Get to know the stars of world cinema, their artistic life and more. #KinematografiaShqiptare brought it in Albanian. Monica Vitti (1931-2022) Italian actress, screenwriter and director who has been acting since the 50s. Her real name is Maria Luisa Ceciarelli, born in Rome, on November 3, 1931. She graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in 1953, after which she engaged in theatrical activity for a short time. In those years, it was fashionable for artists to adopt different names, so she changed her name to Monika (after she had read a book with the same title and liked it as a name, adding her mother's surname her Vitti). 
In 1955 she made her debut as Mariana in Moliere's L'avaro directed by Alessandro Fersen at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza and the following year, again on the Palladian stage, she played the role of Ophelia in Riccardo Bocelli's Hamlet. In 1956, she was also the protagonist in "Bella e Cesare Meano" at the Teatro e Convenjo in Milan under the direction of Enzo Ferrieri. In Rome Monika Vitti performed in a one-act comedy series at the Arlecchino Theater (now the Flaiano Theater). After some supporting roles in some comic films, she caught the eye of the director Michelangelo Antonioni, with whom she combined an artistic and sentimental relationship. The director made her his muse, and Vitti thus became the protagonist of the so-called "tetralogy of incommunicability". She played the tortured Claudia in L'avventura (1960), the seductive Valentina in La notte (1961), the mysterious and unhappy Vittoria in L'eclisse (1962) and the neurotic Giuliana in Red Desert ” (1964). Next will be the director Mario Monicelli, with the proposal of the producer Fausto Saraceni, who has highlighted her surprising momentum as a comic actress, directing her in the comedy genre "La ragazza con la pistola / The girl with a pistol" ( 1968), where Vitti played the role of Assunta Patanè, a Sicilian girl, who follows the man who "dishonored" her (Carlo Giuffré) to Scotland with the goal of revenge. The film was a huge success and contributed a lot to redefining the career of the Roman actress, especially in the eyes of the public. This significant and in fact final change in Vitti's cinematic image was somewhat foreshadowed, in 1964, by Tinto Brass's Il disco volante and in 1966, by the British production Modesty Blaise – The beautiful that kills" by Joseph Losey, and also in other Italian comedies of 1967, including Luciano Salce's "Ti ho sposato per allegria" and Pasquale Festa Campanile's "Cintura di castita", where he had Giorgio Albertazzi and Tony Curtis as partners respectively. 
In 1966 he turned down a role in John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix, where he would have joined an international cast led by James Garner, Toshirō Mifune and Yves Montand. In May 1968, he was appointed president of the jury at the 21st Cannes Film Festival, but the French protests of May reached Seline. Vitti resigned from her post and will be imitated by Louis Malle, Roman Polański and Terence Young. As a result, no film award would be officially given. Leaving behind international experiences, albeit episodic, and after her brilliant talent was already confirmed, among others, in "Dramma della jealousy" (1970) by Ettore Scola, "Orders are orders" (1972) Franco Giraldi and "La Tosca ” (1973) to Luigi Magni, Vitti, during the seventies, will be the protagonist of many films in the wake of the Italian comedy. The experience alongside Alberto Sordi in the films performed with him for the direction of the latter will be what will bring him closer to the general public, in the most popular national sense of the word. While filming, many prestigious directors abroad also love him. In addition to the aforementioned Miklós Jancsó, she played for Jean Valère in "The Scarlet Woman" (1969), Luis Buñuel in "The Phantom of Freedom" (1974) and for André Cayatte in "Reason of State" (1978). 
In 1974 she also performed with Raffaella Carrà and Mina on the television show "Milleluci", singing with them and staging a beautiful choreography by the sea, with quotes from her successful film "Ninì Tirabusiò" (1970). . In 1978, he always played for television in the comedy "Il cilindro" by Eduardo De Filippo. In 1979, in the comedy "Almost Perfect Love" by Michael Ritchie, he played in the last film produced abroad. In the eighties he returned to work with Michelangelo Antonioni in "The Mystery of Oberwald" (1980) and together with Alberto Sordi in "I know that you know that I know" (1982). In 1981, he joined Vittorio Gassman in Mario Monicelli's "In the Hotel Room". In 1983, with the film "Flirt by" and newcomer Roberto Russo, she received the actress award at the 1984 Berlin Film Festival; the collaboration with Russo, her future husband, continued with "Francesca è mia" (1986); both films were also written by Vitti himself. During that time he also played in the theater in "The Odd Couple" (1987) and "Prima pagina" (1988). In June 1984 he participated in the honor guard at the funeral of the secretary of the Italian Communist Party Enrico Berlinguer, together with other exponents of Italian cinema such as Federico Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni. 
In 1988, the prestigious French newspaper "Le Monde" made a sensational blunder against her, publishing on the front page the news of her death, "which happened by suicide with barbiturates". The actress, with a lot of elegance and sense of humor, limited herself to denying the news, thanking those responsible for the blunder that extended her life. In the same year, he starred with Orazio Orlando in the music video "Yes who is he there", a song performed by Mina, taken from the album Rane supreme and composed by Pino D'Angiò. In some of her films in the sixties and seventies, she also starred with Fiorella Mannoia, still unknown as a singer. Monica Vitti at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival presented the film Secret Scandal, which she wrote, directed and starred in. After making her directorial debut with the film "Scandal Secret" (1990), which she starred alongside Catherine Spaak, it remains her last appearance on the big screen. In 1992, he performed in the television mini-series "Ma tu love me"? alongside Johnny Dorelli, in which she plays the role of a social worker, and in the 1993-1994 season she was part of the cast of the Rai 1 show "Domenica in". Her characteristic hoarse voice was an innate distinguishing feature that accompanied her nearly forty-year film career, from her dramatic performances in Michelangelo Antonioni's "tetralogy of incommunicability" (L'avventura, La notte, L'eclisse e Deserto rosso) and which gave her international fame, especially with the most prominent roles from "Girl with a gun" to "I know that you know that I know" films that made her considered the "star" of Italian comedy , next to her fellow luminaries Alberto Sordi, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi and Marcello Mastroianni. 
She has received numerous awards, including five Davide di Donatellos for Best Actress (plus four other special awards), three Silver Ribbons, twelve Golden Globes (two of which are for career), a Golden Ciac for his career, a Golden Lion for his career at Venice, a "Silver Bear" at the Berlinale, a Concha de Plata at San Sebastián and a BAFTA award nomination. Monika Vitti closed her eyes at the age of 90 on February 2, 2022 Translated for the page by Pjerin B. The exclusivity in Albanian Cinematography is dated February 2, 2022 ____________________
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