The Lady of the Camellias (film)
Encyclopedia
The Lady of the Camellias is a 1981
French
-Italian
drama film
directed by Mauro Bolognini
and starring Isabelle Huppert
.
1981 in film
-Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....
French
Cinema of France
The Cinema of France comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of France or by French filmmakers abroad.France is the birthplace of cinema and was responsible for many of its early significant contributions. Several important cinematic movements, including the Nouvelle...
-Italian
Cinema of Italy
The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.-Early years:...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Mauro Bolognini
Mauro Bolognini
Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film director of literate sensibility, known for masterful handling of period subject matter.-Biography:Mauro Bolognini was born in Pistoia, Tuscany....
and starring Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in over 90 film and television productions since 1971. She has had 14 films in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Best Actress Award twice, for Violette Nozière and La pianiste . She is also the most...
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Cast
- Isabelle HuppertIsabelle HuppertIsabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in over 90 film and television productions since 1971. She has had 14 films in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Best Actress Award twice, for Violette Nozière and La pianiste . She is also the most...
- Alphonsine Plessis - Gian Maria VolontéGian Maria VolontèGian Maria Volonté was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.-Early life:Volonté was born in Milan, and graduated in Rome in 1957...
- Plessis - Bruno GanzBruno GanzBruno Ganz is a Swiss actor, known for his roles as Damiel in Wings of Desire and Adolf Hitler in Downfall.- Early life :Bruno Ganz was born in Zürich to a Swiss mechanic father and a northern Italian mother. He had decided to pursue an acting career by the time he entered university...
- Count Perregaux - Fabrizio BentivoglioFabrizio BentivoglioFabrizio Bentivoglio is an Italian cinema and theatre actor and a screenwriter.Fabrizio Bentivoglio was born in Milan . After only one season in the juvenile team of Inter,...
- Dumas son - Clio GoldsmithClio GoldsmithClio Goldsmith is a French former actress, appearing mostly as Femme fatale, call girl or prostitute in the early 1980s. She is the daughter of ecologist Edward Goldsmith....
- Clemence - Mario Maranzana - Dumas father
- Yann Babilée - Agenor
- Carla FracciCarla FracciCarla Fracci is a ballet dancer and actress. Her career highlights include Nijinsky, Giselle , Complete Bell Telephone Hour Performances: Erik Bruhn 1961-1967.-FAO Ambassador:...
- Marguerite Gauthier - Cécile VassortCécile VassortCécile Vassort is a French film actress. She has in 45 films between 1963 and 2001.-Selected filmography:* The Invitation * Deux hommes dans la ville * The Clockmaker * Malicious Pleasure...
- Henriette - David Jalil - Maxence
- Piero VidaPiero VidaPiero Vida was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 52 films between 1959 and 1987. He was born in Venice, Italy and died in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Slalom * Capricci by Carmelo Bene...
- Fabio Traversa - Priest
- Remo Remotti
- Mattia SbragiaMattia SbragiaMattia Sbragia is an Italian character actor.Mattia Sbragia has been performing in films, on television, and in the theater for almost thirty years. He made his motion picture debut in 1974, in Franco Rossetti's Nipoti Miei Diletti...
- Clara ColosimoClara ColosimoClara Colosimo was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 65 films between 1968 and 1991.-Selected filmography:* Alfredo, Alfredo * Sex Pot * Il mostro * Orchestra Rehearsal...
- Gina Rovere
- Stefania Pierangelini - Thérèse
- Fernando ReyFernando ReyFernando Casado Arambillet , best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and TV actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States...
- Count Stackelberg