Armenia Balducci

Armenia Balducci (13 March 1933 – 29 July 2022) was an Italian actress, screenwriter and director.[1]

Armenia Balducci
Balducci in The Art of Getting Along (1954)
Born(1933-03-13)13 March 1933
Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Died29 July 2022(2022-07-29) (aged 89)
Rome, Italy
Other namesBella Visconti
Occupation(s)Actress, screenwriter, film director
Years active1953–1956; 1971 (as actress)
1979–2002 (as screenwriter and director)

Biography

Balducci was elected Miss Testaccio and had a short acting career, acting under the pseudonym Bella Visconti, which spanned six films between 1953 and 1956; it was only in 1971 that she returned in front of the cameras for an appearance in Sacco & Vanzetti.[2] She also acted in theater; she was politically active in various left-wing parties (along with her long-time partner Gian Maria Volonté)[3] and was twice Elio Petri's editorial secretary. In 1978 and 1980 she directed two films that took a critical or satirical look at the bourgeoisie and its police representatives, but they were financial failures. From 1986 to 1993 and again in 2002 she worked as a screenwriter for Giuseppe Ferrara's films.[4] In the latter year, her film La rivincita, shot digitally, premiered at the Tierra di Siena Film Festival.[5]

Filmography
Balducci in Time of Vacation (1956)
Balducci in Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)

As actress

As director
  • Together? (1979)
  • Stark System (1980)
  • La rivincita (2002)

As screenwriter

References
  1. "Armenia Balducci". Bibliothèque nationale de France (in French).
  2. Lancia, Enrico (2003). "Armenia Balducci". In Lancia, Enrico; Poppi, Roberto (eds.). Dizionario del cinema italiano. Le attrici (in Italian). Rome. p. 20.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. Le jour où...: 30 histoires insolites de cinéma (in French). Capricci. 2017. ISBN 9791023900811.
  4. Poppi, Roberto (2002). Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi (in Italian). Gremese. p. 39.
  5. "Armenia Balducci". Cinecittà News (in Italian). Archived from the original on 29 September 2011.
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