macabre secret...
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First Love
Title: First Love
Character: Renata
Released: November 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Ugo is an old actor who feels too young to be in an "old actor's house". He just can't stand the rules of the other old people so he escapes with a young girl.
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Break Up
Title: Break Up
Character: Ussena / Sena
Released: November 7, 1978
Type: Movie
Paolo has been reasonably happy for the past 10 years; he has a job at the university and has Sena as a lover all these years. When she suddenly decides to leave the relationship, it comes as a shock to him, and he desperately wants to know the reason. After a series of reconciliations and separations, he finally finds out and briefly has another apparently blissful relationship with Silva.
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Nest of Vipers
Title: Nest of Vipers
Character: Elena Mazzarini
Released: March 3, 1978
Type: Movie
A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla, the mother of his friend Renato, and then with his young colleague, Elena.
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The New Monsters
Title: The New Monsters
Character: l'autostoppista/la hostess
Released: December 15, 1977
Type: Movie
15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever (Tognazzi, Gassmann, Sordi) one of the most beautiful woman in the world (Ornella Muti) participate to this great tribute.
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Death of a Corrupt Man
Title: Death of a Corrupt Man
Character: Valérie
Released: December 7, 1977
Type: Movie
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...
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The Bishop's Bedroom
Title: The Bishop's Bedroom
Character: Matilde
Released: March 18, 1977
Type: Movie
Mario, a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco, a loner with a sailboat, and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde. Mario confesses his love for Matilde and so ensues a love triangle.
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Senza parole
Title: Senza parole
Released: February 15, 1977
Type: Movie
A young stewardess meets a handsome man. Though they do not speak a common language, they share a brief yet intense romantic relationship.
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The Last Woman
Title: The Last Woman
Character: Valérie
Released: April 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.
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Pure as a Lily
Title: Pure as a Lily
Character: Lucia Mantuso
Released: March 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Anthony M. Wilson is an English gentleman. He has a string of restaurants in London plus a beautiful house decorated with all the trendy art he can get.
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La joven casada
Title: La joven casada
Released: November 17, 1975
Type: Movie
A young couple reviews the year they have lived together. According to him, this time has been positive. But she thinks that Jorge was carried away by his father, betraying the plans they had made together before marrying, although she believes that there is still some way to save the situation. That is why she escapes from home, thinking that her husband will go after her and that everything will start again. But a new person enters her life and the situation gets complicated.
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Leonor
Title: Leonor
Character: Catherine
Released: September 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to get her back. But when she returns, she is a murderous vampire.
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Come Home and Meet My Wife
Title: Come Home and Meet My Wife
Character: Vincenzina Rotunno Blasetti
Released: October 29, 1974
Type: Movie
50 year old Giulio (Tognazzi) and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina (Muti) fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks in on his friend and Vincenzina upon a return from a trip. His jealousy and anger get the best of him and he kicks his wife out of the house. Years pass and Giulio decides to rekindle the lover affair with Vincenzina
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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Appassionata
Title: Appassionata
Character: Eugenia Rutelli
Released: May 22, 1974
Type: Movie
Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.
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Forbidden Passion
Title: Forbidden Passion
Character: Maribel
Released: January 17, 1974
Type: Movie
A young woman was seduced by a high positioned official who is married but when she falls in love with a young man she tries to break the other relationship...
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Una chica y un señor
Title: Una chica y un señor
Character: Caridad
Released: January 7, 1974
Type: Movie
The life of a young attractive singer in search of success changes when he meets an accomplished lawyer, considerably older than her. Their romance will lead to a love story in which the age difference will add to the couple a relationship problem…
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All Sons of the Saintest Mother
Title: All Sons of the Saintest Mother
Character: Santazza
Released: August 12, 1973
Type: Movie
Two crime families battle for supremacy in 1929 Chicago in this Italian crime spoof. One group, known as the "Sons of Mammasantissima" thereby professes its (ironic) dedication to the Virgin Mother. The other family works undercover from a Salvation Army soup kitchen. Neither family seems capable of accomplishing anything of note until a wily Sicilian arrives on the scene and sorts things out.
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The Nun and the Devil
Title: The Nun and the Devil
Character: Isabella
Released: January 25, 1973
Type: Movie
It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the lusty Sister Carmela.
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The Sensuous Sicilian
Title: The Sensuous Sicilian
Character: Giovanna
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
From his youth, Paolo Castorini, a Sicilian baron, is as attracted to women as they to him. Giovanna, a servant girl, Lillian, a serious girlfriend in Rome, a hostess at a post-war party, Paolo makes love to them all. He also feels dissatisfied with a life only of the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. When his father is on his deathbed, Paolo learns of syphilis in the family and something of the curse of dissolution. Some years later, he resolves to marry Katrina, the pure daughter of the woman he should have married. He wants her purity to redeem him so he can make something of his life. But is it too late?
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Experiencia prematrimonial
Title: Experiencia prematrimonial
Character: Sandra
Released: December 11, 1972
Type: Movie
In Spain of 1972 a student couple decides to test the marriage before marrying in reality in order to prevent a irremediable failure. But this was like a revolution for the catholic society of this time.
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Fiorina the Cow
Title: Fiorina the Cow
Character: Teresa - daughter of Betta
Released: September 10, 1972
Type: Movie
Plenty of fun erotic stories in the spirit of the "Decameron", united by one constant hero - unlucky cow Fiorina.
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The House of Doves
Title: The House of Doves
Character: Sandra
Released: February 21, 1972
Type: Movie
The widow Alexandra and her schoolgirl daughter Sandra live together in a luxurious villa in Spain. When Fernando, an old love of Alexandra's, appears in town the two rekindle their love affair until Alexandra finds that he is being paid to be the companion of a rich older woman
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Oasis of Fear
Title: Oasis of Fear
Character: Ingrid Sjoman
Released: August 18, 1971
Type: Movie
Two young sexually free hippies, Dick and Ingrid, finance their travels by selling naked snaps of Ingrid until their plan is brought to an abrupt end by the Police. Forced on the run the two seek refuge at a seemingly empty isolated large villa. As it turns out the house is inhabited by the middle-aged Barbara who invites them in for some potential three-way hanky-panky that soon locks them into something far more twisted and chilling!
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Summer Affair
Title: Summer Affair
Character: Lisa
Released: April 9, 1971
Type: Movie
A very young Ornella Muti plays a rich girl who falls for an older hippie boy. Her parents don't approve and try to stop her from seeing him so they run away to a villa (Her parents') by the sea. Later they are shipwrecked on a deserted island. The plot focuses on the efforts of the police to figure out where the girl is, which is set against the developing relationship between the two young people.
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The Most Beautiful Wife
Title: The Most Beautiful Wife
Character: Francesca Cimarosa
Released: March 12, 1970
Type: Movie
A 16-year-old Sicilian becomes the target of a mafia-hit man after refusing to go through with her prearranged marriage.
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Title: Rischiatutto
Released: February 5, 1970
Type: TV
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Title: Sanremo Music Festival
Character: Self - Co-host
Released: January 29, 1951
Type: TV
The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Title: Bambi Awards
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: TV
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.