Lea Massari

Lea Massari

Nascimento : 1933-06-30, Rome, Italy

História

Anna Maria Massetani better known as Lea Massari (born 30 June 1933) is an Italian actress. When she was 22, she changed her name to Lea Massari after the death of her fiancé Leo. She studied architecture in Switzerland. Massari become a celebrity in art cinema for two roles, the missing girl Anna in Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura (1960), and as Clara, the mother of a sexually precocious 14 year old boy named Laurent (Benoît Ferreux) in Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart (1971). She worked both in Italian and French Cinema. Her career includes Sergio Leone's debut Il Colosso di Rodi, and international commercial films such as Les choses de la vie. She was member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975. She won Nastro d'Argento as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Francesco Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli.

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Lea Massari
Lea Massari
Lea Massari

Filmes

Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Elle-même
Il était une fois Sergio Leone
Self
Journey of Love
Zaira
An older couple finally travels to the sea, reliving old memories along the way.
Una donna spezzata
Writer
Una donna spezzata
Segreti segreti
Marta
The Seventh Target
Nelly
Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own insecurities. When he goes to the police with his problems, Bastien is assigned an off-beat inspector to protect him but is still faced with skepticism about his dilemma.
Ritorno a Lisca Bianca
Anna (voice) (archive footage)
Vinte e três anos após A Aventura, Antonioni retorna à ilha de Lisca Branca. A atmosfera rarefeita do desaparecimento de Lea é relembrada por alguns excertos de áudio do filme original.
Sarah
Carla Angelli
An insurance investigator meets an attractive woman in a hotel on his way to check out the causes of a fire that destroyed a movie set.
La Flambeuse
Louise
A woman on the brink of middle age becomes bored and takes up playing cards. She becomes hooked on gambling and begins to neglect her husband and children.
Cristo Parou em Éboli
Luisa Levi
Inspirado no romance autobiográfico de Carlo Levi, o filme narra a vida de um médico e escritor antifascista colocado sob prisão domiciliar em 1935 em uma remota vila italiana. Proibido de exercer qualquer atividade, incluindo a prática da medicina, ele descobre o mundo camponês, longe dos círculos intelectuais, até ser libertado dois anos depois já tendo ganhado a estima dos agricultores pobres da região.
The Meetings of Anna
Anna's mother
On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and attends to their discontents.
Sale rêveur
Joséphe
A Dog Called... Vengeance
Muriel
A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog.
Location Hunting
Cecilia
After 10 years separation from his wife, a film director (Jean-Louis Trintignant), imagines he can make up with her by giving her a part in his next film, an adaptation of Tshekov's "Three Sisters". He goes location scouting and stays in Bex, a Spa near Lake Leman, together with the three actresses : Julie, his ex-wife (Delphine Seyrig), the mysterious Cecilia, that his producer wants him to take (Lea Massari), and Esther (Valérie Mairesse), a teenager. They all stay in an old decaying hotel. In this isolated mansion the four of them will fight but also discover each other.
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of his political career and private life.
Stream Line
Amanda Treves
Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves who fortunately escapes capture. The child is entrusted by a priest, Don Luigi.
The Undertaker Parlor Computer
Gloria
In this black comedy, Fred (Jean-Louis Trintingnant) works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. Fred is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings about her demise. For a while he is content with his new freedom, but then he recognizes that a friend is in a similar situation.
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Gilbert
Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb and a priestess who gives herself as wife to an emigrant.
Medo Sobre a Cidade
Norah Elmer
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.
Allonsanfan
Charlotte
After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause.
Bloody Murder
Helene Noblet
Hélène, an antique dealer and her husband Georges, a respected doctor, live in a beautiful property and gives everyone the image of conjugal happiness. The children, Daniel and Nadine, are busy with their studies and their loves. The bourgeois life of Hélène is troubled by the murder of her lover, Philippe, a friend of her son. She finds the body when she goes to one of their appointments. In shock, she still thinks to take away the address book of the victim where her name appears - object compromising for her marriage. The police are interested in her. A stranger blackmails her. She is caught in a gear that she can not get out of. She then suspects that all is a revenge from her husband.
História de uma História de Amor
Woman
Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality leaving us to wonder whether the affair is real or just a figment of Harry's imagination.
The Son
Maria
Ange leaves New York to fly to his native Corsica. His mother is dying and Ange, who was not present when his father died, wishes to be present at her death. In Corsica Ange finds his brother Baptiste who married Maria, the woman he loved. He finds out that his father was killed, but nobody wants to tell him the name of the killer. And finally he finds two killers expecting him.
O Silencioso
Maria
Quem é Anton Haliakov, que acaba de ser sequestrado pelo MI 5 em Londres? Um cientista soviético aparentemente. Mas dezesseis anos antes o homem tinha outra identidade, Clément Tibère, e outra nacionalidade, francesa. Então, o que o levou a se tornar russo e mudar a identidade? E por que os serviços secretos britânicos estão interessados nele? (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
The Woman in Blue
Aurélie
Leading man Michel Piccoli plays Pierre, a young musician who briefly catches sight of a beautiful woman dressed in blue and soon spends all of his time trying to track her down. After roaming the streets of Paris in search of the mystery woman, he recruits an old friend to help find her.
A Primeira Noite de Tranquilidade
Monica
In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio, Marcello and Gerardo. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend.
O Homem Que Surgiu de Repente
Sugar
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
Devil's Ransom
Britt
A rich industrialist is accused of a crime he didn't commit. But every single clue leads to him.
Sopro no Coração
Clara Chevalier
Laurent, de 15 anos de idade, vive em Dijon no seio de uma família burguesa de tradições rígidas. Não se dá muito bem com seu pai, nem com seus irmãos. É apaixonado por sua mãe, Clara, mulher muito livre que está cansada do marido. Laurent está naquela idade quando tudo é revolta. É a transição da infância para a adolescência, são as primeiras experiências sexuais. Depois de uma escarlatina, contrai um problema no coração, e vai se tratar em uma estação climática, acompanhado de sua mãe. Longe de casa, com todo o tempo do mundo só para eles, aprofundam essa relação de paixão que os une. Dirigido pelo grande diretor francês Louis Malle, O Sopro do coração é um filme amoroso e verdadeiro sobre amor e liberdade.
As Coisas da Vida
Catherine Bérard
Pierre, um engenheiro de sucesso na construção de autoestradas sofre um acidente de trânsito. Estando seriamente ferido, ele está deitado à espera da morte e lembrando seu passado em flashbacks.
Eu Quero Ele Morto
Aloma
Depois que sua irmã é sequestrada e assassinada, os planos de vingança de um pistoleiro envolvem o assassinato de dois generais para prolongar a Guerra Civil.
Volver a vivir
María
A former soccer player is morally and mentally destroied by the death of his wife. But when he gets the chance to train a team he regains his life by making victories and also finding another love.
Garden of Delights
Charlo and Carla are on their honeymoon. She is three months pregnant. He, furious about his marriage of convenience, recalls the past and ponders on The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, dear to the Surrealists. While she is bleeding, he spends the night with a beautiful stranger...
The Misanthrope
Célimène
Alceste hopes to be able to live his life without hypocrisy. However, he does not realize that social habits and the necessities of life do not fit the way of conceiving his existence.
Esses Italianos
Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
Mais um filme de episódios, típico do cinema Italiano dos anos 60 e 70. Um grupo de italianos pega um voo para a Suécia - mas entre eles estão os turistas e os imigrantes. Dois casais burgueses escolhem um restaurante típico italiano pelo seu nome, "La Trattoria", e ficam chocados pelo mau serviço e pela desordem. Uma dama elegante em sua esplêndida Ferrari é abordada por um italiano e já imagina que vai ser paquerada, mas ele só tem interesse... no carro. Uma esposa italiana encontra o marido na cama com outra mulher, mas ele é tão bom com sua explicação que ela acaba acreditando que foi tudo culpa dela por não dar atenção suficiente para ele. e 14 Anos.
Mulheres no Front
Toula
In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.
Terei o Direito de Matar?
Dominique Servet
Thomas se torna um desertor da guerra da Argélia e acaba por ajudar uma jovem advogada que vem para defender os Argelinos.
Weeping for a Bandit
María Jerónima
José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits.
Os Heróis Também Matam
Lelia Mendores
Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed in Italy and filmed in Greece. An Athens hotel, full of refugees and expatriates of all nationalities, is captured by Allied troops in the closing days of the War. British Major David Niven has been ordered to prevent a cache of weapons hidden in the hotel from falling into the hands of renegade troops. He cannot allow himself to trust anyone--not even the most innocent-looking (or attractive) of guests. Originally titled La Citta Prigioniera. Conquered City was released in English-speaking countries outside the U.S. as Captive City.
The Four Days of Naples
Maria
The four days of Naples was not a revolution. They had no leaders, no preparations of any kind. The revolt was born and flared up in a matter of hours. The whole population of Naples took part in it, but they all did so without consulting the others. Driven by a kind of necessity, the Neapolitans took up their rifles, armed themselves with stones, household objects, and bottles of petrol, and fought on their stretch of road, anonymous and silent. Once the battle was over, everyone returned to their homes and the revolt remained in memory with only the names of the dead, those, at least, who were known. One figure still remembered is that of Gennarino Capuozzo, a ten-year-old boy who was killed on a barricade while fighting against the invaders of his village.
Paris Pick-Up
Marthe Dravet
On a Christmas night, an ex-convict meets a beautiful Italian married woman who has got a lot of things to hide.
Uma Vida Difícil
Elena Pavinato
Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
O Colosso de Rodes
Diala
No ano de 280 a.C., Darios, um herói militar grego, está visitando seu tio em Rodes. A cidade acabou de construir um enorme Colosso em homenagem a Apolo, para guardar o seu porto, e está planejando uma aliança com a Fenícia para atacar a Grécia. Por acidente, Darios se envolve com rebeldes que querem tirar o tirânico rei Xerxes do poder.
I sogni muoiono all'alba
Anna Miklos
Five Italian journalists live the last hours of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
From a Roman Balcony
Freya
The ironic study of a young man's poignant adventures and sensual adventures...based on "Roman Tales" by Alberto Moravia.
A Aventura
Anna
Uma mulher desaparece no meio de uma viagem de barco no Mediterrâneo. Durante a busca pela mulher, seu namorado e sua melhor amiga ficam atraídos um pelo outro. Um grupo de ricos italianos saem numa viagem de iate para uma ilha vulcânica deserta no Mediterrâneo. Quando eles estão prestes a deixar a ilha eles se dão conta de que Anna, o personagem principal até este ponto, desapareceu. Sandro, o namorado de Anna, e Claudia, a amiga de Anna, tentam sem sucesso encontrá-la. Enquanto procuravam a amiga desaparecido, Claudia e Sandro desenvolvem uma atração entre eles. Quando voltam à terra continuam a busca sem sucesso. Sandro e Claudia se tornam amantes, e quase esquecem a Anna desaparecida. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Ressurreição
Maria Pawlowa
Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in the room of the inn where he was staying and the prostitute Maslova was accused of the crime. Nechljudov recognizes in the woman the maid of the aunts he had seduced and abandoned years before and tries to convince the authorities of her of his innocence but to no avail. Convinced that he is responsible for her moral fall, he follows her to Siberia where she must serve her sentence.
I sogni nel cassetto
Lucia Moretti
Forbidden
Agnese Barras
Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war.