Dominique Sanda
Date of birth: 1951-03-11
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne
Biography
Dominique Sanda (born 11 March 1951) is a French actress and former fashion model. Sanda was born as Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne in Paris to Lucienne (née Pinchon) and Gérard Sanda. She appeared in such noted European films of the 1970s as Vittorio de Sica's Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist and Novecento, and Liliana Cavani's Beyond Good and Evil. She also appeared in The Mackintosh Man (with Paul Newman) and Steppenwolf (with Max von Sydow). She won the award for Best Actress at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the film The Inheritance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dominique Sanda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Joseph
1995-04-10
Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brot
1900
1976-08-28
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh
Lenin: The Train
1990-04-30
March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian
A Room in Town
1982-10-27
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-c
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970-12-04
In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friend
Caboblanco
1980-01-23
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Naz
Utopia
1979-02-28
After getting painfully separated from the woman he loves, Julien leaves his apartment. He goes in s
The Conformist
1971-01-29
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of h
Damnation Alley
1977-09-10
Following World War III, four survivors at an desert military installation attempt to drive across t
The MacKintosh Man
1973-11-08
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be cau
Garage Olimpo
1999-09-02
Maria is a militant activist in an organisation opposed to the military dictatorship in Argentina. S
The Crimson Rivers
2000-09-27
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other work
Dust of Empire
1983-10-05
In 1954, escorted by a sergeant, a French nun travels through Tonkin, spreading the good Catholic wo
The Wings of the Dove
1981-05-06
A 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a wealth
With All Hands
1986-08-27
The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman.
A Sweet Journey
1980-01-04
Two lifelong best friends spend a weekend at a secluded cabin. Through intimate conversations and si
Beyond Good and Evil
1977-10-05
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young
Steppenwolf
1974-12-18
In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Hall
Conversation Piece
1974-12-20
A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is c
A Gentle Woman
1969-08-27
When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on t
The Inheritance
1976-08-11
In 1880 Rome, a patriarch closes the family bakery. His ambitious daughter-in-law manipulates her br
I, the Worst of All
1990-08-09
Assumpta Serna stars as the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz in this magnif
Without Apparent Motive
1971-09-15
A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge
The World of Jacques Demy
1995-09-22
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacq
Break of Day
1980-11-01
A writer in her fifties spends the summer in her Saint-Tropez home, tending to her garden and animal
Rosen-Emil
1993-08-19
The ex-gymnast and survival artist Emil falls in love with the prostitute Lissy. Through her he meet
The Road to Bresson
1984-05-13
A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.
Impossible Object
1973-05-24
Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful.
Going Away
2013-09-08
Two unlikely friends — a supply teacher and a lonely young boy suspended between two estranged paren
First Love
1970-10-07
The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father.
Henry's Romance
1993-12-20
It is carnival time in Munich and participants are overindulging in alcohol and sensual pleasures. "
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
2022-07-04
Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi Continis'. It
Saint Laurent
2014-09-23
1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came
The Crystal Cradle
1976-05-18
An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life.
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
1976-02-28
Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci
L'Indiscrétion
1982-07-21
An innocent man stumbles across a political intrigue, when he discovers that his neighbours apartmen
The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife
2001-09-22
Descotes, a young map expert, discovers the marvelous erotic secret of an elaborate ancient map that
Nobody's Children
1994-03-03
An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.
To Save Nine
1989-03-25
Originally titled simply Decimo Clandestino, this Lina Wertmuller "miniature" began life as an Itali
Le Matelot 512
1984-12-19
Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes
Albert Savarus
1993-01-30
Adaptation of the Balzac story as told by Rosalie, a young girl in love with the idea of her extraor
Night of The Flowers
1979-08-27
A hippie tells a story to his wife about four hedonists who lived in an old house. The hedonists pas
The Journey
1992-04-30
A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for
The Song of Roland
1978-10-04
Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-centur
Le Navire Night
1979-03-21
Le Navire Night is a story of love and desire sustained and nourished through sound waves. The film’
Le lunghe ombre
1987-01-01
Warriors and Prisoners
1990-09-05
Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colon
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
1990-04-29
The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.
I'll Be Going Now
1991-02-08
After eighteen years of psychiatric care, the former bank manager Augusto Scrivani returns home from
On a Moonlit Night
1989-09-05
An American journalist works for a French newspaper. He is writing an article about the reaction aga
Karakol
2020-09-03
The Beggars
1988-04-06
This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affectio
The Peacock’s Paradise
2022-07-07
On a winter’s day, Nena gathers her family to celebrate her birthday. Il paradiso del pavone is a s
Close up: Dominique Sanda ou le rêve éveillé
1977-04-30
It's an intimate film that brings out the deeper vibrations of my person. It was for me at the same
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025-09-11
Vita mia
2025-11-26
Close Up
1976-01-01
A documentary portrait of Dominique Sanda, the fashion model-cum-actress who became an international