Maria Michi
Maria Michi (14 May 1921 – 7 April 1980) was an Italian supporting actress who worked with Roberto Rossellini on his two early neorealism masterpieces: Rome, Open City and Paisà. Michi worked first as a typist at a law firm, then as an usherette at Teatro Quattro Fontane in Rome. She was noticed and given small parts in the company of Sergio Tofano and Diana Torrieri during the 1942-1943 season. Critic Irene Bignardi called her "a woman very near the resistance and the Communist Party". In 1948, she worked with Christian-Jaque in La Chartreuse de Parme. She was married in September 1949 to Duke Augusto Torlonia, and left the world of cinema for the theater, particularly working with director Guido Salvini. The marriage was annulled in San Marino in 1956. She resumed her film career in the 1960s and 1970s, when she did 12 films, including Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris and Tinto Brass's Salon Kitty, her last film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maria Michi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Last Tango in Paris
as Rosa's MotherA recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.
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Salon Kitty
as HildeKitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have...
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Rome, Open City
as Marina MariIn WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by...
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Paisan
as FrancescaSix vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.
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What Have You Done to Solange?
as Brenda's Mother (uncredited)After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of...
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The Breach
as La Troisième ParqueAn innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.
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The Lady of Monza
as Sister Bianca HomatiA true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan. Based on the life of Marianna...
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Down the Ancient Stairs
as la pazza aggressivaA mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed...
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The Charterhouse of Parma
as MariettaThis adaptation of Stendhal's timeless masterpiece of French literature tells the tale of...
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Redneck
as PrincessFranco Nero and Telly Savalas star in the story of a trio of jewel thieves on the lam after a...
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Brothers Blue
as Mama BlueA group of young desperados is hunted for several years by a determined bank guard
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The Laws of War
as signora MacusarDuring WW2, in a Nazi-occupied country, a local partisan blows-up a German military train,...
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Mont-Dragon
as Hortense Dubois - la femme d'ArmandBecause he has seduced Germaine de Boismenil, Georges Dormont is thrown out of the army by the...
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Irene, Irene
as MariaThe 60-year-old Guido is in a life crisis after his wife left him. His search for her develops...
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Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis
as uncreditedBased on the epistolary work by Ugo Foscolo.
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Preludio d'amore
as uncreditedAfter returning from the war Davide, a fisherman from Liguria, discovers that his girl Anna has...
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