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Looking for reviews of Pina Menichelli movies? Cinafilm has a total of 25 reviews across 2 movies.
Movies starring Pina Menichelli have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 69%.
Cabiria - released in 1914 - is Pina Menichelli's highest rated movie, with a score of 70% based on 23 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Pina Menichelli is Diva Dolorosa - released in 1999 - with a score of 69% based on 2 reviews.
Giuseppa Iolanda Menichelli (10 January 1890 – 29 August 1984), known professionally as Pina Menichelli, was an Italian actress. After a career in theatre and a series of small film roles, Menichelli was launched as a film star when Giovanni Pastrone gave her the lead role in The Fire (1916). Over the next nine years, Menichelli, made a series of films, often trading on her image as a diva and on her passionate, decadent eroticism. Menichelli became a global star, and one of the most appreciated actresses in Italian cinema, before her retirement in 1924, aged 34. Since her death, restorations of Menichelli''s surviving films have been shown at important film festivals, and her filmography has been re-assembled and re-evaluated by film historians.
Pina Menichelli has acted in films with Francesca Bertini, Soava Gallone, Bartolomeo Pagano and Lidia Quaranta.
Pina Menichelli has worked with these film directors: Giovanni Pastrone and Peter Delpeut.
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