Sonia Saviange

Acting

Sonia Saviange

Born 1923-03-25 · Bastia, France

Sonia Saviange was born on March 25, 1923 in Bastia, Haute-Corse, France as Christiane Vecchiali. She was an actress, known for Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975). She died on June 22, 1987 in Paris, France.

Acting credits

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom poster
6.3

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

1976

The Strangler poster
6.0

Émile targets women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple victims fall to his suffocating white scarf, an inspector resorts to unorthodox methods to get him with the assistance of a potential victim.

The Strangler

1971

Far from Manhattan poster
7.8

Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why he did not produce anything for eight years. He asks his friend Ingrid to help him break through this mystery.

Far from Manhattan

1982

Drugstore Romance poster
5.8

Pierrot, mechanic in Paris, falls madly for a female chemist his senior—who at first refuses him, only accepting love after being diagnosed with a deadly illness.

Drugstore Romance

1979

Le Crime d'amour poster
4.9

To emerge from anonymity, a young man assumes responsibility for a crime he did not commit.

Le Crime d'amour

1982

The Theatre of the Matters poster
7.0

The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs.

The Theatre of the Matters

1977

Paris Does Not Exist poster
5.4

In this film, an artist attending a party smokes some dope and develops the ability to see into the future and the past. He returns to his apartment where he sees the vision of a woman who had lived there 30 years ago. His psychedelic hallucinations increase with time. Starring Richard Leduc and Danièle Gaubert with Serge Gainsbourg who also did the score.

Paris Does Not Exist

1969

Simone Barbès or Virtue poster
5.4

Simone, a leather-clad porn theater worker, spends her shifts bantering with her coworker and observing eccentric customers in the cinema’s lobby. Tonight, she clocks out and heads off to meet her girlfriend, a waitress at a lesbian club. Later, she’ll encounter a lonely man on the prowl.

Simone Barbès or Virtue

1980

Femmes femmes poster
7.3

The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their day-to-day lives in the expensive and difficult world of Paris.

Femmes femmes

1974

La Machine poster
5.3

Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is sentenced to death. A damning indictment of the death penalty and the manipulative behaviour of the media.

La Machine

1977

At the Top of the Stairs poster
7.2

A woman returns after twenty years to Toulon where her husband, who collaborated with the nazis, was murdered. Her motives are unclear.

At the Top of the Stairs

1983

At the Top of the Stairs poster
7.2

A woman returns after twenty years to Toulon where her husband, who collaborated with the nazis, was murdered. Her motives are unclear.

At the Top of the Stairs

1983

Les Roses de la vie poster
6.7

François Truffaut said of Paul Vecchiali in his early days that he was "the only true heir of Jean Renoir." The first short film of this director, who was to become a singular figure of independent French cinema, follows the path of an elderly woman towards her memories and beyond. Attentive, affectionate and sometimes cruel, Vecchiali's camera invents its own expressive language.

Les Roses de la vie

1962

Don't Change Hands poster
5.9

A well-known politician receives a tape showing her son in a porno movie. She decides to hire a female detective to figure out who is trying to blackmail her.

Don't Change Hands

1975