Marcella Di Folco
Marcella Di Folco | |
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| Born | 7 March 1943 Bentivoglio, Italy |
| Died | 7 September 2010 (aged 67) |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Other names | Marcello Di Falco |
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Marcella Di Folco (7 March 1943 – 7 September 2010) was an Italian LGBT rights activist, actor, and politician. In her film appearances, played in male characters before transition, she is credited as Marcello Di Falco.
Career[]
In 1988, she became president of the MIT - Movimento Identità Transessuale [1] (Transsexual Identity Movement) and in 1997 vice-president of the Osservatorio Nazionale sull'Identità di Genere[2][3] (National Observatory on Gender Identity, ONIG).
She was elected municipal councilor of Bologna in 1995, with the Green party. She was the first open transwoman to hold a political public office in the world.[4] In 2014, at the 32nd Torino Film Festival, the film (A Noble Revolution) by , which tells her story had its premiere. In October 2019 Italian Journalist Bianca Berlinguer edited (The Story of Marcella that was Marcello before) a confession of Marcella Di Folco's life she recorded before Marcella died.
Personal life[]
Di Folco had gender corrective surgery in 1987.[2][3]
Filmography[]
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- Fellini Satyricon, directed by Federico Fellini (1969)
- In the Name of the Italian People, directed by Dino Risi (1971)
- , directed by Gianfranco Parolini (1972)
- , directed by (1972)
- , directed by Federico Fellini (1972)
- , directed by Flavio Mogherini (1972)
- , directed by Mino Guerrini (1972)
- , directed by Roberto Rossellini (1973) (film TV)
- Amarcord, directed by Federico Fellini (1973)
- Shoot First, Die Later, directed by Fernando Di Leo (1974)
- Finché c'è guerra c'è speranza, directed by Alberto Sordi (1974)
- , directed by Roberto Rossellini (1974) (film TV)
- , directed by Lucio Dandolo (1975)
- Di che segno sei?, directed by Sergio Corbucci (1975)
- Mondo candido, directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti e Franco Prosperi (1975)
- , directed by Mino Guerrini (1976)
- Todo modo, directed by Elio Petri (1976)
- , directed by (1976)
- Un borghese piccolo piccolo, directed by Mario Monicelli (1977)
- Squadra antigangsters, directed by Bruno Corbucci (1979)
- , directed by (1979) (miniserie TV)
- La città delle donne, directed by Federico Fellini (1980)
- , directed by Francesco Massaro (1981)
References[]
- ^ "movimento identità transessuale". Archived from the original on 2007-02-23. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-12-11. Retrieved 2019-05-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Se n'è andata Marcella Di Folco anima delle lotte delle transessuali - Bologna - Repubblica.it". Bologna - La Repubblica. 7 September 2010.
- ^ "È morta Marcella Di Folco Il principe di "Amarcord", icona dei trans - Corriere di Bologna". corrieredibologna.corriere.it.
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