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Arcanguela Felice Assunta (Lina) Wertmuller von El
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14 August 1928 - 9 December 2021
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Lina Wertmüller (her real name is Arkangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elg) was born on August 14, 1928 in Italy, in Rome, in the family of a lawyer. After graduating from the Roman Theatre Academy in 1951, she traveled to Europe with a puppet theater, then worked in the theater for 10 years, having managed to try herself as an actress, director and playwright. Lina Wertmüller began her film career as an assistant director on the set of Federico Fellini’s Eight and a Half (1963). Her independent
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Lina Wertmüller (her real name is Arkangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elg) was born on August 14, 1928 in Italy, in Rome, in the family of a lawyer.
After graduating from the Roman Theatre Academy in 1951, she traveled to Europe with a puppet theater, then worked in the theater for 10 years, having managed to try herself as an actress, director and playwright.
Lina Wertmüller began her film career as an assistant director on the set of Federico Fellini’s Eight and a Half (1963). Her independent directorial debut was the film Vasiliski (1963).
Wertmüller’s fame was brought by the films “The Seduction of Mimi” (Mimi is a metalman wounded in his honor), “Film of Love and Anarchy” (1973) and others, with the participation of actor Giancarlo Giannini, who worked with her in the theater. However, after the film “Pasqualino’s Seven Beauties” (1976), her reputation as a director was somewhat shaken.
In 1978, Lena Wertmüller made her Hollywood debut with The End of the World in Our Bed on a Rainy Night (1978). The picture was unsuccessful both financially and artistically, and all subsequent works of Lina Wertmüller failed to attract the former attention of the public to her work.