Carla Gravina
Also Known As: Карла Гравина
Biography: Carla Gravina (born 5 August 1941) is an Italian actress and politician. She appeared in 40 films between 1957 and 1993. Born in Gemona, Gravina made her film debut at fifteen years old, in Alberto Lattuada's Guendalina. Very active in films and on television series, both in comedic and dramatic roles, from the late 1970s she gradually focused her activities on stage and in political activism, being a PCI deputy between 1980 and 1983. During her career Gravina won a number of international awards, including the Best Actress Award for her performance in Alessandro Blasetti's Love and Chatter at the 1958 Locarno International Film Festival, the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ettore Scola's La terrazza at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, and the award for Best Actress for Margarethe von Trotta's The Long Silence at the 1993 Montreal World Film Festival.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gemona del Friuli, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy
Birthday: August 05, 1941
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Gender: Female
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Big Deal on Madonna Street
Overview: Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-07-26
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Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Overview: Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo has been seeking a promotion and a raise that never comes, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerónimo, the son of Don César, meets Celeste, the daughter of Policarpo, and falls in love with her. Policarpo sees in that relationship the solution to his aspirations at work, and does everything in his power to make this relationship fruitful. Don César, who presumes to be a count, sees with very bad eyes that his son meets a girl from such a different social position, and does just the opposite. But the efforts made by both parties will be of no use, since Celeste has fallen in love with Mario Marquetti, a "specialized mechanic" (typist) who is giving private lessons in the offices of the businessman Franquinet .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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Everybody Go Home!
Overview: When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
Genres: Comedy War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-27
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The Violent Four
Overview: A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-29
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Tony Arzenta
Overview: A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-23
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The Inheritor
Overview: After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-22
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The Terrace
Overview: Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-to-gather. They discuss about their past, present and future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-08
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Alfredo, Alfredo
Overview: Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-22
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The Antichrist
Overview: An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-22
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The Lady of Monza
Overview: A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan. Based on the life of Marianna De Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," a 17th century nun accused of and tried by the church for breaking celibacy and plotting murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-02-26
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Five Branded Women
Overview: Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-15
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Without Apparent Motive
Overview: A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-15
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Boomerang
Overview: A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-08-15
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A Day for Lionhearts
Overview: September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two meets Gino and all together will try to pass trough the Gothic Line.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-09-05
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The Seven Cervi Brothers
Overview: The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World War 2.
Genres: War History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-02-16
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Days of Inspector Ambrosio
Overview: A few days before Inspector Ambrosio's holiday, a bank robbery takes place opposite his house.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-10-20
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Mother's Heart
Overview: A mute mother stands by idly as her young children radicalise as a result of a society that thrives on conflict and manipulation. As she is drawn to a group of political activists, her absence allows her children to become increasingly extreme in their behaviour and lethal games they play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-29
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Il gioco della verità
Overview: In the slums of Naples, a prostitute, when questioned by police about the death of one of her clients who fell from the gutter, claims it was an accident. Later the woman gives another version, accusing the owners of the boarding house of being murderers. A trial will begin that will decide which side is the "truth."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-17
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The Invisible Woman
Overview: Drama about the fading relationship between a professor and his wife. Based upon a short story by Alberto Moravia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-04
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First Love
Overview: Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her for several romantic places until the money ends. Ugo will try to get the girl engaged on a local TV station, but Renata falls in love with a manager.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-04
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The Pisciotta Case
Overview: The magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the imprisoned assassin of Salvatore Giuliano. He very soon finds himself struggling against a conspiracy of silence, which Scauri must therefore overcome in order to indict two powerful mafia bosses. His only hope comes for a brief moment from the testimony of the young prosecutor Lojacono. But The Organization is the most strong: the young prosecutor withdraws his deposition and the magistrate disappears in mysterious circumstances.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-11-23
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Esterina
Overview: Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern Italy. She wants to find her luck in the big city, but her dreams turn into disappointing experiences. She falls in love with Gino but he is not interested in her, until she disappears...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Love and Chatter
Overview: Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage destroyed during the war. Reconstruction would take the view of the Paseroni villa, big industrial and political traffic. Bonelli's lawyer, a great speaker, becomes a mayor for the death of his predecessor and is bought by Paseroni, while rejecting the love of Paul and Mary for social differences and why Paul should stay behind Doddy Paseroni. At this point, Paul and Mary flee to kill, just as Bonelli has to hold a talk on the radio for the inauguration of Paseroni's villa ...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-01-31
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Mon Ami Washington
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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La Locandiera
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Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-06-06
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The Long Silence
Overview: Carla Aldrovandi, a gynecologist, and her husband Marco Canova, a magistrate live on the front line of criminal and political powers in Italy. She is surrounded by terror and threats.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-03-19
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Hail the Artist
Overview: Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Nicolas attempts a reconciliation with his ex-wife. But in this, as in his professional life, Nicolas is doomed to disillusionment and failure.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-12-06
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And Now My Love
Overview: The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-15
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A Bullet for the General
Overview: El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware of his true intentions.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-13
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Nella vita di Sylvia Plath
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich
Overview: Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat and respectable married lives. One day, they are summoned to the notary public's office and learn that Anna, one of their peers in high school who got a bad name as a "whore" in the town because of them and was forced to leave is now dead. Furthermore, she had amassed a great fortune abroad and decided to bequeath it to the three. However, she has a strange condition: Claudia, Rita, and Caterina should cheat on their husbands within three days and provide photographic evidence or else the inheritance will be donated to the retirement home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-08-31
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Mother and Daughter
Overview: In a wealthy Italian home, the daughter of the family is trying to cut her mother's apron strings. Not only is she having difficulty with this, for her mother is extremely protective, but she cannot even cut vegetables skillfully. Despite that, she wants to go out and party, mother or no mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-03-19
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Caravaggio
Overview: A miniseries about Caravaggio's life.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-10-15
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Come quando fuori piove
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-08-10
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Guendalina
Overview: Wealthy teenager Guendalina is a child of divorce. Oberdan, likewise a teenager, is a boy from a blue-collar family. Escaping from the tribulations of her home life, Guendalina creates a dream world of her own, casting Oberdan as her personal Prince Charming. Despite parental objections, girl and boy fall in love. Interestingly enough, the relationship between Guendalina and Oberdan remains pure and chaste throughout their film, which is more than can be said for their parents. their respective parents behave with marked laciviousness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-03-14
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Scano Boa
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-01-09
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Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Overview: A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly became one of the most famous and beloved actresses of Italian and international cinema, told through the words of her unpublished letters and diaries, photographs, homemade films in 8 mm, and new interviews with her relatives, friends, and collaborators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-05-17
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Sierra Maestra
Overview: An Italian journalist is arrested in Venezuela by the military, accused of being a revolutionary. The journalist, interviewed by the press, says he has no connection with the guerrilla organizations and is thrown into jail and subjected to psychological and physical violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-01
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