Olimpia Carlisi
December 29, 1946 · 79 years old
Olimpia Carlisi (born 1946) is an Italian stage, film and television actress. She worked with Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet in Othon (1970), where her work was praised by critics.
Known For
5 titles
Facing Windows
Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for the Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her ...
Casanova
Giacomo Casanova uses his sexuality to find his place in life amid eccentric and strange characters.
Rendez-vous
Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.
Misunderstood
Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older si...
From the Clouds to the Resistance
Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese's "Dialoghi con Leucò", taken from classical mythology. The second segment is taken from Pavese's novel "La luna e i falò": after WWII the emigrant 'The Bastard' ...