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ALIDA VALLI - Kira
Valli was born in 1921 in Pola, Italy and began making films at the age of 13, rapidly becoming one of Italy’s leading young stars.
She was just 21 when she starred in We the Living. When filming ended, Valli went into hiding rather than continue working in the Fascist-controlled film industry. After the war, Valli made many memorable Italian films, some of them becoming classics. In the early 1950’s she came to Hollywood and starred in several English language movies, including Hitchcock’s The Paradine Case (1947), and co-starred with Frank Sinatra and Fred McMurray in The Miracle of the Bells (1948).
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ALIDA VALLI - Kira
Her best-known English language film is the iconic British classic, The Third Man (1949) with Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten. She had two sons during her marriage to composer Oscar de Mejo and was later married to film director Giancarlo Zagni.
Valli enjoyed an international stage and screen career that lasted till her death in 2006 in Rome, Italy.
Among the over 100 films Valli appeared in are: Manon Lescaut (1939); Ultimo Incontro (1951); Visconti’s Senso (1954); Antonioni’s Il Grido (1957); Oedipus Rex (1967); Bertolucci’s The Spider’s Stratagem (1970): and her final movie, Semana Santa (2002), with Mira Sorvino.
ROSSANO BRAZZI - Leo
Rossano Brazzi was one of the great romantic leading men to emerge in the film industry.
He was born in Bologna, Italy in 1916 and attended law school in Florence before moving to Rome where he made his film debut in 1939. When he starred in We the Living in 1942, he was already among the highest paid stars in Italy. During World War II, Brazzi worked with resistance groups in Rome which led to his imprisonment by the Nazis.
ALIDA VALLI - Kira
His first Hollywood film was Little Women in 1949, but he rose to fame in America with Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) and David Lean’s Summertime (1955). He is best known to American audiences for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific (1958). He was married to Lidia Bertolini for 41 years. They had no children. Brazzi died on December 24th, 1994.
Brazzi performed in over 100 movies, among them The Barefoot Contessa (1954); Interlude (1957); A Certain Smile (1958); Legend of the Lost (1957); Light in the Piazza (1962); De Sica’s Woman Times Seven (1967); The Italian Job (1969); The Far Pavilions (1984); Fear City (1985).
FOSCO GIACHETTI - Andrei
Giachetti became a major force in Italian film after his first starring role, in Squadrone Bianco, released in 1936. By the time he starred in We the Living, he was the number one box office attraction in Italy.
A virile screen presence, he was considered at his best when playing the romantic, melancholy loner. Giachetti received Best Actor Award for Bengasi the Venice Film Festival in 1942.
Giachetti completed his last film, L’heritier in 1973, a year before his death at the age of 70.
Among his other notable films include: Scippione L’africanco (1938); The Life of G. Verdi (1940); Alessandrini’s Nozze Di Sangue (1941); Alcazar (1942); Brothers Karamazoff (1947); and Rene Clement’s Chateau De Verre (1948).
ALIDA VALLI - Kira
OTHER WE THE LIVING CAST
OTHER WE THE LIVING CAST
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Pavel Syerov
Comrade Sonia
Victor Dunaev
Morozov
Alexei Argounov
Vassili Dunaev
Maria Petrovna Dunaev
Marisha
Lydia Argounova
Galina Petrovna
Tonia
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Acia Dunaev
Irina Dunaev
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CESARINA GHERALDI
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Goffredo Alessandrini - Director
Goffredo Alessandrini, born in Cairo in 1904. Although, initially, his films were influenced by his brief stay in Hollywood in the early 1930’s for MGM Studios, he successfully made the transition from musical comedies to historical dramas and ideological propaganda films when the tide of war changed Italian filmmaking.
His films are noted for their extreme realism and have been lauded as anticipating the Neo-Realist movement in Italy that was to follow the end of the war. He was married to the renowned Italian actress Anna Magnani.
ALIDA VALLI - Kira
Alessandrini died in Rome in 1978. During his career, he directed approximately 25 films, among them The Life of Caravaggio (1941), Rapture (1950) and The Daughter of the Regiment (1953). He received the Biennale Award in 1942 for We the Living (originally released as two films, Noi Vivi and Addio Kira).
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DUNCAN SCOTT PRODUCTIONS
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