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Ilaria Occhini par Truus, Bob & Jan too! Via Flickr : Vintage East-German postcard, Progress-Film, Starfoto, 1371. 1950s-1960s. Italia Occhini in Der Arzt und der Hexenmeister. Meant is the Italian film Il medico e lo stregone/ The Doctor and the Healer (Mario Monicelli, 1957). Ilaria Occhini (28 March 1934 – 20 July 2019) was an Italian stage, television and film actress. She appeared in more than 30 films. The daughter of writer Barna Occhini, granddaughter of Giovanni Papini on her mother's side (who described her as a child in the short story La mia Ilaria) and of Senator Pier Ludovico Occhini of the Kingdom of Italy on her father's side, she made her film debut at the age of nineteen in Terza liceo (1954) by Luciano Emmer, under the pseudonym Isabella Redi, before graduating from the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome. She quickly made a name for herself on television, directed by Anton Giulio Majano in the TV series L'Alfiere (1956) and Jane Eyre (1957), and made her theater debut in 1957 in Carlo Goldoni's L'impresario delle Smirne, directed by Luchino Visconti, who also directed her in Uno sguardo dal ponte (1958) and Figli d'arte (1959). She later worked with Orazio Costa and Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. Since 1954, Occhini also acted in numerous films of various genres, but rarely in leading roles, such as Il medico e lo stregone (Mario Monicelli, 1957), Cartagine in fiamme (Carmine Gallone, 1960), Il mantenuto (1961) by and starring Ugo Tognazzi, the first episode of I complessi (1965) by Dino Risi, in the role of Gabriella, and Un uomo a metà (1966) by Vittorio De Seta. She had particularly significant roles in television dramas: Puccini, in 1973, and L'Andreana, in 1982. Occhini also participated, with Sergio Fantoni and Nicoletta Elmi, in 1971 and 1972, in sketches for the television advertising magazine Carosello, advertising Simmenthal canned meat. After several years away from the big screen, she reappeared in various roles, one of the most successful being in Alessandro Benvenuti's comedy Benvenuti in casa Gori (1990), which earned her the Nastro d'argento for best supporting actress in 1992. She also played the grandmother in Ferzan Özpetek's comedy Mine vaganti (2010), a part for which she received the David di Donatello. Between 2005 and 2013, she regained the attention of television audiences with her role as the mother of the protagonist in the first five seasons of the Rai 1 drama Provaci ancora prof! In 2008, she appeared in Federico Bondi's film Mar Nero, which earned her a David di Donatello nomination and the Pardo for Best Actress at the Locarno International Film Festival. In 2010, she won the David di Donatello award for best supporting actress for Ferzan Özpetek's Mine vaganti, as well as the Nastro d'argento for her career, and in 2011, the “Alida Valli award” at the Bari International Film Festival, again for the film Mine vaganti. The last film she appeared in was Paolo Genovese's Una famiglia perfetta (A Perfect Family) in 2012. Occhini was actively involved in politics, initially following Marco Pannella and the Radicals from the 1980s (two candidacies: one in the 1987 general election and one in the 2004 European elections with Emma Bonino); in 2008, she joined Giuliano Ferrara's Pro Life list, accepting the proposal to run in the Lazio constituency. In 2016, Occhini published her autobiography, La bellezza quotidiana. Una vita senza trucco (Everyday Beauty: A Life Without Makeup), with Rizzoli. She died in Rome on July 20, 2019, at the age of 85. From 1966 until her death, she was married to the writer Raffaele La Capria. She restored the vineyards of the family farm, a 16th-century residence in Castiglion Fibocchi, in the hills around Arezzo, taking care of them personally with her daughter Alexandra La Capria and her grandchildren. Sources: Italian and English Wikipedia, IMDb.