Anna Magnani
Maddalena Cecconi
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Bellissima: Directed by Luchino Visconti. With Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella, Gastone Renzelli. A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.
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- Drama
- Luchino Visconti
- 1953-10
Bellissima. (film) Bellissima is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari and Tecla Scarano. [1] In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage ’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country ...
Screenshots. Bellissima (1951, It.) In director Luchino Visconti's neo-realistic, satirical comic drama about the Italian film industry: the star role of Anna Magnani as a working class, determined, desperate and nervous wanna-be stage mother Maddalena Cecconi, who was hoping that her only child - 7 year-old daughter Maria (Tina Apicella) would ...
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Apr 12, 2012 · A satire of the hypocritical meat grinder that is the film industry, Bellissima may be one of the best films ever made about the disconnect between the idealized world of glamour portrayed in the ...
Film Review. L uchino Visconti takes a wry look at the post-war Italian filmmaking industry in this dark satire, one of the director's few excursions into comedy and a film that is all too easily overlooked in the light of the director's subsequent masterpieces. Bellissima represents something of a turning point in Visconti's filmmaking career ...
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‘Bellissima’ (1951) is Visconti’s fifth film as director and was written by Cesare Zavattini whose other writing credits include ‘The Bicycle Thieves.’ It tells the story of a larger than life mother, played by Anna Magnani, who drags her young daughter (Tina Apicella) along to a contest to find the prettiest girl in Rome.
Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daugther to Cinecittà, hoping she'll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria, even if her husband would prefer they save their little money for the rent, instead of paying teachers,...
