Ida Di Benedetto

Actress

June 3, 1945 (81 years)

Naples, Italy

Biography

From Wikipedia Ida Di Benedetto (born 3 June 1945) is an Italian actress and film producer. She appeared in 53 films and television shows between 1974 and 2004. She starred in the film The Whores, which was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. She won the Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon) for Best Supporting Actress in 1981 for her supporting role as Maria Rosa in Fontamara and the following year she won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress for Immacolata e Concetta.

Filmography

5.5

I ragazzi del muretto

Debora's Mother

I ragazzi del muretto is an Italian television series.

6.4

Treasure Island in Outer Space

Mrs. Hawkins

Treasure Island in Outer Space is a 1987 science fiction Italian and German television miniseries directed by Antonio Margheriti. It is based on the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, setting the story in space on the year 2300. The series was produced by RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana in co-production with West Germany and France, and directed by Anthony M. Dawson. It is the biggest sci-fi production of Italian television. The miniseries of 5 episodes of 100 min was originally aired in Italy from November 19, 1987 on RAI Due channel. It was also adapted as a 120 min film. The miniseries is also known as Space Island (UK and Norway, USA on VHS) and Der Schatz im All (Germany).

6.0

Abenteuer Airport

Frau Gabiano

Abenteuer Airport was a German television series broadcast in 1990. It was an airport adventure series; 12 episodes were produced.

9.0

Mit den Clowns kamen die Tränen

Dr. Alessandra Gordoni

Everything revolves around a virus that manipulates people, a vaccine against this virus, and secret research findings that a major power learns about through betrayal. In this cynical game, any means are justified to get hold of the vaccine: kidnapping, murder, intrigue, lies, and deceit. No easy task for journalist Norma Desmond, whose son was killed in an attack, and Alwin Westen, who hope to track down those behind it all...

5.5

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

Stefania

Two back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the episode of Renato Pozzetto and the homosexuality in the one with Nino Manfredi.

4.9

Mother Ebe

Maria Pia Sturla

Based on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft.

8.0

Bitter Champagne

Mariam

In North Africa, a father and his illegitimate son are in love with the same woman.

7.2

Fontamara

Maria Rosa

Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.

6.0

Miracle of Marcellino

La contessa

In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they prove unable to trace his parents. So they set up providing tender loving care to the little boy. Marcellino lives a happy life among the men of God but, as he grows up, he misses his mother more and more.

5.6

The Whores

Orlanda

Orlanda, Liuccia, Milù, Blu Blu and Veronica are five women in Palermo, Sicily, each different from the other. But, along with transvestite Kim and young man Maurizio, they all share something: they're "buttane", hookers, who spend the day between the streets and home; some got children, some got problems with the pimps, some with the clients...

4.4

Immacolata and Concetta: The Other Jealousy

Immacolata

A love story between two women in the Naples outskirts, a universe so far away from the glare of modernity, turbid, rural, completely naked in its ugliness and sorrow, where "people are talking".

5.6

The Sicilian Connection

Amanda Smedile

An Italian-American pizzeria manager returns to Sicily to assassinate a judge, enlisting his honest younger brother for help. As the brother's morals clash with the task, the only way to save him is through a sacrifice that appeases the mafia.

5.8

Day of the Idiots

Elisabeth

A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.

5.8

Hotel Room

Laura

A couple of young movie makers have secretly filmed for over a year what was going on in a hotel room, trying to realize a "live act" of common people living their life. They get in touch with old and money-tight producer Mengaroni to edit their movie, but while they contact the accidental actors for gathering authorization, he starts to manipulate their work.

4.3

Three Touches

Marcella

Several actors are members of a amateur soccer team. They followed in their preparations for a particular audition and in their personal life. With about 6 actors this delivers a broad picture of Italian life in which the question what it means to be a man is posed in the challenging circumstances of familily life, sex relationships, sport, cross gender roles and mafia.

6.0

Calling All Police Cars

House Madam

Story about a young girl, the daughter a prominent doctor. When the girl goes missing her father gets the police to jump into action because of his class status and wealth.

6.5

Tradimento

Carmela

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7.0

Madre come te

Rosaria Caruso

Rosaria is a southerner who lives in Turin. Alone and with many sacrifices she raised three children, the youngest of whom, restless and rebellious, left home without giving any more news of himself. On the same night in which, unexpectedly, he returns to his mother, he is arrested for murder and indicted, among other things, for numerous rapes. Incarcerated with overwhelming evidence against him, it seems that there is no escape for him, also because he does not defend himself and assumes the attitude of someone who is hiding a terrible secret, thus appearing guilty in everyone's eyes. Only the mother persists in believing in his innocence, even improvising as a detective: she undertakes, once again alone, an investigative investigation in order to identify the true person responsible for the crimes and demonstrate Michele's innocence.

6.3

Guapparia

Margherita

Salvatore Di Donato is one of the most feared and respected members of the Mafia in Naples. His wife, Assuntina, is a young theater actress. During a pilgrimage to Madonna of the Arch, Salvatore and Assuntina meet Margaret, a woman proud and beautiful. Salvatore falls in love with her, leaves Assuntina and goes to live with his new love. Margaret, however, is a strong woman, free, resistant to bring controlled by Salvatore, and ultimately he is forced to return home, ridiculed in the eyes of all.

6.1

Joseph of Nazareth

Elizabeth

The people of Jerusalem are suffering under the reign of Herod, and are hoping to be delivered from the Roman occupiers by the Messiah whose arrival, it is rumored, is to take place very soon. Unlike his nephew Judas, who wants to join the zealots (freedom fighters), 35 year old widower Joseph is not interested in participating in any fighting against the Romans.