Lea Padovani

Actress

July 28, 1920 (70 years)

† June 23, 1991

Montalto di Castro, Viterbo

Biography

Actress.

Filmography

5.1

Candy

Silvia Fontegliulo

A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.

6.3

Black Dossier

Françoise Le Guen

In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious death. His perseverance to get to the truth will cause a huge scandal.

6.9

Scandal in Sorrento

Donna Violante Ruotolo

Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.

6.2

The Naked Maja

Queen Maria Luisa

A historical fiction based on the lives of artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba

6.9

The Lovers of Montparnasse

Rosalie

Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.

7.0

The Istambul Train

Mrs. Czinner

Set on the Orient Express train, which traveled from Ostend, Belgium, to Istanbul, Turkey, it features several characters whose destinies intertwine, each bearing their own burden of torment: race, sexual frustration, political failure, poverty. Among them are Carlston Myatt, a Jewish businessman, and Dr. Czinner, a Slavic politician who escaped a death sentence five years earlier and is intent on returning to Belgrade.

5.4

Three Steps North

Elena Ravezza

An ex-American GI returns to Italy to find some money he stashed before doing a prison term. He discovers his cash is now gone and quickly sets off on a manhunt to find out who stole his buried fortune.

7.8

Germinal

'La Maheude'

Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low and safety left much to be desired. Lantier tried to organize the miners into a union. When mine manager Hennebeau refused to negotiate, the workers launched a general strike, which ended with the intervention of the troops.

4.8

The King's Whore

Contessa Cumiana

Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.

7.8

The Reluctant Saint

Giuseppe's Mother

Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challenges with a pure heart and a simple faith. God performs a miracle through him, quite literally raising him to sainthood.

6.0

The Empty Canvas

Balestrieri's Widow

An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love with a beautiful model who wants an uncommitted relationship.

6.5

Divisione Folgore

Fidanzata Salvi

In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long and tiring training in Italy, was transported by air to the Libyan desert to cover the Italian-German front.

7.7

Rome 11:00

Caterina the Prostitute

The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic accident.

5.8

An Eye for an Eye

Lola Zardi

In North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is responsible for his wife’s death.

5.9

Princess of Cleves

Queen Catherine de Médicis

When a young teen marries the Prince of Cleves, more than twice her age, she automatically becomes an official Princess and takes her new position to heart. Although distracted by the elite entertainments found at court, the princess cannot help but mourn her impossible love for the dashing Duc de Nemours.

6.8

Toto and the Women

Ginetta

Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.

5.2

Mid-Century Loves

Isabella (segment "Girandola 1910")

Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.

7.0

Che tempi!

Anna Pastorino

Anna, only daughter of Felice Pastorino, a rich Genoese merchant, falls in love with a young sailor, Eugenio Devoto, with whom she has exchanged only a few words. Pastorino, a kind-hearted man, sincerely loves his daughter but is also very attached to money and would like to marry her to his cousin Alessandro Raffo, a man who is no longer young but wealthy, narrow-minded and materialistic.

6.7

Gran varietà

Anna la soubrette

A musical comedy divided into five segments: Mariantonia, Cuttica, Il Fine Dicitore, Fregoli and Il Censore.

7.1

La moglie è uguale per tutti

Cristina Ferretti

Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.