Acting

Sylva Koscina

Born August 22, 1933 · Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia (now Zagreb, Croatia)

Died December 26, 1994 · aged 61

Sylva Koscina (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsilva ˈkɔʃʃina]; born Silvija Košćina, pronounced [sǐlʋija kǒʃtɕina]; 22 August 1933 – 26 December 1994) was a Yugoslav-born Italian actress, maybe best remembered for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules (Steve Reeves) in Hercules (1958) and Hercules Unchained (1960). She also played Paul Newman's romantic interest in The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968)…

Known For

Juliet of the Spirits

Juliet of the Spirits · 1965

Juliet of the Spirits

MovieComedyDrama

Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.

Michael Strogoff

Michael Strogoff · 1956

Michael Strogoff

MovieDramaAdventure

When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern Siberia, Czar Alexander II of Russia entrusts the brave officer Michael Strogoff with a dangerous mission.

Ace

Asso (Ace), the best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the "final" game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ?

Marquis de Sade: Justine

Marquis de Sade: Justine · 1969

Marquis de Sade: Justine

MovieDramaHorror

Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cope with an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who will claim not only her treasured virtue but also her life.

Lisa and the Devil

Lisa and the Devil · 1974

Lisa and the Devil

Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelter. Soon she is sucked into a vortex of deception, debauchery and evil presided over by housekeeper Leandre.

Jessica

Jessica · 1962

MovieComedyDrama

When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica, angry females revolt by refusing to have sex with their husbands. As the local priest tries to encourage procreation, Jessica falls for a tricky recluse.

The Secret War of Harry Frigg

The Secret War of Harry Frigg · 1968

The Secret War of Harry Frigg

When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...

The Battle of Neretva

The Battle of Neretva · 1969

The Battle of Neretva

In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.

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Juliet of the Spirits

Juliet of the Spirits · 1965

Juliet of the Spirits

MovieComedyDrama

Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.

Sylva

Michael Strogoff

Michael Strogoff · 1956

Michael Strogoff

MovieDramaAdventure

When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern Siberia, Czar Alexander II of Russia entrusts the brave officer Michael Strogoff with a dangerous mission.

Sangarine

Ace

Asso (Ace), the best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the "final" game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ?

Enrichetta

Marquis de Sade: Justine

Marquis de Sade: Justine · 1969

Marquis de Sade: Justine

MovieDramaHorror

Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cope with an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who will claim not only her treasured virtue but also her life.

Marquise de Bressac

Lisa and the Devil

Lisa and the Devil · 1974

Lisa and the Devil

Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelter. Soon she is sucked into a vortex of deception, debauchery and evil presided over by housekeeper Leandre.

Sophia Lehar

Jessica

Jessica · 1962

MovieComedyDrama

When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica, angry females revolt by refusing to have sex with their husbands. As the local priest tries to encourage procreation, Jessica falls for a tricky recluse.

Nunzia Tuffi

The Secret War of Harry Frigg

The Secret War of Harry Frigg · 1968

The Secret War of Harry Frigg

When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...

Countess Francesca De Montefiore

The Battle of Neretva

The Battle of Neretva · 1969

The Battle of Neretva

In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.

Danica

Hornets' Nest

Hornets' Nest · 1970

An American commando who's the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a group of children in a campaign of sabotage against the Nazis.

Bianca

Hercules

Hercules · 1958

MovieFantasyAdventure

In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts.

Iole, Daugher of Pelias

A Lovely Way to Die

A Lovely Way to Die · 1968

A Lovely Way to Die

MovieMysteryCrime

A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name... and get over her husband.

Rena Westabrook

Deadlier Than the Male

Deadlier Than the Male · 1967

Deadlier Than the Male

MovieActionComedy

British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.

Penelope

Hot Enough for June

Hot Enough for June · 1964

Hot Enough for June

MovieComedyThriller

A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.

Vlasta Simoneva

Hercules Unchained

Hercules Unchained · 1959

Hercules Unchained

MovieFantasyAction

En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.

Iole, bride of Ercole

The Italian Connection

The Italian Connection · 1972

The Italian Connection

MovieCrimeAction

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.

Lucia Canali

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

Me, Me, Me... and the Others · 1966

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.

The 'Star'

The Four Truths

The Four Truths · 1962

The Four Truths

MovieComedyDrama

"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments.

Mia (segment "Le lièvre et le tortue")

Rimini Rimini

Rimini Rimini · 1987

Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.

sorella dell'ingegnere

The Crimes of the Black Cat

The Crimes of the Black Cat · 1972

The Crimes of the Black Cat

MovieThrillerMystery

In Copenhagen, a blind pianist hunts the culprit in string of murders, each linked by the presence of a yellow shawl and a black cat.

Françoise Ballais

The Dictator's Guns

The Dictator's Guns · 1965

The Dictator's Guns

MovieDramaCrime

An experienced skipper is hired to buy a boat from an American heiress in the Caribbean, but when the boat vanishes and bodies surface, he realizes he’s been framed for arms trafficking.

Rae Osborne

The Fight for Rome

The Fight for Rome · 1968

The Fight for Rome

MovieAdventureDrama

A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian; Cethegus wants to swoop in after they have destroyed each other and create a new Roman Empire from their combined kingdoms; however, he does not factor into his plans the vagaries of love and the personal integrity of the people in both kingdoms.

Empress Theodora

The Shortest Day

The Shortest Day · 1963

The Shortest Day

MovieComedyHistory

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

He Thief, She Thief

He Thief, She Thief · 1958

He Thief, She Thief

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.

Cesira De Angelis

Are We Men or Corporals?

Are We Men or Corporals? · 1955

Are We Men or Corporals?

These are the years of the Second World War, and Toto is imprisoned in a concentration camp, suffering the harassment of Colonel Hammler, a Nazi cruel and despotic.

The aspiring actress

Cinderella '87

Cinderella '87 · 1987

In this contemporary retelling of the Cinderella story, a feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, she meets, and falls in love with, globetrotting bagpacker Mizio, who eventually turns out to be of Italian nobility. There's a fairy stand-in in the form of a spaced-out astrologer, a dance, and she even loses a shoe at one point. Care to venture a guess how it all turns out?

Mafalda Gherardeschi