Washington (USA), 31 July (LaPresse) – "The President, the Director General, the Head of the Historical Archives, the Board of Directors and the entire Venice Biennale remember the great theatre and film actress Adriana Asti, a sensitive and original performer in Venice with important shows and films since the 1950s, at the International Theatre Festival with productions directed by Gianfranco De Bosio and Luigi Squarzina, and from 1961 at the International Film Festival with Accattone, the debut film by Pier Paolo Pasolini, a friend of the actress." This is what we read in a note from the Venice Biennale.In particular, Adriana Asti participated in the International Theatre Festival in 1954 with Anche le donne hanno perso la guerra (Even Women Lost the War) by Curzio Malaparte, directed by Guido Salvini, in 1955 with La scala (The Staircase) by Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo, directed by Luigi Squarzina, and in 1961 with La cameriera brillante (The Brilliant Maid) by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Gianfranco De Bosio. In 2008, at the Biennale Teatro directed by Maurizio Scaparro, she starred in Maurizio Scaparro's film L'ultimo pulcinella, with Massimo Ranieri. At the Venice International Film Festival, she appeared in Luchino Visconti's masterpiece Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960), called by the great director with whom she had achieved her first successes in theatre. But above all, in 1961, she played the role of Amore in the masterpiece Accattone, the debut film of her friend Pier Paolo Pasolini. Subsequently, among various other titles, she accompanied Carlo Mazzacurati's Il prete bello at the Lido in 1989 and, more recently, in 2014, Abel Ferrara's film Pasolini.
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