Acting

Maria Donati

Born 1898-12-02 · Roma

Acting credits

When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend a Sunday at the beach of Fiumicino, a series of troubles begins for everyone, in the form of a comic nightmare.

La famiglia Passaguai

1951

7.3

When young Dalia is mistakenly admitted to a mental institution, she is declared sane - but by a truly mad person pretending to be a doctor. The real doctor thinks she is insane - how can she escape this madness?

Crazy Things

1954

5.6

Marco and Luciana are married and in love, but the passion of Marco for football distract him, and make him impossible to keep a job for a long time: that's why the young couple keeps arguing.

My Wife's Enemy

1959

6.4

A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and leads a march to the capital. She returns to her village a winner, an honourable MP. Yet, she is still the same simple, fiery woman, able to get in a hair-pulling brawl with the local barmaid for the affection of her man.

Angelina

1947

No synopsis available yet.

I peggiori anni della nostra vita

1949

8.3

No synopsis available yet.

Miseria e Nobiltà

1940

8.0

A compelling portrayal of postwar Rome

Life Begins Anew

1945

6.6

The daughter of a former Neapolitan gangster, Carmela has a law degree and is set to marry an aristocrat, as her father wishes. However, she suffers from a strange form of sleepwalking: at night, she goes to the room of Totò, a young man she is completely indifferent to and who is also her father's enemy. After consulting a doctor to find out the reason for this embarrassing anomaly, Carmela realises that Totò is actually the man she is unconsciously in love with.

Carmela è una bambola

1958

7.0

The title refers to a character named Pompeo Quarantini; an attorney tries to prevent marriage between an heiress and a musician, but without success.

The Last Days of Pompeo

1937

9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il conte di Bréchard

1938

8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La bisarca

1950

6.5

The young Chiaretta has joined, against the will of her family, a theater company in the magazine in the hope of being able to sing on the stage. Her fiancé chases her trying to make her change her mind and bring her home.