Acting
Carla Gravina
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.
Filmography
Browse movies and TV shows featuring Carla Gravina
A Bullet for the General
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are h...
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finall...
Guendalina
Wealthy teenager Guendalina is a child of divorce. Oberdan, likewise a teenager, is a boy from a blue-collar fa...
Orient Express
A six-part French tv series first broadcast in 1979, each episode of Orient Express focuses on a different tale...
Il segno del comando
An English writer interested in the occult searches Rome for George Byron's lost diaries, convinced that they h...
Tony Arzenta
A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody sh...
The Antichrist
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent anc...
The Violent Four
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
The Terrace
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss...
Days of Inspector Ambrosio
A few days before Inspector Ambrosio's holiday, a bank robbery takes place opposite his house.
The Lady of Monza
A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan. Based on the life of Marianna De Leyva, bette...
Everybody Go Home!
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to thei...
The Brothers Karamazov
Italian adaptation of Dostoevskys famous novel.
Alfredo, Alfredo
Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her...
Scaramouche
Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich
Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat a...
The Seven Cervi Brothers
The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era o...
A Day for Lionhearts
September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded...
Without Apparent Motive
A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries...
Mother's Heart
A mute mother stands by idly as her young children radicalise as a result of a society that thrives on conflict...
And Now My Love
The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a w...
Boomerang
A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer.
Five Branded Women
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugosla...
Esterina
Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern Italy. She...
First Love
Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her...
Love and Chatter
Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper...
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many ye...
The Inheritor
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance:...
Madame Bovary
In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extr...
The Pisciotta Case
The magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the imprisoned assas...
The Invisible Woman
Drama about the fading relationship between a professor and his wife. Based upon a short story by Alberto Morav...
Mother and Daughter
In a wealthy Italian home, the daughter of the family is trying to cut her mother's apron strings. Not only is...
Caravaggio
A miniseries about Caravaggio's life.
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 became one...
The Long Silence
Carla Aldrovandi, a gynecologist, and her husband Marco Canova, a magistrate live on the front line of criminal...