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Agostina Belli, real name Agostina Maria Magnoni, is an Italian actress born on April 13, 1947, in Milan, Lombardy. Star of Italian cinema of the 1970s, her performances in Dino Risi’s films. After a few small participations, Agostina Belli takes on more consistent roles. But when her career seemed to take off, she was the victim of a road accident that forced her to have a long and painful convalescence. In February 1970, horror and tragedy invite themselves into the private life of the actress who has to deal with the death of her mother, murdered in circumstances still unclear today. And it is in the horror cinema that she knows her first successes. These are my top 10 movies for Agostina Belli.
10. Night of the Devils (1972) – Horror/Mystery
In this adaptation of Tolstoy’s story the Wurdulak, a mentally ill patient known as Nicola (Gianni Garko) flashes back to horrifying experiences that he encountered while driving through the country. Upon damaging his car, Nicola sets out for help, only to meet a mysterious family that lives in total fear of someone or something. This evil force slowly penetrates the household and thrusts each of its members into a frenzy of absolute terror!
9. Virilità (1974) – Comedy
Virilità or Virility is a 1974 Italian film comedy directed by Paolo Cavara. The film got a great commercial success, grossing 1 billion and 261 million lire at the Italian box office. Turi Ferro, the father in Malizia, is a widower in a small village on an island, who has remarried young and pretty Agostina Belli. For this hyper-macho, sex-obsessed conservative, the summum of mirth is to be able to call someone a cornuto, a man who has been cheated by his woman.
8. The Last Snows of Spring (1973) – Drama
Starring the best-known Italian child actor of the ’70s, Renato Cestiè, the movie tells the story of ten-year-old Luca who feels neglected by his widower father, Roberto. Roberto is a busy lawyer who is preoccupied with work and his own affairs and spends very little time with his son (who is also attending boarding school). He fears that Luca will not approve of Veronica, his newest girlfriend, but decides to give it a try by taking both of them on a seaside vacation. Luca meets Veronica, a passionate woman who tries her best to convince the young boy that she is not trying to steal his father from him.
7. The Seduction of Mimi (1972) – Comedy/Drama
Mimi (Giancarlo Giannini) is a Sicilian dockworker who inadvertently becomes embroiled in an increasingly complicated array of personal conflicts. When he loses his job after voting against a Mafia kingpin in an allegedly secret election, Mimi leaves his wife to find new work. He moves to Turin, where he engages in an affair with a Communist organizer. Soon Mimi finds himself juggling two demanding relationships while plotting to take revenge against the corrupt forces that ruined his life.
6. Holocaust 2000 aka The Chosen (1978) – Horror/Sci-fi
Released in Italy in November, The Chosen Also Known As Holocaust 2000 was rolled out to the rest of the world throughout 1978, with Rank Films picking up distribution rights for the U.K. and AIP for North America. The majority just snidely regarded it as a The Omen toss-off and went on their way. But time has been kind to The Chosen – no, it’s not in Damien’s league, but it’s solid, occasionally smart, and well-acted. Oh, and two of its inventive kills would be repurposed down the line, one by a beloved zombie flick and the other by a The Omen sequel.
5. Ante Up (1974) – Comedy
Ante Up (Italian: Il piatto piange) is a 1974 Italian comedy film directed by Paolo Nuzzi. It was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival. During the Mussolini era, some young people meet frequently. They exchange stories about recent events while playing cards. Between their meetings, they have different kinds of adventures.
4. The Sex Machine (Conviene far bene l’amore) (1975) – Comedy/Sex Comedy
In the future, the world’s oil supply has finally been exhausted, causing a massive energy crisis. In a search for alternative sources of energy, a scientist invents the machine that can harness the energy expended during sexual intercourse and transfer it into electrical power. All sources of energy have run out and society is adjusting to a non-mechanized existence. At the Institute of Biological research, Professor Coppola creates a new form of power based on Wilhelm Reich’s theories concerning the generation of bio-electric current during copulation. Overnight the basic tenets of society are revolutionized.
3. Vai avanti tu che mi vien da ridere (1982) – Comedy
Pasquale Bellachioma is an unsuccessful police detective, always chasing crime scenes with his sidekick officer Cavicchioni, even though the police radio explicitly tells them to stay away. Threatened with transfer to the remote and cold village of S. Vito in Trentino’s mountains, he becomes desperate to score a success to maintain his job. By sneaking into a briefing, he discovers that his colleagues are looking for a German cross-dresser named Andrea Ritter “Andrea” who is the last surviving witness able to identify a killer that is after sheik Abadjan, the head of state of a middle Eastern oil country willing to break with OPEC and to sell cheap oil to the West, and who will visit Italy shortly.
2. The Career of a Chambermaid (1976) – Comedy
This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role—an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to a singer to film-star to the mistress of ‘Il Duce’!—for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.
1. Scent of a Woman (Profumo di donna) (1974) – Comedy/Drama
When young army cadet Ciccio (Alessandro Momo) is assigned to spend seven days in the service of a wounded army captain, he little suspects what’s in store. Blinded by an explosion, Fausto Consolo (Vittorio Gassman) is nevertheless a pompous, prideful, and lecherous aristocrat who needs Ciccio to keep him out of trouble. As they travel across Italy by train, Fausto variously ruffles feathers and chases women until they reach Naples, where he plans to honor a suicide pact.
