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I Am Anna Magnani (1979)
Director: Chris Vermorcken
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From Time Out Film Guide
This conventional scrapbook biography of legendary actress Anna Magnani features clips from her performances in vaudeville, neo-realist movies and Hollywood, alongside interviews with such directors as her former husband Rossellini, and De Sica and Visconti. Apart from trotting out showbiz paeans to her human warmth, dignified resistance to '50s sex-typing and so forth, it manages glimpses of a complex life scarcely touched upon before. DMacp.Author: DMacp
Cast & crew
Director: Chris Vermorcken
Producer: Jacqueline Pierreux
Cast: Anna Magnani, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Claude Autant-Lara, Marco Bellocchio, Susi Cecchi D'Amico, Federico Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, Franco Zeffirelli full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 105 mins
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