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Fausto Tozzi
Fausto Tozzi (29 October 1921 – 10 December 1978) was an Italian film actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 70 films between 1951 and 1978. He wrote the script for ''The Defeated Victor'', which was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. He also directed one film, '' Trastevere''. Life and career Born in Rome, after graduating in accountancy Tozzi made several humble jobs, including peddler and bird taxidermist. He was introduced in the cinema industry by Sergio Amidei, for whom he worked as a stenographer. Through Amidei, Tozzi met Renato Castellani, with whom he collaborated as a screenwriter for '' Professor, My Son'' (1946) and ''Under the Sun of Rome'' (1948, based on a Tozzi's original story). In the early 1950s, he also started working as an assistant director and as an actor, sometimes being cast in main roles. His typical roles were of hardmen and villains. He was also active on stage, where he is best known for the role of Gnecco in ''Rugant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
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Four Ways Out
''Four Ways Out'' ( it, La città si difende) is a 1951 Italian crime film directed by Pietro Germi and starring Gina Lollobrigida, Renato Baldini and Cosetta Greco. The film won the award for Best Italian Film at the 1951 Venice Film Festival. The film's sets were designed by the art director Carlo Egidi. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios and on location around Rome. Synopsis The four main characters rob a stadium ticket booth during a football match, afterwards dividing the spoils and splitting. The film follows their efforts to evade the police, complicated by the fact they are not professional criminals. Four thieves, Paolo, Luigi, Guido and Alberto steal the proceeds of a football match at the stadium and run away. These are not habitual offenders, but poor people from various social backgrounds who hope to find opportunities for a better life in theft. Paolo, a former footballer whose career was interrupted by an injury, tries with money to win back the favors of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Po' Di Cielo
''Un po' di cielo'' is a 1955 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti. Its name is Italian for "A bit of heaven". Cast * Gabriele Ferzetti as Frank Lo Giudice * Constance Smith as Nora * Fausto Tozzi as Roberto Maltoni * Aldo Fabrizi as Pietro Maltoni * Peppino De Filippo as Fabrizio Pagani * Tina Pica Tina Pica (31 March 1884 – 15 August 1968) was an Italian supporting actress who played character roles on stage. Her film debut came in 1935 with '' The Three-Cornered Hat''. In the 1950s, she became a celebrity thanks to her role as Carame ... as Antonietta References External links * 1955 films 1950s Italian-language films Italian romantic drama films 1955 romantic drama films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Ladra
''La ladra'' (french: Les anges aux mains noires) is a 1955 Italian-French crime-melodrama film co-written and directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Lise Bourdin and Fausto Tozzi. Plot Whistle is an orphaned boy, raised in an environment unsuitable for a budding child and thief. A shady lawyer, an accomplice of thieves and fences, entrusts him to Nino, the leader of a gang that is preparing a particularly valuable coup. On the appointed day, Whistle and Bebè, accompanied by Nino who passes himself off as an employer, must present themselves at Countess Barenghi's house as chimney sweeps, but Whistle seriously injures himself falling from the chimney and sends the blow upstream. Anna, who has lost a small son and has begun to become attached to the child, pretends to be his mother to take him away but the doctor, called by the countess, forbids him to move. The two thus live a few days in that strange house, during which they become attached to each other. In the meantime, Nino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folgore Division
''Folgore Division'' ( it, Divisione Folgore) is a 1955 Italian war film directed by Duilio Coletti. It is based on actual events and depicts the 185th Airborne Division Folgore during the battle of El-Alamein. The screenwriter and military advisor was Marcantonio Bragadin. Plot In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having undergone a long and tiring training in Italy, was transported by air to the Libyan desert to cover the Italian-German front. The young soldiers believe that their destination is the island of Malta (operation C3) or the area of Alexandria: instead they find themselves thrown into a desert region where they are forced to live in holes dug in the sand and to face with insufficient means the armored British armored units. They will sadly see their parachutes piled up inside a warehouse in the desert. Thus develops that epic fight, which takes the name of the battle of El-Alamein, in wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Red Cloak
''The Red Cloak'' (Italian: ''Il mantello rosso'') is a 1955 French-Italian historical adventure film directed by Giuseppe Maria Scotese and starring Patricia Medina, Fausto Tozzi and Jean Murat.Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908–1990 p.134 Cast * Patricia Medina as Laura Lanfranchi * Fausto Tozzi as Luca de Bardi * Jean Murat as Cosimo, il capitano del popolo * Bruce Cabot as Capitano Raniero d'Anversa * Colette Deréal * Guy Mairesse as il Guercio * Lyla Rocco as Stella * Domenico Modugno as Saro * Nyta Dover * Jean-François Calvé * Aldo Pensa * Erminio Spalla * Franco Caruso * Eduardo de Santis as Capitano dei Guelfi * Jeanne Fusier-Gir * Giorgio Gandos * Giacomo Rossi Stuart * Franco Fantasia * Andrea Fantasia Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide for both males and females, cognate to Andreas, Andrej and Andrew. Origin of the name The name derives from the Greek word ἀνήρ (''anēr''), genitive ἀνδρός (''andrós'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost City (1955 Film)
''The Lost City'' (Spanish:''La ciudad perdida'' or ''Terrorists in Madrid'', Italian:''Terroristi a Madrid'') is a 1955 Italian-Spanish drama film directed by Margarita Alexandre and Rafael María Torrecilla and starring Cosetta Greco, Fausto Tozzi and María Dolores Pradera.Bentley p.124 It is an adaptation of La ciudad perdida (1953) by Spanish author '' Mercedes Formica''. The film's sets were designed by Enrique Alarcón. Plot Rafael, an ex-exiled republican of the Spanish Civil War, returns to his native city after the years and in the company of his fellow maquis (members of the Resistance) with the mission of carrying out an armed action against Franco's regime. But the mission fails and, in his desperate attempt to escape, Rafael kidnaps a beautiful high class woman. Cast * Cosetta Greco as María * Fausto Tozzi as Rafael * María Dolores Pradera as Luisa * Félix Dafauce as Comisario * Nani Fernández as Sole * Manolo Morán as Eliseo * Santiago Rivero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Cinque Dell'Adamello
''I cinque dell'Adamello'' (i. e. "The Five from the Adamello") is a 1954 Italian war drama film written and directed by Pino Mercanti and starring Fausto Tozzi and Nadia Gray.Alberto Albertazzi. "I cinque dell'Adamello". ''Intermezzo'' (10/11). 15 June 1954. Plot Cast *Fausto Tozzi as Leonida *Nadia Gray as Magda *Franco Balducci as Renato * Mario Colli as Momi * Dario Michaelis as Pinin *Walter Santesso as Piero * Attilio Bossio as Doschei *Saro Urzì as Briscola * Piera Simoni as Rosina * Rita Rosa as Mariolina *Guido Celano as Don Romualdo * Fedele Gentile as Captain Alvaro * Mariolina Cappellano as Lauretta *Dina Perbellini as Piero's Mother * Cristina Pall as The Marquise *Michele Malaspina as Piero's Father *Nino Marchesini Nino Marchesini (1895 – 13 January 1961) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1931 to 1961. Filmography References External links * 1895 births 1961 deaths Italian male film actors {{Italy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Ricordi
''House of Ricordi'' ( it, Casa Ricordi) is a 1954 French-Italian historical melodrama film based on the early history of the Italian music publishing house Casa Ricordi. It is directed by Carmine Gallone and stars Märta Torén, Marcello Mastroianni and Micheline Presle. The Ricordi family's interactions with many of the great composers of the nineteenth century are portrayed. The film's sets were designed by Mario Chiari. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios and on location in Milan, Paris and Rome. Main cast * Roland Alexandre as Gioacchino Rossini * Myriam Bru as Luisa Lewis * Elisa Cegani as Giuseppina Strepponi * Andrea Checchi as Giulio Ricordi * Danièle Delorme as Maria * Gabriele Ferzetti as Giacomo Puccini * Fosco Giachetti as Giuseppe Verdi * Renzo Giovampietro as Tito Ricordi * Nadia Gray as Giulia Grisi * Roldano Lupi as Domenico Barbaja * Marcello Mastroianni as Gaetano Donizetti * Micheline Presle as Virginia Marchi * Maurice Ronet as Vincenzo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casta Diva (1954 Film)
''Casta Diva'' is a 1954 Italian-French biographical melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone. It is a remake of Gallone's 1935 film with the same name. Plot The film tells the fictionalized biography of the famous musician Vincenzo Bellini, who lived in the 19th century and died at the age of 34. Cast * Antonella Lualdi as Maddalena Fumaroli * Nadia Gray as Giuditta Pasta * Maurice Ronet as Vincenzo Bellini * Fausto Tozzi as Gaetano Donizetti * Jacques Castelot as Ernesto Tosi * Marina Berti as Beatrice Turina * Renzo Ricci as Giudice Fumaroli * Jean Richard as Fiorillo * Paola Borboni as Miss Monti * Lauro Gazzolo as Domenico Barbaja * Danilo Berardinelli as Niccolò Paganini * Renzo Giovampietro as Saverio Mercadante * Camillo Pilotto as Rettore Conservatorio * Luigi Tosi as Felice Romani * Dante Maggio as Il pazzariello * Nino Vingelli Nino Vingelli (4 June 1912 – 26 March 2003) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1941 and 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Steel Rope
''The Steel Rope'' (Italian: ''La corda d'acciaio'') is a 1954 melodrama film directed by Carlo Borghesio and starring Brigitte Fossey and Virna Lisi. Plot Cast * Brigitte Fossey as Marcella * Fausto Tozzi as Filippo * Xenia Valderi as Elsa * Virna Lisi as Stella * Nando Bruno as Checco * Olga Solbelli as Edvige * Rina Franchetti Rina Franchetti (23 December 1907 – 18 August 2010) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1932 and 1990. Selected filmography * '' Two Happy Hearts'' (1932) * '' La segretaria per tutti'' (1933) * ''The Peddler and ... External links * 1954 films 1950s Italian-language films Films directed by Carlo Borghesio Italian drama films 1954 drama films Melodrama films Italian black-and-white films French black-and-white films French drama films 1950s Italian films 1950s French films {{1950s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musoduro
''Musoduro'' is a 1953 French-Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe Bennati and starring Fausto Tozzi, Marina Vlady and Cosetta Greco.Goble p.469 Cast * Fausto Tozzi as Marco / Musoduro * Marina Vlady as Lucia Giardano * Cosetta Greco as Anita * Gérard Landry as Romolo * Odoardo Spadaro as Pinzi, venditore ambulante * Giulio Calì as Rospo * José Jaspe as Carabinieri * Alessandro Fersen Alessandro Fersen (5 December 1911 – 3 October 2001) was a Polish-born Italian dramatist, actor, theater director, author and drama teacher. Born Aleksander Fajrajzen in Łódź to a Jewish family, Fersen he moved to Genoa with his family in 1 ... as Dott. Biondi * Gianni Cavalieri as Il sacerdote * Dante Nello Carapelli as Giordono References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1953 drama films French drama films Italian drama films 1953 films 1950s Italian-language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
