Charlotte Rampling
© Courtesy of I, Anna 2012. Photographer Kerry Brown.
The Festival del film Locarno will present an Excellence Award Moët & Chandon to the English actress Charlotte Rampling. The award ceremony will take place on the Locarno Festival’s opening night on Wednesday 1 August on the Piazza Grande. The following day the public will have the opportunity to participate in a conversation with Charlotte Rampling.
To mark the occasion the Festival del film Locarno will...
1939
Union Pacific by Cecil B. DeMille
United States
1946
Torment (Hets) by Alf Sjöberg
Sweden
The Lost Weekend by Billy Wilder
United States
The Red Meadows (De røde enge) by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr.
Denmark
Brief Encounter by David Lean
United Kingdom
Portrait of Maria (María Candelaria (Xochimilco) by Emilio Fernández
Mexico
Neecha Nagar (नीचा नगर) by Chetan Anand
India
The Turning Point (Великий перелом, Velikiy p...
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