The great Italian actress Monica Viti, the Italian actress who illuminated Michelangelo Antonioni’s play, has died at the age of 91, Culture Minister Dario Francescini announced on Wednesday. In the last years of her life she lived isolated in Switzerland with Alzheimer’s disease.
“Goodbye Monica Viti, goodbye to the queen of Italian cinema. “Today is a day of great sorrow, of a great artist and a great Italian lost.” the Italian Minister of Culture states in his announcement.
#Vittithe minister @dariofrance: «Addio a #MonicaVitti, the region of Italian cinema. Oggi is a young davvero sad, mocking a great artist and a great Italian ». https://t.co/jDxXXve2t4 #MiC pic.twitter.com/iZncTOftf9
– Minister of Culture (@MiC_Italia) February 2, 2022
He was born in 1931 in Rome. He starred in films by Luis Buιuel of Dino Rizzi, Mario Monicelli, but became best known mainly in the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, of which he was an artistic muse and companion. In 1968, Antonioni decided to propose to Monica Viti. “It surprised me!”, Viti commented. “Think that we have been living together for eleven years and the issue of marriage has never been raised …”
She has received numerous awards, including 9 David di Donatello Awards, 11 Italian Golden Globes, a Silver Bear for Best Actor and the Honorary Golden Lion for her contribution to cinema.
Indicative filmography
1955 Adriana Lecouvreur
1960 The Adventure
1961 The Night
1962 The Eclipse
1963 The salt and pepper of life
1964 The flying saucer
1964 Red Desert
1965 The dolls
1966 The queens
1969 Help me … my love!
1970 Scandals of married people
1971 Twelve times female
1974 The Ghost of Freedom
1975 Crazy women at midnight
1978 My loves
1979 Sly beds, cunning charmers
1983 Flirt
1990 Secret scandal
Read all the news
Α – wikipedia
Follow Skai.gr on Google News
and be the first to know all the news
Skai
