Anita Ekberg

Anita Ekberg

Birthday: 1931-09-29

Place of Birth: Malmö - Skåne län - Sweden

Biography: Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (29 September 1931 - 11 January 2015), known as Anita Ekberg, was a Swedish actress who worked in European and American films. She started work as a fashion model and successfully transitioned to films in mid-1950s. Known for her voluptuous figure, she is best known for playing Sylvia in La Dolce Vita (1960), with its iconic scene where she cavorts in a fountain.

Movies

Ciao Anita
Ciao Anita

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The Alphabet Murders
The Alphabet Murders

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims...

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War and Peace
War and Peace

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...

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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days....

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The Golden Blade
The Golden Blade

Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad a...

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Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to...

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Paris Holiday
Paris Holiday

Comedian Bob Hunter is aided by his French counterpart Fernydel and two beautiful blondes when he is...

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Federico Fellini - Through the Eyes of Others
Federico Fellini - Through the Eyes of Others

Documentary about Federico Fellini...

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The Girl in the Fountain
The Girl in the Fountain

Alternating archive footage of Anita Ekberg with the story of a quintessential diva as Monica Belluc...

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Fangs of the Living Dead
Fangs of the Living Dead

A beautiful virgin inherits a castle, but when she arrives at it, she finds that the inhabitants inc...

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Killer Nun
Killer Nun

A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, while presiding over a regime of les...

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Blood Alley
Blood Alley

An American Merchant Marine captain, rescued from a Chinese Communist jail by local villagers, is "s...

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The Clowns
The Clowns

Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a ch...

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Teatro 11
Teatro 11

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Hollywood or Bust
Hollywood or Bust

The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Stev...

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Artists and Models
Artists and Models

A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic b...

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Woman Times Seven
Woman Times Seven

Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetw...

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Screaming Mimi
Screaming Mimi

A blonde night club dancer is being stalked. Will anyone believe her?...

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The Conjugal Debt
The Conjugal Debt

Romolo, a man lazy and devoid of any interest, has been married for ten years with Ines, the owner o...

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Interpol
Interpol

Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank...

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Boccaccio '70
Boccaccio '70

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy ...

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Back from Eternity
Back from Eternity

A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area i...

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Man in the Vault
Man in the Vault

A locksmith is pressured into crime when the mob makes him perform an elaborate bank robbery....

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The French Sex Murders
The French Sex Murders

After a French prostitute is found dead, one of her regular clients is tried and convicted for her m...

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4 for Texas
4 for Texas

In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galvest...

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1960
1960

By presenting archive footage along with his own life story, filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores mediates ...

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The Cobra
The Cobra

A disgraced treasury agent Mike Rand, who teams with his boss to halt a Red Chinese plot to destroy ...

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Valerie
Valerie

After the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but trage...

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Bambola
Bambola

Her name is Mina, but she is called Bambola (doll). Upon the death of her mother, she and her homose...

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The Red Dwarf
The Red Dwarf

Lucien is a dwarf, who works hard in a large legal office. His only friend is trapeze circus artist ...

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Sign of the Gladiator
Sign of the Gladiator

Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mi...

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Way... Way Out
Way... Way Out

A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple....

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Night of Hate
Night of Hate

Fulgencio and Scott fled the place where they have just committed a robbery. As Fulgencio scapes, Sc...

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Das Liebeskarussell
Das Liebeskarussell

An episodic film, telling four erotic tales: Angela isn't sexually satisfied by her husband, so she ...

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Call Me Bwana
Call Me Bwana

A returning moon capsule goes off course and lands in Africa where a little-known tribe finds it. Wa...

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Death Knocks Twice
Death Knocks Twice

When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial...

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La villa dei misteri
La villa dei misteri

Young woman falsely suspected of murder, flees, adopts an alternate identity and tries to find the r...

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Deadly Trackers
Deadly Trackers

Jeff sets out to murder each one of the five outlaws who robbed, raped and killed his poor sister. H...

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Gold of the Amazon Women
Gold of the Amazon Women

An adventurer searches for the fabled Golden Cities of El Dorado and allies himself with a tribe of ...

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The Man Inside
The Man Inside

A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft....

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Fellini nel cestino
Fellini nel cestino

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Il divorzio
Il divorzio

Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life....

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The Mongols
The Mongols

During the Mongol invasion of Poland, a conflict between Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan and his oldest ...

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A Candidate for a Killing
A Candidate for a Killing

A traveler becomes a target for various crime syndicates when it turns out he's a dead ringer for a ...

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S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert

Lavinia Kean, a brilliant American espionage agent, combats the wiles of international criminal and ...

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Zarak Khan
Zarak Khan

A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him....

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How I Learned to Love Women
How I Learned to Love Women

An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women....

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Intervista
Intervista

Federico Fellini welcomes us into his world of film making with a mockumentary about his life in fil...

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Rat Pack
Rat Pack

In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Fran...

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Fatty Girl Goes to New York
Fatty Girl Goes to New York

An overweight high school student is relentlessly bullied due to weight. Out of the blue, she wins a...

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The Dam on the Yellow River
The Dam on the Yellow River

Anti-Communist propaganda film, in which the victory of Mao Tse-Tung's People's Liberation Army is s...

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Dov'era lei a quell'ora
Dov'era lei a quell'ora

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Anita of Sweden
Anita of Sweden

When Anita Ekberg celebrated her 75th birthday, she visited Filmhuset in Stockholm. Three filmmakers...

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Bad Girls
Bad Girls

Alma is a career woman hunted by her mother-in-law who wants to kill her. Marylin is a former prison...

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Fellini dice...
Fellini dice...

A story about the mythical film director...

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The Seduction of Angela
The Seduction of Angela

Naive, orphaned maiden Angela leaves her small town for 19th- century London, where she quickly lear...

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Little Girls and High Finance
Little Girls and High Finance

A low level official and a prostitute both try to commit suicide and fail, afterwards he becomes a p...

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The Temptation of Dr. Antonio
The Temptation of Dr. Antonio

Dr. Antonio Mazzuolo obsessively fights against what he perceives as immorality in Rome, only to be ...

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The Glass Sphinx
The Glass Sphinx

An archaeologist is in danger because of his discoveries....

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Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Federico Fellini's Autobiography

Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of hi...

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Becoming Anita Ekberg
Becoming Anita Ekberg

BECOMING ANITA EKBERG is an exploration of how the construct of "Anita Ekberg" became an internation...

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Il Conte Max
Il Conte Max

Alfredo is a crude Roman motorcycle repairman who is a friend of Count Max, a gentleman and ex-pleas...

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Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Pardon, Are You for or Against?

A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons,...

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The Sweet Algorithm
The Sweet Algorithm

As digital multiples and shuffles of Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni wade through the Trevi Fo...

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A porte chiuse
A porte chiuse

The movie is about the celebrated trial of Olga Duvovich, very beautiful woman accused of killing he...

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Northeast of Seoul
Northeast of Seoul

Three adventurers--at times competing with each other, at other times allied with each other--search...

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Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa
Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa

A whimsical commedia all'italiana divided into four episodes....

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Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel

In Spain, during the Napoleonic rule, the French Governor of Andalusia is besieged by the locals who...

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La Dolce Vita
La Dolce Vita

Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between t...

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The Magic of Fellini
The Magic of Fellini

Documentary with interviews and clips of Fellini's movies....

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Ambrogio
Ambrogio

A woman wants to graduate to the Italian Naval Academy in the 60s. She has to fight her family, her ...

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Terras fönster 5
Terras fönster 5

The fifth edition of "Terras fönster" reporting from Oslo 900 years. Two episodes with Povel Ramel t...

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Beautiful Like a Poem
Beautiful Like a Poem

I have a lot of interest and respect for classic cinema. I tried to make a film with at least 20 por...

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