Acting

Rate Furlan

Born 1911-03-09 · Padua,Italy

Rate Furlan (1911–1989) was an Italian actor, composer, screenwriter and film director.

Acting credits

Nostalgia poster
7.8

Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov journeys through Italy with his interpreter Eugenia to research the life of an 18th-century Russian composer who once lived abroad. Isolated and consumed by an unrelenting longing for his homeland, Andrei becomes drawn to Domenico, a radical mystic obsessed with spiritual redemption. Through austere imagery and extended temporal rhythms, Tarkovsky examines exile, memory, and the profound melancholy of being unable to belong fully to either place or language.

Nostalgia

1983

Rush poster
5.1

In a post-nuclear holocaust world, a survivor roams the desert, fighting bandits and the forces of an evil warlord.

Rush

1983

Lucrezia poster
3.7

Fabrizio finds refuge from thugs in a convent, and passion in the arms of Lucrezia Borgia.

Lucrezia

1968

A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State poster
4.4

A hooker, mother of two, leaves her abusing husband for a young boxer. On the street she gets assaulted and beaten by pimps.

A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State

1971

Crimes and Perfumes poster
4.7

Eddy is the detective of a general store. His girl is Barbara who works in the same store. Barbara receives a gift, a bottle of scent, and later she dies burned. Police detective Turoni begins to investigate and Eddy, wanting to revenge Barbara, does the same. Another girl, Porzia, is murdered in the same way and Eddy finds out that the motive of the crimes dates back some fifteen years.

Crimes and Perfumes

1988

Don Bosco poster
6.5

This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin.

Don Bosco

1988

In the Name of the Father poster
6.4

In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.

In the Name of the Father

1971

Time of Indifference poster
4.5

A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.

Time of Indifference

1991

La donna a una dimensione poster
7.0

Paola, still young and married to a rich industrialist, seeks an outlet to the uselessness of her life by coming into contact with the young activists of the student movement, meetings she attends. Paula tries to convert even her teenage children Afdera and Prando, to the ideas of the movement, who end up accepting the mother's convictions and agree to participate in an action of sabotage against a large factory. But when they discover that the factory to be sabotaged is precisely that of the father, they renounce the mission, disappointing the mother.

La donna a una dimensione

1969

Behind the camera