Francesca Bertini

Francesca Bertini (actually Elena Seracini Vitiello; born April 11, according to other sources January 5, 1892 in Florence, † 13 October 1985 in Rome, actually Elena Seracini Vitiello ) was an Italian film actress. It was regarded as the diva of the Italian silent cinema.

Life

Bertini was the daughter of an actress, was adopted by the Neapolitan singer Arturo Vitiello and grew up in Naples, where she had the age of eleven their first stage performances. 1904 the family moved to Rome, where they continued to play theater and film company d'Arte Italiano Pathé became aware of them. From 1910, she appeared in the Italian film, initially mainly in shirred to less than 15 minutes playing time adaptations of classic plays. Of these, some handcolored Shakespeare adaptations by Gerolamo Lo Savio or Ugo Falena, with whom she worked closely in the early 1910s, received have remained until today.

From 1912 to 1915 when, Celio film and even more so from 1915 to 1919 at the Caesar film, it was rebuilt into a film star and the undisputed diva of the Italian cinema. Directed by Baldassarre Negroni she played 1912/13, in Lagrime e sorrisi, Histoire d'un Pierrot and La maestrina their first important roles. It developed into a distinctive and strong actor with personality often aggressive and passionate, but also restrained representation internally contradictory female persons. Bertini she played with natural gestures. Together with Gustavo Serena, she created in 1915 its now well -known film, the gambling in Naples classic verismo Assunta Spina, in which she plays a passionate loving woman between two men. Other important roles she had in La signora dalle camelie (1915 ), Odette (1916 ), Fedora (1916 ), Somalia (1917 ), La Tosca (1918 ), La donna nuda (1918 ) and La Serpe (1919). In the 1920s, she retired from the film business increasingly back. On August 8, 1921 Swiss banker Paul Cartier. Only very occasionally she took film offers true.

In 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci they win for the role of Sister Desolata in his epic 1900. The rotated by Gianfranco Mingozzi documentary L'ultima diva Francesca Bertini (1982 ) is an interview - documentation of the 90 -year-old actress.

Filmography (selection)

Weblink

  • Francesca Bertini at the Internet Movie Database (English)
  • Actor
  • Silent film actresses
  • Italian
  • Born in 1892
  • Died in 1985
  • Woman
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