Sonia Saviange

Sonia Saviange

Birth : 1923-03-25, Bastia, France

Death : 1987-06-22

History

Sonia Saviange was born on March 25, 1923 in Bastia, Haute-Corse, France as Christiane Vecchiali. She was an actress, known for Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975). She died on June 22, 1987 in Paris, France.

Profile

Sonia Saviange

Movies

At the Top of the Stairs
Catherine
A woman returns after twenty years to Toulon where her husband, who collaborated with the nazis, was murdered. Her motives are unclear.
At the Top of the Stairs
Rose
A woman returns after twenty years to Toulon where her husband, who collaborated with the nazis, was murdered. Her motives are unclear.
Le Crime d'amour
La dame aux chats
To emerge from anonymity, a young man assumes responsibility for a crime he did not commit.
Loin de Manhattan
Ingrid
Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why he did not produce anything for eight years. He asks his friend Ingrid to help him break through this mystery.
Simone Barbès or Virtue
La Folle
Simone and Martine are usherettes in a porno cinema in Montparnasse. Installed in the hall, they greet regulars, put men in their place, chat and pass the time. At midnight Simone departs to a lesbian nightclub.
Drugstore Romance
Sonia
Pierrot, mechanic in Paris, falls madly for a female chemist his senior—who at first refuses him, only accepting love after being diagnosed with a deadly illness.
The Theatre of the Matters
Dorothée
The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs.
La Machine
Jeanne Dumont, la mère de Pierre
Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is sentenced to death. A damning indictment of the death penalty and the manipulative behaviour of the media.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
The Pianist
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Don't Change Hands
Isa-Marguerite
A well-known politician receives a tape showing her son in a porno movie. She decides to hire a female detective to figure out who is trying to blackmail her.
Femmes femmes
Sonia
The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their day-to-day lives in the expensive and difficult world of Paris.
The Strangler
The woman in silk
Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile, a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings. The detective assigned to track down the killer resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man.
Les Roses de la vie
François Truffaut said of Paul Vecchiali in his early days that he was "the only true heir of Jean Renoir." The first short film of this director, who was to become a singular figure of independent French cinema, follows the path of an elderly woman towards her memories and beyond. Attentive, affectionate and sometimes cruel, Vecchiali's camera invents its own expressive language.