Armenia Balducci

Armenia Balducci
File:L'arte di arrangiarsi 7.jpg Balducci in The Art of Getting Along (1954)
Born	(1933-03-13)13 March 1933 Rome, Italy
Died	Rome, Italy
Other names	Bella Visconti
Occupation	Actress, screenwriter, film director
Years active	1953–1956; 1971 (as actress) 1979–2002 (as screenwriter and director)

Armenia Balducci (13 March 1933 – 29 July 2022) was an Italian actress, screenwriter and director.

Biography

Balducci was elected Miss Testaccio and had a short acting career, acting under the pseudonym Bella Visconti, which spanned six films between 1953 and 1956; it was only in 1971 that she returned in front of the cameras for an appearance in Sacco & Vanzetti. She also acted in theater; she was politically active in various left-wing parties (along with her long-time partner Gian Maria Volonté) and was twice Elio Petri's editorial secretary. In 1978 and 1980 she directed two films that took a critical or satirical look at the bourgeoisie and its police representatives, but they were financial failures. From 1986 to 1993 and again in 2002 she worked as a screenwriter for Giuseppe Ferrara's films. In the latter year, her film La rivincita, shot digitally, premiered at the Tierra di Siena Film Festival.

Filmography

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Balducci in Time of Vacation (1956)

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Balducci in Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)

As actress

• Easy Years (1953)
• A Day in Court (1954)
• Of Life and Love (1954)
• The Art of Getting Along (1954)
• Girls of Today (1955)
• Time of Vacation (1956)
• Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)

As director

• Together? (1979)
• Stark System (1980)
• La rivincita (2002)

As screenwriter

• Together? (1979)
• Stark System (1980)
• The Moro Affair (1986)
• Narcos (1992)
• Giovanni Falcone (1993)
• The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair (2002)

External links

• Armenia Balducci at the Internet Movie Database