M.little hip to the 67th edition of David di Donatello, and the first awards begin to be announced.
The Lifetime Achievement Award will go to Giovanna Ralli. A recognition to an actress who “has been many women and many protagonists, declining refined beauty and Trastevere tradition, panache and modern malaise»Says a note posted on the profile Instagram of David.
Giovanna Ralli and the Lifetime Achievement Award
David will be awarded on May 3 during the awards ceremony broadcast in prime time on Rai 1, conducted by Carlo Conti flanked by Drusilla Foer.
“It was written for her, Roman de core, Sunday is always Sundaythe symbolic song of the musical A pair of wings», Explains Piera Detassis, President and Artistic Director of the Academy of Italian Cinema – David di Donatello Awards, thus motivating the choice of the actress.
His verve at the service of great authors
“In the course of a multifaceted career, Giovanna Ralli has put her verve and dramatic impetus at the service of great authors such as Mario Monicelli, Ettore Scola, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, alongside legendary partners such as Tognazzi, Totò, Vittorio Gassman, Mastroianni and Sordi »adds Detassis. «The spearheads of his filmography, which began in the name of Aldo Fabrizi, are The bitter life by Carlo Lizzani, the character of the timeless Elide Catenacci in We had loved each other so much, the Hollywood digressions directed by Blake Edwards and the scandalous role of lesbian, alongside Anouk Aimée, in the film The escape by Paolo Spinola, played with courage in 1964.
Giovanna Ralli at the Taormina Festival in 2015. (Getty Images)
Ralli has been many women and many protagonists, declining refined beauty and Trastevere tradition, vivacity and modern malaise “she explains. Concluding: «This Lifetime Achievement David celebrates his return to film in Marcel!Jasmine Trinca’s highly anticipated directorial debut“.
Giovanna Ralli’s long career
Giovanna Ralli is one of the absolute protagonists of Italian cinema with over seventy years of career and a long and exciting series of films that saw her work together with the major actors of our cinema, from Vittorio De Sica to Franca Valeri, from Vittorio Gassman to Marcello Mastroianni, from Stefania Sandrelli to Ugo Tognazzi.
In the post shared on David’s Instagram profile, she appears smiling and radiant, in the 2011 ceremony while delivering the David to Ettore Scola. And her smile is one of the best known in Italian cinema.
Giovanna Ralli at the Rome Film Festival in 2018. (Getty Images)
On the set with different roles
Able to face profoundly different roles, Giovanna Ralli achieves extraordinary notoriety with comedies of the fifties and sixties. Among these are the unforgettable ones Villa Borghese, Roman tales, The girls of San Frediano, The bigamist, A hero of our times. Always alongside directors such as Mario Monicelli, Valerio Zurlini, Gianni Franciolini and Luciano Emmer.
Subsequently, he plays more mature and dramatic characters in the films of Roberto Rossellini (General della Rovere, It was night in Rome), Carlo Lizzani (The bitter life). And, again, Paolo Spinola (The escape) and Ettore Scola (We had many loved ones). The most recent interpretations of her see her collaborating with Francesca Archibugi (Towards evening), Carlo Vanzina (Sunday lunch), Paolo Genovese (Immature And Immature – The journey) and Pupi Avati (A golden boy).
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