Franca Rame

Acting

Franca Rame

Born — Died

1929-07-18 — 2013-05-29

Place of birth

Parabiago, Milan (Italy)

Known for

Acting

Credits

15 titles

Franca Rame was an Italian theatre actress, playwright and political activist. She was married to Nobel literary laureate playwright Dario Fo. She made her theatrical debut in 1951. Shortly thereafter, she met Dario Fo, whom she married in 1954. Franca Rame appeared in a large number of feature films and plays. Together with her Dario Fo she wrote a large number of unique plays dealing with the private life of men and women. In 1973 she was kidnapped and raped by fascists. Ten years later, she used the experience for a monologue, Lo Stupro (The Rape). Franca Rame was elected to the Italian senate in 2006 but resigned within two years, saying the assembly was an icebox of feelings.

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1976: In the Brianza countryside, an industrial accident releases a toxic cloud. The population is evacuated, animals are culled, and fruits and vegetables are declared unfit for consumption. Against this backdrop, two children, Marco and Sara, and their families move there.

Una lepre con la faccia di bambina

1989

Extraconiugale poster
7.0

Three anthological segments about sexcapades and erotic fantasies in middle-class Italy.

Extraconiugale

1964

Poppy poster
6.3

A high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets.

Poppy

1952

Love in Four Dimensions poster
6.5

Young Italian writers and directors express themselves in four episodes about sex and love. "Love and Language," the first tale, centers on the difficulties of a Sicilian immigrant who is unable to master proper Italian. the second tale "Love and Life" centers on a jealous and unhappy wife who becomes so desperate to be free of her constantly philandering husband she takes on a lover of her own. "Love and Art" a nearly exhausted screenwriter hires a secretary to help manage his typing. She's a pretty lass and this makes his insecure wife crazy until he fires the female and hires a male secretary. "Love and Death," the final episode centers on the love affair between a middle-aged widower and the grieving young widow he meets at the cemetery. Unfortuantely for his bank statement, the young, impoverished beauty isn't as bereaved as she seems.

Love in Four Dimensions

1964

Il cocco di mamma poster
6.5

Aldo, Vasco and "Smilzo" (Slim) are friends. They live with their parents and are training for boxing. But their real interest is in women. When casually Aldo meets Laura and falls for her. Will he succeed in winning her love?

Il cocco di mamma

1957

La zia d'America va a sciare poster
7.0

Tecla Cammarano, following a financial crisis that has made her situation precarious, leaves America and comes to Italy with her two lovely grandchildren.

La zia d'America va a sciare

1958

Film credits

1960s · 2 titles

1950s · 9 titles

Poppy poster
6.3

A high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets.

Poppy

1952

Il cocco di mamma poster
6.5

Aldo, Vasco and "Smilzo" (Slim) are friends. They live with their parents and are training for boxing. But their real interest is in women. When casually Aldo meets Laura and falls for her. Will he succeed in winning her love?

Il cocco di mamma

1957

La zia d'America va a sciare poster
7.0

Tecla Cammarano, following a financial crisis that has made her situation precarious, leaves America and comes to Italy with her two lovely grandchildren.

La zia d'America va a sciare

1958

Corporal of the day poster
7.2

A young woman brings a baby to some military barracks. There is a note on the child - it says that the baby is hers and a soldier called Felice.

Corporal of the day

1958

Rosso e nero poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rosso e nero

1954

Ha fatto 13 poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ha fatto 13

1951

Amarti è il mio destino poster
10.0

Upon the death of her father, Anna, to escape economic ruin and save her family's honor, is forced to marry their main creditor, while her true love, Roberto, has to emigrate to Brazil.

Amarti è il mio destino

1957

The Screwball poster
6.6

Achilles, a Hulot-like factotum for an evening newspaper, travels around looking for a scoop in the Milan of the "economic miracle."

The Screwball

1956

Rascel-Fifì poster
8.0

Renato and Gedeon have just opened a nightclub in a disreputable area of New York, triggering the hostility of Gionata, a gang leader and owner of the nightclub across the street. Helped by the hoods of his gang, Gionata uses a couple of tricks to try and ruin his competitors. To begin with, he induces his friend Barbara, a vamp, to perform in a hot number in Renato and Gedeon's joint, so that the police intervene and close the club. The move fails, so Gionata decides to have Renatino, Renato's son, kidnapped by his men, which proves another flop. To make matters worse for Gionata, Michaela, his own daughter, has fallen in love with Renato, and sides with him and his partner...

Rascel-Fifì

1957

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