Maria De Sisti

Post by **Emiliano** » 30/08/2018, 3:52

Maria De Sisti in Ku Fu? - Dalla Sicilia con furore (1973)

Alias: Maria de Sisti (with "de" in slowcase)

A huge woman, well over a hundred and fifty kilos of weight: she's one of the "Fellini's creatures", indeed, her career begins with Fellini Satyricon in 1969 and will later be seen in both Roma (1972) and Amarcord (1973), again directed by Fellini.
If Franca Scagnetti represented the Roman populan woman, with her physical abundance, Maria De Sisti is almost a caricature of this figure. Far more impressive than another fat extra, Ada Crostona, her appearance is in itself impressive. Not infrequently, in addition to the role of a simple extra, she also had small parts of speech, played in a natural way, not being an actress by profession.

Always uncredited in movies, Maria De Sisti was identified with the help of the book Fellini's faces.

FILMOGRAPHY

1959

La cento chilometri (uncredited) .... Woman at the drinking fountain

1969
Fellini Satyricon (uncredited) .... role? (no pic still)

1970
Terzo canale - Avventura a Montecarlo (uncredited) .... The wife of the owner of the chicken farm

1971
Bubù (uncredited) .... Fat woman
Correva l'anno di grazia 1870 (uncredited) .... Paesant

1972
Roma (uncredited) .... Owner of the guest-house
Il maschio ruspante (uncredited) .... Fat dancer
Il west ti va stretto, amico... è arrivato Alleluja (uncredited) .... role?
Le notti peccaminose di Pietro l'Aretino (uncredited) .... Villager
Quando le donne persero la coda (uncredited) .... The slave traded
Uomo avvisato mezzo ammazzato... Parola di Spirito Santo (1972) .... Villager

1973
Amarcord (uncredited) .... Woman at the funeral
Bella, ricca, lieve difetto fisico cerca anima gemella (uncredited) .... Passerby with jealous husband
Ku Fu? - Dalla Sicilia con furore (uncredited) .... The betrothed
Meo Patacca (uncredited) .... role?

1974
Di Tresette ce n'è uno, tutti gli altri son nessuno (uncredited) .... Bank client

1976
La dottoressa del distretto militare (uncredited) .... Addolorata

1978
Giallo napoletano (uncredited) .... Asylum patient
La soldatessa alle grandi manovre (uncredited) .... Farfallina, the paesant prostitute

1981
Bianco rosso e verdone (uncredited) .... Woman at the cemetery

1983
'F.F.S.S.', cioè:... che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene? (uncredited) .... Tavern customer

Post by **Emiliano** » 17/11/2018, 23:06

Bianco rosso e verdone (1981) as Woman at the cemetery

La soldatessa alle grandi manovre (1978) as Farfallina, the paesant prostitute

La dottoressa del distretto militare (1976) as Addolorata

Bella, ricca, lieve difetto fisico cerca anima gemella (1973) as Passerby with jealous husband

Post by **Emiliano** » 17/11/2018, 23:19

Meo Patacca (1973)

Le notti peccaminose di Pietro l'Aretino (1972) as Villager

pic by Buono Legnani

Post by **Johan Melle** » 17/11/2018, 23:24

Giallo napoletano (1979) as Asylum patient, dancing with Renato Pozzetto to "Funiculì, Funiculà"

And another shot where she's more in the background

Il west ti va stretto, amico... è arrivato Alleluja (1972)

pic from Eurowestern

Post by **Johan Melle** » 18/11/2018, 13:44

Reasonably large but uncredited role in Fellini's Roma (1972) as Owner of the guest-house

She also appears briefly in the restaurant scene, eating dinner with her family

A photo of her from the restaurant scene was printed in the book Fellini's Faces, which also credits her by name and which made her identification possible