María Baxa
Acting
Biography
María Baxa is a Serbian film actress, mainly active in Italian cinema. Born in Osijek, Baxa made her film debut in Brana Celovic's Bokseri idu u raj, then moved to Italy where she became a popular starlet in Italian genre cinema, especially in commedia sexy all'italiana. In the late 1980s Maxa left showbusiness to be an architect. Source: Wikipedia
Born: April 15, 1946
Place of Birth: Osijek, Croatia
Known For
Strangler vs Strangler
When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes telepathically connected with the killer.
Boxers Go to Heaven
Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol.
Deadly Chase
Police Commissioner Verrazzano (Luc Merenda) is visited by charming Giulia Medici (Janet Agren) who claims that her brother, banker Valter Medici didn't commit suicide but was murdered. The investigation leads Verrazzano to dark secrets of loan sharks.
The Valachi Papers
When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence.
La strada verso casa
There are moments in life when, suddenly, everything stops. For Michelangelo, a young aspiring writer about to publish his first book, everything comes to a halt with the death of his father, forcing him to abandon his ambitions and provide for his family. Antonio, a successful manager accustomed to a perfect life, finds himself imprisoned by his wife's inability to overcome the death of their daughter. Giulia, on the other hand, is a young woman who has just given birth, whose husband had an accident shortly before their daughter's birth and is in a coma, in the same hospital where their daughter was born. Giulia lives there day and night, waiting for her husband to wake up: only then will she name her daughter. The interrupted lives of these three characters intertwine, waiting to find the turning point, the path that will lead them home.
Gegè Bellavita
Pregnant with their 10th child, Agata discovers that her lazy husband Gennaro betrays her cheerfully.
Cyclops
Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.
Black Turin
Mino and Lello, two sons of a worker wrongly accused of murder, try to find out evidence of his innocence and begin to investigate mafia business in Torino.
Young and Healthy as a Rose
Young and Healthy as a Rose follows Stevan Nikolić, "Stiv", a petty criminal born in Belgrade, and his rise to power along with drugs, sex and with the help of the local police.
The Exhibitionist
A teenage girl falls in love with a man who works in live sex shows, and who just happens to be having an affair with the girl's stepmother--with her father's knowledge.
Filmography
as Marta
as Spiridon's stepmother
as Vivijana
as Director's Wife
as Gardenia Girl
as Signora Sciscioni (uncredited)
as Kora Venier
as Emmanuelle
as Veronique
as Poppea
as Maria, The Detective's Wife (Segment "Il Detective") (uncredited)
as Signora milanese
as Fiammetta
as Margaretha
as Nascarella
as Tebalda
as Donna Petrillo
as The wife (segment "Una bella famiglia")
as Eva