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Aldebaran (film)
''Aldebaran'' is a 1935 Italian drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Gino Cervi, Evi Maltagliati and Gianfranco Giachetti. The film was a naval melodrama, an attempt by Blasetti to make a more commercial film following the difficulties encountered with the propagandist '' The Old Guard'' (1934). Plot After a couple of projects had either been postponed or fallen through for Blasetti, it was suggested that he should make a film about the navy in peacetime. The result is this strange film, which at the outset plays like a propaganda piece for the might of the Italian navy, only to veer off into high melodrama, as it zeroes in on Commander Corrado Valeri (Gino Cervi), and his conflict between duty and the jealousy of his wife. There are comedic asides, a visit to a North African club, affording Blasetti to contribute the first scenes of nudity in Italian film, and there are moments of heroism, including a mission to rescue the doomed crew of a wrecked submarine. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Blasetti
Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film ''Quattro passi fra le nuvole''. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era. He is sometimes known as the "father of Italian cinema" because of his role in reviving the struggling industry in the late 1920s. Early life Blasetti was born in Rome, where he also died. After studying law at university, Blasetti chose to become a journalist and film critic. He worked for several film magazines and led a campaign for national film production, which had largely ceased by this point. In 1919 he made a brief foray into acting when he appeared as an extra in Mario Caserini's ''Tortured Soul''. Director In 1929 Blasetti made his directorial debut with ''Sun (film), Sun'', a fictional story set against the ongoing draining of the Pontine Marshes. The film was well received at a time when there were few Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Propagandist
Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented. Propaganda can be found in news and journalism, government, advertising, entertainment, education, and activism and is often associated with material which is prepared by governments as part of war efforts, political campaigns, health campaigns, revolutionaries, big businesses, ultra-religious organizations, the media, and certain individuals such as soapboxers. In the 20th century, the English term ''propaganda'' was often associated with a manipulative approach, but historically, propaganda has been a neutral descriptive term of any material that promotes certain opinions or ideologies. Equivalent non-English terms have also la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristide Garbini
Aristide Garbini (1890–1950) was an Italian film actor.Verdone p.83 Selected filmography * '' The Crusaders'' (1918) * ''Messalina'' (1924) * '' Miryam'' (1929) * ''Five to Nil'' (1932) * '' Ragazzo'' (1934) * '' The Old Guard'' (1934) * ''Aldebaran'' (1935) * ''King of Diamonds'' (1936) * '' Doctor Antonio'' (1937) * ''The Count of Brechard'' (1938) * '' Heartbeat'' (1939) * ''Hurricane in the Tropics'' (1939) * '' Father For a Night'' (1939) * ''Guest for One Night'' (1939) * '' Two on a Vacation'' (1940) * '' The Sinner'' (1940) * ''Antonio Meucci'' (1940) * ''Red Tavern'' (1940) * ''Red Roses'' (1940) * ''The Prisoner of Santa Cruz'' (1941) * ''After Casanova's Fashion'' (1942) * ''Street of the Five Moons'' (1942) * ''Non ti pago!'' (1942) * ''Four Steps in the Clouds'' (1942) * '' The Last Wagon'' (1943) * ''Mist on the Sea'' (1944) * '' Romulus and the Sabines'' (1945) * ''Unknown Man of San Marino'' (1946) * ''The Opium Den'' (1947) * ''Bullet for Stefano'' (1947) * ''Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piero Pastore
Pietro Mario Pastore, also known as Piero Pastore (3 April 1908, in Padua – 8 January 1968, in Rome) was an Italian professional footballer who played as a striker; he later became an actor. Football career Pastore was the youngest ever player to play for Juventus F.C. at the age of 15 years, 222 days. He played for 6 seasons (108 games, 46 goals) in the Serie A for S.S. Lazio, A.C. Milan and A.S. Roma. Pastore represented Italy at the 1928 Summer Olympics and won bronze medal, but he did not play in any games. Acting career After retirement, he became an actor, among other roles, he played small parts in Roman Holiday, Barabbas and War and Peace. Honours Club ;Juventus *Italian Football Championship: 1925–26 International ;Italy * Olympic Bronze Medal: 1928 Selected filmography * '' Girls Do Not Joke'' (1929) * ''La Leggenda di Wally'' (1930) - Hagenbach * ''Ninna nanna delle dodici mamme'' (1930) * ''Steel'' (1933) - Mario Velini * ''Trois balles dans la peau'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ermanno Roveri
Ermanno Roveri (5 October 1903 – 28 December 1968) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 39 films between 1912 and 1965. Selected filmography * ''The Private Secretary'' (1931) * '' La segretaria per tutti'' (1933) * '' Full Speed'' (1934) * ''The Last of the Bergeracs'' (1934) * ''Aldebaran'' (1935) * '' Ginevra degli Almieri'' (1935) * ''The Man Who Smiles'' (1936) * ''King of Diamonds'' (1936) *''Music in the Square'' (1936) * ''The Fornaretto of Venice'' (1939) * '' Backstage'' (1939) * ''Two Million for a Smile ''Two Million for a Smile'' (Italian: ''Due milioni per un sorriso'') is a 1939 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Carlo Borghesio and Mario Soldati and starring Enrico Viarisio, Giuseppe Porelli and Elsa De Giorgi.Curti p.22 It w ...'' (1939) Bibliography *John Holmstrom, ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995'', Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 22. External links * 1903 births 1968 deaths It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosina Anselmi
Rosina Anselmi ( 26 July 1880 – 23 May 1965) was an Italian stage, television and film actress. She was a prominent actress in the Sicilian language theater, especially in the province of Catania. Life and career Born in Caltagirone, Catania into a family of stage actors, Anselmi began acting with her father Alessandro, then with Nino Martoglio in some comedies written by him. She then joined the stage company of Mimi Aguglia, another important actress of the Sicilian repertoire, with whom she toured in North America. Anselmi went back to Sicily in 1910, and in 1914 she became the first actress, in spite of her status of a great character actress, alongside Angelo Musco with whom she acted for about thirty years, until Musco's death. Anselmi later continued her stage career next to Michele Abbruzzo, proposing the identical repertoire of Musco, until her death. She was a co-founder of the Teatro Stabile di Catania. Selected filmography * ''The Matchmaker'' (1934) * ''Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gemma Bolognesi
Gemma Bolognesi (4 November 1894 – 26 March 1983) was an Italian actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1916 to 1954. Biography Bolognesi began acting at an early age and made her debut with the ensemble of the Teatro Manzoni in Milan under Marco Praga. In 1919 she became the ensemble's first actress alongside and the following year led her own ensemble with . Further seasons of her stage career were alongside Enzo Biliotti (1921) and from 1922 to 1926 the ''Teatro del Popolo'' (as its first actress from 1924), again in Milan. The following season saw her in the theater company around Luigi Zoncada and later, in 1932, next to Carlo Tamberlani. Bolognesi had made her film debut in 1916 in ''Cura di baci'' by Emilio Graziani-Walter, but found little satisfaction with it, so she concentrated on her theater work. It was not until the mid-1930s, when the time of the big stage roles was over, that she developed into a sought-after character actress playing cultured w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Duranti
Doris Duranti (25 April 1917 – 10 March 1995) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 43 films between 1935 and 1975. She had a years-long affair with Alessandro Pavolini, a Fascist politician who in 1945 was executed by Italian partisans; his body was then hung with that of Benito Mussolini. Partial filmography * ''Il serpente a sonagli'' (1935) - Collegiale * '' Golden Arrow'' (1935) * ''Aldebaran'' (1935) - Anna's friend * ''The Phantom Gondola'' (1936) - Nelly * '' Lo squadrone bianco'' (1936) - Una turista (uncredited) * ''Vivere!'' (1936) * ''Ginevra degli Almieri'' (1936) * ''White Amazons'' (1936) * '' Sentinels of Bronze'' (1937) - Dahabò * '' Under the Southern Cross'' (1938) - Mailù * ''Diamonds'' (1939) - Marta Aurasco * ''Cavalleria rusticana'' (1939) - Lola * ''Wealth Without a Future'' (1940) - Laura, loro nipote * ''È sbarcato un marinaio'' (1940) - Nelly * '' The Cavalier from Kruja'' (1940) - Eliana Haidar * '' The Daughter of the Green Pirate'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorio Vaser
Vittorio Vaser (1904–1963) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in Alessandro Blasetti's 1929 film ''Sun'' about the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes.Verdone p.63 He was the son of the actor Ernesto Vaser. Selected filmography * ''Sun'' (1929) * ''The Haller Case'' (1933) * ''Aldebaran'' (1935) * ''Don Bosco'' (1935) * '' Tonight at Eleven'' (1938) * '' The Pirate's Dream'' (1940) * '' The Champion'' (1943) * '' Other Times'' (1952) * '' A Woman Alone'' (1956) * ''Beatrice Cenci Beatrice Cenci (; 6 February 157711 September 1599) was a Roman noblewoman who murdered her father, Count Francesco Cenci. She was beheaded in 1599 after a lurid murder trial in Rome that gave rise to an enduring legend about her. Life Beatri ...'' (1956) * '' Rigoletto e la sua tragedia'' (1956) * '' Warlord of Crete'' (1960) References Bibliography * Verdone, Luca. ''I Film di Alessandro Blasetti''. Gremese Editore, 1989. External links * 1904 births 1963 deaths Italia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umberto Sacripante
Umberto Sacripante (2 October 1904 – 14 January 1975) was an Italian film and stage actor. Life and career Born Umberto Sacripanti in Rome, Sacripante debuted on stage in 1921, and in 1926 he became first actor in the theatrical company Teatro degli Indipendenti directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia. He made his film debut in 1930, and in a short time he became one of the most active character actors of his time. Thanks to his good knowledge of German language, he was also often cast in German and Austrian productions. He also worked as general organizer for the production company Cines, and also was secretary of the National Syndicate of Film Actors. Personal life Sacripante was married to Assunta Lelli. Their sons Luciano and Mauro both worked in the cinema industry, respectively as film director and executive producer. Selected filmography * ''Figaro and His Great Day'' (1931) * ''Lowered Sails'' (1931) * ''Five to Nil'' (1932) * '' Zaganella and the Cavalier'' (1932) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Coop
Franco Coop (27 September 1891 – 27 March 1962), was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 65 films between 1931 and 1960. He was born in Naples, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * '' Before the Jury'' (1931) * '' Mother Earth'' (1931) * '' Five to Nil'' (1932) * '' La segretaria per tutti'' (1933) *''Nini Falpala'' (1933) * '' My Little One'' (1933) * '' Everybody's Woman'' (1934) * ''The Last of the Bergeracs'' (1934) * '' Lady of Paradise'' (1934) * ''Aldebaran'' (1935) * ''Those Two'' (1935) * ''Sette giorni all'altro mondo ''Sette giorni all'altro mondo'' is a 1936 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli. Cast *Camillo Pilotto * Vanna Vanni * Franco Coop *Nietta Zocchi *Emilio Petacci *Virgilio Riento *Guglielmo Barnabò Guglielmo Ba ...'' (1936) * ''The Amnesiac'' (1936) * ''I'll Give a Million (1936 film), I'll Give a Million'' (1936) * ''The Last Days of Pompeo'' (1937) * ''Hands Off Me!'' (1937) * ''The Three W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ugo Ceseri
Ugo Ceseri (30 June 1893 – 3 December 1940) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in forty two films between 1931 and his death in 1940. In 1934 he appeared in the play '' 18 BL'', an attempt to create a mass theatre by the Fascist government of Italy. The play was directed by Alessandro Blasetti and featured 2,000 amateur actors.Balfour p.12-14 Selected filmography * ''Figaro and His Great Day'' (1931) * ''Palio'' (1931) * ''The Opera Singer'' (1932) * '' One Night with You'' (1932) * ''Model Wanted'' (1933) * ''The Haller Case'' (1933) * ''Seconda B'' (1934) * '' The Old Guard'' (1934) * ''Unripe Fruit'' (1934) * '' Just Married'' (1934) * ''Red Passport'' (1935) * ''Ginevra degli Almieri'' (1935) * ''Aldebaran'' (1935) *''Music in the Square'' (1936) * ''The Dance of Time'' (1936) * '' But It's Nothing Serious'' (1936) * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1936) * ''The Countess of Parma'' (1936) * ''The Carnival Is Here Again'' (1937) * ''The Castiglioni Brothers'' (1937) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
