Word: katina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maddening-and adolescence such a groovy movie subject. In Zita, an archetypical French fille named only Annie flits agonizingly between life and death. The daughter of a slain Spanish loyalist, she has sympathy for the world but affection for none of its inhab itants, except her ancient Aunt Zita (Katina Paxinou). One afternoon the girl comes home to find the old lady writhing on the floor. Zita has suffered a stroke, and each gasp edges her closer to the grave...
Baroque Grotesque. For an estimated $1,300,000, the Salkinds gathered an international cast: France's Jeanne Moreau, Germany's Romy Schneider, Greece's Katina Paxinou, Italy's Elsa Martinelli, the U.S.'s Anthony Perkins. They left the rest to Welles...
...industrial Milan, Rocco tells of a southern peasant family's coming to grips with an urban world. Variations on an Oedipal theme provide the central plot line, as we see against the spectre of an overprotective mother (Katina Paxinou) the struggle of the saintlike Rocco (Alain Delon) to save Simon (Renato Salvatori) from the dishonorable ways he has fallen into. The tragic situation is provoked by the love affair of Rocco and Nadia (Annie Girardot), a prostitute whom Simon had loved and lost. When Simon learns of Rocco's success, he drives himself to re-enact the primal crime, raping...