'Bersagliera' in Bread love and fantasy and Bread love and jealousy, Esmeralda in Notre Dame de Paris, acrobat in Trapeze, Paolina Bonaparte in Imperial Venus, the 'most beautiful woman in the world' in the film with Vittorio Gassman, blonde seductress in The Dolls , Sheba in Solomon and the Queen of Sheba next to Yul Brynner.
They are among the images on a large screen by Gina Lollobrigida that accompanied those who came to pay homage to her on the first day of the funeral home (it will reopen tomorrow morning, before the funeral at the Church of the artists) set up in the hall of the Protomoteca in the Campidoglio.
A reference to the controversies that characterized the last part of the life of the actress, who died on January 16 at the age of 95, came from the presence in the space for the family, next to the coffin, of her ex-husband Francisco Javier Rigau, who is sitting in the front row where were also Gina Lollobrigida's son, Andrea Milko Skofic, his nephew Dimitri.
"I have so many good memories - Rigau said as he left the funeral home - this is not the time for controversy but for pain".
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Gina Lollobrigida died, she was 95 years old - Specials
A great protagonist of Italian cinema, she was born in Subiaco on 4 July 1927, she was 95 years old.
In September, she was released from hospital after breaking her femur following a fall at home.
Wednesday mortuary, Thursday her funeral.
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To pay homage to her, together with many ordinary people (few show business personalities), the mayor of Roma Capitale Roberto Gualtieri, present at the arrival of the coffin the president of Cinecittà Chiara Sbarigia, the undersecretary for Culture Lucia Borgonzoni;
Tiziana Rocca, organizer of various events for the actress, Vladimir Luxuria, the president of Anica Francesco Rutelli, Pino Strabioli and Adriano Aragozzini, a friend of Gina Lollobrigida, who denied that "there was a clash with Rigau" at the exit in recent days in front of the clinic where the actress was hospitalized.
"As also demonstrated by the affection people have for my mother, she was an independent, self-made woman, had a very strong character and went her own way in a '
era in which women did not have all this autonomy - said Andrea Milko Skofic, in a break during the day spent in the Capitol -.
This is perhaps the thing that leaves more, the example of him ".
Skofic wants to leave the controversy aside and recalls: "The last time we met, my mother wasn't physically well. She couldn't talk. We didn't say much, but we tried to communicate like this."
In the room of the Protomoteca among large photos of the actress there are also many crowns, such as those of the Ministry of Culture, Anica, Roma Capitale, Cinecittà of the Luce Archive and the Municipality of Subiaco.
"Rome will remember this great artist, also with the Casa del cinema and the Film Fest. I just spoke to the president of the cinema foundation for Rome, Farinelli," says Gualtieri.
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Many admirers who have left a message in the registers at the entrance or red roses, the same flowers on the cushion above the coffin.
Among these is Giovanni, a 56-year-old from Puglia who has been in Rome for years: "I have always been struck by the kindness of this great actress, she left a mark of her, tomorrow I will also go to her funeral".
Fabio, a 60-year-old Roman, arrived with his wife and two young daughters: "Gina Lollobrigida is a person who made Italy great, it was right. She moves me to be here".
The homage that will continue tomorrow at the funeral also comes from the Bersaglieri Association, with two members arriving with the standard feathered hats.
"Gina was a guest at some of our events such as our national gathering in Pordenone - they explain -. It was a joy,
