Carla Gravina
Birthday: 1941-08-05
Place of Birth: Gemona del Friuli, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy
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.
Movies
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that ...
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Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. ...
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Everybody Go Home!
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to ret...
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The Violent Four
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers....
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Tony Arzenta
A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and man...
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The Inheritor
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his i...
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The Terrace
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. T...
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Alfredo, Alfredo
Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages t...
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The Antichrist
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a mal...
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The Lady of Monza
A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan. Based on the life of Marianna De L...
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Five Branded Women
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by ...
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Without Apparent Motive
A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge...
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Boomerang
A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer....
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A Day for Lionhearts
September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele...
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The Seven Cervi Brothers
The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism durin...
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Days of Inspector Ambrosio
A few days before Inspector Ambrosio's holiday, a bank robbery takes place opposite his house....
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Mother's Heart
A mute mother stands by idly as her young children radicalise as a result of a society that thrives ...
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Il gioco della verità
In the slums of Naples, a prostitute, when questioned by police about the death of one of her client...
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The Invisible Woman
Drama about the fading relationship between a professor and his wife. Based upon a short story by Al...
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First Love
Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leave...
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The Pisciotta Case
The magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the impri...
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Esterina
Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern...
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Love and Chatter
Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the munici...
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The Long Silence
Carla Aldrovandi, a gynecologist, and her husband Marco Canova, a magistrate live on the front line ...
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Hail the Artist
Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeki...
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And Now My Love
The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The stor...
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A Bullet for the General
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries....
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Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich
Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemi...
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Mother and Daughter
In a wealthy Italian home, the daughter of the family is trying to cut her mother's apron strings. N...
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Guendalina
Wealthy teenager Guendalina is a child of divorce. Oberdan, likewise a teenager, is a boy from a blu...
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Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly...
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Sierra Maestra
An Italian journalist is arrested in Venezuela by the military, accused of being a revolutionary. Th...
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