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Gualtiero Tumiati
Gualtiero Tumiati ( 8 May 1876 – 23 April 1971) was an Italian actor and stage director. Life and career Born in Ferrara, Tumiati studied at the College of the Oaks in Florence and there he attended the acting courses held by Luigi Rasi. He later graduated in law and while working as an apprentice lawyer at his father's law firm he started performing in some local stage companies. Tumiati's breakout role was Cyrano de Bergerac in a critically acclaimed representation of the Edmond Rostand's eponymous play held in 1910. With his wife, the actress and painter Beryl Hight, in 1928 Tumiati founded the "Sala Azzurra" ("Blue Room"), one of the first Avant-garde theaters in Italy. He taught acting at the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome and at the Accademia dei filodrammatici in Milan. Gone blind, his last role was in the blind Tiresias in a representation of Sophocles' ''Oedipus Rex'' held in 1969 in the La Scala La Scala (, , ; abbreviation in Italian of the official name ...
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Ferrara
Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located north. The town has broad streets and numerous palaces dating from the Renaissance, when it hosted the court of the House of Este. For its beauty and cultural importance, it has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. History Antiquity and Middle Ages The first documented settlements in the area of the present-day Province of Ferrara date from the 6th century BC. The ruins of the Etruscan town of Spina, established along the lagoons at the ancient mouth of Po river, were lost until modern times, when drainage schemes in the Valli di Comacchio marshes in 1922 first officially revealed a necropolis with over 4,000 tombs, evidence of a population centre that in Antiquity must have played a major rol ...
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Eugenia Grandet (1946 Film)
''Eugenia Grandet'' (also known as ''Eugenie Grandet'') is a 1946 Italian historical drama film directed by Mario Soldati. It is based on the 1833 novel ''Eugénie Grandet'' by Honoré de Balzac. The novel has been adapted into films on a number of occasions. The film's sets were designed by art director Gastone Medin. The film entered the competition at the 7th Venice International Film Festival. For her performance Alida Valli won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress. The film also won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Scenography. Plot Cast *Alida Valli: Eugenia Grandet * Giorgio De Lullo: Charles Grandet *Gualtiero Tumiati: Felix Grandet *Giuditta Rissone: Eugenia's mother * Maria Bodi: Madame Des Grassins *Giuseppe Varni: Mr. Des Grassins *Pina Gallini: Nanon * Lina Gennari: Marquise D'Aubrion *Enzo Biliotti: Notary Cruchet *Liana Del Balzo Liana Del Balzo (4 March 1899 – 26 March 1982) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 90 films between 1935 and 1 ...
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Little World Of Don Camillo
''The Little World of Don Camillo'' ( it, Don Camillo; french: Le Petit Monde de don Camillo) is a 1952 Italian-French film directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Fernandel and Gino Cervi. It was the first film in the ''"Don Camillo"'' series, which made Fernandel an international star. The film was based on the novel ''Don Camillo'' by Italian author Giovannino Guareschi. It was followed in 1953 by ''The Return of Don Camillo'', also directed by Duvivier. Synopsis The story starts in a small lbeit unnamedtown, simply known as "a small world", in the Po lowlands of northern Italy, in the early summer of 1946. The town's Communist party led by Peppone has just won the majority of seats within the city council, an event which they exploit for propagandistic purposes – and with some non-vocal, but church bell-assisted protest by the outraged Don Camillo, the spiritual leader of the town's Christian political party –, when an unexpected event puts an instant stop to this arising c ...
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The Adventures Of Mandrin
''The Adventures of Mandrin'' (Italian: ''Le Avventure di Mandrin'') is a 1952 French-Italian historical film, historical adventure film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Raf Vallone, Silvana Pampanini and Jacques Castelot. It was released under a variety of alternative titles including ''Don Juan's Night of Love'' in America and ''The Affair of Madame Pompadour'' in Britain. The film's sets were designed by the art director Guido Fiorini. It was shot at the Farnesina Studios of Titanus in Rome. On its release it earned around 194 million Italian lira, lira at the Italian box office.Chiti & Poppi p.51 Synopsis During the reign of Louis XV of France the smuggler and brigand Louis Mandrin leads defiance of the government's harsh tax-collecting efforts. Cast *Raf Vallone as Louis Mandrin, Mandrin *Jacques Castelot as Baron de Villemure *Silvana Pampanini as Rosetta *Michèle Philippe as Marquise de Maubricourt * Roland Armontel as Marchese di Montbricourt *Gualtiero Tumiati as ...
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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 ...
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The Forbidden Christ
''The Forbidden Christ'' ( it, Il Cristo proibito) is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Curzio Malaparte. Plot Bruno is a veteran of the Russian campaign who returned on foot to his Montepulciano. Unlike the other veterans, his happiness at returning home is clouded by the death of his brother, a partisan shot by the Germans because of the betrayal of a fellow villager. Determined to avenge his brother, he tries to get the name of the informer told, but the villagers, tired of the violence and the blood of the war, refuse to reveal it. Mastro Antonio, a modest carpenter friend of Bruno, for fear that he might be guilty of the crime of an innocent person, makes him believe that the man he is looking for is him. At that confession Bruno takes a file and throws it at his heart. Before passing away, the carpenter admits that he lied and sacrificed himself in place of the culprit. Having found the real culprit, he offers himself to Bruno's machine gun shots, but the latter, mind ...
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The Thief Of Venice
''The Thief of Venice'' or ''Il Ladro di Venezia'' is a 1950 Italian film directed by John Brahm. The US title was "The Thief of Venice". It was released in the US two years after being made. Plot In 1575 Venice, the Doge has just died and Scarpa the Grand Inquisitor leads a plot to seize control of Venice. Disani, a popular admiral works to stop the Grand Inquisitor's power grab with the help of Lorenzo, one of his officers. They manage to get back to Venice in record time by promising the galley slaves their freedom. When they arrive back Disani is killed and Lorenzo goes into hiding. Lorenzo continues the fight against Scarpa, who plans to marry Disani's daughter Francesca. Lorenzo and Francesca fall in love even though Lorenzo is also loved by tavern girl Tina. Lorenzo's rebellion against Scarpa is successful. Cast *Maria Montez as Tina * Paul Christian as Alfiere Lorenzo Contarini *Massimo Serato as Scarpa the Inquisitor * Faye Marlowe as Francesca Disani *Aldo Silvani a ...
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Hearts At Sea
''Hearts at Sea'' ( it, Cuori sul mare) is a 1950 Italian adventure film directed by Giorgio Bianchi. Sophia Loren appears as an uncredited extra. Plot Three students of the Naval Academy face the beginning of their nautical career, between new impossible loves, fears of water, and choices of gratitude. Cast * Doris Dowling - Doris * Jacques Sernas - Paolo Silvestri * Milly Vitale - Fioretta * Charles Vanel - Nurus * Marcello Mastroianni - Massimo Falchetti * Paolo Panelli - Un marinaio * Gualtiero Tumiati * Enzo Biliotti * Nicola Morabito * Aldo Fiorelli * Mimì Aylmer * Dina Perbellini * Sophia Loren Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (; born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren ( , ), is an Italian actress. She was named by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest female stars of Classical Hollywood ci ... - Extra (uncredited) References External links * 1950 films Italian black-and-white films 1950s Italian-langua ...
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Devotion (1950 Film)
''Devotion'' (Italian title ''L'edera'') is a 1950 Italy, Italian melodrama film directed by Augusto Genina. The film is adapted from the famous Italian novel ''L'Edera (novel), L'Edera'' written by Grazia Deledda and published in 1908. Synopsis Annesa (played by Columba Dominguez), is a from a declining aristocratic family and very much devoted to her family, the Decherchi, which is at the edge of financial collapse. The fate of the family depends on the success of their efforts to inherit the estate of a distant uncle who, is hosted by the Decherchis, because of his ill health and is now on the verge of dying. Annesa, exacerbated by the refusal of the uncle to help financially Annesa's financially strapped nephew Don Paulu Decherchi (played by Roldano Lupi), that she is secretly in love with, murders the uncle. Despite the suspicions and investigations by the police, the murder is not discovered. But Annesa, overcome by remorse, confesses her deed to a priest. Cast * Columba ...
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The Legend Of Faust
''The Legend of Faust'' (Italian: ''La leggenda di Faust'') is a 1949 Italian drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Italo Tajo, Nelly Corradi and Gino Mattera.Goble p.758 Cast * Italo Tajo as Mephistofele * Nelly Corradi as Margherita * Gino Mattera as Faust * Onelia Fineschi as Marguerite - Singing (singing voice) * Livia Venturini * Cesare Barbetti as Siebel * Gilles Quéant as Valentino * Thérèse Dorny as Marta * Guido Leoncini * Gualtiero Tumiati * Claudio Ermelli Claudio Ermelli (24 July 1892 – 29 October 1964) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1915 to 1962. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ermelli, Claudio 1892 births 1964 death ... References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1949 films 1949 drama films Italian drama films 1940s Italian-language films Films directed by Carmi ...
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Daniele Cortis
''Daniele Cortis'' (also known as ''Elena'') is a 1947 Italian drama film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Vittorio Gassman, Sarah Churchill and Gino Cervi. The film (set in nineteenth-century Italy) follows the impossible love affair between Elena, a noblewoman married to a man who doesn't understand her, and Daniele Cortis, her young cousin and Christian idealist. It is an adaptation of the 1885 novel of the same title by Antonio Fogazzaro. Cast * Vittorio Gassman as Daniele Cortis * Sarah Churchill as Elena * Gino Cervi as Il marito di Elena * Evi Maltagliati as Isa * Gualtiero Tumiati as Aldo * Rubi D'Alma as Noemi * Massimo Pianforini as Valentino * Marco Tulli as Diego Reception From a contemporary review, the ''Monthly Film Bulletin ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 to April 1991, when it merged with '' Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, includ ...
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Bullet For Stefano
''Bullet for Stefano'' ( it, Il Passatore, also known as ''The Ferryman'') is a 1947 Italian adventure-drama-crime film written and directed by Duilio Coletti and starring Rossano Brazzi and Valentina Cortese. It is loosely based on real-life events of Stefano Pelloni (1824-1851), an Italian highwayman known as "Il Passatore". It grossed 146.2 million lire at the Italian box office. Plot Cast *Rossano Brazzi as Stefano Pelloni *Valentina Cortese as Barbara Montanari *Carlo Ninchi as Don Morini *Camillo Pilotto as Count Gigiazzo Ghilardi * Liliana Laine as Countess Isolina Ghilardi * Carlo Campanini as Peppino *Gualtiero Tumiati as Stefano's Father * Bella Starace Sainati as Stefano's Mother *Giovanni Grasso as Lazzarini *Folco Lulli as The Monk *Alberto Sordi as Innamorato * Carlo Tamberlani as Maresciallo Borghi *Pupella Maggio as Marta *Franco Balducci as Giacomo * Enrico Luzi as Poor Student *Memmo Carotenuto Memmo Carotenuto (23 August 1908 – 23 D ...
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