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Olimpia Carlisi

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Young American ballerina enrolls in a prestigious ballet school in Hungary. She suddenly becomes inexplicably obsessed with Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and her personality completely changes. A young man in love with her investigates.
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Olimpia Carlisi is an Italian actress. Father of Sicilian origin, she spent her childhood and youth in Florence. Theater performer off and avant-garde of the seventies and eighties she starred, among others, in "Il Casanova" di Federico Fellini, "La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo" by Bernardo Bertolucci, "Tu mi turbi" by Roberto Benigni, "Dalla nube alla Resistenza by Straub and Huillet (taken, in part, from the novel by Cesare Pavese the moon and the bonfires) and "La finestra di fronte" by Ferzan Ozpetek. She conducted the Sanremo Festival in 1980 along with Claudio Cecchetto, Roberto Benigni and Daniel Leads. In 2011 is the voice of Federico Fellini in the documentary "Fellini's Circus", directed by Adriano Apra. After a long absence, returns to direct the film by Asia Argento "Incompresa" movie (2014).
BornDecember 29, 1946
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Known for

    Catch-22 (1970)
    Catch-22
    7.1
    • Luciana
    • 1970
    The Middle of the World (1974)
    The Middle of the World
    7.0
    • Adriana
    • 1974
    Irene, Irene (1975)
    Irene, Irene
    6.3
    • Emilia
    • 1975
    Sabina Guzzanti in Bimba - È clonata una stella (2002)
    Bimba - È clonata una stella
    5.3
    • La Madonna
    • 2002

    Credits

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    Actress



    • Giulia Salerno in Misunderstood (2014)
      Misunderstood
      6.6
      • Nonna
      • 2014
    • Facing Windows (2003)
      Facing Windows
      7.2
      • Donna negozio stoffe
      • 2003
    • Sabina Guzzanti in Bimba - È clonata una stella (2002)
      Bimba - È clonata una stella
      5.3
      • La Madonna
      • 2002
    • Medicina i misteri
      6.7
      • La madre
      • 2002
    • Harvey Keitel and Giancarlo Giannini in Viper (2000)
      Viper
      5.5
      • Prostitute
      • 2000
    • Animali che attraversano la strada (2000)
      Animali che attraversano la strada
      4.6
      • Selene
      • 2000
    • Ombre (1999)
      Ombre
      5.6
      TV Movie
      • Alba
      • 1999
    • The Sweet Sounds of Life (1999)
      The Sweet Sounds of Life
      6.1
      • Prostitute
      • 1999
    • Cartoni animati (1997)
      Cartoni animati
      6.0
      • 1997
    • Round the Moons Between Earth and Sea (1997)
      Round the Moons Between Earth and Sea
      7.6
      • La Sibilla Cumana
      • 1997
    • Two Brothers, My Sister (1994)
      Two Brothers, My Sister
      6.8
      • The Mother
      • 1994
    • Kay Rush and Michael Woods in Alibi perfetto (1992)
      Alibi perfetto
      4.5
      • Nurse Stiles
      • 1992
    • Tolérance (1989)
      Tolérance
      7.1
      • Pauline
      • 1989
    • Ballet (1989)
      Ballet
      5.9
      • Madam
      • 1989
    • Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma (1986)
      Black Sequence
      6.4
      TV Series
      • Mlle Bourdon
      • 1987

    Writer



    • Three Days in Greece (1991)
      Three Days in Greece
      7.1
      • text
      • 1991

    Soundtrack



    • Rendez-vous (1985)
      Rendez-vous
      6.4
      • performer: "Au Clair de la Lune" (uncredited)
      • 1985

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    • Height
      • 5′ 10¾″ (1.80 m)
    • Born
      • December 29, 1946
      • Campi Bisenzio, Tuscany, Italy

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