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Fabiola (1949 Film)
''Fabiola'' (UK title: ''The Fighting Gladiator'') is a 1949 Italian language motion picture historical drama directed by Alessandro Blasetti, very loosely based on the 1854 novel ''Fabiola (novel), Fabiola'' by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Henri Vidal and Michel Simon. It tells the story of the Roman Empire in which Christianity is growing around the 4th century AD. An unofficial remake, ''The Revolt of the Slaves'' (''La Rivolta degli Schiavi''), was released in 1960, with Lang Jeffries and Rhonda Fleming, only with Rhual's name changed to Vibio. Plot In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a gallic gladiator. When Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to be a Christian and is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to death in the arena. 312 AD. Rhual, a young and athletic Gaul, is invited to take part in the gladiator games at the ... [...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] |
Sergio Tofano
Sergio Tòfano (20 August 1886 – 28 October 1973) was an Italian actor, director, playwright, scene designer and illustrator. Tofano was born in Rome. In 1909, he made his first appearance on stage with Ermete Novelli, then joined Virgilio Talli's company (1913–23). He soon specialized as a comic actor, giving his role a new elegance and complexity. He worked with other famous actors and directors: Dario Niccodemi (1924–27); Luigi Almirante and Giuditta Rissone (1927–30), Elsa Merlini, Vittorio De Sica, Evi Maltagliati, Gino Cervi etc. During those years, he made his famous performances as Doctor Knock in Jules Romains' play, and as Professor Toti in Luigi Pirandello's ''Pensaci, Giacomino!''. He also led important theatrical firms. After the Second World War, he worked with the most important directors, like Luchino Visconti and Giorgio Strehler. In 1917 Tofano invented, for a children's magazine, ''Il Corriere dei Piccoli'', a famous character, Signo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Historical Drama Films ...
This is an index of lists of historical films. By country of origin * List of Estonian war films * List of Polish war films * List of Romanian historical films * List of Russian historical films * List of Vietnamese historical films By era * List of Korean War films * List of Spanish Civil War films * List of Vietnam War films * List of World War I films * List of World War II films * List of Yugoslav Wars films By geography * List of historical films set in Near Eastern and Western civilization * List of historical films set in Asia {{DEFAULTSORT:historical film lists Historical Historical History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriele Ferzetti
Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti; 17 March 1925 – 2 December 2015) was an Italian actor with more than 160 credits across film, television, and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. Ferzetti's first leading role was in the film ''Lo Zappatore'' (1950). He portrayed Puccini twice in the films ''Puccini'' (1953) and ''Casa Ricordi'' (1954). He made his international breakthrough in Michelangelo Antonioni's controversial ''L'Avventura'' (1960) as a restless playboy. After a series of romantic performances, he acquired a reputation in Italy as an elegant, debonair, and somewhat aristocratic looking leading man. Ferzetti starred as Lot in John Huston's biblical epic, '' The Bible: In the Beginning...'' (1966), and played railroad baron Morton in Sergio Leone's ''Once Upon a Time in the West'' (1968). Perhaps his best known role, internationally, was in the James Bond movie '' On Her Majesty's Secret Service'' (1969) as Marc Ange Draco, although his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludmilla Dudarova
Ludmilla Dudarova was a Turkish-born Romanian film actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lite ... known for her work in Italy.Verdone p.121 Filmography References Bibliography * Verdone, Luca. ''I film di Alessandro Blasetti''. Gremese Editore, 1989. External links * Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown Romanian people of Turkish descent Romanian emigrants to Italy Romanian film actresses People from Samsun {{Romania-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgilio Riento
Virgilio Riento (29 November 1889 – 7 September 1959) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 108 films between 1936 and 1959. Selected filmography * ''Sette giorni all'altro mondo'' (1936) - Man on train * ''Il signor Max'' (1937) - Pepe * ''A Lady Did It'' (1938) - Pasquale * '' For Men Only'' (1938) - Pasquale Pappalardo * ''The Marquis of Ruvolito'' (1939) - Don Timurata * '' I, His Father'' (1939) - Il cavaliere * ''Department Store'' (1939) - Gaetano * '' The Make Believe Pirates'' (1939) * ''The Silent Partner (1939) - Il maggiore * ''Il signore della taverna'' (1940) - Il vice-commissario * ''Il ponte dei sospiri'' (1940) - Bertuccio * ''Boccaccio'' (1940) - Il bottaro * ''Miseria e nobiltà'' (1940) - Felice * ''Il re del circo'' (1941) - Bastiani, suo zio * ''L'attore scomparso'' (1941) - Il trovarobe * ''Due cuori sotto sequestro'' (1941) - L'uffiziale giudiziario * ''Teresa Venerdì'' (1941) - Antonio * ''La scuola dei timidi'' (1941) - Roc * ''Se io fossi on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goliarda Sapienza
Goliarda Sapienza (10 May 1924 – 30 August 1996) was an Italian actress and writer. She is best known for her 1998 novel '' L'arte della gioia'' (The Art of Joy). Life Early life Sapienza was born on 10 May 1924 in Catania, Sicily to Maria Giudice (1880–1953) and Giuseppe “Peppino” Sapienza (1880–1949). Giudice, a prominent journalist was originally from Lombardy, and a feminist activist as well as a prominent member of the Italian Socialist Party who had been repeatedly imprisoned for her beliefs. Giudice collaborated with national and international left-wing intellectuals, including Angelica Balabanoff, Antonio Gramsci, Lenin, and Umberto Terracini. Giudice had a "free union" relationship with Carlo Civardi, had died while fighting as a soldier in World War I, leaving her with seven children to raise. In 1919 Giudice moved to Sicily to help organize the local socialist organizations and trade unions. It was there in Catania, that she met Peppino Sapienza who had raised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvana Jachino
Silvana Jachino (2 February 1916 – 28 August 2004) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 65 films between 1936 and 1970. She was born in Milan, Italy and died in Rimini, Italy. Partial filmography * ''Cuor di vagabondo'' (1936) * ''Nozze vagabonde'' (1936) * ''Cavalry'' (1936) - Carlotta di Frasseneto * ''Fiordalisi d'oro'' (1936) - Agnese di Fitz-James * ''Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno'' (1937) - Principessa Fiorella * ''It Was I!'' (1937) * ''Gatta ci cova'' (1937) - Iole - la figlia di Antonia * ''The Black Corsair'' (1938) - Honorata * ''Ballerine'' (1938) * '' Departure'' (1938) - Mimì * ''Lotte nell'ombra'' (1938) - Dora * ''L'ultimo scugnizzo'' (1938) - Antonio's girfriend * ''Crispino e la comare'' (1938) - La marchesina * ''Lancieri di Savoia'' (1939) * ''Fascino'' (1939) - Liliana * ''Il ladro'' (1939) - Nelly * ''We Were Seven Widows'' (1939) - Barbara * ''L'aria del continente'' (1939) * ''Le educande di Saint-Cyr'' (1939) - Gemmina Merian * ''Diario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldo Silvani
Aldo Silvani (21 January 1891 – 12 November 1964) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1934 and 1964. He was born in Turin, Italy and died in Milan, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Cardinal Lambertini'' (1934) * ''The Ancestor'' (1936) * '' The Three Wishes'' (1937) * ''The King of England Will Not Pay'' (1941) * '' Carmela'' (1942) * '' The Jester's Supper'' (1942) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1942) * ''Four Steps in the Clouds'' (1942) * ''Lively Teresa'' (1943) * ''Anything for a Song'' (1943) * ''Maria Malibran'' (1943) * '' The Son of the Red Corsair'' (1943) * '' Romulus and the Sabines'' (1945) * ''L'abito nero da sposa'' (1945) * ''The Ten Commandments'' (1945) * ''Life Begins Anew'' (1945) * ''The Ways of Sin'' (1946) * ''The Courier of the King'' (1947) * ''To Live in Peace'' (1947) * ''The Captain's Daughter'' (1947) * ''Difficult Years'' (1948) * ''Mad About Opera'' (1948) * ''Little Lady'' (1949) * ''A Night of Fame'' (1949) * '' S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guglielmo Barnabò
Guglielmo Barnabò (11 May 1888 – 31 May 1954) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1926 and 1954. Life and career Born in Ancona, Barnabò made his stage debut in 1921 at the Greek Theatre of Syracuse, with the Annibale Ninchi's company. Since then he was enrolled by some of the most important stage companies of his time, working among others with Marta Abba, Alda Borelli, Maria Melato, Gino Cervi, Paolo Stoppa. In 1927 Barnabò made his screen debut in the silent film ''Beauty of the World'', but his film career took off with the sound cinema, when he became one of the most active character actors of the 1930s and the 1940s. Specialized in good-natured and bourgeois character roles, he is best known as the villain capitalist in Vittorio De Sica's '' Miracle in Milan''. Barnabò was married to actress , with whom he often worked in films and on stage. Selected filmography * ''Beauty of the World'' (1927) * '' The Las ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Interlenghi
Franco Interlenghi (29 October 1931 – 10 September 2015) was an Italian actor. He made his acting debut at 15 in Vittorio De Sica's 1946 Neorealist film ''Sciuscià''. He has worked with great directors such as Alessandro Blasetti in '' Fabiola'', Roberto Rossellini in '' Viva l'Italia!'' and '' Il generale della Rovere'', Federico Fellini in ''I vitelloni'', Michelangelo Antonioni in '' I vinti'', Mauro Bolognini in '' La notte brava'' and Luchino Visconti in his stage adaptation of ''Death of a Salesman''. He also appeared in international films, such as Joseph L. Mankiewicz's ''The Barefoot Contessa'', Julien Duvivier's ''Le petit monde de don Camillo'', Charles Vidor's ''A Farewell to Arms'' and the Italian-American co-production ''Ulysses'', directed by Mario Camerini. With his wife, Antonella Lualdi, he had two children, one of whom is actress Antonellina Interlenghi. Franco Interlenghi died on 10 September 2015, aged 83. Filmography *''Sciuscià'' (1946) - Pasquale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
