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Leonida Barboni
Leonida Barboni (23 November 1909 – 6 November 1970) was an Italian film cinematographer. Life and career Born in Fiuminata, Macerata, Barboni started his career working as a cameraman for Fox Movietone and Paramount newsreels.Masi, Stefano. "Leonida Barboni" in Aa. Vv. ''Enciclopedia del Cinema Treccani''. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2003. He later worked as a cinematographer for documentaries, and in 1942 he made his feature film debut with ''La fanciulla dell'altra riva''. After the war Barboni started a critical acclaimed collaboration with the director Pietro Germi and with the set designer Carlo Egidi. His style was characterized by the proliferation of small light sources, a great attention to detail and by the use of 'deep focus' shots. He was the elder brother of the cinematographer and director Enzo Barboni. Selected filmography * ''A Night of Fame'' (1949) * '' In the Name of the Law'' (1949) * '' Sunday in August'' (1950) * ''Path of Hope'' (1950) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiuminata
Fiuminata is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Macerata in the Italian region Marche, located about southwest of Ancona and about southwest of Macerata. The municipal seat is in the ''frazione'' of Massa. Fiuminata borders the following municipalities: Castelraimondo, Esanatoglia, Fabriano, Matelica, Nocera Umbra, Pioraco, Sefro, Serravalle di Chienti. Among the churches in the town are: , tourism entry. * * San Paolo di Orpiano * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jealousy (1953 Italian Film)
''Jealousy'' (Italian: ''Gelosia'') is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Pietro Germi and starring Erno Crisa, Marisa Belli and Vincenzo Musolino. It is based on the 1901 novel ''Il Marchese di Roccaverdina'' by Luigi Capuana. It was shot on location around Belmonte Mezzagno in Sicily. The story had previously been made into a 1942 film of the same title. Plot At the church, Rocco, steward on the lands of a landowner, the Marquis of Roccaverdina, marries the beautiful peasant girl Agrippina. But he was shot twice. Justice arrests and condemns a certain Neli. In truth, the assassin is the marquis himself who had contracted a sham marriage with the young woman so that she would remain his mistress... Cast *Erno Crisa as Baron Antonio * Marisa Belli as Agrippina * Alessandro Fersen as Don Silvio * Liliana Gerace as Countess Zosima * Vincenzo Musolino as Farmer Rocco * Grazia Spadaro as Mamma Grazia * Gustavo De Nardo as Neli Casaccio * Maresa Gallo as Santa * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hunchback Of Rome
''Il gobbo'' (internationally released as ''The Hunchback of Rome'') is a 1960 Italian crime-drama film directed by Carlo Lizzani. It is loosely based on the real life events of Giuseppe Albano, an Italian partisan that was one of the protagonists, from 1943 to 1945, of the Roman Resistance against German occupation. Plot Alvaro fights during World War II against the Nazis and soon becomes a partisan leader. The other resistance fighters eventually dismiss him because they find his behaviour inacceptable. After the war he doesn't return to a normal life but turns into a foolhardy gangster. Cast *Gérard Blain: Alvaro Cosenza *Anna Maria Ferrero: Nina *Pier Paolo Pasolini: Leandro *Bernard Blier: Maresciallo * Nino Castelnuovo: Cencio *Enzo Cerusico: Scheggia *Ivo Garrani: Moretti *Lars Bloch: German torturer * Alex Nicol: U.S. official *Franco Balducci: Pellaccia *Guido Celano Guido Celano (19 April 1904 – 7 March 1988) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Facts Of Murder (film)
''The Facts of Murder'' (Italian: ''Un maledetto imbroglio'') is a 1959 Italian crime film mystery directed by and starring Pietro Germi with Claudia Cardinale.Moliterno p.150-51 The film is based on the 1957 novel ''That Awful Mess on Via Merulana'' by Carlo Emilio Gadda. The sets were designed by the art director Carlo Egidi. It was restored and re-released in 1999 both in Italy and the United States. Plot A disguised bandit steals valuable jewellery from Commendatore Anzaloni's apartment and flees, leaving Anzaloni unharmed. Inspector Ingravallo investigates and finds that the robbery is suspicious in that the robber was able to find valuables too quickly. A neighbour, Liliana Banducci, employs a servant girl, Assuntina. Her fiancé, Diomede, tries to escape when he sees police tailing Assuntina. But Diomede has an alibi. Liliana's cousin, Dr. Valdarena, pays her a visit, only to find her corpse on the floor. But before calling police, Valdarena removes an envelope addressed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great War (1959 Film)
''The Great War'' ( it, La grande guerra) is a 1959 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Mario Monicelli. It tells the story of an odd couple of army buddies in World War I; the movie, while played on a comedic register, does not hide from the viewer the horrors and grimness of trench warfare. Starring Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman and produced by Dino De Laurentiis, the film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Its crew also included Danilo Donati (costumes) and Mario Garbuglia (set designer). It was an Academy Award nominee as Best Foreign Film. In 1999 the critics of Ciak magazine chose it as one of the 100 most important films in history, and was selected to enter the list of the "100 Italian films to be saved". It won huge success outside Italy, especially in France. Plot 1916. The Roman Oreste Jacovacci (Alberto Sordi) and Giovanni Busacca (Vittorio Gassman) meet in a military district during the call to arms. The former promises to deceive the other in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nella Città L'inferno
''Nella città l'inferno'' (''Behind Closed Shutters'') is a 1959 Italian film directed by Renato Castellani. Plot When the wide-eyed Lina ( Giulietta Masina) lands in a women's prison, she meets a world-weary prostitute named Egle (Anna Magnani) who looks out for her. After Egle teaches Lina what she knows and begins to harden the girl, Lina commits another crime on the outside and winds up back in jail, a shell of her former self. Egle, meanwhile, who had taken a genuine liking to Lina, has tried to better herself and is shocked to see what has become of her former protégé. Cast *Anna Magnani: Egle * Giulietta Masina: Lina * Myriam Bru: Vittorina * Cristina Gajoni: Marietta Mugnari *Renato Salvatori: Piero *Alberto Sordi: Antonio Zampi, aka Adone * Angela Portaluri: Laura *Milly Monti: Sister Giuseppina * Maria Virginia Benati: Vera *Marcella Rovena: Miss Luisa * Gina Rovere: Delia *Miranda Campa: Ida Maroni *Saro Urzì: Marshall *Sergio Fantoni: Judge *Umberto Spadaro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Man Of Straw
''A Man of Straw'' ( it, L'uomo di paglia) is a 1958 Italian drama film directed by Pietro Germi. It was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Pietro Germi - Andrea * Franca Bettoia - Rita * Luisa Della Noce - Luisa * Edoardo Nevola - Giulio * Saro Urzì - Beppe * Romolo Giordani - Caporetto * Luciano Marin - Gino * Mirella Monti - Rita's mother * Renato Montalbano - Rita's boyfriend * Milly * Bruna Cealti * Anna Gruber * Ida Masetti * Marcella Rovena Marcella Rovena (22 January 1905 – 6 October 1991) was an Italian film and voice actress. Born in Conegliano, she started her career on the big screen in 1932 with director Nunzio Malasomma Nunzio Malasomma (4 February 1894 – 12 J ... References External links * 1958 films 1950s Italian-language films 1958 drama films Films set in Rome Films directed by Pietro Germi Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fathers And Sons (1957 Film)
''Fathers and Sons'' ( it, Padri e figli and also known as ''A Tailor's Maid'') is a 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. At the 7th Berlin International Film Festival Monicelli won the Silver Bear for Best Director award. Plot In Italy, in the 1950s, the lives of five families intersect. Vincenzo Corallo is a widowed tailor who has no control over his teenager, Marcella, who skips school to go with her boyfriend, Sandro Bacci, older than her, in assize trials. Her son, Carlo, is the master of the family who can't stand his sister's bad manners and wants to put her back on the right track. At the Bacci, the father, Vittorio, has problems with his eldest son. In the same building, Guido and Giula Blasi are expecting their first child. Anxious, Guido contacts a nurse, Ines Santarelli, who offers him injections for his pregnant wife. Ines Santarelli, married to a zookeeper, is the overworked mother of five children. She entrusts one of her sick sons to her sis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreams In A Drawer
''Dreams in a Drawer'' ( it, I sogni nel cassetto) is a 1957 Italian romantic drama film written and directed by Renato Castellani and starring Lea Massari. Plot Mario and Lucia, two young students from the University of Pavia, fall in love. Lucia's father decides that the girl interrupts her studies and returns to the country waiting for the wedding, to be celebrated after Mario's graduation. The two young men therefore decide to get married. Their happiness will be short-lived: Lucia will die in giving birth to a girl. Cast * Lea Massari as Lucia Moretti * Enrico Pagani as Mario Bonelli * Lilla Brignone as Antonietta, Lucia's Mother * Sergio Tofano as Lucia's Father * Carlo D'Angelo as The Substitute * Cosetta Greco as Lina * Armando Anzelmo as Monsignor * Guglielmo Inglese as The Neurology Professor * Adriana Facchetti as The Landlady * Guido Celano Guido Celano (19 April 1904 – 7 March 1988) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film director. He appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Railroad Man
''The Railroad Man'' ( it, Il Ferroviere) is a 1956 Italian drama film directed by Pietro Germi. Plot Train operator Andrea Marcocci witnesses the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock, he starts making mistakes. A check-up by a doctor reveals that he's at the brink of becoming an alcoholic. Due to this evaluation, he is demoted and must accept a salary cut. Cast * Pietro Germi - Andrea Marcocci * Luisa Della Noce - Sara Marcocci * Sylva Koscina - Giulia Marcocci (as Silva) * Saro Urzì - Gigi Liverani * Carlo Giuffrè - Renato Borghi * Renato Speziali - Marcello Marcocci * Edoardo Nevola - Sandro Marcocci (as il piccolo Edoardo Nevola) Awards * 1956 Cannes Film Festival : OCIC Award - Special Mention *Nastro d'Argento The Nastro d'Argento, also known by its translated name Silver Ribbon, is an Italian film award awarded each year since 1946 by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists (Italian: ''Sindaca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Coraggio
''Il coraggio'' is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Domenico Paolella. Plot Commendatore Aristide Paoloni is a man all of a piece, strong and brave, who prides himself on saving lives. His specialty is to avoid drowning suicides that are thrown into the Tiber from the Milvian Bridge in Rome, and so one day Aristide saves the poor Gennaro. Gennaro, realizing the situation, pretends to Aristide Paoloni a job, but the man ignores him. So, Gennaro begins to disturb the quiet family life of the Commendatore, who soon begins to look for a way to kill the poor Gennaro. Cast *Totò: Gennaro Vaccariello/Janeiro Vaccarillos *Gino Cervi: Comm. Aristide Paoloni * Gianna Maria Canale: Susy Esposito *Irène Galter: Irene * Gabriele Tinti: Raffaele *Paola Barbara: Anna *Leopoldo Trieste: amministratore Rialti *Ernesto Almirante: Salvatore *Anna Campori Anna Campori (22 September 1917 – 19 January 2018) was an Italian actress. From 1951 onwards, she appeared in 70 films. Life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela (1955 Film)
''Angela'' is a 1955 American-Italian film noir, written and directed by Dennis O'Keefe, who stars in the film as well. The drama also features Mara Lane, Rossano Brazzi, Arnoldo Foà and others. The film has a voice-over narration that tells the story in flashback, and the film noir type of ''Angela'' has been described as femme fatale with elements of betrayal and obsession. Plot O’Keefe (Steve Catlett) stars as an American G.I. who remained in Italy after the war to manage a car dealership. He falls in love with a secretary (Mara Lane), and after only one date with her, she asks him to dispose of her boss’ body, who has died of a heart attack in her apartment. O'Keefe places the body in the trunk of the wrong car and watches helplessly as Lane drives away with it. O’Keefe then goes about trying to fix the situation, but a police inspector (Arnoldo Foà) and Lane’s sadistic husband (Rossano Brazzi) have ulterior motives in store for him. Cast *Dennis O'Keefe - Steve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
