Livia Contardi's Filmography on TV

L'uomo che ride (1966)

A 1966 French-Italian film version made in Italy, titled L'uomo che ride, directed by Sergio Corbucci. This version features elaborate colour photography but a very low production budget. The main action is shifted to Italy and moved yesterwards in time, with the deformed protagonist meeting Lucrezia Borgia instead of Queen Anne. In this version, Gwynplaine is renamed Angelo (played by Jean Sorel). His disfigurement is represented as a single broad slash across his mouth, crude yet convincing. T

L''uomo che ride (1966)

Spectacular adventures of twin brothers, one with a scar which gives him a permanent smile, and their meetings with the Borgias.

Italiani, brava gente (1964)

Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.

Testa fra le nuvole (1963)

A boy of fourteen enters to work as messenger boy in a flower shop. His first task is to bring a bouquet for a bride but arrives late and is forced to go to the altar. His second job is to bring a funeral wreath but uses it to save a man who is drowning in the river. Naturally, he is late again. In the afternoon, he carries a basket of flowers to the TV a Spanish movie star is performing. But he is wrong and takes another funeral wreath that is delivered to star in a big stage. Due to customer c

The Normans (1962)

An evil duke kidnaps the good king and tries to make the virtuous queen his bride and the peasants take arms.

Akiko (1961)

The quaint life of Ottavia, a widow living in Rome, is turned upside down when a young and pretty Japanese girl knocks at her door, claiming to be the daughter of her late husband, an Italian military officer who went to Japan on a secret mission during WWII and reportedly killed in action there.