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Raffa depicts the life and career of Raffaella Carrà, an Italian popstar and TV personality, as told via the words of those who knew her and archival footage. The film reconstructs the public and private life of an uncompromising, ambitious, determined self-made woman who never wanted to reveal too much about herself. It does this by using archive...

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Italy is set to mint a special €5 coin in tribute to Raffaella Carrà, the Italian singer, dancer, actress and popular television host, who died in Rome last summer aged 78. The commemorative coin will feature the face of the entertainment legend and is set to go into circulation in Italy in 2023, according to Italian news agency ANSA. Born in Bolog...

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Fremantle has won a bidding war for exclusive rights to produce a high-end documentary about Raffaella Carrà, the iconic Italian singer, actor, dancer and TV host who was a pop culture sensation across Europe and Latin America. Carrà, who died in July at 78, rose to fame in Italy as a singer and dancer during the 1970’s as co-host of the variety sh...

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A person always polite and reserved, Raffaella Carrà has left a lasting memory of herself not only in Italy, but also all around the world, since her passing in July. A nasty disease, unfortunately m, took away this showbiz icon that has given so much to her fans. Although she did not have any children, Carrà loved to say that she had thousands and...

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Raffaella is no more. For everyone "la Carrà", with the accent on the last a, as she emphasized to David Letterman in an interview in 1986. On July 5, 2021 died the most important woman in the history of Italian entertainment, by far, who for decades exported the best face of our country abroad. It is no coincidence that she was particularly succes...

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Italy began to say goodbye today to its great diva, Raffaella Carrà, who died on Monday at the age of 78. The three-day funeral began this Wednesday with the parade of his coffin through the RAI, television studies that saw her birth and increase her legend. The country, still shocked by the unexpected news of his death, turned to the streets of Ro...

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Raffaella Carrà, the Italian singer, dancer, actress and popular television host, has died aged 78. Carrà died on the afternoon of 5 July following an illness that she kept private, announced her former partner and long-time collaborator Sergio Japino. "Raffaella has left us" - said Japino - "She went to a better world, where her humanity, her unmi...

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At the beginning of Explota Explota, a new Spanish-Italian jukebox musical comedy set at the tail end of the Franco dictatorship in 1970s Spain, airport employee Maria is making a delivery at a TV studio when she catches the attention of Chimo, the director of a variety show. When she tells him she’s not a dancer, he replies: “No dancer with blood...

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