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Actors: Giulietta Masina, Véronique Silver, Eva Darlan, Jean Benguigui, Jean-Paul Muel
Synopsis: Bertille (Giuletta Masina) has a lovely home in the French countryside -- and plenty of grab-happy children and relatives who want a piece of the inheritance they expect from her. That's why, even though she's not their favorite relative (nor they hers) they all appear at one final reunion on the Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, Franco Fabrizi, Martin Maria Blau
Synopsis: Director Federico Fellini gently lampoons the world of small-time show business in Ginger and Fred. Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni star as Amelia Bonetti and Pippo Botticella, a onetime celebrity song-and-dance team. Having risen to fame with a dancing act where they recreated the acts Read More
Actors: Giulietta Masina, Valerie Kaplanova, Sona Valentova, Pavol Mikulik, Tobias Hoesl
Synopsis: This version of an old fairy tale is the second in 20 years (there was a 1954 West German film on the same subject) and is a charming rendering of Frau Holle, who sits on high and watches over humankind and the seasons and one day adopts young Jakob as her assistant. Jakob was part of a travelling Read More
Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, Claude Dauphin, Edith Evans, Margaret Leighton, John Gavin
Synopsis: Taken from the popular play by Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman Of Chaillot has an international all-star cast, but the final result falls short despite the talents of the celebrated thespians. The madwoman in question is the extremely eccentric Countess Aurelia (Katherine Hepburn). Roderick (Richard Chamberlain Read More
Actors: Giulietta Masina, Mario Pisu, Sandra Milo, Valentina Cortese, Sylva Koscina
Synopsis: Juliet of the Spirits is a fantastical showcase for Federico Fellini's vibrant imagery, starring his wife, Giulietta Masina, as the titular leading character. Juliet is a wealthy housewife who constantly fears her husband, Giorgio (Mario Pisu), is cheating on her. While she yearns for a peaceful Read More
Actors: Alberto Sordi, Milly, Renato Salvatori, Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina, Cristina Gajoni
Synopsis: This clever melodrama from director Renato Castellani stars Anna Magnani as a hardbitten prostitute whose immorality rubs off on a naive woman (Giulietta Masina) in a women's prison. Taking the innocent Masina under her wing, Magnani corrupts her, but is secretly touched by her kind heart. On Read More
Actors: Giulietta Masina, Agnes Fink, Gustav Knuth, Gert Fröbe
Synopsis: Beginning with the declassé premise of this ostensible, unconvincing slice-of-life comedy -- that the heroine's overriding objective in life is to find THE man for her -- French director Julien Duvivier already has problems. Doris (Giulietta Masina) is a woman not prone to deep thinking, whose Read More
Actors: Giulietta Masina, Amedeo Nazzari, Franca Marzi, François Perier
Synopsis: Nights of Cabiria opens with Cabiria (Giulietta Masina) and her boyfriend playfully embracing by the seaside -- and then he shoves her into the water and steals her purse. Cabiria is revived by some local boys and runs off by herself, shouting. What follows is a series of similarly humiliating Read More
Actors: Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Franco Fabrizi, Giulietta Masina, Sue Ellen Blake
Synopsis: Swindle and The Swindlers are both English-language titles for 1955's Il Bidone, a lesser-known effort from Federico Fellini. Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, and Franco Fabrizi play a trio of con artists who victimize the Italian bourgeoisie (who are shown to be no better than the crooks). Giueletta Masina Read More
Actors: Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, Al Silvani, Marcella Rovena
Synopsis: Acclaimed Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini drew on his own circus background for the 1954 classic La Strada. Set in a seedy travelling carnival, this symbolism-laden drama revolves around brutish strongman Zampano (Anthony Quinn), his simple and servile girlfriend Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina, Fellini Read More
Synopsis: This romantic Italian anthology film is comprised of six episodes that deal with a century of love. The first vignette, "Garibaldin," set in 1854, follows a rebellious priest who attempts to sway others to his beliefs. "Pendolin" examines a philandering wife's affair with a hotel porter who really Read More
Synopsis: In this Italian melodrama, three Roman prostitutes suddenly find themselves on the streets when the city informs them that their brothel is to be destroyed. The story chronicles what happens to each of them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Ettore Giannini, Giulietta Masina, Sandro Franchina
Synopsis: Only a few of the films that grew from the notorious liaison between actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini were truly worthy of their talents. One such was the Italian-made Europa '51. Playing a character far older than herself, Bergman portrays a society woman whose life is in Read More
Actors: Brunella Bovo, Alberto Sordi, Leopoldo Trieste, Giulietta Masina, Lilia Landi
Synopsis: The White Sheik (Lo Sceicco Bianco), Fellini's first solo flight as director, is a gentle lampoon of the idolatry heaped upon movie stars. An impressionable young bride, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) accompanies her husband Ivan (Leopoldo Trieste) on a dull honeymoon, full of meetings with family members Read More
Actors: Elsa Merlini, Vittorio De Sica, Aldo Fabrizi, Gino Cervi, Giulietta Masina
Synopsis: This episodic Italian comedy follows the misadventures of housemaid Maria (Elsa Merlini). Her various employers include a salesman (Aldo Fabrizi) who values peace and quiet, but never gets it, and a vainglorious actor (Vittorio de Sica) with woman trouble. Through it all, Maria survives with a Read More
Synopsis: Federico Fellini's directorial debut (co-directed with veteran Alberto Lattuada), Luci del Varietà is a bittersweet drama about a bunch of misfits in a traveling vaudeville troupe. The group of actors, dancers, and performers struggle to make it from town to town, playing to minimal crowds. Their Read More
Actors: Massimo Girotti, Giulietta Masina, Liliana Gerace, Adriana Sivieri
Synopsis: Behind Closed Shutters originally went into Italian movie houses under the title Persiane Chiuse. Eleanora Rossi Drago plays a young girl in search of her missing sister. She wanders into the more dangerous sections of Genoa, particularly the seedy waterfront. Here she meets several Everyman-type Read More
Actors: Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Giulietta Masina, Folco Lulli
Synopsis: Filmed in 1948 as Senza Pieta, this Alberto Lattuada-directed effort came to America the following year as Without Pity. The film's sensitive subject matter caused problems in distribution and approval; Lattuada was never known to shirk from a sociopolitical statement, even when it meant loss of Read More
Actors: Carmela Sazio, Dotts Johnson, Maria Michi, Haniet White
Synopsis: Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (originally Paisa) is one of the best-known and most important of the postwar Italian neorealist films; certainly it has one of the finest pedigrees, representing the combined talents of two of Italy's most prestigious filmmakers. The second of Rossellini's "war Read More
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