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Tag Archives: Mario Adorf
An Eel Worth 300 Million AKA Un’anguilla da 300 milioni (1971) Salvatore Samperi, Ottavia Piccolo, Lino Toffolo, Mario Adorf
An heiress (Piccolo) fakes her own kidnapping in order to get money from her parents Read More »
The Italian Connection AKA La Mala Ordina (1972) Fernando Di Leo, Mario Adorf, Henry Silva, Woody Strode
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Read More »
The Assassination of Matteotti AKA Il delitto Matteotti (1973) Florestano Vancini, Franco Nero, Mario Adorf, Riccardo Cucciolla
How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination Read More »
Sunscorched AKA Tierra de fuego (1965) Jaime Jesús Balcázar, Mark Stevens, Mark Stevens, Mario Adorf, Marianne Koch
When the town sheriff backs down from outlaws, he is branded a coward. Read More »
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum AKA Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (1975) Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser
Katharina Blum is a young handsome German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. Read More »
Felidae (1994) Michael Schaack, Ulrich Tukur, Mario Adorf, Helge Schneider
After his owner relocates, the cat Francis in involved in a series of cat murders in the new neighborhood. Read More »
Weak Spot AKA La faille (1975) Peter Fleischmann, Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi, Mario Adorf
Based on a novel by Antonis Samarakis, Peter Fleischmann’s La faille also known as Weak Spot stars Ugo Tognazzi as Georgis Read More »
The Taste of Violence AKA Le goût de la violence (1961) Robert Hossein, Giovanna Ralli, Mario Adorf
This European “western” by Robert Hossein (scripter, director, and lead) is set in an unnamed Latin American country suffering under a dictator. Read More »
Lola (1981) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf
Ten years after the war, West Germany’s market economy is booming. Read More »
I Knew Her Well (1965) Antonio Pietrangeli, Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Adorf, Jean-Claude Brialy
Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business. Read More »
The Red Tent (1969) Mikhail Kalatozov, Sean Connery, Peter Finch, Mario Adorf
The commander of a failed 1928 Arctic airship expedition is remembering the events of the “Italia” airship flight, crash and subsequent rescue efforts. Read More »
The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) Robert Siodmak, Claus Holm, Annemarie Düringer, Mario Adorf
A serial killer terrorizes Hamburg, Germany, during World War II. When the local police can’t seem to catch him, the SS is brought into the case. Read More »
The Visitor (1964) Antonio Pietrangeli, Sandra Milo, François Périer, Mario Adorf, Comedy, Romance
Tells the story of two people who have met through an ad, a Roman woman bookseller and a provincial north. Read More »
A cavallo della tigre / On the Tigers Back (1961) Luigi Comencini, Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf, Valeria Moriconi, Comedy, Drama
This well-acted though conventional comedy-drama by director Luigi Comencini features comic Nino Manfredi in the title role of Giacinto, a father and husband who has been driven to steal in order to survive. Read More »