Dominique Sanda

Dominique Sanda

Birthday: 1951-03-11

Place of Birth: Paris, France

Biography: Dominique Sanda (born 11 March 1951) is a French actress and former fashion model. Sanda was born as Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne in Paris to Lucienne (née Pinchon) and Gérard Sanda. She appeared in such noted European films of the 1970s as Vittorio de Sica's Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist and Novecento, and Liliana Cavani's Beyond Good and Evil. She also appeared in The Mackintosh Man (with Paul Newman) and Steppenwolf (with Max von Sydow). She won the award for Best Actress at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the film The Inheritance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dominique Sanda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Joseph
Joseph

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1900
1900

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

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Lenin: The Train
Lenin: The Train

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A Room in Town
A Room in Town

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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

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Caboblanco
Caboblanco

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Utopia
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The Conformist
The Conformist

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Damnation Alley
Damnation Alley

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The MacKintosh Man
The MacKintosh Man

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Garage Olimpo
Garage Olimpo

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The Crimson Rivers
The Crimson Rivers

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Dust of Empire
Dust of Empire

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The Wings of the Dove
The Wings of the Dove

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With All Hands
With All Hands

The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman....

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A Sweet Journey
A Sweet Journey

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Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil

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Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf

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Conversation Piece
Conversation Piece

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A Gentle Woman
A Gentle Woman

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The Inheritance
The Inheritance

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I, the Worst of All
I, the Worst of All

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Without Apparent Motive
Without Apparent Motive

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The World of Jacques Demy
The World of Jacques Demy

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Break of Day
Break of Day

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Rosen-Emil
Rosen-Emil

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The Road to Bresson
The Road to Bresson

A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson....

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Impossible Object
Impossible Object

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Going Away
Going Away

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First Love
First Love

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Henry's Romance
Henry's Romance

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The Garden That Doesn't Exist
The Garden That Doesn't Exist

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Saint Laurent
Saint Laurent

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The Crystal Cradle
The Crystal Cradle

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The Cinema According to Bertolucci
The Cinema According to Bertolucci

Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci...

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L'Indiscrétion
L'Indiscrétion

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The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife
The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife

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Nobody's Children
Nobody's Children

An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child....

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To Save Nine
To Save Nine

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Le Matelot 512
Le Matelot 512

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Albert Savarus
Albert Savarus

Adaptation of the Balzac story as told by Rosalie, a young girl in love with the idea of her extraor...

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Night of The Flowers
Night of The Flowers

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The Journey
The Journey

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The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland

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Le Navire Night
Le Navire Night

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Le lunghe ombre
Le lunghe ombre

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Warriors and Prisoners
Warriors and Prisoners

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Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair

The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians....

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I'll Be Going Now
I'll Be Going Now

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On a Moonlit Night
On a Moonlit Night

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Karakol
Karakol

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The Beggars
The Beggars

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The Peacock’s Paradise
The Peacock’s Paradise

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Close up: Dominique Sanda ou le rêve éveillé
Close up: Dominique Sanda ou le rêve éveillé

It's an intimate film that brings out the deeper vibrations of my person. It was for me at the same ...

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La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione

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Vita mia
Vita mia

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Close Up
Close Up

A documentary portrait of Dominique Sanda, the fashion model-cum-actress who became an international...

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