Vera Bergman

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Vera Bergman (born February 16, 1920 in Berlin , Germany , † 1971 ) was a German stage and film actress . She was best known for her roles in numerous Italian films.

Life

Vera Bergmann was the daughter of the Dutch diplomat Carl Bergman . Her mother was of Austrian descent. After completing her studies, she attended an acting school in The Hague under the direction of Max Reinhardt . This made her later theater career possible in various European cities such as Prague, Rome and Berlin. In Germany, after completing her school education, she became part of the acting ensemble Deutsches Theater Berlin .

In her home country Germany, she starred in only three films before moving her career to Italy. There she received the most important film roles of her life, including 1939 in the film Maddalena, zero in condotta , directed by Vittorio De Sica . Here the very young Vera Bergman played the understanding and loving teacher Elisa Malgari, who teaches in a girls' school and got into conflict with her colleagues there. The film became a huge hit with audiences in 1940 and was highly valued by critics of the time.

Bergman's roles were characterized by great professionalism and helped her to a respectable career in the years of World War II. After the war, things became increasingly quiet around Vera Bergman. She appeared more and more in more mediocre films, with the exception of Luigi Capuano's Legge di sangue , in which she played the role of a contemptuous and obscure noblewoman with great success. According to her own information, she played about 25 leading roles and had other supporting roles in America, England, Switzerland and Holland. In its time, it represented an important part of Italian neorealism , which had a lasting impact on the international film world between 1945 and 1955.

On February 7, 1951, at the age of 30, she married the journalist Peter Anthony Vasquez Russo in Melbourne . The two remained childless.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1938: The stars shine
  • 1940: Maddalena, a girl with a whistle (Maddalena, zero in condotta)
  • 1941: Lucky Night (Notte di fortuna)
  • 1941: The Man on the Street (La bocca sulla strada)
  • 1943: The Champion (Il campione)
  • 1945: Non canto più
  • 1946: Tehran
  • 1947: The Two Orphans (I Due Orfanelli)
  • 1948: Legge di sangue
  • 1954: The Last Race (L'ultima gara)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Bondanella: A history of Italian cinema. Continuum, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-4411-6069-0 , pp. 684 .
  2. ↑ Vera Bergman. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  3. ^ A b Peter E. Bondanella: A history of Italian cinema . Continuum, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-4411-6069-0 , pp. 44 .
  4. ↑ a b Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli: Le straniere del nostro cinema . Gremese Editore, 2005, ISBN 978-88-8440-350-6 , pp. 68 .
  5. ↑ Vera Bergman: Great films can be born in the open streets . In: The Argus . Melbourne February 6, 1952, p. 2 ( gov.au [accessed June 27, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Kim Torney, Prue Torney: Russo, Peter Anthony (1908–1985) . In: Australian Dictionary of Biography . National Center of Biography, Australian National University, Canberra ( edu.au [accessed May 11, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Bergman, Vera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 1971