Acting

Rate Furlan

Born — Died

1911-03-09 — 1989-11-28

Place of birth

Padua,Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

18 titles

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

Known for

Marco Polo poster
6.8

The life of the 13th-century Venetian explorer who sought to connect the civilizations of China and Europe through trade.

Marco Polo

1982

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

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

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

Lo zappatore poster
9.0

A poor farmer who has struggled to advance his son's career as a lawyer is spurned by the ungrateful offspring when he visits him in the big city, to convey the news that the mother is dying.

Lo zappatore

1950

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

Film credits

1980s · 4 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera