Milena Vukotić

Acting

Milena Vukotić

Born

1938-04-23 (88)

Place of birth

Rome, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

71 titles

Milena Vukotić (born April 23, 1938) is a former ballerina and a stage, television, and film actress. She was born in Rome, to a Montenegrin comediographer father and an Italian pianist/composer mother. She is known for her role of Pina in the Fantozzi series of comedy films. Additional screen credits include Arabella, The Adventurers, Blood for Dracula, The Phantom of Liberty, Monsignor, Juliet of the Spirits and A Good Woman. She had a recurring role on the French television series Une famille formidable.

Known for

A Doctor in the Family poster
7.5

The adventures of the unpredictable Martini family led by the tireless Grandpa Libero.

A Doctor in the Family

1998

Letters to Juliet poster
7.0

An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

Letters to Juliet

2010

The Ignorant Angels poster
6.4

Following the death of her husband in a car accident, Antonia discovers that he was having a homosexual affair with a man named Michele. At first devastated by the news, she finds herself building an unexpected friendship with this man she had never heard of. They both learn to know each other, to accept each other, to understand each other. Antonia thus discovers her husband's other family made up of friends with unusual lifestyles and different sexual identities.

The Ignorant Angels

2022

The Phantom of Liberty poster
7.4

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.

The Phantom of Liberty

1974

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie poster
7.4

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

1972

Spirits of the Dead poster
6.2

Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.

Spirits of the Dead

1968

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 5 titles

1990s · 6 titles

Fantozzi to the Rescue poster
6.0

Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.

Fantozzi to the Rescue

1990

The Wicked poster
7.5

At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously developed schizophrenia. To identify the causes of her condition, he employs psychoanalytic methods to dig into her sexual past, despite objections by the old-fashioned chief physician.

The Wicked

1991

In morte di Federico Fellini poster
NR

Federico Fellini died on October 31, 1993. In the following days, his funeral chapel was set up in Cinecittà's historic Studio 5, often used by the maestro as a film set. Sergio Zavoli shot footage of his funeral, which he later edited together with archive material. The film also documents the reactions to Federico Fellini's death and funeral.

In morte di Federico Fellini

1994

Fantozzi The Return poster
5.8

Ugo Fantozzi has been ejected from Heaven and is sent back to Earth for a short period of time until the staff in Heaven can get Fantozzi a place there. Fantozzi goes through a variety of unfortunate experiences, such as rescuing his retro punk granddaughter Uga, and having to pay a vast telephone bill due to frequent chat line conversations. He ends up getting arrested instead of his ex-boss, who was originally charged with corruption. Just as he is about to enjoy the World Cup Final with Italy, he is called back into Heaven. Can he find peace once again?

Fantozzi The Return

1996

Carogne - Ciro and Me poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Carogne - Ciro and Me

1995

Stefano Quantestorie poster
6.8

Stefano is now forty years old but has not yet found his purpose in life, remaining an eternal dreamer waiting for that decisive enlightenment. With his parents who have great plans for him, Stefano realizes that he lost most of his years without a real goal and thinks back to all those missed opportunities that could have led him to another path, between old loves and unexploited opportunities .

Stefano Quantestorie

1993

1980s · 14 titles

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

Sunday Lovers poster
5.8

A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy"

Sunday Lovers

1980

Art of Love poster
5.3

Young student Claudine has a dream in which the Roman student Cornelius, fascinated by the beautiful wife of the commander, attends lectures on the art of love of great Ovid. Ancient tragedy repeats itself in a few centuries ...

Art of Love

1983

Max My Love poster
5.8

The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.

Max My Love

1986

My Friends Act II poster
7.6

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.

My Friends Act II

1982

The Moon in the Gutter poster
5.7

A dockworker seeking revenge on the killer of his sister finds himself the object of desire for two women.

The Moon in the Gutter

1983

Fantozzi Still Suffers poster
6.5

After a hard day at work and a condominium-board meeting, accountant Ugo Fantozzi goes on a trip with his family. Unfortunately, he will face a nasty surprise upon his return.

Fantozzi Still Suffers

1983

Bianco, rosso e Verdone poster
7.3

Three very different Italians travel to their hometowns on election day: Pasquale, a Southern immigrant living in Munich, finds a country far removed from the one he left behind; Roman civil servant Furio's relentless nitpicking threatens to push his wife Magda over the edge; young Mimmo's journey is repeatedly interrupted by concerns about his grandmother's health.

Bianco, rosso e Verdone

1981

Stuff for the Rich poster
5.1

3 episodes set in Monte Carlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a princess. In the second, a con woman tries to cheat an insurance man. In the third, a man has to deal with his wife's suicidal attempts.

Stuff for the Rich

1987

Monsignor poster
4.5

The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.

Monsignor

1982

Cream Horn poster
5.7

Mariana and Domenico are on the run from her jealous boyfriend who just happens to be an over-jealous professional football player.

Cream Horn

1981

Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio poster
5.9

The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs. The title translates as "Eye, Evil Eye, Parsley and Fennel".

Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio

1983

The Terrace poster
7.2

Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.

The Terrace

1980

La locandiera poster
5.5

The innkeeper Mirandolina is a beautiful girl, and for her beauty the Count of Albafiorita and the Marquis of Forlimpopoli fall in love.

La locandiera

1980

1970s · 11 titles

The Phantom of Liberty poster
7.4

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.

The Phantom of Liberty

1974

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie poster
7.4

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

1972

That Obscure Object of Desire poster
7.4

After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.

That Obscure Object of Desire

1977

Blood for Dracula poster
5.6

Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.

Blood for Dracula

1974

My Friends poster
8.1

Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.

My Friends

1975

Act of Aggression poster
4.8

After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang, a man sets out to take revenge.

Act of Aggression

1975

The Adventurers poster
4.7

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he'd assumed.

The Adventurers

1970

Saturday, Sunday and Friday poster
5.3

SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the theater and marry a Mafia man.

Saturday, Sunday and Friday

1979

Black Journal poster
5.5

A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building.

Black Journal

1977

Come Have Coffee with Us poster
6.3

At age 50, tax inspector Emerenziano decides to settle down and aims to the three Tettamanzi sisters, who, though not young or pretty by any means, have recently inherited a large amount of money.

Come Have Coffee with Us

1970

Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi poster
3.7

For having suffered the violence of seven Himalayan Sherpas, the Countess Valentina Contarini has fallen ill of "fallophobia" and consults a healer, a supposed extraterrestrial who is actually a young Swedish man who "works" for certain American psychologists.

Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi

1978

1960s · 18 titles

Spirits of the Dead poster
6.2

Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.

Spirits of the Dead

1968

Juliet of the Spirits poster
7.2

Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.

Juliet of the Spirits

1965

Come September poster
6.8

Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate Maurice secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel while Talbot is away. The current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls.

Come September

1961

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... poster
4.6

A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...

1967

The Taming of the Shrew poster
6.9

Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.

The Taming of the Shrew

1967

The Centurion poster
5.5

A Roman soldier falls in love with the daughter of a Greek city's anti-Roman leader.

The Centurion

1961

Blood Feud poster
8.2

An industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Not having the courage to do it in person, he hired his former employee who needs money.

Blood Feud

1961

Arabella poster
7.5

A young woman uses her womanly wiles to seduce older men in order to aid her debt-ridden grandmother.

Arabella

1967

The Devil in Love poster
5.8

Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 1478.

The Devil in Love

1966

Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare poster
7.5

Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young man. The new couple set up several plans to kill the cuckhold, but.. it always seems to work out for lucky Ignazio!

Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare

1968

The Monster of the Opera poster
4.4

A theater troupe's young, energetic leader has secured an old theater in which to produce his new production. The theater's elderly caretaker urges the group to leave at once. A vampire is awakened and discovers that one of the troupe is the reincarnation of the woman who he once loved.

The Monster of the Opera

1964

Toby Dammit poster
6.5

During a trip to Rome, a debauched Shakespearian actor is tormented by the Italian film industry, fans, the press and the Devil, who appears as a little girl seeking to collect his head. This short is part of the anthology film Spirits of the Dead (1968).

Toby Dammit

1968

The Biggest Bundle of Them All poster
5.6

A kidnapped mobster persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.

The Biggest Bundle of Them All

1968

Invasion 1700 poster
6.6

Set in 18th-century Eastern Europe, the film concerns the star-crossed romance between a Polish military officer and a gorgeous Slavic princess. The princess' vengeful lover cuts a path of death and destruction throughout the land.

Invasion 1700

1962

Atlas Against the Cyclops poster
6.5

Strongman Maciste must battle the one-eyed Cyclops monster that is ravaging the land of Sadok, while at the same time fending off the advances of the evil Queen Capys, who wants to do a little ravaging of her own.

Atlas Against the Cyclops

1961

The Thursday poster
7.1

It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day however, he will succeed in establishing a positive relationship with his son and telling the truth about himself.

The Thursday

1964

Made in Italy poster
6.1

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.

Made in Italy

1965

Love and Anger poster
5.2

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.

Love and Anger

1969

Series credits

A Doctor in the Family poster
7.5

The adventures of the unpredictable Martini family led by the tireless Grandpa Libero.

A Doctor in the Family

1998

The Ignorant Angels poster
6.4

Following the death of her husband in a car accident, Antonia discovers that he was having a homosexual affair with a man named Michele. At first devastated by the news, she finds herself building an unexpected friendship with this man she had never heard of. They both learn to know each other, to accept each other, to understand each other. Antonia thus discovers her husband's other family made up of friends with unusual lifestyles and different sexual identities.

The Ignorant Angels

2022

Verdi poster
7.2

Giuseppe Verdi was born in 1813 and lived until 1901, his life spanning nearly a century of political turmoil and considerable personal turmoil. This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the life of this classic Italian composer known for operas including La Traviata, Rigoletto, and Aida and his Requiem.

Verdi

1982

La carretta dei comici poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La carretta dei comici

1970

Vita di Antonio Gramsci poster
8.0

The life and times of Antonio Gramsci from the establishment of L'Ordine Nuovo newspaper in 1919 to his untimely death in 1937, encompassing the birth of the Italian Communist Party (PCd'I), Gramsci's visits to Moscow where he met his future spouse, his election to Parliament, anti-fascism, trial and conviction.

Vita di Antonio Gramsci

1981

Gian Burrasca's Diary poster
8.2

A miniseries based upon the eponymous children's classic by Vamba. A mischievous young boy gleefully causes chaos and confusion to his immediate family and acquaintances.

Gian Burrasca's Diary

1964

Via Mala poster
4.9

A family who lives in the Swiss Alpes at the end of the 1920s is abused by a tyrannical drunkard.

Via Mala

1985

Nel mondo di Alice poster
10.0

On a warm afternoon Alice falls asleep on the lawn and when she wakes up finds herself catapulted into an unreal and colorful world populated by strange characters and talking animals. Following first a white rabbit and then through a mirror, she will have fantastic adventures, amid clumsy talking chessmen and a shrewish duchess, played by Franca Valeri. When she wakes up, everything will return to normal, leaving her with the memory of a frightening but beautiful dream at the same time.

Nel mondo di Alice

1974

Anna, Ciro e... compagnia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Anna, Ciro e... compagnia

1982

I tre moschettieri poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I tre moschettieri

1976

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

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