Rada Rassimov

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Rada Rassimov (1975)

Rada Rassimov , birth name Rada Đerasimović , Cyrillic : Рада Ђерасимовић (* 1941, according to other sources in 1938, in Trieste ) is an Italian actress .

Life

Rada Rassimov, who has Serbian - Croatian ancestors, was born to Velimir and Vera Đerasimović (née Petrijević). She had two brothers. Her brother Ivan Rassimov , her twin brother according to some sources, also became an actor. Her younger brother Milorad (* 1945), now retired, was a music teacher in Trieste.

Together with her brothers she attended the "Jovan Miletić" school (Italian: Scuola Privata Scuola Elementare Serba Jovan Miletic ), a Serbian private school in Trieste, where her father had been a teacher and headmaster since 1927. She later studied at the University of Rome . In Rome she took acting lessons with her brother. Her career began, like that of her brother Ivan, in the 1960s with the participation in some Italian photographic novels by the Lancio publishing house .

Rassimov's film career was mainly in the 1960s and 1970s. Rassimov played in a variety of different genres. She has often appeared in westerns , spaghetti westerns , horror films, and adventure films.

She had her first leading role in the Italo-Western Lanky Fellow - The Lonely Avenger (1966), in which she was next to Craig Hill (as a bounty hunter Lanky Fellow) and George Martin (as Gus Kennebeck) the city dweller Isabelle Kennebeck, the wife of the bandit Kennebeck , played. Perhaps her best-known role was as prostitute María in the spaghetti western Two Glorious Scoundrels (1966) by Sergio Leone , in which she is brutally beaten by the socio-pathetic mercenary Angel Eyes ( Lee Van Cleef ). In the spaghetti western Django - Your executioner is waiting (1967) by Edoardo Mulargia , she was Mary Foster, the film sister of her brother Ivan Rassimov. In the Italo-Western Django No Our Father speaks (1968) she had a supporting role as Mrs. Treble; in Django and the gang of bloodhounds (1969) she was Alida Murdock, who was rescued by Django, the wife of the unscrupulous ex-major Murdock.

In the crime film The Nine-Tailed Cat (1971) she played Bianca Merusi, the fiancée of the hereditary researcher Dr. Calabresi; in the horror film Baron Blood (1972) by Mario Bava she was the occultist Christina Hoffmann.

In the 1970s Rassimov worked mainly for television, from 1975 then almost exclusively for Italian television. She appeared in several television series, television multi-part dividers, and mini-series that were popular at the time. She was u. a. in the German television series Die Rote Kapelle (1972; as resistance fighter Margarete Barcza ), in the ZDF adventure four-parter Michael Strogoff (1976; as Gypsy Sangarre at the side of Raimund Harmstorf and Valerio Popesco ), in the Italian television series Processo a Maria Tarnowska (1977 ) and Bel Ami (as Madeleine Forestier ) and in the international mini-series Orient-Express (as Wanda).

In the 1980s, further television works followed ( inter alia in the miniseries I giochi del diavolo ), and occasional cinema appearances, such as in Russicum - I giorni del diavolo (1988) by Pasquale Squitieri . Her last film was Perdutoamor (2003), the directorial debut of Franco Battiato .

Your German voice actors were u. a. Karin Kernke , Renate Küster and Beate Hasenau .

Rassimov has also made two opera films ( Tosca , 1993; La traviata , 2001) for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards . Rassimov was considered a sex symbol. An erotic photo series with Rassimov was published in issue 5/67 of the Italian men's magazine Playmen .

Rassimov was married to the Italian actor Gianni Musy († 2011); the marriage resulted in two daughters. Rassimov lives in Paris.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Rada Rassimov Vita; Cinema Italiano. Retrieved May 24, 2016
  2. ↑ Rada Rassimov SWDB Hall of Fame / Leading Actresses. Retrieved May 24, 2016
  3. ↑ Remembering Ivan Rassimov Westernsallitaliana, May 7, 2013. Retrieved May 24, 2016
  4. ↑ 1938 is also often given as the year of birth for Rada Rassimov. This may be confusion and confusion with the year of birth of her older brother Ivan Rassimov. In some cases, however, there is also information that Rada Rassimov is the twin sister of Ivan Rassimov.
  5. ↑ RADA RASSIMOV Awards & Nominations. Retrieved May 24, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Rassimov, Rada
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Đerasimović, Rada
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1938 or 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste , Friuli Venezia Giulia