Bellissima - Luchino Visconti, Anna Magnani (Film 1951 - MULTISUB)

Bellissima is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari and Tecla Scarano. Audio in Italian with English, French and Spanish subtitles (click on CC for subtitles).

Bellissima centers on a working-class mother in Rome, Maddalena, who drags her young daughter to Cinecittà Studios to attend an audition for a new film by Alessandro Blasetti. Maddalena's efforts to promote her daughter grow increasingly frenzied.

Alessandro Blasetti, a contemporary film director, appears as himself. Keeping in with the tradition of Italian neorealism a number of roles went to members of the public. Magnani played a part in their selection, approving of Gastone Renzelli a butcher who was cast as her husband. The film's sets were designed by Gianni Polidori. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios, which appear prominently in the film. Anna Magnani won the award of Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress.

In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."

Cast & Characters:
Anna Magnani as Maddalena Cecconi
Walter Chiari as Alberto Annovazzi
Tina Apicella as Maria Cecconi
Gastone Renzelli as Spartaco Cecconi
Tecla Scarano as Tilde Spernanzoni
Lola Braccini as the photographer's wife
Arturo Bragaglia as the photographer
Nora Ricci as the laundry girl
Vittorina Benvenuti
Linda Sini as Mimmetta
Teresa Battaggi as a mother
Gisella Monaldi as a concierge
Amalia Pellegrini
Corrado Mantoni as radio announcer