Andrea Checchi — Actor (30)

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Attention! Bandits! (1951) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Achtung! Banditi!
other title: Achtung! Banditi! / Partisanen 1944 - Achtung! Banditen! …
During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in Genoa, in order to pick up a delivery of weapons. Meanwhile, there's a strike in the city and the Nazis are trying to suppress it violently. The factory becomes the scene of fighting between the Germans and the partisans but the latter, aided by the workers, will be able to get the better.

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The Walls of Malapaga (1949) IMDb TMDB
Au-delà des grilles
director: René Clément actor: Jean Gabin / Isa Miranda …
other title: Le mura di Malapaga / Die Mauern von Malapaga …
After murdering his mistress and being hunted by the authorities in France, Pierre stows away aboard a ship bound for Genoa. Though he's immediately robbed after arriving, things look up for Pierre when he meets kindhearted Cecchina, who introduces him to her mother, Marta. Pierre and Marta fall in love, but police are closing in and the new couple may not have much time left.

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Malombra (1942)
Malombra
director: Mario Soldati actor: Isa Miranda / Andrea Checchi …
other title: 马隆布拉
This utterly gorgeous Gothic melodrama would be widely hailed as a masterpiece, had it not been made in Italy during the Mussolini regime. A gross injustice, as Malombra - unlike Piccolo Mondo Antico, Mario Soldati's earlier film of an Antonio Fogazzaro novel - contains not one moment of triumphalist flag-waving or Fascist family values. Oddly akin to Rebecca in its atmosphere of death-haunted romance and voluptuous doom, it reaches a peak of visual refinement of which Hitchcock could only dream.
Its star is Isa Miranda (famous, and not without reason, as Italy's answer to Garbo and Dietrich) playing a headstrong but unstable young noblewoman, confined by her uncle to a gloomy villa on the shores of Lake Como. A yellowed and crumbling letter, found in an old spinet, convinces her that she is the reincarnation of her uncle's first wife - another troubled beauty who died a virtual prisoner after being caught in a forbidden love affair. When a handsome young writer (Andrea Checchi) comes to stay, Miranda decides that HE is the reincarnation of the dead woman's lover. Gradually, she lures him into her web of sex and revenge...
What more to say without spoiling the fun? Miranda gives a performance to rival any of the great divas of Hollywood. Only Davis and Stanwyck, perhaps, could play a bad girl so boldly without losing all sympathy. The evocation of 19th century aristocracy, in its full decadent splendour, is visually and dramatically flawless - a model for such later Italian gems as Visconti's Senso and The Innocent.
It helped, perhaps, that Soldati himself was a leading novelist. Blessed with an absolute respect for the classics he adapted, but in no way inhibited by them. He was also the guiding spirit of the now-forgotten 'calligraphic' movement, which brought the Italian cinema to such wondrous aesthetic heights during World War Two, only to collapse before the horror of Neo-Realism. Can we blame Soldati for giving up film-making in disgust and going back to writing novels?
So if you've ever felt (as I do) that Rossellini's much-touted Rome - Open City is the work of an amateur...well, Malombra is the film you have to see!

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Bloody Che Contra (1968) WikiData IMDb TMDB
El ''Che'' Guevara
director: Paolo Heusch actor: Francisco Rabal / John Ireland …
other title: Stosstrupp ins Jenseits / El "Che" Guevara (Body Che Contra) …
The story of Che Guevara's desperate attempt to escape the mountains of Bolivia. Pursued by an elite ranger unit of the army led by a determined CIA agent, Che is eventually trapped and his men are killed.

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The Maids (1959) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Le cameriere
director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia actor: Giovanna Ralli / Valeria Moriconi …
other title: Le cameriere
Gabriella, a maid, wears a jewel at a dancing party which belongs to her mistress, and when it is stolen she is accused of the theft and sent to jail. Some other maids organize a search party for the real thief who seems to be a moustached youth who continually sings a popular song.

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The Lady Without Camelias (1953) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
La signora senza camelie
director: Michelangelo Antonioni actor: Lucia Bosè / Andrea Checchi …
other title: La signora senza camelie / A Dama Sem Camélias …
A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role in a prominent producer's romantic drama.

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The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse
director: Fritz Lang actor: Peter van Eyck / Gert Fröbe …
other title: Il diabolico Dr. Mabuse / Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse …
A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime...

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The Accusation (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Atto di accusa
director: Giacomo Gentilomo actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Lea Padovani …
other title: Atto di accusa / Einer war zuviel …
A luckless young teacher it's suspected of committing two murders. When his lover begins to have doubt about his innocence, he seems to be doomed.