Sylva Koscina

Sylva Koscina (left) with Ljubisa Samardzic , Milena Dravić and Bata Zivojinovic 1969

Sylva Koscina (born August 22, 1933 in Zagreb , † December 26, 1994 in Rome ) was an Italian actress of Yugoslav origin who appeared in over 120 films .

Life

Koscina studied physics at the University of Naples and worked as a photo model .

From 1955 on, Koscina played numerous cinema roles. Her second film, Pietro Germis The Red Signal , became an important film of Italian neorealism and earned some recognition. Another success was the comedy thief out thief ago by Luigi Zampa from the year 1958th

In the following years Sylva Koscina made numerous entertainment and period films, including a. as partner of Lino Ventura in Shooting As Long as You Can (1965), at the side of Horst Buchholz in Our Man from Istanbul (1965) and in Johnny Banco (1967), as a contract killer in Hot Cats (1967), or in Robert Siodmak's two-part Monumental film Battle for Rome (1968).

But she was also seen in more serious roles, such as in Georges Franjus Judex (1963) or the war film The Battle of the Neretva (1969). In 1965 she engaged Federico Fellini for Julia and the Ghosts . From the mid-1970s onwards, she significantly reduced her workload, which at times came to ten films a year. In 1993 she took part in her last film C'è Kim Novak al telefono .

Sylva Koscina died of breast cancer in Rome in 1994 at the age of 61 .

Filmography (selection)

cinemamovies

• 1955: Siamo uomini o caporali - Director: Camillo Mastrocinque
• 1956: The Red Signal (Il Ferroviere) - Director: Pietro Germi
• 1956: The Tsar's Courier (Michel Strogoff)
• 1956: Gwendalina (Guendalina) - Director: Alberto Lattuada
• 1957: The betrothed of death (I fidanzati della morte)
• 1957: Grandmother Sabella (La Nonna Sabella) - Director: Dino Risi
• 1957: Clorinda, the Saraceness (La Gerusalemme liberata) - Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
• 1957: Femmine tre volte - Director: Steno
• 1957: Le naïf aux 40 enfants - directed by Philippe Agostini
• 1958: Love Has Short Legs (Giovani mariti) - Director: Mauro Bolognini
• 1958: The Incredible Adventures of Hercules (Le fatiche di Ercole)
• 1958: Thief here, thief here (Ladro lui, ladra lei) - Director: Luigi Zampa
• 1958: Parisians against their will (Totò a Parigi) - Director: Camillo Mastrocinque
• 1958: Summer Tales (Racconti d'estate) - directed by Gianni Franciolini
• 1958: Girlfriends (Mowgli pericolose) - Director: Luigi Comencini
• 1958: Herod - Blood over Jerusalem (Erode il grande) - Director: Viktor Tourjansky
• 1959: Hercules and the Queen of the Amazons (Ercole e la regina di Lidia)
• 1959: Bad times for vampires (Tempi duri per i vampiri) - Director: Steno
• 1959: The Widower (Il vedovo) - Director: Dino Risi
• 1959: Surprises in love (Le sorprese dell'amore) - directed by Luigi Comencini
• 1960: The half- strength parents (I Genitori in Blue Jeans) - Director: Camillo Mastrocinque
• 1960: Archimedes - The Lion of Syracuse (L'Assedio di Siracusa) - Director: Pietro Francisci
• 1960: Risky Pastime (Les Distractions) - Director: Jacques Dupont
• 1960: The Sweet Disaster (Ravissante) - Director: Robert Lamoureux
• 1960: Luxusweibchen (Femmine di lusso) - directed by Giorgio Bianchi
• 1961: The corpse is in the wrong suitcase (Crimen) - Director: Mario Camerini
• 1961: The Bitter Life (Il Sicario) - Director: Damiano Damiani
• 1961: To your health, Mr. Interpol! (Mani in alto) - Director: Giorgio Bianchi
• 1962: Jessica (La sage-femme, le curé et le bon Dieu)
• 1962: With ladies service (Le Massaggiatrici) - Director: Lucio Fulci
• 1962: The Iron Mask (Le Masque de fer) - Director: Henri Decoin
• 1962: The four truths (Les quatre vérités) - directed by Alessandro Blasetti
• 1962: Degenduell (La congiura dei dieci) - directed by Baccio Bandini
• 1962: Il giorno più corto - Director: Sergio Corbucci
• 1963: In chains to the scaffold (Il Fornaretto di Venezia) - Director: Duccio Tessari
• 1963: Judex
• 1963: Le monachine - Director: Luciano Salce
• 1964: A corpse for the lady (Cadavere per signora) - Director: Mario Mattoli
• 1964: Some Like It Secret (Hot Enough for June) - Director: Ralph Thomas
• 1964: Amore in four dimensions (Amore in quattro dimensioni) , segment Amore e vita - Director: Jacques Romain
• 1964: Gangsters, Gold and Flotte Mädchen (L'appartement des filles) - Director: Michel Deville
• 1964: Cyrano and d'Artagnan (Cyrano et d'Artagnan)
• 1964: Frivolous Games (Se permettete parliamo di donne) - directed by Ettore Scola
• 1964: If the men only knew (L'idea fissa) , segment Sabato 18 luglio - directed by Gianni Puccini
• 1964: Die Immoralischen (Le grain de sable) - Director: Pierre Kast
• 1965: Shoot as long as you can (L'arme à gauche) - Director: Claude Sautet
• 1965: Our man from Istanbul (Operación Estambul)
• 1965: Julia and the Spirits (Giulietta degli spiriti)
• 1965: Made in Italy (À l'italienne) , segment 3 La Donna - directed by Nanni Loy
• 1965: Baraka, Agent X 13 (Baraka sur X 13) - directed by Maurice Cloche, Silvio Siano
• 1966: Even large bills can be wrong (Monnaie de singe) - Director: Yves Robert
• 1966: Io, io, io ... e gli altri - Director: Alessandro Blasetti
• 1966: Poker game for four women (Carré de dames pour un as) - Director: Jacques Poitrenaud
• 1967: Hot Cats (Deadlier Than the Male)
• 1967: Jonny Banco - Beloved Good-for-nothing (Johnny Banco) - Director: Yves Allégret
• 1967: The Secret War of Harry Frigg (The Secret War of Harry Frigg)
• 1967: Three bite of the apple (Three Bites of the Apple)
• 1968: Bandit to visit (I Protagonisti) - Director: Marcello Fondato
• 1968: The Fastest Way to the Afterlife (A Lovely Way to Die)
• 1968: Battle for Rome (2 parts)
• 1969: Marquis de Sade: Justine (Marquis de Sade's Justine)
• 1969: The Battle of the Neretva (Bitka na Neretvi)
• 1969: He and She (L'assoluto naturale) - Director: Mauro Bolognini
• 1970: The Wasp 's Nest (Hornets' Nest)
• 1970: The end of a flight (Vertige pour un tueur) - directed by Jean-Pierre Desagnat
• 1970: La Modification - Director: Michel Worms
• 1970: Nini Tirebouchon (Ninì Tirabusciò: la donna che inventò la mossa) - Director: Marcello Fondato
• 1971: Historia de una traición - Director: José Antonio Nieves Conde
• 1971: Les jambes en l'air - Director: Jean Dewever
• 1971: African Story - Director: Marino Girolami
• 1971: La Colomba non deve volare - Director: Sergio Garrone
• 1971: Mazzabubù… quante corna stanno quaggiù? - Director: Mariano Laurenti
• 1971: Homo Eroticus - Director: Marco Vicario
• 1972: Boccaccio - Director: Bruno Corbucci
• 1972: Sette scialli di seta gialla - Director: Sergio Pastore
• 1972: Beautiful, naked and lovestoll (Rivelazioni di un maniaco sessuale al capo della squadra mobile) - Director: Roberto Bianchi Montero
• 1972: The Mafia Boss - They kill like jackals (La Mala ordina) - Director: Fernando Di Leo
• 1972: Your pleasure is also my pleasure (Il tuo piacere è il mio)
• 1973: Lisa and the Devil (Lisa e il diavolo) - Director: Mario Bava
• 1974: Naked horror (Qualcuno l'ha vista uccidere) - directed by Rafael Romero Marchent
• 1974: Delitto d'autore - Director: Mario Sabatini
• 1974: The Devilish (La casa dell'esorcismo) - Director: Mario Bava, Alfredo Leone
• 1975: Il Cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco ovvero Dracula in brianza - Director: Lucio Fulci
• 1976: Casanova & Co.
• 1980: Sunday Lovers
• 1981: Asso - a heavenly player (Asso) - directed by Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia
• 1983: Magic Touch (Mani di fata) - Director: Steno
• 1983: Questo e quello - Directed by Sergio Corbucci
• 1984: Cinderella '80 (Cenerentola '80)
• 1984: The Night of the Four Moons - Director: Jörg A. Eggers
• 1987: Rimini Rimini - Director: Sergio Corbucci
• 1992: Ricky & Barabba (Ricky e Barabba) - Director: Christian De Sica
• 1994: C'è Kim Novak al telefono - Director: Enrico Roseo

TV series and films

• 1962: I giacobini (series)
• 1984:… and life goes on (… e la vita continua) - Director: Dino Risi
• 1987: A great love story (Una grande storia d'amore) - Director: Duccio Tessari
• 1991: L'odissea

Web links

Commons : Sylva Koscina  - collection of images

• Photo and biography with a focus on her acting work (English)
• Sylva Koscina at Brian's Drive-In Theater (English)
• Sylva Koscina in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Sylva Koscina in the German dubbing file