Claudia Cardinale receives the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award of Hungary`s leading film festival, the Jameson CineFest - Miskolc IFF. On 11 September Ms. Cardinale will be present at the opening ceremony of the festival.
The divine CC: Claudia, Marcello Mastroianni’s – that is Guido, the director - love in the 8½; Angelica, Alain Delon’s – that is Tancredi Falconeri – love in The Leopard. Venus, Jean-Paul Belmondo’s love in the Cartouche. Jill, the dream of all men, in the Once Upon a Time in the West. Ginetta, in the Rocco and His Brothers. Gabriella, in The Immortal Bachelor. Molly, Klaus Klinski’s partner in Fitzcarraldo. Doroteia in Manoel de Oliveira’s last film Gebo and the Shadow. The festival`s Lifetime Achievement Award goes to the muse of Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Werner Herzog, Sergio Leone and Claude Lelouch, to one of the greatest starts of modern cinema: Claudia Cardinale.
In 2002 she was awarded with a life achievement award in Berlin, in 1993 in Venice, she won the David di Donatello prize several times – but even more importantly, she is one of the faces of European cinema, the idol and icon of millions and the UNESCO`s Goodwill Ambassador.
And what else could the opening film be if not a Cardinale movie (with Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda): the audience of the CineFest will enjoy the perfect picture and sound of the re-mastered Once Upon a Time in the West with its spectacular long shots and Morricone’s unforgettable music.