Lilli Carati

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Lilli Carati , actually Ileana Caravati , (born September 23, 1956 in Varese , Lombardy , † October 20, 2014 in Besano , Lombardy) was an Italian film actress .

Life

Education and career beginnings

Carati was born as Ileana Caravati and came from a merchant family . She began her artistic career in fashion , attended a school for mannequins and then worked as a fashion and photo model in Milan . In the Miss Italia election in 1974 in Reggio Calabria , she reached second place and won the title of "Miss Eleganza". She was then taken on as an actress for his production company Vides Cinematografica by the film producer Franco Cristaldi , who had been a member of the jury for the Miss Italia election .

Sex and porn films

In the course of her career, Carati has worked in a wide variety of film genres, including comedies, melodramas, crime films and exploitation films . However, she was best known for her participation in numerous sex comedies and soft sex films in the 1970s and 1980s.

In 1975 she made her film debut with a tiny appearance in the comedy Di che segno sei? . She had her first leading role in 1976 in the sex comedy La professoressa di scienze naturali by Michele Massimo Tarantini . Carati played the substitute teacher Stefania Marini who teaches science . Her student Andrea (played by Marco Gelardini) soon became her lover, the doctor Baron Cacciapuopolo (Michele Gammino) her admirer. At the end of the film, she marries the baron and keeps Andrea as a lover. Her next "school film" was Sweet Sixteen - Sweet Sixteen (1977), directed by Mariano Laurenti . Carati played the wealthy school girl Simona Girardi, who is being chased by a lover named Mario (played by Antonio Melidoni). At Carati's side, the Italian comedian Alvaro Vitali appeared in both films , who regularly appeared in “school films”.

In the sex drama A Man for a Night (1978) by Claudio de Molinis , she played the young student Charlotte, who, after initial emotional confusion , falls in love with Carlo (played by Mircha Carven ), her stepmother's lover, who as actor in Live sex shows works. Finally she finds out that this ménage-à-trois is happening with the consent of her father and decides to continue her relationship with Carlo. Her greatest success in erotic films was in 1978 in the sex comedy topless, bottom jeans by Fernando Di Leo . The film tells the story of two attractive young girl posing as hitchhikers on the road to Rome do there into a hippie - Commune move, free love practicing and soon into prostitution get into and criminal activity. The film later achieved cult status and was shown at the Venice Film Festival in 2004, among others . Carati's partner in the film was Gloria Guida (as Lia), a well-known actress from the 1970s. The film also features a short lesbian sex scene between the two actresses. In the comedy Il corpo della ragassa (1979), a variant of the pygmalion fabric set in Italy in the 1950s , Carati played the young, rural maid Teresa Aguzzi, who was led by her employer Ulderico Quario (played by Enrico Maria Salerno ) in the art of erotic seduction is dedicated. Il corpo della ragassa is probably Carati's most famous film. She had a love affair with the director of the film, Pasquale Festa Campanile , in the late 1970s to early 1980s.

In the early 1980s, Carati's film career came to a temporary standstill. In 1981 she suffered a serious car accident at Arona and sustained injuries to her kneecap and shoulder . Numerous photo series, for example for the sex magazines Playmen and Blitz , ensured her continued popularity. Her return to the film business was a brief appearance as a stripper in the drama Dolce Vita ... not with us (1984).

In 1984 she met the Italian sex film director Joe D'Amato through her friend Jenny Tamburi . She starred in a total of four D'Amato films, including Slave for a Summer (1985) and Die Lust (1985), both of which are set in Italy in the 1930s. Laura Gemser was her partner in both films . This was followed, also for D'Amato, Lussuria (1986), in which Carati is the object of the sexual fantasies of a mute young man who has not spoken since the tragic death of his mother, and Scandalous Emanuelle - The Lust for Watching (1986) . In 1987 and 1988 she also took part in four hardcore films directed by Giorgio Grand , in which she was partnered with the beginning of his career Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi . Carati performed oral sex and also practiced vaginal intercourse in these films , but never took part in anal sex scenes in the course of her porn career. In 1989 she played the role of Gina in the American porn film The Whore , directed by Alex de Renzy and Henri Pachard . She played a supporting role in a murder witness from Palermo .

More movies

In 1976 she was seen as lover Vanessa in the police film Hippi Nico von der Kripo at the side of Tomás Milián and Robert Webber . In 1978 she had a cameo in Lina Wertmüller's film In a Rainy Night . In 1980 she was seen alongside Adriano Celentano in the comedy film Don Tango - Reverend with the perky sole .

In the feature film C'è un fantasma nel mio letto (1980), an Italian-Spanish co-production directed by Claudio de Molini, Carati played the newly married wife Adelaide Fumagalli, who wants to spend their honeymoon in a castle in Great Britain with her husband. The castle turns out to be a haunted castle in which the ghost of Sir Archibald, a nobleman from the 17th century who wants to seduce the young wife, is haunted. The role of Sir Archibald was taken on by the Italian cinema veteran Renzo Montagnani , who had also played Teresa's father in Il corpo della ragassa (1979). In the feature film Il marito in vacanza (1981) by Alessandro and Mario Lucidi , Carati shot again alongside Renzo Montagnani. Montagnani played a professor who tries to seduce his beautiful colleague Lucia Coradini (Carati).

Next life

The Whore was Carati's last porn movie and her last film role ever. She had originally signed a contract to do three pornographic films in the United States, but after filming was over she returned to Italy and did not continue to perform her contract. From 1990 she largely withdrew from the public eye.

Carati came into contact with hard drugs in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She regularly used heroin and cocaine . In May 1988 Carati was stopped at a police stop in Carabinieri . She had four grams of heroin that she tried to hide in her panties . She was then placed in custody . In May 1988 she attempted suicide there . Another followed in May 1989. As a result of depression from her failed drug withdrawal, she threw herself out of the window of her parents' bedroom and suffered three vertebral fractures. In 1993, she was sentenced to a five-month suspended sentence for the 1988 drug offense.

Carati spoke about her drug abuse in 1994 in the documentary Lilli, una vita da eroina , which first aired in February 1994 as part of the Storie Vere series on Rai 3 . In July 2008 she appeared as a guest on the Italian talk shows Ricominciare and Starcult , in which she also reported on her drug addiction and her suicide attempts. Carati had her last public appearance in 2010 as part of a “ Notte Bianca ” in Varese.

2012 Carati should after 20 years of abstinence from the film business the female lead role in the thriller La fiaba di Dorian by Luigi Pastore take. However, she had to cancel filming because she had been diagnosed with a brain tumor and had to undergo several operations and medical procedures as a result.

In the last years of her life, Carati lived with her mother and sister in Varese. At the age of 58 she died in a hospital in Besano of complications from her cancer. The funeral service took place in October 2014 in the municipality of Induno Olona . At her own request, she was buried by cremation .

Filmography

  • 1976: La professoressa di scienze naturali
  • 1976: Hippi Nico from the Kripo (Squadra antifurto)
  • 1977: Gangbuster (L'avvocato della mala)
  • 1977: Highway Racer (Poliziotto sprint)
  • 1977: Sweet Sixteen - Sweet Sixteen (La compagna di banco)
  • 1978: On a rainy night (La fine del mondo nel nostro solito letto in una notte piena di pioggia)
  • 1978: A man for one night (Candido erotico)
  • 1978: Topless, bottom jeans (Avere vent'anni)
  • 1978: In the prison of the perverted girls (Le evase - Storie di sesso e di violenze)
  • 1979: Senza buccia
  • 1979: Il corpo della ragassa
  • 1980: Don Tango - Reverend with the cheeky sole (Qua la mano)
  • 1981: C'è un fantasma nel mio letto
  • 1981: Buitres sobre la ciudad
  • 1981: Il marito in vacanza
  • 1984: Dolce Vita ... not with us (Il momento magico)
  • 1985: Slave for a Summer (L'alcova)
  • 1986: The Pleasure (Il piacere)
  • 1986: Lussuria
  • 1986: Scandalous Emanuelle - The desire to watch (Voglia di guardare)
  • 1987: Lilli Carati's dream
  • 1987: Una moglie molto infedele
  • 1988: The Nymphomaniac (Una ragazza molto viziosa)
  • 1988: Una scatenata moglie insaziabile
  • 1988: Il vizio preferito di mia moglie
  • 1990: The Whore (The Whore)

literature

  • Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario des Cinema Italiano. Le Attrici. Gremese Editore, Rome 1999, ISBN 88-7742-342-0 , p. 62.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Morta Lilli Carati, icona sexy degli Anni 70th obituary in La Stampa on October 21, 2014 (Italian)
  2. ↑ a b ARRESTATA L 'ATTRICE LILLI CARATI AVEVA 4 GRAMMI DI EROINA. In: La Repubblica of May 11, 1988 (Italian).
  3. ↑ a b c Addio a Lilli Carati, icona anni Settanta dei film di genere. Obituary in La Repubblica on October 21, 2014 (Italian).
  4. ↑ L 'Attrice LILLI CARATI HA TENTATO IL SUICIDIO IN Cárcere, In: La Repubblica of 12 May 1988 (Italian).
  5. ↑ Condannata per droga l 'attrice Lilli Carati. In: Corriere della Sera of June 28, 1993 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Carati, Lilli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caravati, Ileana (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Varese , Lombardy
DATE OF DEATH 20th October 2014
Place of death Besano , Lombardy