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Michele Riccardini
Michele Mario Alberto Riccardini (October 2, 1910 – July 24, 1978) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in around fifty films during his career as well as several television episodes. In 1943 he played the role of Don Remigio in Luchino Visconti's ''Ossessione''.Bacon p.248 Partial filmography * '' Like the Leaves'' (1935) - Il Bronzino * ''Come le foglie'' (1938) - Bernabei * ''Retroscena'' (1939) - (uncredited) * '' Dora Nelson'' (1939) - Sor Mario * ''Manon Lescaut'' (1940) * '' The Sinner'' (1940) - Un amico di Paolo e di Piero (uncredited) * '' Idyll in Budapest'' (1941) * ''La compagnia della teppa'' (1941) - Rossini * ''Pia de' Tolomei'' (1941) - Baldo * ''Se non son matti non li vogliamo'' (1941) - Un altro membro dei "Matti" * ''L'amore canta'' (1941) - (uncredited) * ''Giarabub'' (1942) - Il cuoco * ''Street of the Five Moons'' (1942) - Michele * ''Violette nei capelli'' (1942) - Il tirchio amico di Giuliano * ''La fabbrica dell'imprevisto'' (1942) - Il regista * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perugia
Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part of the valleys around the area. The region of Umbria is bordered by Tuscany, Lazio, and Marche. The history of Perugia goes back to the Etruscan period; Perugia was one of the main Etruscan cities. The city is also known as the University, universities town, with the University of Perugia founded in 1308 (about 34,000 students), the University for Foreigners Perugia, University for Foreigners (5,000 students), and some smaller colleges such as the Academy of Fine Arts "Pietro Vannucci" ( it, Accademia di Belle Arti "Pietro Vannucci") public athenaeum founded in 1573, the Perugia University Institute of Linguistic Mediation for translators and interpreters, the Music Conservatory of Perugia, founded in 1788, and other institutes. Perugia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tragic Hunt
''Tragic Hunt'' (Italian: ''Caccia tragica'') is a 1947 Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe De Santis and starring Vivi Gioi, Andrea Checchi and Carla Del Poggio. It was part of the wave of postwar neorealist films. It was one of two produced by the ANPI movement along with ''The Sun Still Rises'' from the previous year. Future filmmakers Michelangelo Antonioni and Carlo Lizzani co-wrote the script. The film's sets were designed by the art director Carlo Egidi. Plot After the Second World War, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, a cooperative has been founded by peasants. War has destroyed the country. A group of bandits, with former Nazi-collaborator Daniela, known as 'Lili Marlene' (Vivi Gioi), holds up the truck where the money of the cooperative is travelling. All the peasants search for the thieves in a tragic hunt. Cast *Vivi Gioi as Daniela 'Lili Marlene' *Andrea Checchi as Alberto *Carla Del Poggio as Giovanna *Massimo Girotti as Michele *Vittorio Duse as Giuseppe * Checco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vacanze A Ischia
''Vacanze a Ischia'' (also known as ''Holiday Island'') is a 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Camerini. Plot The lives of several people intersect as they go on vacation to enjoy a pleasant holiday on the island. A lawyer spends it in agitation due to thinking he caused the death of a youngster catching coins in the water by the boat. Then you have an engineer which is insulted by four youngsters making an atrocious prank, which makes him suspect that his wife has had a fling and she is with child that is not his. Then a group of young men chasing after the women for fun, but one of them falls in love with a nurse. There is a Frenchman who comes for a restoration of his marriage but realizes that his wife is being wooed by a young islander. Cast * Vittorio De Sica: ingegnere Occhipinti * Isabelle Corey: Caterina Lisotto * Antonio Cifariello: Antonio * Nadia Gray: Carla Occhipinti * Myriam Bru: Denise Tissot * Paolo Stoppa: avvocato Appicciato * Susanne Cram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
''The Miller's Beautiful Wife'' ( it, La bella mugnaia) is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Camerini, that stars Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren and Vittorio de Sica. A remake of the director's 1934 film, 'Il capello a tre punte”, it is based on the Spanish novel El sombrero de tres picos that came out in 1874. Plot In the south of Italy under Spanish rule, the young miller Luca lives with his wife Carmela. A good-looking and sociable couple, they host lunches at their mill for local dignatories, including the Spanish governor Don Teofilo. When the governor makes advances to Carmela, she asks him for favours in return. His inept administration of the province leads to an outbreak of popular anger at the annual celebration of the town's patron saint and among the many arrested and detained is Luca. Donna Dolores, the governor's neglected wife, realises that he has gone too far in his handling of the inhabitants and begs him to release them all, which he does ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Tua Donna
''La tua donna'' (i.e. "Your Woman") is a 1954 Italian melodrama film co-written and directed by Giovanni Paolucci and starring Patricia Neal, Massimo Girotti and Lea Padovani."La tua donna (Your Woman)". ''Films in Review''. Vol. 34. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, 1983. It grossed 63 million lire at the Italian box office. Plot A politician abandons his family for social climbing. During a violent argument the man accidentally kills his wife. His political career will be destroyed. Cast *Patricia Neal as Countess Germana De Torri *Massimo Girotti as Sandro Ademari *Lea Padovani as Luisa *Alex Girotti as Sandro and Luisa's son *Enrico Viarisio as Maurizio Bennati *Eduardo Ciannelli as Public Prosecutor *Armando Migliari as Commendatore *Alberto Sorrentino as Demostene * Michele Riccardini as Antonio *Nerio Bernardi as Defense Attorney * Hilda Roberts as Hilda *Alan Furlan Alan Furlan (13 April 1920 – 14 May 1997) was an Italian-American actor. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An American In Rome
''An American in Rome'' (originally ''Un americano a Roma'') is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Steno. The film consists in a satire of Americanization, and it was referred as "a milestone in the evolution of Italian self-identification". It starred Alberto Sordi, with a young Ursula Andress in a minor role. Overview Sordi reprises the character of Nando Mericoni he played a few months before in an episode of comedy film ''Un giorno in pretura''. The character eventually returned in Sergio Corbucci's ''Di che segno sei?'' (1975). Due to the continuous references of ''Nando'' to Kansas City, Alberto Sordi received in 1955 its honorary citizenship. ''Nando'' would really refer to the state of Kansas and not to the city (he spoke about the life in ''the'' Kansas City and referred to him as a sort of highway policeman of ''the'' K.C.). Plot summary Italy in the Fifties. The image of grandeur and opulence, brought by the arrival of American troops in 1944, still has its effe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulysses (1954 Film)
''Ulysses'' () is a 1954 fantasy-adventure film based on Homer's epic poem ''Odyssey''. The film was directed by Mario Camerini, who co-wrote the screenplay with writer Franco Brusati. The original choice for director was Georg Wilhelm Pabst but he quit at the last minute.''Dino de Laurentiis Obituary'' ''The Guardian'' 11 November 2010 The film's cinematographer Mario Bava co-directed the cyclops Polyphemus segment (uncredited). In the film Silvana Mangano plays two roles, as Penelope, the faithful wife of Ulysses and the sorceress Circe. American star Kirk Douglas plays the Greek hero, Ulysses. Anthony Quinn plays Antinous. Plot The palace of Ulysses, king of Ithaca, is beleaguered by a horde of suitors wooing his wife Penelope after his failure to return from the war against the city of Troy. Penelope has promised under pressure to marry one of her many suitors, who under the leadership of Antinous squander her husband's wealth and land. She holds them off by telling them sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodora, Slave Empress
''Theodora, Slave Empress'' ( it, Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio) is a 1954 film about Theodora, a former slave who married Justinian I, emperor of Byzantium in AD 527–565. It was directed by Riccardo Freda. Cast *Gianna Maria Canale as "Theodora" *Georges Marchal as "Justinian I" *Renato Baldini as "Arcal", Theodora's would-be lover *Henri Guisol as " Giovanni di Cappadocia" *Irene Papas as "Faida", Theodora's step-sister *Olga Solbelli as "Egina", Theodora's step-mother *Roger Pigaut as "Captain Andres" *Nerio Bernardi as "General Belisarius" *Carletto Sposito as "Scarpios" *Alessandro Fersen as "The Metropolitan" Release ''Theodora, Slave Empress'' was distributed theatrically in Italy on 29 September 1954 by Lux Film. It grossed a total of 592 million Italian lire on this domestic release. It was also distributed in France by Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France as ''Théodora, impératrice de Byzance''. The film was the first of director Riccardo Freda's film to obt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cavallina Storna
''Cavallina storna'' (i.e. "Dappled Mare") is a 1953 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Giulio Morelli and starring Gino Cervi. It is loosely based on several autobiographical poems ("La cavalla storna", "X agosto", "Un ricordo", and "II nido di Farlotti") by Giovanni Pascoli. It grossed about 145 million lire at the Italian box office. Plot An engineer accompanies Mariù Pascoli from Bologna to San Mauro, a young woman he had been with for some time. During the journey they get engaged, but the spell is interrupted by the revelation that the young man makes to the girl: he is the son of a captain accused of being responsible for the death of Ruggero Pascoli, Mariù's father. Ruggero, many years back, was an administrator of the estate of a prince and the captain was employed by him: discovered an embezzlement of the latter, he ran to report him. In the evening, while he was returning home with the gig and holding two dolls to give as gifts to the two girls, some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blind Woman Of Sorrento (1952 Film)
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Cross (1951 Film)
''Double Cross'' ( it, Il tradimento, also known as ''Treason'' and ''Passato che uccide'') is a 1951 Italian crime-melodrama film directed by Riccardo Freda and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Vittorio Gassman and Gianna Maria Canale. Plot The engineer Pietro Vanzelli is accused of killing Renato Salvi, his collaborator and suitor of his wife Clara who has always rejected him. During the trial no evidence arises in his defense and he is therefore convicted. After many years he gets out of jail and sets out in search of his family, he then learns that his wife had moved to Livorno with his daughter Luisa and on the train he accidentally runs into Renato who, when cornered, confesses to him the truth: after having stolen a lot of money from the company and after being rejected again by Clara he decided to disappear but at the same time blame Pietro for revenge. Renato also reveals to him that his wife is now dead while his daughter works as a governess for a wealthy family in Livorno, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Peace Under The Olive Tree
''No Peace Under the Olive Tree'' (Italian: ''Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi'') is a 1950 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Giuseppe De Santis and starring Raf Vallone, Lucia Bosé and Folco Lulli. It was the director's follow-up to ''Bitter Rice'' (1949) which also starred Vallone. It was originally planned to partner him with Silvana Mangano again, but due to her pregnancy she was replaced by Lucia Bosé. Despite the commercial success of ''Bitter Rice'', the Communist De Santis had been stung by left-wing criticism due to American cultural elements included the film which he purposefully excluded from the follow-up. He also included characters who were less ambiguous and concluded with a happy ending, similar to those of Socialist realism.Gundle p.287-88 The film's sets were designed by the art director Carlo Egidi. Location shooting took place around Fondi in Lazio, the hometown of director De Santis. Synopsis A young shepherd returns home after the Second World War havi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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