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Fedora (1942 Film)
''Fedora'' is a 1942 Italian historical drama film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque and starring Luisa Ferida, Amedeo Nazzari and Osvaldo Valenti.Chiti & Poppi p.138 It is based on the 1882 play of the same title by Victorien Sardou. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. Synopsis In the Russian Empire during the 1870s, after her prospective groom is assassinated on her wedding day Princess Fedora vows revenge on the killer. In Paris she meets and falls in love with an artist, before realising that he is the assassin. After reporting him to the Russian secret police, she comes to understand his reasons for doing what he did. Cast * Luisa Ferida as Fedora * Amedeo Nazzari as Loris Ipanov / Ivan Petrovic * Osvaldo Valenti as Vladimiro Yariskine * Memo Benassi as Il principe Yariskine * Rina Morelli as Olga Soukarev * Sandro Ruffini as De Sirieux * Annibale Betrone as Boroff * Augusto Marcacci as Gretc ...
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Camillo Mastrocinque
Camillo Mastrocinque (11 May 1901 – 23 April 1969) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 60 films between 1937 and 1968, and is known to horror film fans for directing ''Terror in the Crypt'' (1964) starring Christopher Lee, and ''An Angel for Satan'' (1966) starring Barbara Steele. Selected filmography * ''Queen of the Scala'' (1937) * ''I Want to Live with Letizia'' (1938) * '' The Cuckoo Clock'' (1938) * ''Don Pasquale'' (1940) * '' The Last Dance'' (1941) * ''Fedora'' (1942) * '' A Living Statue'' (1943) * '' Lost in the Dark'' (1947) * ''Be Seeing You, Father'' (1948) * '' The Fighting Men'' (1950) * ''That Ghost of My Husband'' (1950) * ''Anna's Sin'' (1952) * ''Toto in Hell'' (1955) * '' Are We Men or Corporals?'' (1955) * ''Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy'' (1956) * ''Toto, Peppino and the Outlaws'' (1956) * ''The Band of Honest Men'' (1956) * ''Totò lascia o raddoppia?'' (1956) * ''The Lady Doctor'' (1957) * ''The Beautiful Legs of Sab ...
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Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it visual communication, communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style (visual arts), style(s) to use, and when to use motion graphic design, motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the col ...
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Mirza Capanna
Mirza may refer to: * Mirza, Kamrup, town in Assam, India * Mirza (name), historical royal title & noble * ''Mirza'', the genus of giant mouse lemur * "Mirza", song by Nino Ferrer * ''Mirza – The Untold Story'', Punjabi action romance film written and directed by Baljit Singh Deo * Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader * Mirza melon, melon variety native to Central Asia See also * Mirzayev * Mirzapur (TV series) ''Mirzapur'' is an Indian Hindi-language action crime thriller web series on Amazon Prime Video, created by Karan Anshuman, who wrote the script along with Puneet Krishna & Vineet Krishna. Anshuman directed the first season of the series, a ...
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Guido Celano
Guido Celano (19 April 1904 – 7 March 1988) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film director. He appeared in 120 films between 1931 and 1988. He also directed two Spaghetti Westerns: '' Cold Killer'' and '' Gun Shy Piluk''. He was born in Francavilla al Mare, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography *'' Rotaie'' (1929, directed by Mario Camerini) *''La scala'' (1931, directed by Gennaro Righelli) *'' The Charmer'' (1931, directed by Guido Brignone) *''The Devil's Lantern'' (1931) *''Palio'' (1932, directed by Alessandro Blasetti) *''The Blue Fleet'' (1932, directed by Gennaro Righelli) *'' My Little One'' (1933) *'' Squadrone bianco'' (1936, directed by Augusto Genina) *''Music in the Square'' (1936, directed by Mario Mattoli) *''The Black Corsair'' (1937, directed by Amleto Palermi) *'' Doctor Antonio'' (1937) *''Giuseppe Verdi'' (1938) *''Pietro Micca'' (1938) *''The Silent Partner'' (1939) *''Jeanne Doré'' (1939, directed by Mario Bonnard) *'' Le sorpre ...
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Nerio Bernardi
Nerio Bernardi (23 July 1899 – 12 January 1971) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in nearly 200 films between 1918 and 1970. He was born in Bologna, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Nero'' (1922) * ''The Shepherd King'' (1923) * '' Full Speed'' (1934) * ''Port'' (1934) * ''Loyalty of Love'' (1934) * '' God's Will Be Done'' (1936) * ''King of Diamonds'' (1936) * ''Bayonet'' (1936) * ''The Black Corsair'' (1937) * '' Abandonment'' (1940) * '' Captain Fracasse'' (1940) * ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (1940) * ''Antonio Meucci'' (1940) * '' The Last Dance'' (1941) * ''The Mask of Cesare Borgia'' (1941) * '' A che servono questi quattrini?'' (1942) * ''The Queen of Navarre'' (1942) * '' Fedora'' (1942) * '' In High Places'' (1943) * ''Special Correspondents'' (1943) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1947) * ''The Courier of the King'' (1947) * ''The Lady of the Camellias'' (1947) * ''Mare Nostrum'' (1948) * '' Be Seeing You, Father'' (1948) * ''The Charterhouse of Parma ...
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Augusto Marcacci
Augusto Marcacci (4 June 1892 – 7 December 1969) was an Italian actor and voice actor.Mancini p.229 Selected filmography * '' Dimmed Lights'' (1934) * '' Lady of Paradise'' (1934) * '' Golden Arrow'' (1935) * ''Condottieri'' (1937) * '' The Cuckoo Clock'' (1938) * '' Beyond Love'' (1940) * ''Eternal Melodies'' (1940) * ''The First Woman Who Passes'' (1940) * ''First Love'' (1941) * ''The Mask of Cesare Borgia'' (1941) * '' Girl of the Golden West'' (1942) * '' Love Story'' (1942) * '' Invisible Chains'' (1942) * ''Fedora'' (1942) * ''A Little Wife'' (1943) * ''Rita of Cascia Rita of Cascia, born Margherita Lotti (1381 – 22 May 1457), was an Italians, Italian widow and Augustinian nuns, Augustinian nun venerated as a List of Catholic saints, saint in the Roman Catholic Church. After Rita's husband died, she joine ...'' (1943) References Bibliography * Mancini, Elaine. ''Struggles of the Italian film industry during fascism, 1930-1935''. UMI Research Press, 1985. Extern ...
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Annibale Betrone
Annibale Betrone (1883–1950) was an Italian stage and film actor.Goble p.34 Selected filmography * '' Black Shirt'' (1933) * ''Villafranca'' (1934) * ''Teresa Venerdì'' (1941) * '' Piccolo mondo antico'' (1941) * '' Fedora'' (1942) * '' Torrents of Spring'' (1942) * ''The Countess of Castiglione'' (1942) * ''Giarabub'' (1942) * ''The Gorgon'' (1942) * ''The Gates of Heaven'' (1945) * ''Pact with the Devil'' (1950) * ''Torment Torment may refer to: * The feeling of pain or suffering * Causing to suffer, torture Films * ''Torment'' (1924 film), a silent crime-drama * ''Torment'' (1944 film) (''Hets''), a Swedish film * ''Torment'' (1950 British film), a British thr ...'' (1950) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1883 births 1950 deaths Italian male film actors Actors from Turin 20th-century Italian male actors {{Italy-film-actor-stub ...
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Sandro Ruffini
Alessandro "Sandro" Ruffini (21 September 1889 – 29 November 1954) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Born in Rome, Ruffini appeared in 64 films between 1913 and 1954, and was also active in theatre and radio. He was well known for his beautiful "aristocratic" voice and dubbed the voices of many actors for the Italian versions of their films, including Leslie Howard in ''Gone with the Wind'', Clifton Webb in '' Laura'', and Charlie Chaplin in '' Limelight''. Selected filmography * '' Odette'' (1916) * ''The Last Tsars'' (1928) * ''Giallo'' (1933) * ''White Amazons'' (1936) * ''The Knight of San Marco'' (1939) * ''The Daughter of the Green Pirate'' (1940) * '' Abandonment'' (1940) * ''Eternal Melodies'' (1940) * '' Schoolgirl Diary'' (1941) * ''The Two Tigers'' (1941) * ''Pirates of Malaya'' (1941) * '' Fedora'' (1942) * '' The Testimony'' (1946) * '' Lost in the Dark'' (1947) * '' Cab Number 13'' (1948) * '' The Two Sisters'' (1950) * '' Sunday Heroes'' (1952) * ''Ivan, ...
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Rina Morelli
Rina Morelli (6 December 1908 – 17 July 1976) was an Italian film and stage actress. She appeared in 34 films between 1939 and 1976. She was born in Naples, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Her husband, Paolo Stoppa, was an Italian stage and film actor, as well as a renowned Italian language dubber for American film stars. Selected filmography * ''An Adventure of Salvator Rosa'' (1939) - The duchess Isabella di Torniano * ''The Iron Crown'' (1941) - Old woman with the spindle * '' Yes, Madam'' (1942) - Suor Valeria * ''Fedora'' (1942) - Olga Soukarev * ''Don Julio'' (1942) - Socorrito * ''Maria Malibran'' (1943) - Angelina * ''Il nostro prossimo'' (1943) - The parson's housekeeper * ''Gli assi della risata'' (1943) - Maid (segment "L'ombrello smarrito") (uncredited) * ''Quartetto pazzo'' (1945) - Monica * ''What a Distinguished Family'' (1945) - Patrizia * ''Black Eagle'' (1946) - Irina * '' Fabiola'' (1949) - Faustina * ''The Forbidden Christ'' (1951) - Mother Baldi * ''In ...
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Memo Benassi
Domenico "Memo" Benassi (21 June 1886 – 24 February 1957) was an Italian film actor who appeared in more than forty films in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He played the composer Beethoven in the 1942 film '' Rossini''.Mathew & Walton p.337 Selected filmography * ''Notte di tempesta'' (1916) * ''Mimì e gli straccioni'' (1916) * ''Il gioiello sinistro'' (1917) * ''La nemica'' (1917) * ''Margheritella'' (1918) * ''La scala di seta'' (1920) * ''The Love Letters of Baroness S'' (1924) - Straßenmusikant Giovanni * ''The Adventures of Sybil Brent'' (1925) - Theo Hartwig, Schriftsteller * ''The Old Lady'' (1932) - Joe * '' The Lucky Diamond'' (1933) - Il maggiordomo * ''Il trattato scomparso'' (1933) - John Brown - detective * ''The Haller Case'' (1933) - Judge Haller * ''L'impiegata di papà'' (1934) - Banchiere Monti * ''Everybody's Woman'' (1934) - Leonardo Nanni * ''Conquest of the Air'' (1936) - Francesco Lama di Brescia (uncredited) * '' Lady of Paradise'' (1937) ...
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Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ...
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. The rise of the Russian Empire coincided with the decline of neighbouring rival powers: the Swedish Empire, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Qajar Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and Qing China. It also held colonies in North America between 1799 and 1867. Covering an area of approximately , it remains the third-largest empire in history, surpassed only by the British Empire and the Mongol Empire; it ruled over a population of 125.6 million people per the 1897 Russian census, which was the only census carried out during the entire imperial period. Owing to its geographic extent across three continents at its peak, it featured great ethnic, linguistic, religious, and economic diversity. From the 10th–17th centuries, the land ...
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