Cast: Goliarda Sapienza

Direction Francesco Maselli

Cast Lucía Bosé · Isa Miranda · Jean-Pierre Mocky · Goliarda Sapienza

Plot Set during WWII, the film is a drama of the Italian resistance, with all the usual clichéd characters in attendance. The central character, a bombed-out gamine who falls in love...

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Massimo Girotti · Eleonora Rossi Drago · Giulietta Masina · Liliana Gerace

Direction Paolo Franchi

Cast Angelo Pellegrino · Francesco Maselli · Silvia Dante · Goliarda Sapienza

Plot Here are so many small traces of the woman writer Goliarda Sapienza. There are pieces of her work. (To support herself, Goliarda is also an acting teacher). There are pieces...

Cast Goliarda Sapienza · Valeria Golino · Angelo Pellegrino

Plot Between 1967 and 1976, Italian writer Goliarda Sapienza (1924-76) wrote The Art of Joy, a subversive novel about the dazzling social ascent of a rebellious heroine; too scandalous to be...

Direction Alessandro Blasetti

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Vittorio De Sica · Aldo Fabrizi · Andrea Checchi

Plot The mood is set with the opening with excerpts from the Excelsior Ball, a famous ballet at the turn of the century that heralded the advances of the upcoming century,...