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Gábor Pogány
Gábor Pogány (1915–1999) was a Hungarian-born Italian cinematographer. Born in Budapest and educated in Britain, Pogány emigrated to Italy and spent much of his career in the country. He worked on over a hundred films during his career, mainly Italian films as well as some international productions. He worked frequently with the director Vittorio De Sica on films such as ''Two Women'' (1960).Small, Pauline. ''Sophia Loren: Moulding the Star'', p.77. Intellect Books, 2009. In 1960 he won a Nastro d'Argento for best cinematography for his work in Alessandro Blasetti's '' European Nights''. Pogány's son Cristiano Pogany was also a cinematographer, who was born in 1947, Rome, Lazio, Italy and died on 18 February 1999, aged 52, in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Selected filmography * ''First Love'' (1941) * '' Carmela'' (1942) * ''The Countess of Castiglione'' (1942) * '' Document Z-3'' (1942) * ''Resurrection'' (1944) * '' Farewell, My Beautiful Naples'' (1946) * '' The Flame That W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population of 1,752,286 over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a city and county, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,303,786; it is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celtic settlement transformed into the Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Lower Pannonia. The Hungarians arrived in the territory in the late 9th century, but the area was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–42. Re-established Buda became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture by the 15th century. The Battle of Mohács, in 1526, was followed by nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule. After the reconquest of Buda in 1686, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flame That Will Not Die
''The Flame That Will Not Die'' (Italian: ''Fiamma che non si spegne'') is a 1949 Italian war drama film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi and starring Gino Cervi, María Denis and Leonardo Cortese.Bonsaver & Gordon p.104 It is based on the story of Salvo D'Acquisto, a Carabinieri officer who died to save others being executed by the Germans during the Second World War. It was made at Cinecittà Studios. The film's sets were designed by Ottavio Scotti. Cast * Gino Cervi as Luigi Manfredi * María Denis as Maria * Leonardo Cortese as Giuseppe Manfredi * Luigi Tosi as Giovanni * Carlo Campanini as Il zio di Maria * Danielle Benson as Caterina * Diana Benucci * Siro Angeli * Lorena Berg * Nando Bruno * Tino Buazzelli * Vittorio Cottafavi * Maurizio Di Nardo * Giovanni Lovatelli * Fulvia Mammi as Norina * Carlo Mariotti * Arnaldo Mochetti * Diego Muni * Dina Romano * Gian Paolo Rosmino * Gustavo Serena Gustavo Serena (5 October 1881 – 16 April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amici Per La Pelle
''Friends for Life'' ( it, Amici per la pelle also known as ''Amis pour la vie'' in France) is a 1955 Italian and French comedy-drama film directed by Franco Rossi. It was nominated for "Best Film" at the 10th British Academy Film Awards. Plot Rome. Mario is a self-confident fourteen-year-old boy who is in eighth grade. One day a new pupil arrives in class, Franco, who is placed by the teacher in Mario's desk. Mario is initially hostile towards the newcomer, who immediately proves to be an intelligent boy and soon enters the good graces of his classmates and professors. After some time, however, the two boys begin to meet and make friends. Mario is the son of a ceramics entrepreneur, while Franco is the son of a diplomat, he lives in a hotel and drinks tomato juice for an aperitif. While Mario shows confidence in approaching the girls, Franco is hesitant and only after a certain insistence on Mario's part is it discovered that the child has a person in his heart and also co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanna D'Arco Al Rogo
''Joan of Arc at the Stake'' (Italian: ''Giovanna d'Arco al rogo'') is a 1954 Italian film directed by Roberto Rossellini and starring his wife Ingrid Bergman, which shows a live performance in December 1953 at the San Carlo Theatre in Naples. It is based on the oratorio '' Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher'' by Paul Claudel and Arthur Honegger. It was filmed using a color process called Gevacolor. Plot The film takes place mostly in a surrealistic fantasy around the time of the execution of Joan of Arc Joan of Arc (french: link=yes, Jeanne d'Arc, translit= an daʁk} ; 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronat .... Joan of Arc, played by Ingrid Bergman, is being burned alive for heresy. In a kind of dream state, she departs from her body and looks back upon her life. She begins this journey depressed and demoralized. However, a priest appears to help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mata Hari's Daughter
''Mata Hari's Daughter'' (Italian: ''La figlia di Mata Hari'') is a 1954 French-Italian adventure film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Ludmilla Tchérina, Erno Crisa and Frank Latimore.Chiti & Poppi p.158 It is based on a novel of the same title by Jacques Laurent. The film's sets were designed by the art director Virgilio Marchi. Cast * Ludmilla Tchérina as Elyne * Erno Crisa as Prince Anak * Frank Latimore as Douglas Kent * Milly Vitale as Angela * Enzo Biliotti as Von Hopen * Valéry Inkijinoff as Naos * Valentine Olivieri as Zia Giulia * Gian Paolo Rosmino as Colonello Stretten * Henri Vidon as Il generale americano * Guido Lauri as a ballet star * Béatrice Arnac * Mirela Horiuchi Mirela Cabero García (born July 31, 1990 in Aranjuez, Spain), simply known as Mirela, is a Spanish singer and actress. Mirela has participated in various musical contests and singing competitions since she was a child. Career 2004: ''Eu ... * Bajoagin Haiopa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camilla (1954 Film)
''Camilla'' is a List of Italian films of 1954, 1954 Cinema of Italy, Italian comedy-drama film directed by Luciano Emmer. Plot Camilla Busin, a middle-aged Venetian widow, arrives in Rome to take up service as a maid for the Rossetti family, consisting of Mario, a health care physician, his wife Giovanna and their children Andrea and Cristina. The economic conditions of the Rossetti are not prosperous and this causes tensions and disagreements. Furthermore, the Rossettis hang out with Gianni, an intrusive, rude family friend who is often involved in unclear affairs, who lives without being married with the succubus Donatella. Mario tries to advance his career by preparing an exam to obtain a more remunerative qualification, but his studies are listless and are made difficult by family tensions, caused by the difficulty of maintaining the desired standard of living. Camilla, with her discreet but sure presence, also made up of popular wisdom, is an element of cohesion for the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Slice Of Life (1954 Film)
''A Slice of Life'' ( it, Tempi nostri, link=no, french: Quelques pas dans la vie, link=no, also known as ''The Anatomy of Love'') is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and Paul Paviot. Plot Mara From a story by Vasco Pratolini, written by the author. Vasco and Mara get to know in a restaurant, go to the cinema, and spent the evening intimately, fall in love. She tells him that, being short of money, will try to work the next morning in a brothel, but he convinces her to desist from this connection, to begin to live with him, who has a job as a teacher, even if their economic situation may be difficult. The baby Written by Alberto Moravia. Young couple the suburbs of Rome are in financial trouble. She would like to work, but must take care of the child who has recently given birth. The two then set out, reluctantly, to leave the baby in a church, but the mother can not decide on the right place and finally the father has second thoughts. Outdoor scene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Of Those
''One of Those'' ( it, Una di quelle, also known as ''Totò, Peppino e... una di quelle'') is a 1953 Italian comedy-drama film produced, written, directed and starred by Aldo Fabrizi. Plot Maria is a widow with a dependent child, in debt with her landlord, and she tries to get by on small tailoring jobs. One day she receives a visit from a neighbor, a prostitute. Praising the beauty of Maria, and understanding her economic difficulties, the prostitute suggests her to attempt the same profession, in her view the only way for a single woman to find the money to live. Desperate by the personal and economic situation, Maria reluctantly accepts the advice and the next day she went to a nightclub, where she encounter two wealthy country men, the brothers Martino and Rocco. Cast *Lea Padovani as Maria Rossetti *Peppino De Filippo as Martino Bardelli *Totò as Rocco Bardelli *Aldo Fabrizi as Dr. Ubaldo Mancini *Mara Landi as L'entraineuse *Giulio Calì as Guardamacchine *Nando ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sins Of Rome
''Sins of Rome'' ( it, Spartaco) is a 1953 historical drama film directed by Riccardo Freda and loosely based on the life story of Spartacus. The rights of film's negatives and copies were bought by the producers of Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film ''Spartacus'', as to prevent eventual new releases of the film that could have damaged the commercial outcome of Kubrick’s film; this resulted in ''Sins of Romes withdrawal from market for about thirty years. Cast *Massimo Girotti as Spartacus *Ludmilla Tchérina as Amitis *Gianna Maria Canale as Sabina *Yves Vincent as Ocnomas *Carlo Ninchi as Marcus Licinius Crassus *Carlo Giustini as Artorige *Teresa Franchini as Spartacus's Mother *Vittorio Sanipoli as Marcus Virilius Rufus * Umberto Silvestri as Lentulus *Renato Baldini as Gladiator *Nerio Bernardi *Cesare Bettarini Release ''Sins of Rome'' was distributed in Italy as ''Spartaco'' by A.P.I. on January 28, 1953. The film grossed a total of 450 million Italian lire The lira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altri Tempi
''In Olden Days'' ( it, Altri tempi, link=no, also known as ''Times Gone By'' and ''Infidelity'') is a 1952 Italian anthology film. Plot The cart of old books A good-natured peddler of old books shows his customers some works from the past and is pranked by the rowdy son of a newsagent. Excelsior dance Filmed reconstruction of the Excelsior Ball, an allegorical late-century dance by the composer Romualdo Marenco performed for the first time at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 11 January 1881. Less than a day Two lovers, for contingent reasons, manage to see each other in a hotel room once a year, for a few hours, but due to some quarrels and jealousies they are unable to consume their relationship. The Sardinian drummer During the first war of independence fought against the Austrians, a very young drummer, delivering an important message to the Italian command, is hit and loses a leg (episode from the book "Cuore"). Matter of interest Two peasants scramble for p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revenge Of The Pirates
''Revenge of the Pirates'' ( it, La vendetta del corsaro) is a 1951 Italian adventure film directed by Primo Zeglio. It was the last movie of Maria Montez. It is also known as ''The Pirates Revenge'' and ''Duel Before the Mast''. Plot In 1675, Enrico di Roccabruna turns pirate to avenge his father's death. Cast * Jean-Pierre Aumont as Enrico di Roccabruna * Maria Montez as Consuelo * Milly Vitale as Luana * Roberto Risso as Miguel * Paul Muller as Espinosa * Franca Tamantini as Conchita * Saro Urzì as Aguirre * Mimì Aylmer as Isabella * Mario Castellani as Armagnac * Sidney Gordon as Van Hiess * Enrico Glori as Governor * Franca Marzi Franca Marzi (18 August 1926 – 6 March 1989) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 80 films between 1943 and 1977. Life and career Born in Rome as Francesca Marsi, after working in the revue, Marzi made her film debut in her early ... Production The film was shot in Rome. Jean Pierre Aumont says he and Montez c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
