Carla Gravina
Date of birth: 1941-08-05
Place of birth: Gemona del Friuli, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Карла Гравина
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958-07-26
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
1959-03-18
Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò.
Everybody Go Home!
1960-10-27
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to ret
The Violent Four
1968-03-29
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
Tony Arzenta
1973-08-23
A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and man
The Inheritor
1973-03-22
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his i
The Terrace
1980-02-08
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. T
Alfredo, Alfredo
1972-09-22
Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages t
The Antichrist
1974-11-22
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a mal
The Lady of Monza
1969-02-26
A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan. Based on the life of Marianna De L
Five Branded Women
1960-03-15
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by
Without Apparent Motive
1971-09-15
A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge
Boomerang
1976-08-15
A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer.
A Day for Lionhearts
1961-09-05
September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele
The Seven Cervi Brothers
1968-02-16
The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism durin
Days of Inspector Ambrosio
1988-10-20
A few days before Inspector Ambrosio's holiday, a bank robbery takes place opposite his house.
Mother's Heart
1969-01-29
A mute mother stands by idly as her young children radicalise as a result of a society that thrives
Il gioco della verità
1974-03-17
In the slums of Naples, a prostitute, when questioned by police about the death of one of her client
The Invisible Woman
1969-09-04
Drama about the fading relationship between a professor and his wife. Based upon a short story by Al
First Love
1959-02-04
Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leave
The Pisciotta Case
1972-11-23
The magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the impri
Esterina
1959-09-09
Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern
Love and Chatter
1958-01-31
Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the munici
Mon Ami Washington
1984-01-01
The adventures of two gun merchants competing in the same market.
La Locandiera
1986-06-06
The Long Silence
1993-03-19
Carla Aldrovandi, a gynecologist, and her husband Marco Canova, a magistrate live on the front line
Hail the Artist
1973-12-06
Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeki
And Now My Love
1974-05-15
The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The stor
A Bullet for the General
1967-01-13
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries.
Nella vita di Sylvia Plath
1979-01-01
Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich
1982-08-31
Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemi
Mother and Daughter
1978-03-19
In a wealthy Italian home, the daughter of the family is trying to cut her mother's apron strings. N
Caravaggio
1967-10-15
A miniseries about Caravaggio's life.
Come quando fuori piove
1998-08-10
Guendalina
1957-03-14
Wealthy teenager Guendalina is a child of divorce. Oberdan, likewise a teenager, is a boy from a blu
Scano Boa
1961-01-09
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021-05-17
A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly
Sierra Maestra
1969-09-01
An Italian journalist is arrested in Venezuela by the military, accused of being a revolutionary. Th
Anche l'inferno trema
1965-07-23