Contessa Marina Cicogna Mozzoni Volpi di Misurata was an Italian film producer and photographer.
13 Facts About Marina Cicogna
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Marina Cicogna produced the film Belle de Jour, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1967.
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Marina Cicogna was born in 1934 in Rome, and grew up in Milan, Venice, and Cortina.
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Marina Cicogna was the daughter of Countess Annamaria Volpi di Misurata and Count Cesare Cicogna Mozzoni, a banker.
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Marina Cicogna's mother owned Euro International Films, which she later handed control over to Marina and her brother Bino Cicogna.
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Marina Cicogna attended Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, staying less than a year.
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Marina Cicogna studied photography at another school in the United States, and took pictures of Hollywood friends, including Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo.
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At the age of 32, Marina Cicogna decided to pursue a career in the film industry.
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Marina Cicogna's mother bought a share in a film distribution company, and Cicogna suggested films for the business to purchase.
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Marina Cicogna distributed the West German film Helga, which she described as the first time a birth was shown on screen.
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Marina Cicogna publicized it by placing "ambulances at the exit of the film, saying that people would faint when they saw that".
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Marina Cicogna produced such films as Once Upon a Time in the West, Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, and Brother Sun, Sister Moon.
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Marina Cicogna died from cancer in Rome, on 4 November 2023, at the age of 89.