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Enzo Biliotti
Enzo Biliotti (28 June 1887 – 19 November 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 80 films between 1916 and 1958. He was born in Livorno, Italy and died in Bologna, Italy. Selected filmography * '' The Betrothed'' (1923) * ''Villafranca'' (1934) * '' Lady of Paradise'' (1934) * '' I Love You Only'' (1935) * ''Bayonet'' (1936) * '' The Ambassador'' (1936) * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1936) * '' Doctor Antonio'' (1937) * '' For Men Only'' (1938) * ''I Want to Live with Letizia'' (1938) * '' Piccolo mondo antico'' (1939) * ''Defendant, Stand Up!'' (1939) * '' Backstage'' (1939) * '' Lo vedi come sei... lo vedi come sei?'' (1939) * ''Big Shoes'' (1940) * '' The Pirate's Dream'' (1940) * '' Non me lo dire!'' (1940) * '' Two on a Vacation'' (1940) * '' Piccolo mondo antico'' (1941) * '' Light in the Darkness'' (1941) * '' The Betrothed'' (1941) * '' Don Cesare di Bazan'' (1942) * ''The Countess of Castiglione'' (1942) * '' Malombra'' (1942) * ''Short Circuit'' (1943) * ''Two He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Livorno
Livorno () is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of 158,493 residents in December 2017. It is traditionally known in English as Leghorn (pronounced , "Leghorn" in the . or ). During the , Livorno was designed as an "". Developing c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pirate's Dream
''The Pirate's Dream'' ( it, Il pirata sono io!) is a 1940 Italian film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Erminio Macario. Plot The setting is Santa Cruz, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Governor of the island, to ingratiate himself with the Viceroy, contrives to have the island assaulted from a mock pirate ship. The plan is to have a mock battle, defeat the aggressors and throw them back into the sea. The trouble is that the pirates really come... Cast * Erminio Macario as José * Juan de Landa as Bieco de la Muerte * Enzo Biliotti as Il governatore * Dora Bini as Olivia * Mario Siletti as Il viceré * Carmen Navasqués as La viceregina (as Carmen Navascues) * Agnese Dubbini as La nutrice * Katiuscia Odinzova as Lupita * Carlo Rizzo as Pedro * Tino Scotti Tino Scotti (16 November 1905 – 16 October 1984) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 65 films between 1940 and 1984. He was born in Milan, Italy, and died in Tarquinia, Italy. Partial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Difficult Years
''Difficult Years'' ( it, Anni difficili) is a 1948 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Umberto Spadaro, adapted from the 1946 short story ''Vecchio con gli stivali'' (''Old Man in Boots''), by the Sicilian author Vitaliano Brancati. Cast * Umberto Spadaro as Aldo Piscitello * Massimo Girotti as Giovanni * Ave Ninchi as Rosina * Delia Scala (as Odette Bedogni) as Elena * Ernesto Almirante as Grandpa * Milly Vitale as Maria * Enzo Biliotti as The Baron * Carlo Sposito (as Carletto Sposito) as Riccardo * Loris Gizzi as The Fascist minister * Aldo Silvani as The pharmacist * John Garfield as Narrator (English-language version) Plot Italy under Mussolini, 1922 to 1943. In 1922 Aldo Piscitello (Umberto Spadaro) is a municipal employee in the town of Modica, Sicily. With the rise of Mussolini to power, he is forced by his boss (Enzo Biliotti) to join the Fascist Party. If he fails to do so, he would lose his job. Piscitello reluctantly joins the Fascists and even b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Giorno Nella Vita
''Un giorno nella vita'' ("A Day in Life") is a 1946 Italian war film directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. American title: "A Day In the Life". This film was screened in 2009 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's retrospective "Life Lessons" Italian Neorealism and the birth of modern cinema. Plot A group of partisans seek refuge in a cloistered convent. The sisters reluctantly aid the ailing men, but not without terrible consequences. A day in the life offers an image of a big tent Italy, in which the differences that had earlier cleaved society, especially between the church and the political Left, are temporarily tabled for the higher cause of national unity. Cast * Enzo Biliotti - Don Eusebio * Elisa Cegani - Suor Maria * Ada Colangeli - Suor Gaetana * Ada Dondini - Madre Superiora * Arnoldo Foà - Brusan * Massimo Girotti - Luigi Monotti * Flavia Grande - Suor Luisa * Mariella Lotti - Suor Bianca * Dante Maggio - Carlo * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Innocent Casimiro
''The Innocent Casimiro'' (Italian: ''L'innocente Casimiro'') is a 1945 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Campogalliani and starring Erminio Macario, Lea Padovani and Olinto Cristina. It is based on a play ''Scandalo al Collegio'' by Mario Amendola, and was mainly shot in 1943. However it was disrupted by wartime events and was not released until 1945. It was the first release to be distributed by Lux Film following the Liberation. Critics were generally disappointed with the film, made in the traditional pre-war style of "schoolgirl comedies". The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gastone Medin and Gino Brosio. Cast *Erminio Macario as Casimiro Pelagatti *Lea Padovani as Marcella *Olinto Cristina as principal *Enzo Biliotti as Dr. Raglia *Ada Dondini as Zia Tecla * a Miss Pannelli *Baby Donall as Paola *Lauro Gazzolo as Pietro *Loris Gizzi as Gustavo Corra *Alberto Sordi as Corra's driver * Adriana Serra as Silvia *Paola Veneroni as Emilia *Vinicio Sofia as Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In High Places (1943 Film)
''In High Places'' (Italian:''Quartieri alti'') is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Adriana Benetti, Massimo Serato and Nerio Bernardi. It is based on a play by Jean Anouilh. The film portrays the rise into high society of an immoral young man.Landy p.83-84 It belongs to the movies of the calligrafismo style. Cast * Adriana Benetti as Isabella * Massimo Serato as Giorgio Zanetti * Nerio Bernardi as Emilio Buscaglione * Enzo Biliotti as Febo Marcantoni * Natalia Ray as Edmea * Jucci Kellerman as Barbara * Fanny Marchiò as Donna Lina Rigotti * Maria Melato as Maria Letizia Bruneschi * Gina Sammarco as La falsa madre di Giorgio * Giulio Stival as Il falso padre di Giorgio * Piero Pastore as Bottarini, il calciatore * Giuseppe Pierozzi as Il tabaccaio gobbo * Vittorio Sanipoli as Roberto * Alfredo Del Pelo as Il chitarrista all1 taverna "Ulpia" * Gilda Marchiò Gilda Marchiò (1884–1954) was an Italian theatre actress.Bassnett & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Hearts Among The Beasts
''Two Hearts Among the Beasts'' (Italian: ''Due cuori fra le belve'') is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring Totò, Vera Carmi and Enrico Glori.Parish p.139 A dancing master takes part in an expedition to Africa find a missing anthropologist whose daughter he is in love with. The film's sets were designed by Alberto Boccianti. It was shot at Cinecittà Cinecittà Studios (; Italian for Cinema City Studios), is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios we ... in Rome. Plot An important Italian scientist disappears in the Jungle, and his niece Laura sets off to find him. Toto, dance teacher, ends up in the wrong steamer trip, and discovers that the companions of the niece have a sinister plan: kidnap her. The ship, however, is shipwrecked on the island of the Jungle, and Toto is worshiped as a god by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Circuit (1943 Film)
''Short Circuit'' (Italian: ''Cortocircuito'') is a 1943 Italian thriller film directed by Giacomo Gentilomo and starring Vivi Gioi, Umberto Melnati and Guglielmo Barnabò. The film was made at the Pisorno Studios in Tirrenia. It is one of several films considered as a possible precursor to the giallo genre.Moliterno p.150 Plot Cast * Vivi Gioi as Cristina Redy * Umberto Melnati as Ugo Redy, suo marito * Guglielmo Barnabò as Il gionalista Saverio Funk * Bianca Doria as Eva Fredy * Lauro Gazzolo as L'editore Isidoro Storch * Gilda Marchiò as La signora Ipanoff * Giacomo Moschini as Il commissario Plunk * Egisto Olivieri as Il professore Ermanno Heker * Gualtiero Isnenghi as Il dottor Besson * Mario Besesti as Gruner, l'aiuntante del commissario * Enzo Biliotti as Il barone Von Springher * Dina Perbellini as La contessa * Mirka Bereny as L'infermiera * Dino Di Luca as Il primo giocatore di scacchi * Gerardo Frossi as Un domestico della clinica * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malombra (1942 Film)
''Malombra'' is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Isa Miranda, Andrea Checchi and Irasema Dilián. It is based on the novel '' Malombra'' by Antonio Fogazzaro,Gundle p.139 which had previously been adapted into a 1917 silent film of the same title. It was made at Cinecittà with sets designed by Gino Brosio. It was produced by Riccardo Gualino's Lux Film. It belongs to the movies of the calligrafismo style. The film is a gothic melodrama, set in the castle on the edge of Lake Como during the Nineteenth century. Cast * Isa Miranda as Marina di Malombra * Andrea Checchi as Corrado Silla * Irasema Dilián as Edith Steinegge * Gualtiero Tumiati as Il conte Cesare d'Ormengo * Nino Crisman as Nepo Salvador * Enzo Biliotti as Il commendator Napoleone Vezza * Ada Dondini as Fosca Salvador * Giacinto Molteni as Andrea Steinegge * Corrado Racca as Padre Tosi * Luigi Pavese as Il professore Binda * Nando Tamberlani as Don Innocenzo * Dorett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Countess Of Castiglione
''The Countess of Castiglione'' (Italian: ''La contessa Castiglione'') is a 1942 Italian historical film directed by Flavio Calzavara and starring Doris Duranti, Andrea Checchi and Renato Cialente. The film portrays the life of the nineteenth-century Italian aristocrat Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, best known as the lover of Napoleon III of France. Cast *Doris Duranti as Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione *Andrea Checchi as Baldo Princivalli *Renato Cialente as Costantino Nigra *Enzo Biliotti as Napoleon III *Lamberto Picasso as marchese Oldoini *Clara Auteri Pepe as Martina * Annibale Betrone as L'urbanista barone Haussmann * Giacomo Moschini as Mocquart * Cesare Barbetti as Il piccolo Peruzzi * Marisa Dianora as Marianna * Claudio Ermelli as Il nobile sulla sedia a rotelle * Nino Marchesini as Connot * Alfredo Martinelli as Un amico degli Oldoini * Armando Migliari as Un amico degli Oldoini * Nico Pepe as Un amico degli Oldoini * Emilio Petacci as Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Cesare Di Bazan
''Don Cesare di Bazan'' is a 1942 Italian historical adventure film directed by Riccardo Freda and starring Gino Cervi, Anneliese Uhlig and Paolo Stoppa. The film is set during the Catalan Revolt of the Seventeenth century. It is based on a play by Philippe Dumanoir and Adolphe d'Ennery. It marked the directoral debut of Freda who went on to be a leading commercial Italian filmmaker.Moliterno p.136 Cast * Gino Cervi as Don Cesare di Bazan * Anneliese Uhlig as Renée Dumas * Paolo Stoppa as Sancho * Enrico Glori as Il visconte di Beaumont * Enzo Biliotti as Filippo IV * Giovanni Grasso as Don José di Nogueira * Carlo Duse as Il "Corvo", il messagero del visconte * Antonio Marietti as Il giovane conte, il finto attore * Alfredo Robert as Pasquale Cornalis, il capocomico * Sandrino Moreno as Il bambino * Anna Maria Dionisi as La cameriera di Renée * Ermanno Donati as Velasquez * Antonio Acqua as Il capitano Ribera * Armando Francioli as Un nobile ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Betrothed (1941 Film)
''The Betrothed'' (Italian: ''I Promessi Sposi'') is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Gino Cervi, Dina Sassoli and Ruggero Ruggeri. It is an adaptation of the 1827 novel '' The Betrothed'' by Alessandro Manzoni. The film's producers organised a competition to select the lead actress (eventually won by Sassoli) which was modelled on the hunt for Scarlett O'Hara by the American producer David O. Selznick for '' Gone With the Wind''.Forgacs & Gundle p.159-160 It belongs to the movies of the calligrafismo style. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome and on location around Como. The film's sets were created by the art directors Gastone Medin and Gino Brosio while the costumes were designed by Gino Sensani. The novel was turned into a film again in 1964 and a television miniseries in 1989. Plot Part One In a small town on Lake Como, the peasants Renzo (short for Lorenzo) and Lucia love each other, but are hampered by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
