Claudia Cardinale, one of the largest actresses of Italian and European cinema, died on Tuesday, at the age of 87, in the Paris region.
Actress Claudia Cardinale died photo: Profimedia
Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale was born on April 15, 1938, in Tunis, in a family of Sicilian origin, the father of Isola delle Femmine, and the mother from Trapani. His road to cinema began by chance. At the age of 16 he had a brief appearance in a movie with Omar Sharif, but the real turn came after she was chosen “The most beautiful Italian in Tunis ”at a beauty contest organized by his mother himself. The prize was a trip to the Venice Film Festival in 1957.
“I got there with African clothesI had bikini on the beach – which were not worn here yet. Photographers did not count to take pictures, and I repeated that I did not want to make movies. On his return, the magazine Epoca Titra: “The girl who refuses to do cinema” “the actress recalled. In Venice, however, Le Notti Bianche de Luchino Visconti, the first movie on the big screen, awakened the passion for cinema.
Muza of the great Italian directors
Considered the muse of directors such as Luchino Visconti and Federico Fellini, Claudia Cardinale has crossed the history of the Italian and European film, becoming a symbol of the golden age of cinema.
He remained memorable in the role of Angelica in Il Gattopardo (1963) and in the hypostasis of the former brave prostitute in a Volta Il West (was once in the west, 1968), directed by Sergio Leone. He also played in masterpieces such as Rocco and his brothers and divided the screen with large 20th century actors: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Henri Fonda, Jean-Paul Belmondo or Marcello Mastroianni.
The inheritance of a free woman
“It leaves us the inheritance of a free woman and inspired both in her woman and artist“, Said his agent, Laurent Savry, in a message sent to the AFP agency, according to AGPRES.
Claudia Cardinale remains in the public’s memory as one of the brightest and most independent figures of the world cinema, an actress who irreversibly marked the history of the film.
