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Mother Earth (film)
''Mother Earth'' (Italian: ''Terra madre'') is a 1931 Italian drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Leda Gloria, Sandro Salvini and Isa Pola. It was made at the Cines Studios in Rome. Along with Blasetti's other early films, it shows a strong influence of Soviet-style realism.Reich & Garofalo p.224 A country landowner decides to sell up and move to the city, but later has a change of heart. It was part of Fascist Italy's promotion of rural over urban values. Cast * Leda Gloria as Emilia * Sandro Salvini as Il duca Marco * Isa Pola as Daisy * Olga Capri as La governante della tenuta * Vasco Creti Nunzio, Il massaro, padre di Emilia * Carlo Ninchi as Il commandatore Bordani * Franco Coop as Silvano, un contadino * Raimondo Van Riel as Un contadino nella taverna * Giorgio Bianchi as Il cortegiatore di Daisy * Ugo Gracci as L'aiutante del massaro * Umberto Sacripante Umberto Sacripante (2 October 1904 – 14 January 1975) was an Italian film and st ...
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Alessandro Blasetti
Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film ''Quattro passi fra le nuvole''. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era. He is sometimes known as the "father of Italian cinema" because of his role in reviving the struggling industry in the late 1920s. Early life Blasetti was born in Rome, where he also died. After studying law at university, Blasetti chose to become a journalist and film critic. He worked for several film magazines and led a campaign for national film production, which had largely ceased by this point. In 1919 he made a brief foray into acting when he appeared as an extra in Mario Caserini's ''Tortured Soul''. Director In 1929 Blasetti made his directorial debut with ''Sun (film), Sun'', a fictional story set against the ongoing draining of the Pontine Marshes. The film was well received at a time when there were few Ital ...
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Cines Studios
The Cines Studios were film production studios located in the Italian capital Rome. They were established on Via Veio in 1930 by Stefano Pittaluga, head of the Cines film company, at the beginning of the sound era. It produced Italy's first sound film ''The Song of Love'' the same year. For several years it was the leading studio complex in Italy, until September 1935 when it suffered a major fire and was largely destroyed. This became a spur for the Italian government of Benito Mussolini to invest in the construction of a new development Cinecittà Cinecittà Studios (; Italian for Cinema City Studios), is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios we ..., the largest studio in Europe which opened in 1937. The refurbished Cines studios continued to operate until 1956, but were often rented out for the use of other companies.Moliterno p ...
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Ugo Gracci
Ugo is the Italian form of Hugh, a widely used name of Germanic origin. Its diminutive form is Ugolino. It is also a Nigerian Igbo first name. It may refer to: People * Vgo (stonemason), medieval stonemason * Ugo Bassi, a Roman Catholic priest and Italian nationalist * Ugo Betti, Italian judge and author * Ugo Boncompagni, birth name of Pope Gregory XIII * Ugo Correani, Italian/German fashion designer * Ugo da Carpi, Italian printmaker * Ugo Ehiogu, English football player * Ugo Fano, Italian physicist * Ugo Gabrieli, Italian footballer * Ugo Giachery, Italian Bahá'í * Ugo Humbert, French tennis player * Ugo La Malfa, an Italian politician * Ugo Mattei, professor of international and comparative law at UC Hastings * Ugo Monye, English international rugby union player * Ugo Mulas, Italian photographer * Ugo Rondinone, Swiss-born artist * Ugo Sansonetti, Italian businessman and athlete * Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor * Ugo Zagato, Italian automobile designer Other * Ugo, Akita, ...
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Giorgio Bianchi (director)
Giorgio Bianchi (18 February 1904 – 9 February 1967) was an Italian film director and actor. Selected filmography * '' Mother Earth'' (1931) * ''Resurrection'' (1931) * '' The Charmer'' (1931) * ''Before the Jury'' (1931) * ''The Blue Fleet'' (1932) * '' Two Happy Hearts'' (1932) * ''Five to Nil'' (1932) * ''Venus'' (1932) * ''Saint John, the Beheaded'' (1940) * ''A Little Wife'' (1943) * ''Crime News'' (1947) * ''Twenty Years'' (1949) * ''Hearts at Sea'' (1950) * '' Porca miseria'' (1951) * '' Il caimano del Piave'' (1951) * '' Amor non ho... però... però'' (1951) * '' The Enemy'' (1952) * ''The Shadow'' (1954) * ''Io piaccio'' (1955) * '' Buonanotte... avvocato!'' (1955) * '' Count Max'' (1957) * '' Vacations in Majorca'' (1959) * ''The Moralist'' (1959) * ''Le olimpiadi dei mariti'' (1960) * ''Femmine di lusso'' (1960) * '' The Orderly'' (1961) * ''Il mio amico Benito'' (1962) * '' Toto and Peppino Divided in Berlin'' (1962) * '' The Changing of the Guard'' (1962) * ''I ...
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Raimondo Van Riel
Raimondo Van Riel (22 January 1881, in Rome – 9 May 1962, in Mentana) was an Italian actor. Raimondo Van Riel was born on January 22, 1881, in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is known for his work on Quo Vadis? (1924), The Magnificent Rogue (1935) and Scipione l'africano (1937). He was married to Aidé Bongini. He died on May 9, 1962, in Rome. Selected filmography * ''Fiamma simbolica'' (1918) * ''La ladra di fanciulli'' (1920) * ''The Sack of Rome (film), The Sack of Rome'' (1920) * ''L'amica'' (1920) * ''Primavera'' (1921) * ''La morte piange, ride e poi...'' (1921) * ''Le tre ombre'' (1921) * ''The Youth of the Devil'' (1921) * ''L'amico'' (1921) * ''Un fiore nel fango'' (1921) * ''La congrega dei ventiquattro'' (1921) * ''Tre persone per bene'' (1922) * ''La tormenta'' (1922) * ''The Betrothed (1923 film), The Betrothed'' (1922) * ''La madre folle'' (1923) * ''Un viaggio nell'impossibile'' (1923) * ''Quo Vadis? (1924 film), Quo Vadis?'' (1924) - Tigellinus * ''Il cammino delle stel ...
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Franco Coop
Franco Coop (27 September 1891 – 27 March 1962), was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 65 films between 1931 and 1960. He was born in Naples, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * '' Before the Jury'' (1931) * '' Mother Earth'' (1931) * '' Five to Nil'' (1932) * '' La segretaria per tutti'' (1933) *''Nini Falpala'' (1933) * '' My Little One'' (1933) * '' Everybody's Woman'' (1934) * ''The Last of the Bergeracs'' (1934) * '' Lady of Paradise'' (1934) * ''Aldebaran'' (1935) * ''Those Two'' (1935) * ''Sette giorni all'altro mondo ''Sette giorni all'altro mondo'' is a 1936 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli. Cast *Camillo Pilotto * Vanna Vanni * Franco Coop *Nietta Zocchi *Emilio Petacci *Virgilio Riento *Guglielmo Barnabò Guglielmo Ba ...'' (1936) * ''The Amnesiac'' (1936) * ''I'll Give a Million (1936 film), I'll Give a Million'' (1936) * ''The Last Days of Pompeo'' (1937) * ''Hands Off Me!'' (1937) * ''The Three W ...
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Carlo Ninchi
Carlo Ninchi (31 May 1896 – 27 April 1974) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1931 and 1963. He was born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, and died on 27 April 1974 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Before the Jury'' (1931) - Marcello Barra, il guardacaccia * '' Mother Earth'' (1931) - Il commandatore Bordani * ''La stella del cinema'' (1931) * ''La scala'' (1931) - Avvocato Giulio Terpi - suo marito * ''Il solitario della montagna'' (1931) * '' La Wally'' (1932) - Hagenbach * ''Red Passport'' (1935) - Un passeggero sul 'Santa Fe' * '' I Love You Only'' (1936) - Cesare Baldi * ''Conquest of the Air'' (1936) - Gabriele Adanti di Perugia (uncredited) * '' Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal'' (1937) - Lelius * ''Cavalleria rusticana'' (1939) - Alfio * ''La conquista dell'aria'' (1939) - Gabriello Danti * '' Dora Nelson'' (1939) - Giovanni Ferrari * ''Scandalo per bene'' (1940) - Marco Alviano, mercante di vetri * ''L'uomo d ...
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Vasco Creti
Vasco Creti (7 December 1874 – 16 October 1945) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1915 and 1944. He was married to actress Valeria Creti. Selected filmography * '' Maschiaccio'' (1917) * '' Il siluramento dell'Oceania'' (1917) * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1922) * '' The Flight of Socrates'' (1923) * ''The Last Days of Pompeii'' (1926) * '' Company and the Crazy'' (1928) * ''Sun'' (1929) * ''The Man with the Claw'' (1931) * '' Mother Earth'' (1931) * ''Before the Jury'' (1931) * '' The Charmer'' (1931) * ''Palio'' (1932) * '' Zaganella and the Cavalier'' (1932) * ''The Gift of the Morning'' (1932) * ''Pergolesi'' (1932) * ''The Haller Case'' (1933) * ''The Table of the Poor'' (1932) * ''Creatures of the Night'' (1934) * ''Aldebaran'' (1935) * ''The Joker King'' (1935) * '' The Ambassador'' (1936) * '' God's Will Be Done'' (1936) * '' La Damigella di Bard'' (1936) * ''Pietro Micca'' (1938) * ''The House of Shame'' (1938) * '' The Widow'' (19 ...
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Urban Area
An urban area, built-up area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbanism, the term contrasts to rural areas such as villages and hamlets; in urban sociology or urban anthropology it contrasts with natural environment. The creation of earlier predecessors of urban areas during the urban revolution led to the creation of human civilization with modern urban planning, which along with other human activities such as exploitation of natural resources led to a human impact on the environment. "Agglomeration effects" are in the list of the main consequences of increased rates of firm creation since. This is due to conditions created by a greater level of industrial activity in a given region. However, a favorable environment for human capital development would also be genera ...
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Rural
In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry typically are described as rural. Different countries have varying definitions of ''rural'' for statistical and administrative purposes. In rural areas, because of their unique economic and social dynamics, and relationship to land-based industry such as agriculture, forestry and resource extraction, the economics are very different from cities and can be subject to boom and bust cycles and vulnerability to extreme weather or natural disasters, such as droughts. These dynamics alongside larger economic forces encouraging to urbanization have led to significant demographic declines, called rural flight, where economic incentives encourage younger populations to go to cities for education and access to jobs, leaving older, less educated and less wealthy populat ...
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Kingdom Of Italy
The Kingdom of Italy ( it, Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Kingdom of Sardinia, Sardinia was proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, proclaimed King of Italy, until 1946, when civil discontent led to an 1946 Italian institutional referendum, institutional referendum to abandon the monarchy and form the modern Italy, Italian Republic. The state resulted from a decades-long process, the ''Italian unification, Risorgimento'', of consolidating the different states of the Italian Peninsula into a single state. That process was influenced by the House of Savoy, Savoy-led Kingdom of Sardinia, which can be considered Italy's legal Succession of states, predecessor state. Italy Third Italian War of Independence, declared war on Austrian Empire, Austria in alliance with Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia in 1866 and received the region of Veneto following their victory. Italian troops Capture of Rome, entered Rome in 1870, ending Papal States, more tha ...
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