Actress
1892 - 1985
Francesca Bertini
Prato, Tuscany, Italy
Francesca Bertini (born Elena Seracini Vitiello; 5 January 1892 – 13 October 1985) was an Italian silent film actress. She was one of the most successful silent film stars in the first quarter of the twentieth-century.
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Novecento
Bernardo Bertolucci
1976
5h 17m
8.4
Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
Assunta Spina
Francesca Bertini, Gustavo Serena
1915
1h 13m
Assunta and Michele are in love, but others come between them and jealousy arises. Assunta Spina stands out as an early landmark of naturalistic acting and a blueprint for the Italian Neorealist films to come.
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