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Folco Lulli
Folco Lulli (3 July 1912 – 23 May 1970) was an Italian partisan and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1946 and 1970. He was the brother of actor Piero Lulli. Selected filmography * ''How I Lost the War'' (1947) * ''The White Primrose'' (1947) * ''Flesh Will Surrender'' (1947) * ''Tragic Hunt'' (1947) * ''Bullet for Stefano'' (1947) * '' Without Pity'' (1948) * ''Crossroads of Passion'' (1948) * '' Escape to France'' (1948) * ''L'eroe della strada'' (1948) * ''How I Discovered America'' (1949) * ''Vertigine d'amore'' (1949) * ''Toto Looks for a House'' (1949) * ''A Night of Fame'' (1949) * ''Hawk of the Nile'' (1950) * ''No Peace Under the Olive Tree'' (1950) * ''Variety Lights'' (1950) * ''Lorenzaccio'' (1951) * ''Shadows Over Naples'' (1951) * ''Brief Rapture'' (1951) * '' Nobody's Children'' (1951) * '' Tragic Serenade'' (1951) * ''Love and Blood'' (1951) * ''Falsehood'' (1952) * ''The Wages of Fear'' (1953) * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1954) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico anno 2013, datISTAT/ref> Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy (established in 1861). The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawk Of The Nile
''Hawk of the Nile'' ( it, Lo sparviero del Nilo) is a 1950 Italian adventure film directed by Giacomo Gentilomo and starring Enzo Fiermonte and Silvana Pampanini. Plot In the first half of the nineteenth century the young Leila left Paris, where she was educated, to go to Cairo to collect the inheritance of her late grandfather, a rich Egyptian pasha. Cousin Ibrahim, who administers the land properties in a dishonest manner with the complicity of his trusted Yusuf, gives the banker Micropulos the research rights in sapphire deposits located in the territory of the Beni Amer Bedouins, making them and Leila believe that they are drilling artesian wells, thus obtaining the approval of Rachid, the young sheikh of the Beni Amer. He, who went to Cairo to renew the pact that allows his people to live on the lands granted them, meets Leila and falls in love with her. Releases land administration to Ibrahim and Yusuf; these, after having commanded the delivery of the weapons, provoke the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orient Express (1954 Film)
''Orient Express'' is a 1954 drama film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Silvana Pampanini, Henri Vidal, Folco Lulli, Eva Bartok, and Curd Jürgens. It was made as a co-production between Italy, France and West Germany. It was shot at the Farnesina Studios of Titanus in Rome and on location in the Dolomites. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti. Plot The plot revolves around a two-day stop at a village in the Alps by passengers on the Orient Express. Reviews The national and international reviews were mostly bad. Below are three examples: "Intermezzo" wrote: "The Italian and German film industries collaborated in the production of this film, which, judging by the results, did not deserve so much fervor of international activity." Der Spiegel wrote: “After 150 long meters, the express gets stuck in an avalanche of snow and the film gets stuck in a conglomeration of boredom and acting mistakes (Silvana Pampanini and Eva Bartok) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maddalena (1954 Film)
''Maddalena'' is a 1954 French-Italian melodrama film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Märta Torén, Gino Cervi and Charles Vanel. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. It was shot in technicolor. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti. Plot Every year, on Good Friday, a procession takes place in a small provincial village. This year the women of the village are unable to choose a girl who can play the Madonna. A local squire, with the intention of publicly mocking the curate Don Vincenzo, ensures that a young prostitute, Maddalena, receives this assignment. Magdalene accepts because she wants to take revenge with the Virgin for the loss of her daughter, who died in boarding school during her first communion, due to a trivial fire of the veil. The women of the village do not accept that a foreigner interprets the Madonna, but the curate defends her choice, even though he does not know who Magdalene really is. During a rehearsal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Count Of Monte Cristo (1954 Film)
''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (French: ''Le Comte de Monte-Cristo'') is a 1954 French-Italian historical drama film directed by Robert Vernay and starring Jean Marais, Lia Amanda and Roger Pigaut. It is based on the 1844 novel of the same title by Alexandre Dumas. at the ''Films de France'' It was first aired in France and Italy, in 1954, in 2 parts. France : 1) ''La Trahison'', 2) ''La Vengeance'' Italy : 1) ''Il tesoro di Montecristo, 2) La vendetta di Montecristo''. It was shot at the in and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wages Of Fear
''The Wages of Fear'' (french: Le Salaire de la peur) is a 1953 French thriller film Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre ... directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Yves Montand, and based on the 1950 French novel ''Le Salaire de la peur'' (lit. "The Salary of Fear") by Georges Arnaud. When an oil well owned by an American company catches fire, the company hires four European men, down on their luck, to drive two trucks over mountain dirt roads, loaded with nitroglycerine needed to extinguish the flames. The film brought Clouzot international fame—winning both the Golden Bear and the Palme d'Or at the 1953 Berlin Film Festival and 1953 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, respectively—and enabled him to direct ''Les Diaboliques (film), Les Diaboliques'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falsehood (1952 Film)
''Falsehood'' ( it, Menzogna) is a 1952 Italian melodrama film.Bayman p.32 Cast * Yvonne Sanson: Luisa Sanni * Irène Galter: Mariella * Alberto Farnese: Gianni * Folco Lulli: Rocco * Mario Ferrari: Padre di Mariella * Emma Baron: Maddalena * Enrica Dyrell: Capena * Tino Carraro: Fabrizio * Gualtiero Tumiati: Don Clemente * Enrico Olivieri: Cucciolo * Carletto Sposito: Brigadiere Oriani * Virgilio Riento: Brigadiere Sante * Roberto Murolo: Il pescatore cantante * Carlo Sposito Carlo Sposito (1 May 1924 – 9 September 1984) was an Italian character actor, sometimes credited as Carletto Sposito. Born in Palermo, he was among the most active actors in the post-war Italian genre cinema. He was also pretty active on stag ...: Il brigadiere Oriani References Bibliography * Bayman, Louis. ''The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama''. Edinburgh University Press, 2014. External links * 1952 films 1952 drama films Italian drama films 1950s Italian-langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love And Blood
''Love and Blood'' ( it, Amore e sangue) is a 1951 Italian-German action melodrama film directed by Marino Girolami and starring Maria Montez in one of her last roles. at Maria Montez Fan Fage It was also known as ''City of Violence''. The film's was by and . A separate German-language version '' |
Tragic Serenade
''Tragic Serenade'' (Italian: ''Serenata tragica'') is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe Guarino.Morreale p.196 The film's sets were designed by Alfredo Montori. It was made at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. Cast * Ignazio Balsamo * Carlo Giustini as don Peppino * Laura Gore as Zia di Margherita * Giovanni Grasso * Folco Lulli as Don Vincenzo Matturini * Silvia Moguet * Giancarlo Nicotra * Giovanna Pala * Luigi Pavese * Dori Romano * Renato Della Torre * Mirella Uberti as Margherita * Mario Vitale Mario Vitale (1923–2003) was an Italian film actor.Bondanella p.158 Vitale was a fisherman chosen by Roberto Rossellini to star alongside Ingrid Bergman in the 1950 film ''Stromboli Stromboli ( , ; scn, Struògnuli ) is an island in the ... References Bibliography * Emiliano Morreale. ''Così piangevano: il cinema melò nell'Italia degli anni Cinquanta''. Donzelli Editore, 2011. External links * 1951 films 1950s Italian-language films I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobody's Children (1951 Film)
''Nobody's Children'' (Italian:''I figli di nessuno'') is a 1951 French-Italian melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson and Françoise Rosay.Moliterno p.292 It is one of a series of melodramas co-starring Nazzari and Sanson, which were very popular at the box office. The owner of a marble quarry falls in love with the daughter with one of his employees, and they have a baby together. However his mother attempts to sabotage the relationship with tragic consequences. It was followed by a 1955 sequel, '' The White Angel''. Cast * Amedeo Nazzari: Guido Canali * Yvonne Sanson: Luisa Fanti / Suor Addolorata * Françoise Rosay: Contessa Canali * Folco Lulli: Anselmo Vannini * Enrica Dyrell: Elena * Teresa Franchini: Marta * Gualtiero Tumiati: Padre Demetrio * Alberto Farnese: Poldo * Aristide Baghetti: Bernardo Fanti, padre di Luisa * Enrico Glori: Rinaldi * Olga Solbelli: Madre Superiora * Nino Marchesini: il dottore * Rita Livesi: la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brief Rapture
''Brief Rapture'' (Italian: ''Lebbra bianca'') is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Enzo Trapani and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Lois Maxwell and Umberto Spadaro. An Italian war veteran teams up with a police inspector to pursue the drug-dealing gang who have killed his sister. It was shot at the SACI Studios in Rome. Plot Stefano returns to Rome to look for Lucia, a sister he hasn't heard of for months now. Lucia works with a rich family, Stefano goes to the family and finds in Lucia's suitcase an address of a pension, when he arrives at the pension he meets Erika a foreign girl who is a friend of Lucia, but Erika has no information to give him. Stefano who has fallen in love with Erika goes with her to a dance hall where he works, when he arrives at the club he comes into contact with a gang of cocaine traffickers; discovering that Erika is their contact. At this point Stefano goes to a clandestine gambling den and while there is a police raid he learns that Lucia has commi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadows Over Naples '' was also released.
''Shadows Over Naples'' (german: Schatten über Neapel) is a 1951 German-Italian crime film directed by Hans Wolff and starring Maria Montez, Massimo Serato, and Hans Söhnker. A separate Italian version ''Love and Blood ''Love and Blood'' ( it, Amore e sangue) is a 1951 Italian-German action melodrama film directed by Marino Girolami and starring Maria Montez in one of her last roles. Cast References Bibliography *External links * 1951 films 1951 crime drama films German ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
