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Veronica Lazăr is a Actor Roumaine born on 6 october 1938 at Bucharest (Roumanie)

Veronica Lazăr

Veronica Lazăr
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Nationality Roumanie
Birth 6 october 1938 at Bucharest (Roumanie)
Death 8 may 2014 (at 75 years) at Rome (Italie)

Veronica Lazăr (16 October 1938 - 8 June 2014) was a Romanian born Italian actress.

She made her debut as Marlon Brando's deceased wife in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (1972), and also appeared in some of the director's subsequent films, La Luna (1979), The Sheltering Sky (1990), Besieged (1998) and Me and You (2012). Lazăr is probably best known for her role as the demonic Mater Tenebrarum in Dario Argento's Inferno (1980), and she later appeared in Argento's The Stendhal Syndrome (1996). Her other films included Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (1981), Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman (1982), Towards Evening (1990), The Prince's Manuscript (2000) and Ginostra (2002).

She married Italian actor Adolfo Celi in 1966 and had two children with him, director Leonardo Celi and actress Alessandra Celi. Her last role was in Bertolucci's Me and You (2012).

Biography

Le premier rôle de Veronica Lazăr au cinéma fut celui d'un cadavre et pas des moindres, celui de la femme morte du personnage Paul (joué par Marlon Brando), qui l'oblige à arpenter un immeuble parisien dans Le Dernier Tango à Paris (1972). Bernardo Bertolucci la fait ensuite tourner dans La Luna en 1979.

On la retrouve dans deux films de Dario Argento : Inferno où elle joue la mère des Ténèbres et Le Syndrome de Stendhal où elle joue la mère de Marie (l'artiste français). Lucio Fulci la fait tourner dans son mythique L'au-delà, où sa mort est hideuse.

Elle joue également dans l'adaptation au cinéma du roman de Paul Bowles, Un thé au Sahara, ce qui lui permet de retrouver Bernardo Bertolucci, dans Identification d'une femme et Par-delà les nuages de Michelangelo Antonioni. Elle est la fille d'un militant communiste et elle-même, membre du parti communiste italien.

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Filmography of Veronica Lazăr (19 films)

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Actress

Leopardi
Leopardi (2014)
, 2h17
Directed by Mario Martone
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Anna Mouglalis, Isabella Ragonese, Elio Germano, Michele Riondino, Massimo Popolizio, Salvatore Cantalupo
Roles Marianna Mattei Antici
Rating67% 3.358523.358523.358523.358523.35852
The film tells the short life of the great Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. A noble, his birth's in Recanati, and soon Giacomo learns to study Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and English in the rich library of his palace that his father built. Giacomo, however, possessing an inquisitive, restless spirit, would like to know to travel abroad to widen his views and enrich his knowledge, as was usual for European landed gentry in the 19th century. Still this desire of his lies at odds with his parents (his father, while possessing a sensibility akin to his, is too bound by the social conventions and the expectations tied to his role as 'Pater Familias'; his mother, on the other hand, is too busy shoring up the household declining fortunes to even care about intellectual aspirations). So the poet begins to write his first works, reflecting about human condition, coming to the conclusion that unhappiness is a costant factor of human existence, and that in life there is no way to remedy this problem. In 1820s, Leopardi can finally leave the native Recanati, and travels to Rome and Florence where, however, his high expectations of intellectual rewards and public recognition are frustrated. Suffering from repeated instances of unrequited love: chiefly that he felt towards the Countess Fanny Targioni Tozzetti, contribute to Leopardi's negative view of life and human experience. Finally he moves to Naples, where a physical decadence led him to death.
Me and You
Me and You (2012)
, 1h43
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Veronica Lazăr, Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Sonia Bergamasco, Tea Falco
Roles Lorenzo's Grandmother
Rating64% 3.243723.243723.243723.243723.24372
Un adolescent introverti (Antinori) et sa demi-sœur (Tea Falco) découvrent des secrets de famille...
Ginostra
Ginostra (2003)
, 2h15
Directed by Manuel Pradal
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Volcanisme, Gangster films
Actors Harvey Keitel, Andie MacDowell, Francesca Neri, Harry Dean Stanton, Asia Argento, Stefano Dionisi
Roles Suzanna Del Piero
Rating46% 2.3128652.3128652.3128652.3128652.312865
Matt Benson est un enquêteur du FBI qui mène une enquête sur l'île de Ginostra, dominée par son volcan menaçant et en collaboration avec la police italienne sur une affaire de règlement de comptes entre mafieux locaux. Une famille a été exécutée et seul le jeune Ettore, âgé de onze ans, est rescapé et aimerait se venger. Benson accueille le garçon dans la maison qu'il loue en compagnie de sa femme sur l'île afin d'obtenir des renseignements de l'enfant. Mais des liens obscurs lient le policier américain avec d'autres habitants de l'île et les motivations des uns et des autres, tout comme celles de la police italienne impuissante devant la mafia ne sont pas simples à comprendre.
Besieged
Besieged (1998)
, 1h33
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Thandie Newton, David Thewlis, Claudio Santamaria, Veronica Lazăr, Cyril Nri
Roles piano buyer
Rating67% 3.3982053.3982053.3982053.3982053.398205
David Thewlis plays eccentric English pianist and composer Mr. Kinsky, who lives in a very old, but charming villa in Rome. Thandie Newton plays his housemaid Shandurai, an African refugee whose husband is a political prisoner on “the Black continent”. Kinsky falls in love with Shandurai, sends her gifts regularly, for which she is often mad. Once, having presented her ring, he dares to express the love he feels for her, but she refuses him angrily. When he asks her what he should do to make her love him, she shouts, “Get my husband out of jail!” Then Kinsky for the first time realizes that Shandurai is married.
The Stendhal Syndrome, 1h54
Directed by Dario Argento, Luigi Cozzi
Origin Italie
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Peinture, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi, Luigi Diberti, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Diogene
Roles Madre di Marie
Rating59% 2.9953352.9953352.9953352.9953352.995335
Detective Anna Manni (Argento) travels to Florence on the trail of a serial killer Alfredo (Thomas Kretschmann). While at a museum, Anna is struck by Stendhal syndrome, which causes people to become overwhelmed by great works of art. Alfredo uses this disorder against Anna, kidnapping and raping her. She escapes and is deeply traumatized. Alfredo tracks her movements and is able to capture her again. This time, Anna manages to break free, badly wounding her captor, and knocking him into a river.
Beyond the Clouds, 1h52
Directed by Wim Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors John Malkovich, Sophie Marceau, Vincent Pérez, Fanny Ardant, Chiara Caselli, Irène Jacob
Roles Liza
Rating63% 3.198683.198683.198683.198683.19868
The director (John Malkovich) is flying to Italy following the conclusion of his latest film. On the airplane, as he looks out beyond the clouds, he begins to think about his next film and the art of filmmaking. Upon landing, he drives through the night through thick fog, with people appearing and disappearing like apparitions.
The Blonde
The Blonde (1993)

Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Nastassja Kinski, Ennio Fantastichini, Luca Barbareschi, Veronica Lazăr, Florence Guérin, Enzo Andronico
Rating53% 2.6735152.6735152.6735152.6735152.673515
Tommaso (Sergio Rubini), un homme solitaire, vient du sud de l'Italie. Il souffre d'un léger handicap physique et est très timide. Une nuit, en rentrant chez lui, il renverse accidentellement avec sa voiture, une belle fille blonde, Christine (Nastassja Kinski). La jeune fille, perd temporairement la mémoire. Elle commence alors une liaison amoureuse avec Tommaso et, avec le temps, sa vie passée refait surface.
Towards Evening, 1h42
Directed by Francesca Archibugi
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Sandrine Bonnaire, Zoe Incrocci, Giorgio Tirabassi, Veronica Lazăr, Paolo Panelli
Roles Margherita
Rating64% 3.200443.200443.200443.200443.20044
La vie tranquille d'un vieil universitaire est troublé par l'irruption de sa belle-fille anticonformiste accompagné de son enfant.
The Sheltering Sky, 2h18
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Le désert
Actors Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott, Jill Bennett, Timothy Spall, Éric Vu-An
Roles Nun
Rating66% 3.3484253.3484253.3484253.3484253.348425
Three Americans from New York arrive in Tangier in 1947. Port Moresby (John Malkovich) and his wife Kit (Debra Winger) are accompanied by their friend George Tunner (Campbell Scott) on a trip that will take them deep into the Sahara Desert. Tunner observes, "We're probably the first tourists they've had since the war" to which Kit replies, "We're not tourists. We're travelers." While Tunner plans to return home in a few weeks, Port and Kit plan on staying for a year or two.
Berlin-Jerusalem
Directed by Amos Gitaï
Origin Israel
Genres Drama
Actors Lisa Kreuzer, Markus Stockhausen, Vernon Dobtcheff, Veronica Lazăr, Keren Mor
Roles secrétaire
Rating60% 3.038273.038273.038273.038273.03827
L'histoire de deux femmes dans les années 1930. La première, Else Lasker-Schüler, une poétesse expressionniste allemande, observe la montée du nazisme à Berlin puis quitte cette ville pour Jérusalem. La seconde, la Russe Mania Shohat, appelée Tania dans le film, s'installe dans une communauté sioniste en Palestine.
My Sister and I, 1h50
Directed by Carlo Verdone
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Actors Ornella Muti, Carlo Verdone, Elena Sofia Ricci, Mariangela Giordano, Galeazzo Benti, Tomas Arana
Roles Giudice dei minori
Rating61% 3.060363.060363.060363.060363.06036
Serena and Carlo are happily married in Italy, but the arrival of his sister Silvia, disrupts the peaceful family balance. In fact the woman, when was a young girl, went in Hungary and married an athlete with whom she had a son. But now the couple, when comes to Hungary for a promise made to dying mother of Carlo, discovers that Silvia's husband had a serious accident and now is paralyzed. So it's up to Carlo and Serena helping the poor Silvia to look after the baby.
Identification of a Woman, 2h8
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Tomás Milián, Christine Boisson, Lara Wendel, Veronica Lazăr, Marcel Bozzuffi
Roles Carla
Rating66% 3.3413053.3413053.3413053.3413053.341305
Niccolò (Tomás Milián) is a successful Italian filmmaker searching for a woman to inspire his next film and perhaps fill the romantic void left by his recent divorce. At his sister's gynecology office, he answers the phone and speaks briefly with a young woman named Mavi Luppis (Daniela Silverio) who is looking to make an appointment. She recognized his name and something sparks his imagination. He notes her name and address, and a few days later invites her to his Rome apartment where they make love.
The Wings of the Dove, 1h43
Directed by Benoît Jacquot, Laurent Perrin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Isabelle Huppert, Dominique Sanda, Michele Placido, Loleh Bellon, Françoise Christophe, Paul Le Person
Rating60% 3.035653.035653.035653.035653.03565
Une jeune femme met sur pied un plan diabolique : elle mariera son compagnon à une fortunée héritière sur le point de mourir pour être riche à son tour. C'est à Venise qu'elle décide d'effectuer cette machination...