Rosanna Schiaffino
Also Known As: Розанна Скьяффино
Biography: Rosanna Schiaffino was born on November 25, 1939 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy as Rosa Anna Schiaffino. She was an actress, known for Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963), La sfida (1958) and The Big Night (1959). She was married to Giorgio Enrico Falck and Alfredo Bini. She died on October 17, 2009 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Genoa, Italy
Birthday: November 25, 1939
Deathday: October 17, 2009
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Gender: Female
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The Victors
Overview: Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-22
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Danger in the Middle East
Overview: A criminal making plans to pull off one big score before he retires, comes into possession of secret papers worth a fortune, but dies while attempting the hit. His wife takes those papers for herself, while discovering there are rival criminals, a powerful organization and a sleazy blackmailer.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-02
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Two Weeks in Another Town
Overview: After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-17
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The Witch
Overview: A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces at work.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-09-16
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The Long Ships
Overview: Moorish ruler El Mansuh is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the "Mother of Voices." Viking explorer Rolfe also becomes intent on finding the mythical treasure, and sails with his crew from Scandinavia to Africa to track it down. Reluctantly working together, El Mansuh and Rolfe, along with their men, embark on a quest for the prized object, but only one leader will be able to claim the bell as his own — if it even exists at all.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-22
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Illibatezza
Overview: Illibatezza ("Chastity") by Roberto Rossellini is a story of a beautiful stewardess who attracts unwanted attention from one of the air travelers – a middle aged American. By chance, the two stay in the same hotel overnight...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-19
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Totò Double or Nothing?
Overview: The penniless Duke decides to participate in "Lascia o raddoppia", a TV quiz show, in order to win five million lira. Then two gangsters bet between themselves on his success and, alas, the Duke is kidnapped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-05-03
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The Big Night
Overview: The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty crimes all day begin with arms theft, and culminating with a night with three streetwalkers. After their pleasure, the boys try to cheat the hookers, but they ladies are smarter than that and have stolen their cash ahead of time. It's back to the city for the boys, where they continue their destructive games...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-12
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The Mandrake
Overview: A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-11-18
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Ferdinand I King of Naples
Overview: The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the infamous city premises in search of love adventures. With the De Filippo brothers to complete.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-12-22
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Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Overview: Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-19
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Blood on His Sword
Overview: Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to this, and since his daughter does not feel inclined to accept, he refuses. Charles sets up a plan to abduct the prince, in a way that the suspicions will fall upon Robert de Neuville, a noble enamoured of the princess. Robert manages to free her from the castle where she was being kept. Charles keeps setting traps, and managing people to perjure against Jeanne, and the King himself. Finally, Jeanne escapes alive from a pack of wolves, who set watching the lady alone in the snow covered woods, instead of attacking her. Charles does yet accuse her of being a witch - wishing to have her dead rather than being the wife of Robert... Robert will be her champion in a Judgement of God. Will the 'miracle of the wolfs' repeat itself, or fearless Charles defeat Robert in the sword duel?
Genres: Adventure Romance Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-06
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The Cavern
Overview: Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?
Genres: Adventure War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-06-26
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The Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete
Overview: King Minos sacrifices the 'required' virgins to the Minotaur. As his wife lies dying, she confesses that her daughter has a twin she has secreted to avoid giving one of the girls to the Minotaur. The daughter raised by Minos tries to have her twin killed, but failing in her first attempt, continues to try to have her given to the Minotaur. Theseus, the Greek hero, tries to prevent it.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-25
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Corruption
Overview: Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with a young woman to take this idea out of his mind...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-11-22
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The Challenge
Overview: Vito Polara is ambitious and wants to get as more power and money as possible. He decides to leave the cigarette smuggling and try to get the total control of the regional fruit and vegetable distribution considered more profitable. He looks for the help of a rural crime Boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-09-11
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Romulus and the Sabines
Overview: The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from Sabina where there are a lot of women. The Sabine men, of course, attack Rome to get their wives and daughters back.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-11-15
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The Man Called Noon
Overview: Noon is a gunfighter who has become amnesiac. Helped by Rimes, an outlaw who has befriended him, he tries to figure out who he is actually. It gradually appears that his wife and kid have been murdered. As time goes by, Noon also recalls a fortune hidden somewhere. Niland, a scheming judge, and Peg Cullane, a greedy will do everything to prevent Noon and Rimes from achieving their end while Fan Davidge, a woman living in a ghost town, will support them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-29
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Red Dragon
Overview: An FBI agent goes to Hong Kong to short-circuit a smuggler of electrical parts to the communists.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-07-16
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Piece of the Sky
Overview: As he does every year, Severino, a young hawker who goes around the festivals of the various villages in the Po Delta, returns to Migliarino to sell his knick-knacks and tell far-fetched stories about the future and progress. Besides the beautiful Marina, three gullible old friends live here, pensioners who live off poverty, to whom he proposes the sale of a hectare of sky.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-15
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Simon Bolivar
Overview: Simon Bolivar is the true-life story of the leader of the 1817 Venezuelan revolution.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-12
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The Rover
Overview: A former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy when she falls in love with a French naval officer.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-27
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Wife for Sale
Overview: The engineer Furio Cicerone came up from nothing and entered the circle of the great industrialists; he is married to Clara, but has a series of adventures with other women. Gianni is part of the powerful from birth and is used to having everything he wants and wants Clara. But Clara does not want him. Then there is an opportunity: Furio wins an important foreign contract, but needs to have immediately 500 million while the bank can not give it to him before five days. Gianni will lend him money, without interest for five days but for every day of blackberry Furio will have to give him Clara. Furio and Clara accept the contract.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-02
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Story of San Michele
Overview: A biographical drama is based on the 1929 autobiography of Swedish doctor Axel Martin Fredrik, The Story of San Michele. It follows the physician, psychiatrist, and adventurer as he travels the distances from Lapland to his Villa San Michele on Capri, with special stops in Paris and Rome. Personal physician to Queen Victoria, also physician to the Swedish royal family (he spent his last years living in the Royal Palace in Sweden), "Axel Munthe" knew everyone from the poorest clients to the most well-endowed. His love of animals, his support of bird sanctuaries, his involvement with architecture as he constructs his impressive villa throughout five summers, and his interests in archaeology and hypnotism are all explored.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-09-28
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El Greco
Overview: Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the Inquisition in 16th-century Spain.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-15
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The Killer Reserved Nine Seats
Overview: A rich man gathers together friends and relatives at the abandoned theatre he owns, but the party isn't fun for long since apparently one of them is a murderer.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-05-21
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In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain
Overview: A poor laborer, Zilio, wants to marry Betìa, the daughter of a rich peasant woman. After number of refusals Zilio is desperate, but Nale, a young lover, combines a frontal marriage between the two, convinced they can take advantage of it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-20
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Silence the Witness
Overview: De Luca is killed by Marchetti's chauffeur. Marchetti ordered the murder because he was to be accused by De Luca. The two have a car accident while going home to get an alibi. There is a witness, Sironi, who calls the police. But when the police arrive the car has gone and so have the two men. Inspector Santi and young judge Novelli look into the strange case. Marchetti, however, is a powerful man and Sironi and his family begin to be obsessed first by threats then by assaults.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-05-15
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Check to the Queen
Overview: Silvia is young, beautiful and rich. When her husband goes on a business trip, she starts working as a secretary for Margaret, a famous film star. Margaret appears to have no problems giving her what she wants and turns her into a sex slave- little by little, she subjects herself to increasingly serious humiliations in a masochistic relationship.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-07
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Hector the Mighty
Overview: A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal comes up with a plan to force Hector into selling him the land by kidnapping Helen, triggering a small gang war.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-06
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Arrivederci, Baby!
Overview: Nick tries to kill his wife to get her money, but when learning of this, she plans the same for him!
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-28
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Seduction Of The South
Overview: Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-16
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A Nun at the Crossroads
Overview: During an uprising in the Belgian Congo, a convent of nuns are besieged and the Reverend Mother is killed and Sister Maria is raped. Returning to Belgium, Sister Maria finds out to her horror that she is pregnant. Rejected by her family and her sister, she is told by the Vatican that she is supposed to either give the baby to the church and still be a nun or keep the baby and leave the order. This film follows her decision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-12-21
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The Heroes
Overview: Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked "plasma."
Genres: Comedy War Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-23
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Blood and Passion
Overview: Pamplona, 1975: Dr. Navarro, a famous doctor in the city, feels strongly attracted to Juana, his nurse, who is also in love with the doctor. Navarro, however, moved by his strong religious convictions (in fact, he is a numerary member of Opus Dei) remains faithful to his wife and tries by all means to prevent that their relations with Juana break through professional boundaries. For the purpose of that, he orders the nurse will sent to another hospital. This will push Juana to take the initiative and provoke the doctor during San Fermines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-02-23
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Dubrowsky
Overview: Dubrowsky (Italian: Il vendicatore) is a 1959 Italian- Yugoslav historical period drama film directed by William Dieterle. It is based on the novel Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-11
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Seven Times a Day
Overview: A Quebec architect, working in Israel, visits a psychoanalyst to learn why he has an insatiable libido.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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La ragazza dalla pelle di corallo
Overview: Arriving in Santo Domingo to study new methods of cultivation of tobacco, Fabrizio is hosted by American Barrymore who feels compelled to provide Mayra, beautiful mulatta, as momentary escort.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-29
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L'onorata società
Overview: Salvatore and Rosalino are sentenced to death by the Mafia because they are accused of having seduced the daughters of a boss. As they are about to be shot they manage to escape with the two girls.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-30
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Night Police Station
Overview: Rome police headquarters. A new commissioner, promoted by the political team at "night", has to deal with the case of a girl seriously injured at Villa Borghese.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-01
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Lafayette
Overview: The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-02-16
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Roland the Mighty
Overview: In this sword-and-sandal saga set on the steppes of Asia, Roland, leader of the Paladin troops, who must proves his mettle against the dreaded Saracen invaders, and withstand their evil plots
Genres: War History Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-06
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Trastevere
Overview: A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-13
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Cagliostro
Overview: After attending esoterical studies with a wise man, Cagliostro, a mysterious Italian count, received the gift of supernatural powers. He started to travel all over Europe to heal the poor. But he is also a member of a pre-revolutionary lodge the aim of which is to give freedom to the populations of Europe. This cannot be tolerated by the 18th century's establishment and bought the Pope and the regal house of France try to eliminate him. So Cagliostro is locked up in a castle, while his wife is killed. But when in 1795 the door of his cell is opened there is nothing inside but a sword...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-21
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