Acting

Graziella Galvani

Born June 27, 1931 · Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Died August 25, 2022 · aged 91

Graziella Galvani (27 June 1931 – 25 August 2022) was an Italian stage, television and film actress. Born in Milan, Galvani formed at the drama school of the Piccolo Teatro in her hometown, and participated in several plays directed by Giorgio Strehler in the early 1950s. She was mainly active on television, in TV-movies and series. She also appeared in a number of films, mainly cast in supportin…

Known For

Pierrot le Fou

Pierrot le Fou · 1965

MovieDramaRomance

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

Fiorina the Cow

Fiorina the Cow · 1972

Fiorina the Cow

Plenty of fun erotic stories in the spirit of the "Decameron", united by one constant hero - unlucky cow Fiorina.

Seduction

Seduction · 1973

MovieDramaRomance

After returning to Catania after a long period of time, Giuseppe reunites with his old lover, Caterina. Her 15 year-old daughter, Graziella begins to seduce her mother's lover and he soon breaks down and begins an affair with her. As time passes Caterina begins having sneaking suspicions about Giuseppe's & Graziella's relationship.

Swing troubadour

Swing troubadour · 1991

Swing troubadour

In Brazzaville, in 1944, Alex Emmerich was sentenced to wander the seas by Hélène Latray, the wife of Félix Beauvois, the man Alex loved. In 1962, exiled on Hatray cruises and feeling the coming death, Alex decides to compose for his love a testament: the photographic report of his agony.

The Night of the Shooting Stars

The Night of the Shooting Stars · 1982

The Night of the Shooting Stars

The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it up and that the Americans are about to arrive to liberate them.

Ghosts of Rome

Ghosts of Rome · 1961

MovieFantasyComedy

An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.

Kapo

Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.

Miracles Still Happen

Miracles Still Happen · 1974

Miracles Still Happen

MovieDramaThriller

A seventeen-year-old girl is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon.

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Pierrot le Fou

Pierrot le Fou · 1965

MovieDramaRomance

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

Maria, Ferdinand's Wife

Fiorina the Cow

Fiorina the Cow · 1972

Fiorina the Cow

Plenty of fun erotic stories in the spirit of the "Decameron", united by one constant hero - unlucky cow Fiorina.

Betta

Seduction

Seduction · 1973

MovieDramaRomance

After returning to Catania after a long period of time, Giuseppe reunites with his old lover, Caterina. Her 15 year-old daughter, Graziella begins to seduce her mother's lover and he soon breaks down and begins an affair with her. As time passes Caterina begins having sneaking suspicions about Giuseppe's & Graziella's relationship.

Luisa

Swing troubadour

Swing troubadour · 1991

Swing troubadour

In Brazzaville, in 1944, Alex Emmerich was sentenced to wander the seas by Hélène Latray, the wife of Félix Beauvois, the man Alex loved. In 1962, exiled on Hatray cruises and feeling the coming death, Alex decides to compose for his love a testament: the photographic report of his agony.

Hélène Hatray

The Night of the Shooting Stars

The Night of the Shooting Stars · 1982

The Night of the Shooting Stars

The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it up and that the Americans are about to arrive to liberate them.

Signora Migliorati

Ghosts of Rome

Ghosts of Rome · 1961

MovieFantasyComedy

An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.

Insegnante di matematica

Kapo

Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.

Isabelle

Miracles Still Happen

Miracles Still Happen · 1974

Miracles Still Happen

MovieDramaThriller

A seventeen-year-old girl is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon.

Maria Koepcke (Juliane's Mother)

Camille 2000

Camille 2000 · 1969

MovieDramaRomance

Marguerite, a beautiful woman of affairs, falls for the young and promising Armand, but sacrifices her love for him for the sake of his future and reputation.

Village Girl

Summer Frenzy

Summer Frenzy · 1964

Five episodes: a mature model makes his lover jealous; lovers quarrel; a clumsy Don Juan in business; a dancer and a captain; a beauty falls in love with a Spanish cyclist. The characters in the episodes intertwine, but the stories are not always treated with a light touch.

Selena

The Terrace

The Terrace · 1980

Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.

Writer

Unknown Woman

Unknown Woman · 1969

MovieDramaMystery

When an old lady dies two hours before her life insurance expires, the insurance lawyer suspects something dubious. He begins to investigate and he becomes the lover of the old lady's daughter...

Giovanna

Tre colonne in cronaca

Tre colonne in cronaca · 1990

Tre colonne in cronaca

Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a stockbroker, which triggers a series of blackmail and deception. A deputy commissioner and a journalist intend to shed light on all these murky matters, but the politician has no scruples and also knows how to move with extraordinary skill.

L'ex moglie di Leporino

La strada più lunga

La strada più lunga · 1965

La strada più lunga

Michele, a bourgeois intellectual, adhered to fascism for years. After fighting abroad, he returns home in 1943, but is now tired and refuses to join the Republic of Salò. His comrades still want him with them, but this Social Republic, imposed by the SS arms, does not convince him. The war continues and the situation does not allow one to remain neutral.

Carla

Scandalous Crimes

Scandalous Crimes · 1999

Scandalous Crimes

In Parma, conversing with a CSM judge from Rome, the judge Bocchi tells what intrigues are hidden behind the beautiful and charming facade of the city, referring in detail to the latest and most 'chatted episode. It begins when Bocchi interrogates Giulio, a handsome and unassuming young man, for reasons of strangling, and invites him to collaborate with justice.

Giustina

Loggerheads

Loggerheads · 1978

A comedy styled as a documentary about the rise of Adolf Hitler as well as the story of two brothers, one a magician and Nazi, the other an anarchist anti Nazi...

Livia Peterson

Latin Lovers

Latin Lovers · 1961

MovieRomanceComedy

An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women.

Luciana De Marchi (ep. La separazione legale)

Nick Carter and Red Club

Nick Carter and Red Club · 1965

Nick Carter and Red Club

MovieActionCrime

A secret agent uncovers four atomic rockets with a lethal gas warhead which have been stolen from a secret factory, and a dastardly plot.

Nanny

The Devil Also Cries

The Devil Also Cries · 1965

The Devil Also Cries

María

Cronache del '22

Cronache del '22 · 1961

Cronache del '22

Five different episodes unfold against the backdrop of Italian historical and political events in 1922. In the first, in the aftermath of the March on Rome, two scoundrels speculate on the event. In the second, a punitive expedition enters the home of a socialist deputy. In the third, the fascists rob a countess. In the fourth, a disgraced marshal incriminates a fascist Camorra member. In the fifth, there is the story of an encounter at the seaside.

signora Sorrentino

Poor George

Poor George · 1993

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.

Helena

Open Letter to the Evening News

Open Letter to the Evening News · 1970

Open Letter to the Evening News

MovieDramaComedy

Hoping to shake up the complacent Italian Communist Party, a group of leftist radicals sends an incendiary letter to a major evening newspaper declaring their intention to volunteer to fight American troops in Vietnam as a political statement against the war.

Graziella