Gina Rovere
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Gina Rovere.
Born: May 5, 1935
Place of Birth: Rome
Known For
Life Is Beautiful
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
Adua and Her Friends
When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
Hell in the City
A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
Lord of the Ants
Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he shares with his barely-of-age pupil and friend, Ettore. Amidst a chorus of voices of accusers, supporters and a largely hypocritical public, a single committed journalist takes on the task of piecing together the truth, between secrecy and desire, facing suspicion and censorship in the process.
The Cesaronis
Giulio is a widower, struggling to raise three sons, Marco, Rudi, and Mimmo, as best he can. He lives in Rome's working-class Garbatella neighborhood and runs a wine shop with his two brothers. Lucia, meanwhile, comes from Milan's middle-class background; she's divorced and trying to rebuild her life with her two daughters, Eva and Alice. The two meet by chance and recognize each other: they had a fling as teenagers, many years earlier. Yet first love is never forgotten, and so Giulio and Lucia find themselves together again. Their meeting, however, changes not only the lives of a man and a woman, but also those of two families as different as could be. Two families who find themselves living under the same roof without even having had the time to get to know each other well.
Mortacci
Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. Under the care of the salacious Domenico the visitors of a small cemetery recount how they arrived at eternal peace.
I piaceri dello scapolo
Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings.
Female Three Times
The Russian women's basketball team faces to the American team for the championship of the world, in Rome. Upon arriving at the 'Eternal City', the Russian athletes find ways to evade the strict surveillance and meet some Italian guys. After many persecutions, the Russians are confined by their guardians under the promise that, if they win, they can stay and live in Italy. But as they conquer the championship, their guards forget the promises and put them on a plane to Moscow.
Don Camillo: Monsignor
Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.
Filmography
as Adua
as Capatrice
as Anziana Pianerottolo
as Elvira
as Megera
as Madre del colonnello
as The Nun
as Proprietaria Locale
as Dora's Maid
as Domestica di Christian
as Padrona 'Astoria'
as la domestica
as Jolinka
as Prostitute Elena
as Dar'ja
as Madre superiora
as Francesca 'Checca' Amatucci
as Margherita
as Nately's Whore
as Assunta
as Signora Bess
as Rose
as Narda
as Nurse
as Mariuccia
as Lora
as Giovenella's Mother
as Adua Senoner
as Maruzza
as Elisa
as Maria
as Clara Sisini
as Lidia
as Gisella Marasca
as Concetta
as Mimì
as Milly
as Franca
as Lola Capponi
as Delia
as Teresa, wife of Tiberio
as prostituta
as amazzone
as Liuba
as Fiamma
as la falsaria
as Mimì's Girlfriend (uncredited)
as A dancer (uncredited)
as A contestant in the beauty contest (segment: Concorso di bellezza) (uncredited)