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Italian Films Of 1944 ...
A list of films produced in Italy in 1944 (see 1944 in film): References External linksItalian films of 1944at the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Italian Films Of 1944 Italian 1944 Films A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photography, photographing actual scenes with a movie camera, motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of computer-generated imagery, CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still imag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mist On The Sea
''Mist on the Sea'' (Italian: ''Nebbie sul mare'') is a 1944 Italian drama film directed by Marcello Pagliero and Hans Hinrich and starring Viveca Lindfors, Gustav Diessl and Umberto Spadaro.Qvist & Von Bagh p.105 The film's sets were designed by the art director Salvo D'Angelo. Synopsis Italian couple Maria and Pietro Rosati live in Brazil, where they manage an estate. One day Maria is sexually assaulted, and her husband kills the preparator. Pietro is pursued by the police and is shot and tumbles into a river. Maria is charged as an accomplice, but after a lengthy trial she is acquitted. A few years later she is working as an assistant to a doctor at a research institute. They fall in love and marry, but when Brazil enters the Second World War all Italian citizens are expelled from the country, and they catch the last available ship for Italy. To Maria’s shock, they discover Pietro working as a stoker in the engine room; he miraculously survived his fall into the ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Duranti
Doris Duranti (25 April 1917 – 10 March 1995) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 43 films between 1935 and 1975. She had a years-long affair with Alessandro Pavolini, a Fascist politician who in 1945 was executed by Italian partisans; his body was then hung with that of Benito Mussolini. Partial filmography * ''Il serpente a sonagli'' (1935) - Collegiale * '' Golden Arrow'' (1935) * '' Aldebaran'' (1935) - Anna's friend * ''The Phantom Gondola'' (1936) - Nelly * ''Lo squadrone bianco'' (1936) - Una turista (uncredited) * ''Vivere!'' (1936) * ''Ginevra degli Almieri'' (1936) * '' White Amazons'' (1936) * ''Sentinels of Bronze'' (1937) - Dahabò * '' Under the Southern Cross'' (1938) - Mailù * '' Diamonds'' (1939) - Marta Aurasco * ''Cavalleria rusticana'' (1939) - Lola * '' Wealth Without a Future'' (1940) - Laura, loro nipote * ''È sbarcato un marinaio'' (1940) - Nelly * ''The Cavalier from Kruja'' (1940) - Eliana Haidar * ''The Daughter of the Green Pirate'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flavio Calzavara
Flavio Calzavara (21 February 1900 – 10 March 1981) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 21 films between 1939 and 1956. Filmography * '' Canzone proibita'' (1956) * '' Gli occhi senza luce'' (1956) * ''Napoli piange e ride'' (1954) * ''Rigoletto e la sua tragedia'' (1954) * ''El curioso impertinente'' (1953) * ''Dieci canzoni d'amore da salvare'' (1953) * ''La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi'' (1953) * ''I due derelitti'' (1951) Adaptation of the novel by Pierre Decourcelle * '' Contro la legge'' (1950) * '' Red Seal'' (1950) * '' Peccatori'' (1945) * ''Resurrection'' (1944) * '' Calafuria'' (1943) * '' Dagli Appennini alle Ande'' (1943) * '' Carmela'' (1942) * '' The Countess of Castiglione'' (1942) * '' Confessione'' (1941) * ''Don Buonaparte'' (1941) * '' Il signore a doppio petto'' (1941) * '' Il ladro sono io'' (1940) * ''Piccoli naufraghi Piccoli is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adrian Piccoli (born 1970), Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resurrection (1944 Film)
''Resurrection'' (Italian: ''Resurrezione'') is a 1944 Italian drama film directed by Flavio Calzavara and starring Doris Duranti, Claudio Gora and Germana Paolieri. It is an adaptation of the 1899 work ''Resurrection'', the final novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. It was one of a significant number of Italian films based on works of Russian literature made during the era.Testa p.6 It was made at the Scalera Studios in Rome. Cast * Doris Duranti as Caterina Màslova * Claudio Gora as Dimitri Neklindoff * Germana Paolieri as Alessandra * Wanda Capodaglio as Zia Sofia * Guido Notari as Scembok * Egisto Olivieri as Il commissario * Gemma Bolognesi as Matriona * Tilde Teldi as Maria Ivanovna * Doris Hild as Missy * Oreste Fares as Il vecchio domestico di Dimitri * Emilio Petacci as Un carceriere * Tina Lattanzi as La principessa Korciaghin * Augusto Di Giovanni as Il mercante Smielkoff * Joop van Hulzen Joop is a Dutch masculine given name, often a shor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Almirante
Luigi Almirante (30 September 1884 – 6 May 1963) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in 62 films between 1921 and 1955. Life and career The son of a stage actor, Almirante was born in Tunis, where the theatrical company of his father was touring at the time. He debuted on stage aged 14 years old.Roberta Ascarelli. "Almirante, Luigi". ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', Volume 34. Treccani, 1988. Active in humorous roles since 1907, Almirante had his acting breakthrough in 1909 with the "Grand Guignol" stage company directed by . During the World War I, he served at the Soldier's Theatre in Udine, under Renato Simoni. After the war, he was part of the Antonio Gandusio company for three years, and then joined the Theater Company Niccodemi, staying there until 1923.Roberta Ascarelli. "Almirante, Luigi". ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', Volume 34. Treccani, 1988. In 1925 Almirante formed with his cousin Italia Almirante Manzini a stage compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lída Baarová
Lída Baarová (born Ludmila Babková; 7 September 1914 – 27 October 2000) was a Czech actress who for two years was the mistress of the Nazi propaganda minister of Germany, Joseph Goebbels. Biography Life and career Born in Prague, Baarová studied acting at the city's Conservatory and received her first film role in the Czechoslovak film ''Pavel Čamrda's Career'' (''Kariéra Pavla Čamrdy'') at the age of 17. Her mother sang in a choir and appeared in several theatre plays; her younger sister, Zorka Janů (1921–1946), also became a film actress. In 1934, Baarová left Prague for Berlin after winning a contest at the UFA film studios for a role in the film ''Barcarole''. She met Adolf Hitler that year and he told her, "You look like someone who played a major role in my life, a very significant role". Hitler was referring to his niece, Geli Raubal. In Berlin, she made a successful appearance in the film ''Barcarole'' (1935), along with the German actor Gustav Fröhlich ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roldano Lupi
Roldano Lupi (8 February 1909 – 13 August 1989) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1942 and 1967. He was born in Milan, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Jealousy'' (1942) * '' Yes, Madam'' (1942) * ''Farewell Love!'' (1943) * ''The Priest's Hat'' (1944) * ''The Za-Bum Circus'' (1944) * ''The Gates of Heaven'' (1945) * ''The Ten Commandments'' (1945) * '' The Testimony'' (1946) * '' The Adulteress'' (1946) * ''Flesh Will Surrender'' (1947) * '' The White Devil'' (1947) * '' Cab Number 13'' (1948) * ''Prelude to Madness'' (1948) * '' Sicilian Uprising'' (1949) * '' Altura'' (1949) * '' The Angel of Sin'' (1952) * ''Wolves Hunt at Night'' (1952) * '' Koenigsmark'' (1953) * ''Frine, Courtesan of Orient'' (1953) * ''House of Ricordi'' (1954) * ''The Contessa's Secret'' (1954) * '' Crossed Swords'' (1954) * '' The Affair of the Poisons'' (1955) * '' The Courier of Moncenisio'' (1956) * ''The Mongols'' (1961) * '' Avenger of the Sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Ferdinando Maria Poggioli (15 December 1897 – 2 February 1945) was an Italian screenwriter, film editor and director. He directed fifteen films including the 1940 melodrama '' Goodbye Youth''.Gundle p.56 He had previously worked as assistant director on a number of films during the 1930s. He committed suicide in 1945. Selected filmography Director * ''Bayonet'' (1936) * ''Wealth Without a Future'' (1939) * '' Goodbye Youth'' (1940) * ''Jealousy'' (1942) * '' Yes, Madam'' (1942) * ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1942) * ''The Materassi Sisters'' (1944) * ''The Priest's Hat'' (1944) Editor * ''The Blue Fleet'' (1932) * ''The Joker King'' (1935) * ''King of Diamonds'' (1936) * ''Tomb of the Angels'' (1937) * ''Princess Tarakanova'' (1938) * '' Tonight at Eleven'' (1938) * ''Diamonds Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Priest's Hat
''The Priest's Hat'' (Italian: ''Il cappello da prete'') is a 1944 Italian historical thriller drama film directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli and starring Roldano Lupi, Lída Baarová and Luigi Almirante. It is based on the 1888 novel of the same title by Emilio De Marchi.Bondanella & Pacchioni p.54 It was shot at Cinecittà Studios with sets designed by the art director Gastone Simonetti. It was shot in the summer of 1943, but its release was delayed to ongoing war events and it only premiered in Rome after the city's liberation by the Allies. It belongs to the movies of the calligrafismo Calligrafismo (, "caligraphism") is an Italian style of filmmaking relating to some films made in Italy in the first half of the 1940s and endowed with an expressive complexity that isolates them from the general context. Calligrafismo is in a sh ... style. Cast References Bibliography * Peter Bondanella & Federico Pacchioni. ''A History of Italian Cinema''. Bloomsbury Publishing, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umberto Spadaro
Umberto Spadaro (8 November 1904 – 12 October 1981) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in around 95 films between 1940 and 1979. His brother Peppino Spadaro was also an actor. Selected filmography * ''Cavalleria rusticana'' (1939) – Saltimbanco (uncredited) * ''Senza cielo'' (1940) * ''Caravaggio'' (1941) * ''Blood Wedding'' (1941) – Maso * ''Il cavaliere senza nome'' (1941) * ''Catene invisibili'' (1942) – Un amico di Enrico al biliardo * '' The Two Orphans'' (1942) – Il custode della stazione * '' Wedding Day'' (1942) – Un cameriere (uncredited) * ''Jealousy'' (1942) – Il testimone Sante di Mauro * ''L'usuraio'' (1943) * ''Two Hearts Among the Beasts'' (1943) – Lo stregone * ''Sempre più difficile'' (1943) – Mucugno * ''Rita of Cascia'' (1943) – Il delatore nella taverna * ''Vietato ai minorenni'' (1944) * ''Macario Against Zagomar'' (1944) – Touzille, il cenciaiolo * ''Mist on the Sea'' (1944) – Il fuochista * ''La Fornarina'' (1944) – Un clie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Diessl
Gustav Diessl (30 December 1899 – 20 March 1948) was an Austrian artist, and film and stage actor. Biography Diessl was born Gustav Karl Balthasar Diessl in Vienna. In 1916, he was an extra on different stages in Vienna but was soon recruited into the army for World War I. During his military service, he was held prisoner for a year. After the war, Diessl started training as a stage designer but left to pursue a professional career in acting. Meanwhile, he played for a touring company and in 1921 had his first fixed engagement at the Neue Wiener Bühne. That same year he made his film debut, appearing in ''Im Banne der Kralle'', which was produced in Austria and directed by Carl Froelich (G. W. Pabst, who would later direct Diessl in ''Vastfronten 1918'', made his only appearance as a screen actor in this film). Over the years, Diessl compiled an extensive filmography, including many romantic comedies, several of which were filmed in war-time Italy. One of his more notable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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