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WATCH OUT SOON for the best in contemporary and classic Italian cinema
from 7 to 30 April 2009

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IFF 2009 will present a special focus on Alida Valli, an enduring icon from the 1930s onwards.

She has been described as the most beautiful woman in the world after Greta Garbo. Most Italian directors of the time were in love with her, and she was adopted as a national sweetheart. After the war, she found international stardom in Hollywood, though undoubtedly her best English-language role was as Anna Schmidt, Harry Lime's grieving girlfriend, in The Third Man. [read more on the Programme page]




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