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"The most beautiful invention of Italians after pasta", who was Claudia Cardinale, the beautiful and free woman who hid a great pain

2025-09-24 20:30:26Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

 

"The most beautiful invention of Italians after pasta", who was
Claudia Cardinale

 

Claudia Cardinale, a film icon in the 1960s and a symbol of elegance in post-war Italian cinema, has died at the age of 87 in France.

Raised in Tunisia by a family of Sicilian origin, her introduction to the world of film came in 1957, after winning a beauty contest in Tunis.

Her voice had to be dubbed for her first roles on the Italian screen, as she had grown up in a Sicilian-speaking family and had been educated in a French-speaking school. She was known for her beauty and sensuality, but behind them she hid a great pain that she did not want to talk about.

She was only 16 years old when she was raped in Tunisia by a stranger. From this dramatic experience, which she has recounted to the Italian media, her son Patrick was born. The secret pregnancy at an early age complicated the beginnings of her career, but at no point did she think of interrupting it, as she has shown.

Her son was born in London in 1958 and for many years she presented him as her younger brother, as he grew up in her parents' home.

After several small roles, he achieved international fame in 1963 when he starred in Federico Fellini's film 8½ and then in Burt Lancaster's "The Leopard."

"The most beautiful invention of Italians after pasta", who was

The increasingly high profile opened the doors to other Hollywood productions such as Blake Edwards' "The Pink Panther" or Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West." Cardinale's career took a hit in the 1970s, after she broke up with producer Franco Cristaldi to start a relationship with Pasquale Squitieri, with whom she also has a daughter named Claudia.

Angry after being dumped for another man, Cristaldi asked her American friends and industry associates not to give Cardinale any more roles, a situation that lasted for almost 7 years. Franco Zeffirelli cast her as a lifeline in 1977, giving her a role in the miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth. She then went on to work with other European directors.

Known for her characteristic husky voice, Cardinale had a reputation as a free and fiercely independent woman who once defied Vatican protocol by appearing in a miniskirt at a meeting with Pope Paul VI.

Stationed in France for most of her time, and a friend of presidents François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac, Cardinale devoted herself to the theater at the beginning of this century, winning public applause there as well.

"The most beautiful invention of Italians after pasta", who was

At the Berlin Film Festival in 2002, when he was awarded a lifetime achievement award, he said that acting had been a wonderful career.

"I have lived more than 150 lives, I have been a prostitute, a saint, a romantic, every kind of woman, and this is an opportunity to change myself," were her words after accepting the award.

David Niven defined it as the most beautiful invention of the Italians after pasta.

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