Alida Vali (1921 – 2016) Baroness Alida Maria Laura "Altenburger von Marckenstein, Frauenberg, was born on May 31, 1921 in Pula Istria (now part of Croatia). She was an actress of the Italian stage who performed in more than 100 films well-known directors Mario Soldati, Carol Reed, Michelagelo Antonini, to Luchino Visconti, and Dario Argento.In addition to the title "Baroness", she also had "Chevalier of Arts of France" and "Daughter of the Italian Republic". intellectuals of the class, his mother was a pianist and his father a professor of philosophy, music critic and at the same time "Baron". Cinema, a film school for actresses and directors. She started her film career in 1934 with "Il cappello a tre punte" (The Three Cornered Hat), during the years when the cinema of the time in Italy was called " Bianchi phone”. Her greatest success will come in the movie "Mille lire al mese". Then, after a series of roles in a large number of comedies, Valli also gained success in films with dramatic themes, for example in the film "Piccolo mondo antico (1941), directed by Mario Soldati, which won the "Special Best Actress award" at the "Venice Film Festival". Even during the second world war, she performed in many films, including "Stasera niente di nuovo (1942), whose song became a leitmotif of Italian music in the 40s – "Ma l`amore no", and also in the other film "Noi Vivi / Addio Kira" (1943) based on the Ayn Rand novel with the English title "We the Living". These two films were censored during the government under Benito Mussolini. At the age of 20, she caught the eye and was called the most beautiful female actress in the world. In Hollywood, she performed in many American films, where we can distinguish the two most successful ones, The Paradine Case (1947), The Third Man (1949). It should be mentioned that her international film career has not been so famous as a result of the financial problems presented by the film production company "Selznick". In the 50s, she returned to Europe and performed in many French and Italian films. In 1954, he had a great success in the melodrama Senso, directed by Luchino Visconti. In 1959, he appeared in "Les Yeux sans visage" (Eyes Without a Face) in a horror film directed by Georges Franju. In the 60s, he worked in several other films with even bigger directors, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini in "Oedipus the King" 1967; Bernardo Bertolucci – La strategia del ragno 1972; Novecento, 1976, and Dario Argento in Suspiria, 1977. However, her last film in the cinema is in 2002 "Semana Santa" with Mira Sorvino. In Italy, she was also well known in the interpretation of Ibsen's works "Rosmersholm"; Pirandello's "Henry IV"; John Osborne's "Epitaph for George Dillon"; and Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge". At the 54th international film festival in Venice in 2007, Alida Valli won (posthumously) the Golden Lion for her career. He changed his life on April 12, 2006 in Rome, Italy at the age of 84!! Previously published on Facebook on the same page on May 15, 2014 _______________ Albanian cinematography since 2013
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