Laura Betti

Laura Betti

Born: May 1, 1927
Died: July 31, 2004
in Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Laura Betti (née Trombetti; 1 May 1927 – 31 July 2004) was an Italian actress known particularly for her work with directors Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci. She had a long friendship with Pasolini and made a documentary about him in 2001.

Betti became famous for portraying bizarre, grotesque, eccentric, unstable or maniacal roles, like Regina in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, Anna the medium in Twitch of the Death Nerve, Giovanna la pazza in Woman Buried Alive, hysterical Rita Zigai in Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina, Therese in Private Vices, Public Virtues, Emilia the servant in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and Mildred the protagonist's wife in Mario Bava's Hatchet for the Honeymoon.

Born Laura Trombetti in Casalecchio di Reno, near Bologna, she grew up to be interested in singing. She first worked professionally in the arts as a jazz singer and moved to Rome.

Betti made her film debut in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960). In 1963, she became a close friend of the poet and movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini. Under his direction, she proved a wonderful talent and played in seven of his films, including La ricotta (1963), Teorema (Theorem, 1968), his 1972 version of The Canterbury Tales, in which she played the Wife of Bath; and his controversial Salo (1975) ("120 Days of Sodom").

In 1976, Betti portrayed Regina, a cruel and eroto-maniacal fascist in Bernardo Bertolucci's Novecento (1900). She also played Miss Blandish in his Last Tango in Paris (1972), though her single scene was deleted.

In 1973 she dubbed the voice of the Devil for the Italian version of William Friedkin's The Exorcist.

From the 1960s, Betti dedicated much of her time to literature and politics. She became the muse for a number of leading political and literary figures in Italy and came to personify the revolutionary and Marxist era of 1970s Italy.

In 2001, she made a documentary about Pasolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini e la ragione di un sogno. She also donated her papers related to their long friendship along with more than 1000 volumes and many documents connected to Pasolini to the archives of the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, thus creating the Centro Studi Archivio Pier Paolo Pasolini. This Centro, strongly wanted by Betti, owns also thousands of photograph and all the works of Pasolini: poetry, literature, cinema and journalism. After her death in 2004 her brother Sergio Trombetti has donated all the personal documents of her career to the Centro that has absorbed them under the name Fondo Laura Betti.

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

Movies for Laura Betti...

Marx Can Wait
Title: Marx Can Wait
Character: Irina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 2021
Type: Movie
"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated days of 1968. This documentary is dedicated to his memory.
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Maresco / Pasolini
Title: Maresco / Pasolini
Character: Self
Released: May 5, 2021
Type: Movie
Franco Maresco celebrates the heritage of Pier Paolo Pasolini on the 99th anniversary of his birth through a series of exchanges with renowned intellectuals which were involved or influenced by his works and ideas.
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Laura's Passion
Title: Laura's Passion
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 29, 2011
Type: Movie
A portrait of Laura Betti with archival footage and stories of friends: Bernardo Bertolucci remembers Laura in "Novecento" and in a lost sequence of "Last Tango in Paris", Giacomo Marramao and Walter Siti dwell on the relationship with Pier Paolo Pasolini, Francesca Archibugi remembers a precious friend, Michelle Kokosowski and Jack Lang talk about the successful and mutual love for France, Piero Tosi and Paolo Poli remember her youth, Jacqueline Risset her private life, Valentino Parlato her civic passion, Renato Nicolini recaps her difficult relationship with institutions, Filippo Crivelli remembers the singer. Views that seek to reconstruct the figure of an exceptional artist, unusual and contradictory.
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La Rabbia di Pasolini
Title: La Rabbia di Pasolini
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 5, 2008
Type: Movie
An attempt to reconstruct the complete version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's segment of La rabbia.
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Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer
Title: Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer
Character: Interviewee
Released: June 30, 2006
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales (1972), and particularly focusing on the many edits and cut scenes that were made before the film's release.
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Fratella e sorello
Title: Fratella e sorello
Character: Presidente del Tribunale
Released: June 1, 2005
Type: Movie
The story of an unlikely friendship between two men: Giocondo, a wealthy upper middle class man passionately in love with Nono, a black strip-teaser who has ruined him; and the Snake, a male strip-teaser who has traveled all over the world on cruising boats, a tough guy made tougher after a treachery by one of his friends. They meet in jail, where they are kept for different reasons and a strong, brotherly link is born between them.
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Raul - Right to Kill
Title: Raul - Right to Kill
Character: Usuraia
Released: April 15, 2005
Type: Movie
In a fascist Rome anxiously awaiting Hitler's visit, Raul is a young man not aligned with the regime and beset by debts. In May 1938, Raul kills an old usurer and her sister: not out of necessity, but to investigate the concept of the "right to kill" ... who can motivate it and assume the right?
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Renzo e Lucia
Title: Renzo e Lucia
Character: Madre Superiora
Released: January 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Loose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's “The Betrothed”. In war-torn 17th century Italy, shady feudal lord Don Rodrigo eyes young and beautiful Lucia, who loves—and is reciprocated by—commoner Renzo. The two lovers plan to marry in secret, but Rodrigo discovers it and they are forced to flee their village, becoming separated and each facing many dangers, including the Plague.
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Household Accounts
Title: Household Accounts
Released: March 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Period giallo about a young cook who's accused of killing her wealthy husband.
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Happiness Costs Nothing
Title: Happiness Costs Nothing
Character: Suora guardiana
Released: January 31, 2003
Type: Movie
A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a young woman he falls for, but she puts him on the test.
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Gli astronomi
Title: Gli astronomi
Character: Pavoncella
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
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Il diario di Matilde Manzoni
Title: Il diario di Matilde Manzoni
Character: Teresa Manzoni Borri
Released: September 27, 2002
Type: Movie
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Fat Girl
Title: Fat Girl
Character: Fernando's Mother
Released: March 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such, she can only be taken. Or had. Indeed, this is the subject: a girl's loss of virginity. And, that summer, it opens a door to tragedy.
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Pasolini, el poeta en la playa
Title: Pasolini, el poeta en la playa
Character: Herself
Released: November 30, 2000
Type: Movie
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Marianna Ucrìa
Title: Marianna Ucrìa
Character: Giuseppa
Released: August 13, 1997
Type: Movie
In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry at age 13, bearing three children before even turning 16, when she finally gives birth to a boy. Despite everything, she'll find a way to emancipate herself from the oppressive social conventions of the time.
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We Free Kings
Title: We Free Kings
Character: Una delle ragazze del coro
Released: December 20, 1996
Type: Movie
Three tumblers wander throughout Italy with their show. A priest asks them to perform the Three Kings in a Nativity play, in a village where there are no children. That night a comet runs across the sky, so the three decide to follow it to search for the new Messiah.
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Un eroe borghese
Title: Un eroe borghese
Character: Dottoressa Trebbi
Released: March 3, 1995
Type: Movie
An intriguing look at a sinister web of power,linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.
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With Closed Eyes
Title: With Closed Eyes
Character: Beatrice
Released: November 22, 1994
Type: Movie
In the Tuscan countryside at the end of the 19th century, Pietro, the shy son of a tyrannical landowner, falls in love with Ghisola, a peasant girl with no family. His father has her sent away. Years later, the two meet again: still in love with her, Pietro would like to marry her, but she has become the mistress of a married man.
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Mario, Maria and Mario
Title: Mario, Maria and Mario
Character: Laura
Released: December 5, 1993
Type: Movie
Mario and Maria Boschi, a 30-year-old couple with small children, are hit by a crisis: husband and wife cannot agree on a party name. A colleague, also named Mario, makes an impressive speech, and Maria find herself increasingly attracted to him. She feels able to relate to him like she could to her husband in the old days. They spend the night together, and she falls ill. When she is asked by her husband to leave the house, she realizes that there may be a difference between real love and a vague need for understanding.
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La Ribelle
Title: La Ribelle
Character: Sister Valida
Released: August 20, 1993
Type: Movie
Enza is a beautiful and lively Sicilian teenager who is starting out in life, but due to her naivety, she always ends up getting into trouble. She has no parents, but lives with her aunt and uncle together with her older sister who acts as her mother and tries to put her on the right path, even ending up in prison for some time. Enza, keeping faith with her rebellious nature, falls in love with Sebastiano, with whom she has her first sexual relations, but for him she also goes as far as stealing. All men are the same.
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The Great Pumpkin
Title: The Great Pumpkin
Character: Aida
Released: February 10, 1993
Type: Movie
An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of this mistake begins the difficult journey towards being cured.
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Suffocating Heat
Title: Suffocating Heat
Character: Laura
Released: August 26, 1991
Type: Movie
On June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cup is taking place in Italy, Rome is flooded with supporters; the traffic is chaotic and French-born Marie Christine, who works as a translator, finds a bag that belongs to Miriam, who must leave the next day. Marie Christine decides to find her to return her passport, but one Giuliano Ferrini tries to prevent this. So Marie Christine finds herself navigating through a hot Roman night in a city she doesn't know, among people she never dreamed could inhabit the same city.
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Gallant Ladies
Title: Gallant Ladies
Character: Catherine de Medicis
Released: November 14, 1990
Type: Movie
Despite being busy with his profession of soldiery, Brantome manages to find much more time for amorous dalliances with the ladies of the 16th-century French court than for battles. Unfortunately for him, his true love, Victoire, is beyond his reach most of the time. He more than compensates for this in the arms of others.
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The Carpathian Mushroom
Title: The Carpathian Mushroom
Character: Olympia
Released: March 7, 1990
Type: Movie
A miraculous mushroom is discovered by a film director's daughter.It would be used to cure an actress.
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Le rose blu
Title: Le rose blu
Character: La donna con la rosa blu
Released: February 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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I cammelli
Title: I cammelli
Character: Milena
Released: September 19, 1988
Type: Movie
Ferruccio, who knows everything about camels, and Camillo, who acts as his manager, go to Milan to take part in a telequiz.
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Jane B. for Agnès V.
Title: Jane B. for Agnès V.
Character: Lardy
Released: March 2, 1988
Type: Movie
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.
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Widow's Walk
Title: Widow's Walk
Character: Keli
Released: December 2, 1987
Type: Movie
Molinat is assigned to the case of a man found with a bullet in his ear on the shore of a little Atlantic coast resort he knows well. Indeed, he used to live there before his wife disappeared at sea, never to be found again. As the ocean rejects a new corpse everyday, the mystery thickens and the list of potential suspects grows longer. This slows Molinat's progress as much as the cumbersome Leroyer, sent in to spy on him and hopefully impede his progress. The tension mounts and the ring involving the three young ladies in the grey mansion, the village idiot and the real estate agent starts spinning out of control.
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Jenatsch
Title: Jenatsch
Character: Mademoiselle von Planta
Released: June 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially disinterested, the journalist begins to uncover unflattering truths about the national hero and experiences visions in which he seems to be witnessing events that transpired over 300 years ago. As he obsessively pursues the investigation, his personal life and his grip on reality disintegrate, drawing him relentlessly toward the fatal carnival at which Jenatsch was killed.
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Sweets from a Stranger
Title: Sweets from a Stranger
Character: Jolanda
Released: April 24, 1987
Type: Movie
A serial killer is terrifying the prostitutes in a big Italian city. After few barbaric murdering four prostitutes Lena, Angela, Nadine and Stella decide to unify and try to self-defend themselves. The police and all the other prostitutes agree with the four and the hunting is open. Who is the cruel killer?
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Blame it on Paradise
Title: Blame it on Paradise
Character: direttrice
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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Mother Ebe
Title: Mother Ebe
Character: Lidia Corradi
Released: April 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft.
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Class Relations
Title: Class Relations
Character: Brunelda
Released: February 21, 1984
Type: Movie
A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.
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The Art of Love
Title: The Art of Love
Character: Clio
Released: December 7, 1983
Type: Movie
Young student Claudine has a dream in which the Roman student Cornelius, fascinated by the beautiful wife of the commander, attends lectures on the art of love of great Ovid. Ancient tragedy repeats itself in a few centuries ...
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Title: The Charterhouse of Parma
Character: The Vivandière
Released: September 12, 1982
Type: TV
Stendhal's epic tale of a young French officer in the Napoleonic wars, and his aunt - a duchess of legendary beauty and resourcefulness.
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The Night of Varennes
Title: The Night of Varennes
Character: Virginia Capacelli
Released: May 15, 1982
Type: Movie
During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.
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Loin de Manhattan
Title: Loin de Manhattan
Character: Madame Hanska
Released: January 27, 1982
Type: Movie
Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why he did not produce anything for eight years. He asks his friend Ingrid to help him break through this mystery.
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Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die
Title: Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die
Character: Self
Released: February 28, 1981
Type: Movie
Philo Bregstein tells us this film looks at Pasolini's life and art to explain why he died. The film traces Pasolini's life chronologically - family roots, hiding during World War II, teaching, moving to Rome, being arrested and acquitted many times, publishing poems, getting into film, being provocative, and being murdered. Interviews with Alberto Moravia, Laura Betti, Maria Antonietta Macciocch, and Bernard Bertolucci are inter-cut with readings of Pasolini's poems and with clips from four films - primarily the Gospel According to St. Matthew - to illustrate his changing ideas and points of view. Bregstein makes a case for Pasolini's being lynched.
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My Name Is Anna Magnani
Title: My Name Is Anna Magnani
Character: Self
Released: September 30, 1980
Type: Movie
Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documentary portrait also gives the floor to his friends and relatives, from Roberto Rossellini to Marcello Mastroianni, through Federico Fellini.
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The Little Archimedes
Title: The Little Archimedes
Character: La signora Bondi
Released: May 30, 1979
Type: Movie
The action takes place in Florence in the 1930s. Alfred, an Englishman who moved to that city in order to write a book on Giotto, meets a boy who is fond of music and mathematics, with whom he becomes close friends. Alfred goes to Switzerland, but one day he receives an anguished letter from the boy and rushes back to Florence where he learns some terrible news.
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Einzelzimmer
Title: Einzelzimmer
Character: Calogera
Released: May 13, 1979
Type: Movie
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Lovers and Liars
Title: Lovers and Liars
Character: Laura
Released: January 5, 1979
Type: Movie
An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.
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Title: The Word
Character: Maria
Released: November 12, 1978
Type: TV
A document is discovered that appears to be an ancient eyewitness account of the life of Jesus Christ. A public relations executive is hired to publicize this document as a new version of the Bible, but he finds himself enmeshed in controversy and intrigue.
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Butterfly on the Shoulder
Title: Butterfly on the Shoulder
Character: Mme Carrabo
Released: May 3, 1978
Type: Movie
On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who brought him there. The doctor insists he hallucinated, but it's not long before he obtains evidence that it wasn't a dream.
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At Night All Cats Are Crazy
Title: At Night All Cats Are Crazy
Character: Jacqueline
Released: November 23, 1977
Type: Movie
Playwright Charles Watson entertains his niece Lily by telling her about the adventures of Philibert.Both these people have something to do with Philibert.
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The Seagull
Title: The Seagull
Character: Irina
Released: July 2, 1977
Type: Movie
A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force of character.
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The Gang
Title: The Gang
Character: Felicia
Released: January 19, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?
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1900
Title: 1900
Character: Regina
Released: August 28, 1976
Type: Movie
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
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Private Vices, Public Virtues
Title: Private Vices, Public Virtues
Character: Teresa
Released: May 6, 1976
Type: Movie
The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century. Bored by his very proper wife, the youthful heir to the throne spends his time in amorous dalliances at a sprawling country estate. His wife departs at the arrival of his friends, and they organize a celebration which becomes a wild orgy and culminates in death and tragedy.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus
Title: Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus
Character: Elle-même
Released: February 3, 1976
Type: Movie
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Abicinema
Title: Abicinema
Character: Self
Released: August 9, 1975
Type: Movie
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The Woman with Red Boots
Title: The Woman with Red Boots
Character: Léonore
Released: December 11, 1974
Type: Movie
An elderly millionaire manipulates an avant-garde writer and a happily married man.
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The Murri Affair
Title: The Murri Affair
Character: Tisa Borghi
Released: September 28, 1974
Type: Movie
Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the dead husband happened to be a member of the Italian nobility, and the trial starts to turn into more of a prosecution of the defendant's socialist politics and the activities of his father, a well known liberal social reformer, than the actual crime itself.
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Allonsanfan
Title: Allonsanfan
Character: Esther Imbriani
Released: September 6, 1974
Type: Movie
After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause.
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The Cousin
Title: The Cousin
Character: Rosalia Scuderi
Released: July 26, 1974
Type: Movie
Italian coming of age story about two cousins, Enzo and Agata, told in three stages.
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The Return
Title: The Return
Character: Clara
Released: September 30, 1973
Type: Movie
A man receives a telegram that his father is dying, and travels with his wife to his hometown. They discover that the telegram is untrue, and set out to find who sent the message and why.
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Woman Buried Alive
Title: Woman Buried Alive
Character: Giovanna la Pazza
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Duke Philippe marries Cristina, the daughter of a fisherman. But his brothers, seeing that they would be cut from the family inheritance set to go to Cristina, decide to get rid of her by imprisoning her in a tower and making the duke believe she died.
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Slap the Monster on Page One
Title: Slap the Monster on Page One
Character: Rita Zigai
Released: October 19, 1972
Type: Movie
1972, Milan. Just a few days before the general elections, a young girl from an esteemed family is raped and murdered. Bizanti, editor-in-chief of a conservative newspaper, tries to derail the official police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his boss to win the elections.
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The Canterbury Tales
Title: The Canterbury Tales
Character: The Wife from Bath
Released: September 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
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Sonny and Jed
Title: Sonny and Jed
Character: Betty
Released: August 11, 1972
Type: Movie
Jed (Tomas Milian) is an unlikely hero in this Italian western. As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, he nonetheless robs from the rich and gives to the poor. Not only is he a murderous, ill-tempered sort, he is bad-mannered, too. When Sonny (Susan George) decides he should be her man and teach her how to be a proper outlaw, sparks fly.
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In the Name of the Father
Title: In the Name of the Father
Character: Franco's Mother
Released: October 12, 1971
Type: Movie
In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.
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A Bay of Blood
Title: A Bay of Blood
Character: Anna Fossati
Released: September 8, 1971
Type: Movie
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.
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A Man Called Sledge
Title: A Man Called Sledge
Character: Sister
Released: November 14, 1970
Type: Movie
James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get away with the bounty, they soon discover that the enemy lies within their midst. As they begin to bicker over who should get the biggest cut, the stage is set for a deadly showdown. Claude Akins and John Marley co-star in this Italian Western directed by Vic Morrow.
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Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Title: Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Released: October 8, 1970
Type: Movie
This lysergically madcap Italian flick largely eschews any traditional plot. The most noticeable thread involves ventriloquist Ricky becoming a TV star, dressed up as a superhero with an “impish robot” dummy.
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Hatchet for the Honeymoon
Title: Hatchet for the Honeymoon
Character: Mildred Harrington
Released: June 2, 1970
Type: Movie
A madman haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife carves a corpse-laden trail.
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Paulina Is Leaving
Title: Paulina Is Leaving
Character: Hortense
Released: September 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Paulina leaves the apartment where she lives with her two brothers, Nicolas and Olivier. Her departure is mark by chaotic and sometimes violent confrontations.
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RARA
Title: RARA
Released: May 30, 1969
Type: Movie
In all of his work, Bussotti makes frequent reference to the body, to sexuality. This to remind musicians — especially classically trained ones — that they are not body-less angels, that they are not just their musical thoughts, that they are still, in the last analysis, flesh and bones. Thus the erotic is not for shocking, but to stress that making music involves the body in a very direct way.
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Orgy
Title: Orgy
Character: Donna
Released: November 27, 1968
Type: Movie
The tragic and self-destructive sexual battle between a man and his wife. A drama for the desperate struggle of those who are different against the normality that rejects the margins. The couple is preparing to consume a relationship of extreme sadomasochism. Recorded theatre production.
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Theorem
Title: Theorem
Character: Emilia, the Servant
Released: September 7, 1968
Type: Movie
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.
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Caprice Italian Style
Title: Caprice Italian Style
Character: Desdemona
Released: April 13, 1968
Type: Movie
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
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What Are the Clouds?
Title: What Are the Clouds?
Character: Desdemona
Released: April 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello.
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Oedipus Rex
Title: Oedipus Rex
Character: Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1967
Type: Movie
In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Edipo (Oedipus), and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Edipo that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, he flees Corinth and his supposed parents - only to get into a fight and kill an older man on the road…
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The Earth As Seen from the Moon
Title: The Earth As Seen from the Moon
Character: un turista
Released: February 22, 1967
Type: Movie
Ciancicato Miao and his son, after the death of his wife and mother by mushroom poisoning, are dedicated to find her replacement and have no luck until they find a mysterious deaf mute green-haired woman.
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The Witches
Title: The Witches
Character: Male Tourist (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
Released: February 22, 1967
Type: Movie
Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.
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Ecco
Title: Ecco
Character: Self
Released: November 15, 1963
Type: Movie
A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theater in Paris, a man who sticks long needles through his body, reindeer being castrated, and footage of lesbians and strippers.
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Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Title: Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Character: Sonia, the 'Diva' (segment "La ricotta")
Released: February 19, 1963
Type: Movie
Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
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Escape by Night
Title: Escape by Night
Character: Teresa
Released: October 7, 1960
Type: Movie
In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.
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Red Lips
Title: Red Lips
Character: The Painter
Released: May 14, 1960
Type: Movie
A lawyer heads out on the road in an attempt to find his daughter who has been missing for quite some time. To help him navigate the secret world his daughter lived within that he knows nothing about, he recruits the help of Irene a close friend of his daughter's. But Irene has plans of her own.
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La Dolce Vita
Title: La Dolce Vita
Character: Laura
Released: February 5, 1960
Type: Movie
Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
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Title: Discorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: TV