CLAUDIO CARDINALE

(b. 1939)

Italian actress. Filmed in the movies: "Rocco and His Brothers," "The Leopard", "8 1 / 2", "Female Bube," "Arms," "Cloud Star Big Dipper," "Skin", " , Street Parade, 588, etc. My favorite actress of Italian directors Fellini and Visconti.

Claude Josephine Rose Cardinale was born April 15, 1939 in Tunis. Her family, an Italian by blood (although her ancestors were, and French), lived in the capital of this North African nation. His father - an engineer on the railway, the mother - housewife. As a child Claudia loved solitude, read a lot. She wanted to become a teacher "anywhere in the Sahara. "

In the film Cardinale came accidentally. In 1956, it chose among schoolgirls for filming in the French advertising and travel film "The Golden Chain. " Then the French director Jacques Barat, invited her to a small role of an Arab girl in the painting "Goha" (1957). Neither the film nor the young actress had not been observed the public and the press.

In eighteen years, Claudia has become the winner of the contest for the title of "most beautiful Italian Tunisia. The main prize was a trip to the famous International Film Festival in Venice. In Italy, Cardinale take for a rising star. Its a lot of pictures. A major producer Franco Kristaldi invites her to enter into long-term contract with his company "VIDES". Claudia does not hurry to answer. She returned home and only after some reflection producer agrees to the proposal.

Kristaldi rich, young and beautiful. Once he studied acting at the Rome branch of experimental cinema. However, Franco is married, but it does no harm to look for love with a young actress. In Catholic Italy, divorce is not encouraged. Kristaldi Cardinale and lived together for fifteen years, to marry outside the country, but in Italy such marriages are not recognized as valid.

And most grandiose scandal erupted when the French adopted a nine-Claude son of Patrick, whom she previously issued for the younger brother. Secret of his birth is covered with darkness. Cardinale was nineteen, when one of the fans, which she did not even remember, took her out of town and took her hand . . . Claudia refused to terminate a pregnancy. Styagivaya growing belly towel, she acted in three films. Patrick was born in London, where the actress arrived incognito .

Photo — «Claudio Cardinale»

. .

The company was looking Kristaldi Cardinale role and make it advertising. In 1958 she played in a comedy by Mario Monichelli "intruder, as always, remained unknown, along with Toto, Marcello Mastroianni, and other stars. It turned out that the beautiful Claudia simply created for the Italian comedies. It promotes the success of the paintings "Strange sights", "First Night", "Three foreigners in Rome. "

Protégé Kristaldi appears not only in the gay comedy, but drama, films and social-critical and anti-fascist direction, thus be of interest to visitors with different tastes and to surprise the critics of artistic versatility of talent. In 1959, Cardinale was withdrawn from the directors who stood at the cradle neorealizma - Pietro Djerma ( "Damned confusion") and Luigi Dzampy ( "Judge").

The actress had to work in hard mode: "When I shoot, and shoot, I think, always, then get up at 5 o′clock in the morning. Day manage to sleep an hour, and again - the work. In general, the day is always full. Otherwise you can not, if you want something to achieve. " Because of the intensity of the shooting she even had to suspend academic training in Rome experimental cinema. "I have not studied the art of drama, not because I despise it - stressed Claudia - on the contrary, I am missing it, and I understand. While working, trying to explore his profession. I do not choose their roles, because I can not even distinguish between what suited me, but I choose their directors. I can only work with famous directors who know how to direct actors, because only they can teach me something, but at the moment I′m in this particular need. "

Good luck for Cardinale was the meeting with the greatest masters of world cinema - Luchino Visconti. In 1960, Maître, invited her to a small role in the socio-psychological kinoromane "Rocco and His Brothers" (1960). Claudia has created a convincing image of a vigorous young woman of the people - Dzhinetty.

But the real discovery of talent actress was in the film W. Dzurlini "Girl with a suitcase" (1961). Cardinale played the role of the naive, guileless, sincere girl Aida, which in fact is not only robust, but fairly calculated and has known a lifetime of experience.

According to critics, Cardinale well udayutsya images complicated and ambiguous.

Photo — «Claudio Cardinale»

Her heroine in films M. Bolonini La Viachchia "(1961) and" Old Age "(1961) at the same time simple and prudent, pure and perverse, feminine, vulnerable and aggressive and offensive. The famous Italian director Vittorio De Sica once said: "I have not seen another actress, which would be so concerned about cleanliness and decency" biography "of its heroines. "

In 1962, she once again meets with Visconti. In the film "The Leopard" Cardinale plays the beautiful Angelica, who assertiveness, aggressive, tenacious making their way in life. As many, including most actresses, this role has become one of the best in her artistic biography. Luchino Visconti, said: "This graceful cat in their roles can produce claws . . . When it grows, it will turn into a tigress. "

After the "Leopard" Cardinale took part in the movie-Confession "8 1 / 2" by Federico Fellini.

"The peculiarity of Cardinale is - said a famous Russian cinema YM Slavich - that it lays the foundation of human individuality harmony, integrity, purity, and when her heroine showing the quality of sinful human nature, a parallel in their actions is another "I", a higher, moral, spiritual. Cardinale manages spiritual nature that is given not many actors - to express it back to the top man. Genius Fellini saw her property and used it in its pure form, in his kinoshedevre "8 1 / 2".

The other side of the actor′s identity, which attracted Italian and foreign directors, Cardinale was the ability to show their character and moral virtue of fortitude, passionate conviction with which they sought an end. One of the heroines, Mara, partisan bride from the movie LA Komenchini "Bride Bube. For the role in this tape has received the highest Italian actress prize "Silver Ribbon".

Bright and original actress invited to Hollywood. Among the Hollywood films Claudia Cardinale: "Pink Panther" (1963), "World Circus" (1964), "blind" (1966), "lost command" (1966), "Professionals" (1966) " Not bultyhaysya! "(1967)," To hell with heroes "(1967).

In Europe, she acted in the psychological drama Visconti "Cloud Star Big Bear" (1965), where its heroine, Sandra, - there is a dark, mysterious, suffering Freudian complexes, but in the soul of her raging fire.

Photo — «Claudio Cardinale»

In a few years it will be the last rendezvous with the great director - in the painting "Family Portrait in the interior" (1974), where it appears on the screen in a few seconds. For Visconti, as well as to a Fellini, Claudia Cardinale was the perfect way femininity . . .

In 1970 the actress prefers entrainment cinema. Increasingly, it has played abroad - for example, in the sensational gangster film French director José Giovanni "Clan marseltsev" (1972), where she was partnered by Belmondo.

In 1973, for shooting the film "Молодчики" in her life became Italian director Pasquale Skuiteri: "A very long time I was seen as a profitable investment. Thanks Pasquale, I became a woman. " But only two years later they began to live together. For some time Kristaldi literally chased a couple, just making a mad scene of jealousy. But even a two-year boycott, announced by actress film producers, nothing could change. Cardinale is often filmed in the political tapes Skuiteri, just remember the movies "Iron Prefect", "Weapon", "Korleone, Klaretta," "The act of pain" . . .

Claudia Cardinale fortieth anniversary was marked by two joyous events in her life - she gave birth to daughter Claudia, and son Patrick in the family born Luchilla. "Several years ago I was a star in the traditional sense, not more. Around me were people who thought for me, signed the contracts . . . The only thing required of me - smiling photographers during a banquet, so do not mess in long dresses, which I chose for the other. All his life, I tried to be happy and was not! Only now I began to live this life "- was recognized by the actress.

No, Claudia Cardinale did not leave the cinema, she continued to work long and hard. Issued films with her participation: "Skin" (1981) Hammered fashion director, "Salamandra" (1982), "Fitskarraldo" (1982) Herzog, "History" (1986) Komenchini, "French Revolution" (1989 ) Enrico, "Mayrig" (1991), "Street Parade, 588 (1992) Henri Verneya . . .

Having played many roles at all times in a big movie, the actress spent a television series.

Then, Cardinale became enthusiastic writing memoirs. Her first book was called "I′m Claudia, you Claudia. " At the presentation of their work, she said that conceived to write a series of at least of the five volumes.

Photo — «Claudio Cardinale»

It is admired not only for its "eternal youth", but also the ability to dress with great taste. She had not done so common among the stars facelift. "I want to save my face the way I gave him the nature," - declares the woman who in Italy call poluboginey. At the same time, she smokes a cigarette in a cigarette: ". . . I am not able to resist the desire to smoke a long thin cigarette with a small filter. Luchino Visconti at the time of the shooting wanted my heroine smoking without interruption. I hear him, and now bite your fingers. "

Popular Italian film star awarded compliments from a variety of celebrities. Alberto Moravia called her the goddess of love. Pietro Djerma confessed that she was disciplined than the soldiers. The original of all, perhaps, was David Nayven saying that Claudia Cardinale - the best that this country gave the world after the spaghetti.

Her daughter chose the profession of historian, son Patrick lives in New York City, contains a restaurant and sells jewelery. Pasquale′s husband prefers to live in Rome, in their family the old palace. The very same Claudia moved to Paris. Sometimes, spouses, family spend quiet weekends endy in Normandy.

"I am a woman - said the actress - who is watching the lives bravely in the eye. Years fled, and they are equally affects both the body and in the human soul. I calmed himself so that those who loved Cláudio at the beginning of creative way, too old. "

Fortunately, she has violated the decision no longer to tempt fate. Cardinale appeared on the stage of the Paris Theater Ron Puen-starring roles in romantic comedies XVI century "Venetian", written by an anonymous author to the ancient Venetian carnival. Once Luchino Visconti and Giorgio Streler wanted to make her theatrical actress. In 1960 Cardinale offered to play in Broadway musicals. But each time she refused. And so it was a proposal that has adopted with gusto. Asked what her interest in the play, Claudia said: "A beautiful text, the ancient costumes. The scene in the great Venetian, it was the first city that I saw after Tunisia. And intrigues in the unusual. " After the premiere of her husband, Pasquale Skuiteri said: "I thought that you would succeed, but that so good . . " And now the actress, who some years not be in the films, said: "I would like to play and play.

This is a passion. My passion. "