Giuliana Calandra

Giuliana Calandra

Born: February 10, 1936
Died: November 25, 2018
in Moncalieri, Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Giuliana Calandra (10 February 1936 – 25 November 2018) was an Italian film, television and stage actress, journalist and television hostess.

Born in Moncalieri, Giuliana Calandra debuted in 1963 Pier Paolo Pasolini's La ricotta and appearing in hundreds of films, TV-series and stage works, including works by Dario Argento, Marco Ferreri, Alberto Sordi, Lina Wertmüller, Giorgio Albertazzi, Mario Monicelli, Costa-Gavras, Dino Risi, Sergio Corbucci, Alberto Lattuada.

In the 1980s she started a parallel career as journalist and TV-author/presenter, mainly focusing on fashion and entertainment.

Calandra died in Aprilia on 25 November 2018, at the age of 82.

Source: Article "Giuliana Calandra" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Trainer at the ball 2
Title: Trainer at the ball 2
Character: Mara Canà
Released: January 11, 2008
Type: Movie
The famous Italian football coach Oronzo Canà has retired to a villa in Apulia. Now, old and tired, he is enjoying a quiet life there, cultivating his vineyard, when suddenly he is summoned to Milan, in northern Italy. There the elderly chairman of a great Lombard ("Longobarda") club is suffering from dementia and has lost his powers of judgement, and the club's manager has been fired. He has decided to bring back Oronzo Canà as trainer, remembering him from his great football team of thirty years before, tasking him with bringing the club back to its old winning ways. Oronzo puts his trust in the intervention of a Russian billionaire who has bought the club for promotion. But it is a deception.
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Adored
Title: Adored
Character: Franca Soldani
Released: May 16, 2003
Type: Movie
South of France: Riki Kandinski and his elder brother Fredrico, come back to their family castle for their father's funeral. Fredrico knows nothing about his younger brother, but he notices that he is making big money and living in luxury all for a few days work a week. By pure chance, Fredrico gets his hands on a gay porn magazine and sees his brother in it.
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Our Tropical Island
Title: Our Tropical Island
Character: Signora Tacchini
Released: October 12, 2001
Type: Movie
A businessman is leaving for his family vacation in the South Pacific when he finds out that a rival has emptied his bank account. To save face he and his family lock themselves in the house, pretending to have gone on their trip, but it is not so easy to hide from the outside world.
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Non chiamarmi Omar
Title: Non chiamarmi Omar
Released: November 5, 1992
Type: Movie
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Faccione
Title: Faccione
Released: January 31, 1991
Type: Movie
Daniela, a true Roman girl with a big face, weighs over a hundred kilos and always has the joke ready. She cohabits in a tiny apartment with her friend Luisa and works as an assistant to Maria Pace, owner of an art gallery.
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E se poi se ne vanno?
Title: E se poi se ne vanno?
Released: October 29, 1989
Type: Movie
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The Belt
Title: The Belt
Character: Bianca's Mother
Released: April 22, 1989
Type: Movie
Vittorio, an American novelist teaching in Rome, meets the beautiful but damaged Bianca and they rapidly fall into an urgent, tempestuous affair. He's hesitant over their relationship since she seems to thrive on conflict and is constantly baiting him into physical altercation. Bianca gives Vittorio an exquisite leather belt as a gift; he knows immediately that she wants him to whip her with it. Driven by his craving for her, Vittorio complies to Bianca's desire. Their relationship escalates into a dark realm of S&M which becomes more and more self-destructive.
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E Non Se Ne Vogliono Andare!
Title: E Non Se Ne Vogliono Andare!
Released: May 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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Regina
Title: Regina
Character: Lalla
Released: May 18, 1987
Type: Movie
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Title: Professione vacanze
Character: Mamma di Enrico
Released: April 16, 1987
Type: TV
Enrico Borghini is an entertainer who finds himself becoming the director of a tourist village in crisis. Helped by the village staff, who are initially hostile to him, he manages to revive the fortunes of the structure.
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Rimini Rimini
Title: Rimini Rimini
Character: moglie di Jerry
Released: February 27, 1987
Type: Movie
Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.
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Desiring Julia
Title: Desiring Julia
Character: organizzatrice conferenza stampa
Released: September 5, 1986
Type: Movie
A young man falls in love with extra-liberated Giulia. Their relationship becomes very passionate, but Giulia has no limits in her sexual fantasies and games. Poor guy, will soon discover he'll have to pay a price for Giulia. He'll have to put up with all her strange and pervert desires, until of course he reaches his limits.
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Tit for Tat
Title: Tit for Tat
Character: Patrizia
Released: November 3, 1984
Type: Movie
Funny adventures of a taxi driver and his passenger - broken financial genius.
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Trainer at the ball
Title: Trainer at the ball
Character: Mara Canà
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: Movie
Trainer Oronzo Canà is called to manage Longobarda, the team of a small town of Northern Italy, when it's promoted to the First Division. His only task is not to go back to the Second Division, but even the team's owner plays against Longobarda since the First Division is too expensive, and the young Brazilian player bought for the team is affected by deep 'saudade'.
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Uno scandalo perbene
Title: Uno scandalo perbene
Character: Maria Gastaldelli
Released: October 19, 1984
Type: Movie
Based on a real-life mystery in the newspapers after World War I, this conventional, straightforward story is about a poorly-dressed man who is brought into the police station in Turin for stealing flower pots from the cemetery. He is rather brutally interrogated, and then because he has no idea who he is or where he belongs, he is put into an asylum for the mentally disturbed. After his photograph is published in the newspapers, a woman shows up at the institution claiming that he is Professor Canella, her missing and wealthy husband. The news obtains the release of the amnesiac, but his claim is quickly and hotly contested by another family, arguing that the man is an imposter. As a result, his case goes back to court and in the meantime, the "professor" is put in jail. As the courtroom drama continues, there are various clues that suggest whether or not the amnesiac has been accurately identified and by whom.
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Jocks
Title: Jocks
Character: Old singer
Released: February 4, 1984
Type: Movie
One of the few films about Italo Disco, this Riccardo Sesani film follows two young males -- Tom Hooker and Russel Russel as DeeJay and Hi-Fi -- in a quest to find find a financial backer for the biggest disco party ever!
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Petomaniac
Title: Petomaniac
Character: Giulia Pujol
Released: October 28, 1983
Type: Movie
The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts.
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Arrivano i miei
Title: Arrivano i miei
Character: colf Iole
Released: January 20, 1983
Type: Movie
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Journey with Papa
Title: Journey with Papa
Character: Rita Canegatti
Released: December 18, 1982
Type: Movie
Armando is the daddy, Cristiano is the adult son. Each of them lives his life in a different way respect the other: Armando is an old play-boy and often he "buys" his women with his money; Cristiano is a shy guy who lives in a community with other guys like him. The movie proceeds showing us, ironically, the differences, the different ways to think, to act, to treat the women between father and son.
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Dio li fa poi li accoppia
Title: Dio li fa poi li accoppia
Character: Clara, domestica di Don Celeste
Released: November 25, 1982
Type: Movie
At carnival, a girl disguised as a devil seduces the parish priest of a village. She becomes pregnant, but the priest can not support his intention to abort and drag her to court.
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Sesso e volentieri
Title: Sesso e volentieri
Character: mamma di Carla (episodio La nuova Marisa)
Released: October 14, 1982
Type: Movie
Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.
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My Darling, My Dearest
Title: My Darling, My Dearest
Character: Zuava
Released: April 3, 1982
Type: Movie
Gennarino Laganà is a poor Sicilian who struggles with menial jobs to support his family, while his parents pressure him to seek his fortune in the North. Gennarino would never leave his beloved island if he had not stumbled into a love affair with Donna Egeria, wife of the Mafia boss Don Mimì. To escape certain revenge, he boards a goods train. In a dream, Saint Totino appears to him and promises him protection in exchange for a regulated life. He thus arrives in Milan, where he meets Armida, a woman of the streets, who takes him into her home and makes him her protector and lover. But San Totino appears again to Gennarino and reproaches him for being a kept man: he must work and Armida must change her life. 
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Il lupo e l'agnello
Title: Il lupo e l'agnello
Character: Signora De Luca
Released: March 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Leon de Paris is a modest dog-barber in Paris. In search of more satisfaction. Thanks to the economic helps of Fanny (his terrible mother in law), he succeeds to set up in Roma a very stylish "Coiffeur pour homme". But due to this, his life with Fanny isn't funny, and more, Leon has to dissimulate homosexuality for job reasons. He decides to stop this nightmare engaging "Er Cuculo" (the cuckoo) a B-gangster to simulate a robbery. In fact the plan is to take all Fanny's money, share it among them and escape in Montecarlo. Will the strange couple succeed?
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Il corpo della ragassa
Title: Il corpo della ragassa
Character: Laura Marengo
Released: September 21, 1979
Type: Movie
Ulderico Quario hires as servant a very beautiful young woman Teresa. Ulderico decides to proceed like a new Pygmalion and he sets about teaching her the art of seductions. But Teresa together with Cecchina start using these newfound skills to persuade Ulderico to marry her in order to claim his inheritance.
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Womanlight
Title: Womanlight
Character: Monique
Released: August 29, 1979
Type: Movie
Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
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Quando c'era lui... caro lei!
Title: Quando c'era lui... caro lei!
Character: Elena di Savoia
Released: June 4, 1978
Type: Movie
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Nest of Vipers
Title: Nest of Vipers
Character: Teacher
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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Le voci di dentro
Title: Le voci di dentro
Released: January 3, 1978
Type: Movie
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Il... Belpaese
Title: Il... Belpaese
Character: Elena
Released: December 17, 1977
Type: Movie
After many years working abroad, Guido comes back to Milan. His dream is to set up a clock-shop but Italy is much changed while he was abroad. Robbery and bombs are daily events and to go out for a walk in the evening is risky. He succeeds however in setting up his shop only to see it destroyed by gangsters. But he meets a girl who calls herself Mia and he falls for her.
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Here We for Example...
Title: Here We for Example...
Character: Beatrice
Released: October 28, 1977
Type: Movie
Poet Palmambrogio Guanziroli loses his wallet mere moments after arriving in Milan. He locates the culprit, a photographer nicknamed 'Click' and takes up residence with him until he either gets his money back or his poetry published.
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My Father's Private Secretary
Title: My Father's Private Secretary
Character: Ersilia Ponziani
Released: December 29, 1976
Type: Movie
Ponziani Armando, the owner of a thriving chemical industry, lives in a beautiful villa on Lake Como with his wife and his son Franco Ersilia.
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Hit Squad
Title: Hit Squad
Character: Lt. Adele Ciampini
Released: October 29, 1976
Type: Movie
A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die.
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Dear Michele
Title: Dear Michele
Character: Ada
Released: October 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael’s girlfriend Mara, the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael’s increasingly conventional friends and family that she survives.
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The Landlords
Title: The Landlords
Character: Adele Bazziconi
Released: August 15, 1976
Type: Movie
Giorgia and her sister inherit a villa and decide to turn it into a pension. When the sister orders the advertising, the brochure, together with the name, Pension Paradise, leads people to believe it is a whore house.
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Giovannino
Title: Giovannino
Released: May 4, 1976
Type: Movie
Giovannino grows up and seeks his way, exemplary in his total and definitive absence of character. He lets himself be guided a little by everyone, without ever making a decision of his own free will. He first seduces the family servant, then runs away to Rome and tries to marry her unserious daughter to a boarding house owner. But her father arrives from Catania who distrusts her and arranges for him to marry a rich and lame girl.
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The Last Woman
Title: The Last Woman
Character: Benoîte
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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The Hired Gun
Title: The Hired Gun
Character: Mrs. Sampioni
Released: November 13, 1975
Type: Movie
Fabio Testi is an undercover cop doubling as the bodyguard (hence, “Gorilla”) of a cantankerous middle-aged industrialist targeted for extortion.
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Convoy Buddies
Title: Convoy Buddies
Character: Rosy
Released: July 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Toby and Butch are a couple of bumbling crooks who get a truck driving job hauling insecticide from Italy to France. Unbeknownst to the clueless duo, they're really smuggling guns. A group of equally inept mobsters try to steal the guns to no avail.
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Deep Red
Title: Deep Red
Character: Amanda Righetti
Released: March 7, 1975
Type: Movie
One night, musician Marcus Daly, looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, he just manages to miss the perpetrator... or so he thinks.
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The Long Night
Title: The Long Night
Released: January 28, 1975
Type: Movie
Two Milanese girls meet in a toilet where a distracted bourgeois forgets a valuable ring. They take it and go in search of someone to sell it to, helped by a southern taxi driver.
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The Girls Who'll Do Anything
Title: The Girls Who'll Do Anything
Released: January 28, 1975
Type: Movie
Whatever you can dream up, Angela and Susan are way ahead of you.
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Di che segno sei?
Title: Di che segno sei?
Character: Maria Bompazzi
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his boss wife. A guard is too much proactive and this will cause many troubles.
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The Beast
Title: The Beast
Character: Amalia
Released: August 12, 1974
Type: Movie
An experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their ground for mutual respect and trust.
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All Screwed Up
Title: All Screwed Up
Character: Biki
Released: February 22, 1974
Type: Movie
A group of workers from the south of Italy live collectively in Milan, where money isn't everything, it's the only thing, in 1974.
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Story of a Cloistered Nun
Title: Story of a Cloistered Nun
Released: November 9, 1973
Type: Movie
Refusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth, and the stern but evil Mother Superior, as both are smitten by Carmela's beauty.
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Love and Anarchy
Title: Love and Anarchy
Released: February 23, 1973
Type: Movie
Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Tunin, a farmer turned anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini.
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La calandria
Title: La calandria
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: Movie
The luxurious Livio bets with the lord of the city to seduce a young bride in a month, at the cost of his genitals.
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Title: Sanremo Music Festival
Character: Self - 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.