Farewell to Lea Massari, pain of Italian cinema: she passed away at 91 in her home at the Parioli

John

By John

Lea Massaristars of the cinema of the sixties and seventies and painful par excellence, died last Monday a 91 years in his home to Parioliwhere he had been assisted for some time after a fall in the house. To make it known is The messenger. Yesterday the funeral took place in strictly private form, in the cathedral of Sutri (Viterbo), followed by the burial in the municipal cemetery, where the family owns a chapel. In Italy he worked with the older ones: Sergio Leone (in his debut, The Rhodes giant), Dino Risi (A difficult life), Nanni Loy, Giuseppe Bertolucci and the brothers Taviani (Alonsanfàn). It was above all the icon of the masterpiece of Michelangelo Antonioni, Adventure. But it was the France To fully recognize his talent: on fifty -five directors who directed it, only twenty -nine were Italian. In the theater it was the first Rosette of Rugant Of Garinei and Giovannini. On unforgettable television his interpretations of the Monaca of Monza (I Promessi Sposi1967) and of Anna Karenina (1974), both directed by Sandro Bolchi.