
Acting
Isa Barzizza
Born — Died
1929-11-22 — 2023-05-28
Place of birth
Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Known for
Acting
Credits
48 titles
Luisita Barzizza, better known as Isa Barzizza (Sanremo, Italy 22 November 1929 – Palau, Italy 28 May 2023), was an Italian actress. She enjoyed a very long acting career, spanning from the second half of the 1940s to the first half of the 2010s. The daughter of orchestra conductor Pippo Barzizza and Tatina Salesi, elder sister of director Renzo Barzizza and cousin of the appearance Anna Maria Salesi, she established herself throughout her career as a performer in revue theatre, cinema and television, becoming one of the earliest television personalities in Italy alongside Totò.
Known for
8.3Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974
9.0Non lasciamoci più is an Italian television series.
Non lasciamoci più
1999
6.4Totò is a tailor but not a great tailor. He is married and his son is to be baptized and Totò hopes that his grand-mother will be moved by the baptism, so moved to help him. Unfortunately his wet nurse Maria loses his son in the garden. Totò doesn't lose heart and rents Rita's daughter and leaves looking for his son. Many adventures are awaiting for him.
Seven Hours of Troubles
1951
6.5A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant. In order to get the girl he must win the "Tour of Italy", so professor sells his soul to the devil to get the winning and the girl.
Toto Tours Italy
1948
7.0The film is set in Naples. Two doubles, an American and a Neapolitan, alternate visiting Zaza, the maid of a magazine company, deceived by their resemblance.
Dove sta Zaza?
1947
6.7A musical comedy divided into five segments: Mariantonia, Cuttica, Il Fine Dicitore, Fregoli and Il Censore.
Gran varietà
1954
Film credits
2010s · 5 titles
6.3The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding him…
Viva l'Italia
2012
5.6A very extended family gathers for the Christmas holidays, after the death of the breadwinner Leonardo Sereni, famous singer. The eldest son Julius, with his wife Marina, has a panettone factory.
Indovina chi viene a Natale?
2013
6.1Maledimiele tells the story of Sara, a teenage girl who sinks – slowly but inevitably – into the abyss of anorexia.
Maledimiele
2012
6.7Lino and Chicca are an aging, childless middle-class couple whose life is disrupted after he's diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
A Second Childhood
2010
4.9Andrea Campi is a young, high-flying lawyer at a Milanese firm specializing in international corporate transactions involving major players in the industrial and financial sectors. His demanding workload and long hours at the office have caused his personal life to fall apart, leaving him alone and constantly buried in tasks. When his boss assigns him to a new, delicate project, Andrea meets Emilie Chomand—the charming and shrewd French lawyer representing the opposing side. His pursuit of this seemingly unattainable woman sweeps Andrea into a whirlwind of events that force him to re-evaluate the world around him.
Studio illegale
2013
2000s · 3 titles
5.5A movie about communication between God and humankind.
7 km da Gerusalemme
2007
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Per una notte d'amore
2008
NRThe film tells the story of a group of survivors of a planetary catastrophe. They are all passengers on a train that al at the time of the disaster they were traveling from Rome to Milan. Isolated on the Apennines, after waiting in vain for help, our men set off in search of food and shelter. Until the quintet shows up I realize that the known world no longer exists and that the future promises to be a real one real nightmare. A nightmare of which ours will become full protagonists, transforming, chapter after chapter, from helpless prey to bloodthirsty hunters.
Giorno 122
2005
1990s · 2 titles
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Asini
1999
Summer 1969 is very special for Andrea a 13 year-old boy who is about to leave, with his family, for a little village on the hills surrounding a great lake in Northern Italy. There he finds, like every year, his uncles, aunts, cousins, a fascinating mother, a father always away on business trips, a grandfather who does not want to grow old and a granny who talks to trees. During this summer he makes his first discoveries about life and love and abandons the illusions and the magic of childhood.
Ardena
1997
1980s · 3 titles
No synopsis available yet.
Il momento dell'avventura
1983
8.0After an introduction consisting of a series of close-ups of Totò, the anthology presents clips from films performed by the late comedian actor, collected in chapters.
SuperTotò
1980
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Fiori di zucca
1989
1970s · 2 titles
8.3Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974
3.7Our hero is the 18-year-old Alessio Mainardi, who receives a token red carnation from a girl named Giovanna and becomes a symbol of love, desire, and even has political overtones as a symbol of the struggle for political freedom in opposition to Fascism.
The Red Carnation
1976
1960s · 1 titles
1950s · 25 titles
6.4Totò is a tailor but not a great tailor. He is married and his son is to be baptized and Totò hopes that his grand-mother will be moved by the baptism, so moved to help him. Unfortunately his wet nurse Maria loses his son in the garden. Totò doesn't lose heart and rents Rita's daughter and leaves looking for his son. Many adventures are awaiting for him.
Seven Hours of Troubles
1951
6.7A musical comedy divided into five segments: Mariantonia, Cuttica, Il Fine Dicitore, Fregoli and Il Censore.
Gran varietà
1954
6.2In the 18th century, Figaro the Sevillian barber is likely to be arrested because he operates his shop on Sundays, which is forbidden.
Figaro qua... Figaro là
1950
7.2Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he closed one in an orphanage), the one goalkeeper of Juventus and the other employee at the state lottery.
L'inafferrabile 12
1950
5.2Fernando, owner of a large chain store, suffers from worrying dreams: he seems to successfully court saucy women, but just as he is about to win them over, a youngster comes on the scene and steals them from under his nose.
It's Him!... Yes! Yes!
1951
6.5Two widowers decide to get married but their decision is continually hampered by their grandchildren, who are just interested in their inheritance.
Totò Seeks Peace
1954
7.0Two friends, Giacomino and Carletto, have no job and no money and are looking for a job, or any device that will help them to meet expenses and especially will give them the opportunity to fill their stomachs.
Porca miseria!
1951
10.0In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.
Il mago per forza
1951
5.4Young swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him--and chases him when he escapes.
Le sei mogli di Barbablù
1950
7.7No synopsis available yet.
I pinguini ci guardano
1956
7.3Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.
Neapolitan Turk
1953
7.4Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others will not. And the fifth poor fellow?
The Lucky Five
1952
7.3In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
Totó in color
1952
6.3No synopsis available yet.
It's Never Too Late
1953
5.3Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained dresser who has been assigned by a music hall star to bring her the gown she is to wear on stage. The two men get stolen by Cleo, a charming thief. Once in Rome, the painter finds himself penniless and the dresser without the gown...
I'm in the Revue
1950
9.0No synopsis available yet.
The Daughter of the Regiment
1953
5.8The son of an ailing nobleman returns to France to clear his name and prove where the true guilt lies.
Cartouche
1955
7.0The Milanese Luigi Pizzigoni, photographer, and the Neapolitan barber Peppino Avallone, resident in Milan, are opponents in the sports field. The first is a proud Inter supporter, while the second is from Napoli.
Milano miliardaria
1951
7.0"Elena" cannot marry the man she loves, so enters into a loveless marriage with the wealthy "Andrea". Gradually she falls in love with him, but he never reciprocates. Things become further complicated when a letter from her first love "Carlo" is discovered.
Passionately
1954
9.0A pianist recounts the love stories of three famous composers.
Un palco all'opera
1955
7.0An artist of variety, known in art with the name of Bebè, is a charlatan in Cannes, in a company with Zallos, a shady type.
Il vedovo allegro
1950
No synopsis available yet.
Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen
1952
6.5Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
Siamo tutti inquilini
1953
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Viva la rivista!
1953
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Gioventù alla sbarra
1953
1940s · 6 titles
6.5A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant. In order to get the girl he must win the "Tour of Italy", so professor sells his soul to the devil to get the winning and the girl.
Toto Tours Italy
1948
7.0The film is set in Naples. Two doubles, an American and a Neapolitan, alternate visiting Zaza, the maid of a magazine company, deceived by their resemblance.
Dove sta Zaza?
1947
5.7In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.
The Firemen of Viggiù
1949
8.5Eva Bianchi, who works as a manicure in a beauty salon in Milan, falls in love with the owner Adamo Rossi. But Adam, who at first always gives her roses, now no longer seems interested in her.
Adam and Eve
1949
6.1In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.
Two Little Orphans
1947
6.7In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry the rich Patricia Cotten and then kill her. So Nicolino play the bull fighter and heads to the arena....
Fifa e arena
1948

