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Odessa In Fiamme
''Odessa in Flames'' (Italian: ''Odessa in fiamme'', Romanian: ''Odessa în flăcări'') is a 1942 Italian-Romanian propaganda war film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Maria Cebotari, Carlo Ninchi and Filippo Scelzo. The film is about the Battle of Odessa in 1941, where the city was taken in an operation was primarily conducted by Romanian forces and elements of the German Army's 11th Army. It is an anti-communist propaganda work focusing on a family trapped in Soviet-occupied Bessarabia and its eventual liberation by Axis forces during Operation Barbarossa. It was screened at the 1942 Venice Film Festival.Reich & Garofalo p.298 It was made at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The sets were designed by the art director Guido Fiorini. Location shooting took place in Axis-occupied Odessa and Moldova as well as Romania. Plot Maria Cebotari played the role of Maria Teodorescu, an opera singer from Bessarabia, who is in Chișinău with her 8-year-old son at the time of the ...
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Carmine Gallone
Carmine Gallone (10 September 1885 – 11 March 1973) was an early Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer, who was also controversial for his works of pro-Fascist propaganda and historical revisionism. Considered one of Italian cinema's leading early directors, he directed over 120 films in his fifty-year career between 1913 and 1963. Life and career Carmine Gallone was born as Carmelo Camillo Gallone on 10 September 1885 in Taggia (in the province of Imperia), but grew up in Naples. His father was Italian, from Sorrento, and his mother was French, from Nice.G. Martini, ''Patchwork: 100 anni di cinema in Italia : un viaggio attraverso le regioni'', Finzioni, 1997, p. 168 He began writing plays at 15 and in 1911 won first prize at a national drama competition for his drama ''Brittanico''. He later moved to Rome where in 1912 he was hired as a general worker by the Teatro Argentina company, all the while continuing to write plays. In the same year he had his fi ...
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1942 Venice Film Festival
The "10th" annual (void) Venice International Film Festival was held from 30 August to 5 September 1942. The events were hosted at places far away from the Lido and very few countries participated due to World War II and directors that were members of the Rome-Berlin axis. Additionally, a strong fascist political meddling from the Italian fascist government under Benito Mussolini had led to Italy experiencing a period of cultural depression oppressed by fascist propaganda. It is the last edition before the suspension for the Second World War. Jury * Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata (Head of Jury) * Joaquin Argamasilla * Ottavio Croze * Stavtscho Danailov * Augusto Fantechi * Wolfgang Fischer * Mario Gromo * Aladar Haasz * Ferdinand Imhof * Manuel Lopez Ribeiro * Marijan Micac * Karl Melzer * Antonio Maraini * Mihai Puscariu * Yrio Erik Ranniko * Stefan Ravasz * Carl Vincent In Competition Awards *Mussolini Cup ** Best Foreign Film - ' (Veit Harlan) ** Best Italian Film ...
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Gilda Marchiò
Gilda Marchiò (1884–1954) was an Italian theatre actress.Bassnett & Lorch p.86 She also appeared in a number of films in the 1940s, her performances including a small role in the 1942 propaganda film ''Odessa in Flames''. Selected filmography * '' The Betrothed'' (1941) * '' A Garibaldian in the Convent'' (1942) * ''Odessa in Flames'' (1942) * '' Rossini'' (1942) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1942) * '' In High Places'' (1943) * ''Short Circuit A short circuit (sometimes abbreviated to short or s/c) is an electrical circuit that allows a current to travel along an unintended path with no or very low electrical impedance. This results in an excessive current flowing through the circui ...'' (1943) References Bibliography * Susan Bassnett & Jennifer Lorch. ''Luigi Pirandello in the Theatre''. Routledge, 2014. External links * 1884 births 1954 deaths Italian film actresses Italian stage actresses Actresses from Florence {{Italy-stage-actor-stub ...
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Paolo Ferrari (actor)
Paolo Ferrari (26 February 1929 – 6 May 2018) was an Italian actor, voice actor and television presenter. Biography Ferrari was born in Brussels as his father was at the time the Italian consul in the Belgian Congo, and was in Belgium for a diplomatic mission. His mother, Giulietta, was a concert pianist. He made his acting debut at 9 years old, in Alessandro Blasetti's ''Ettore Fieramosca'' and he appeared in over 45 films between 1938 and 2018. He became first known as "the balilla Paolo", a character he played in numerous radio programs for children and teenagers during the fascist era. After the war he studied at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts. Ferrari died in Rome on 6 May 2018, at the age of 89. Selected filmography * '' Kean'' (1940) * ''Odessa in Flames'' (1942) * '' Toto Seeks Peace'' (1954) * ''Laugh! Laugh! Laugh!'' (1954) * ''Susanna Whipped Cream'' (1957) * '' Legs of Gold'' (1958) * ''Le signore'' (1960) * '' Akiko'' (1961) * ''I Don Giova ...
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Silvia Dumitrescu-Timica
Silvia () is a female given name of Latin origin, with a male equivalent Silvio and English-language cognate Sylvia. The name originates from the Latin word for forest, ''Silva'', and its meaning is "spirit of the wood"; the mythological god of the forest was associated with the figure of Silvanus. Silvia is also a surname. In Roman mythology, Silvia is the goddess of the forest while Rhea Silvia was the mother of Romulus and Remus. Silvia is also the name of one of the female innamorati of the commedia dell'arte and is a character of the ''Aminta'' written by Torquato Tasso. People with the given name *Queen Silvia of Sweden (born 1943), spouse of King Carl XVI Gustaf *Saint Silvia, Italian saint of the 6th century *Silvia Airik-Priuhka, Estonian writer and poetry translator *Silvia Bächli (born 1956), Swiss visual artist *Silvia Barbescu, Romanian painter *Silvia Bellot, Spanish motor racing official *Silvia Braslavsky, Argentinian chemist *Silvia Cambir, Romanian painter ...
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George Timica
George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States * George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States * George V, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1910-1936 * George VI, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1936-1952 * Prince George of Wales * George Papagheorghe also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George Harrison, an English musician and singer-songwriter Places South Africa * George, Western Cape ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa * George, Missouri * George, Washington * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Characters * George (Peppa Pig), a 2-year-old pig ...
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Rubi D'Alma
Rubi Dalma (24 April 1906 - 7 August 1994) was an Italian actress. Life and career Born Giusta Manca di Villahermosa in Milan, she belonged to an aristocratic family from the Sardinian town of Sassari. After a bit part in the Camillo Mastrocinque's film ''Regina della Scala'', in which she basically played herself, Manca di Villahermosa decided to start a career as an actress and she adopted the stage name Rubi Dalma (sometimes spelled as Rubi D'Alma or Ruby Dalma). Her breakout role was as the aristocrat donna Paola unsuccessfully courted by Vittorio De Sica in Mario Camerini's ''Il signor Max''. From then Dalma started a successful career, even if often limited to stereotyped roles of cold, sophisticated and sometimes snobbish noblewomen. After the war she mainly appeared in character roles and, gradually, moved away from the cinema industry. Selected filmography * ''Il signor Max'' (1937) * ''Queen of the Scala'' (1937) * ''Hurricane in the Tropics'' (1939) * '' Heartbeat'' ...
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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 were constructed during the Fascist era as part of a plan to revive the Italian film industry. Filmmakers such as Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Mel Gibson have worked at Cinecittà. More than 3,000 movies have been filmed there, of which 90 received an Academy Award nomination and 47 of these won it. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made there led to Rome being dubbed "Hollywood on the Tiber." History The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini, his son Vittorio, and his head of cinema Luigi Freddi under the slogan "''Il cinema è l'arma più forte''" ("Cinema is the most powerful weapon"). The pu ...
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Moldova
Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The List of states with limited recognition, unrecognised state of Transnistria lies across the Dniester river on the country's eastern border with Ukraine. Moldova's Capital city, capital and largest city is Chișinău. Most of Moldovan territory was a part of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until 1812, when it was Treaty of Bucharest (1812), ceded to the Russian Empire by the Ottoman Empire (to which Moldavia was a Vassal state of the Ottoman Empire, vassal state) and became known as Bessarabia. In 1856, southern Bessarabia was returned to Moldavia, which three years later united with Wallachia to form United Principalities, Romania, but Russian rule was restored over the whole of the region in 1878. During the 1917 Russian Revolution, B ...
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Odessa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative centre of the Odesa Raion and Odesa Oblast, as well as a multiethnic cultural centre. As of January 2021 Odesa's population was approximately In classical antiquity a large Greek settlement existed at its location. The first chronicle mention of the Slavic settlement-port of Kotsiubijiv, which was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, dates back to 1415, when a ship was sent from here to Constantinople by sea. After a period of Lithuanian Grand Duchy control, the port and its surroundings became part of the domain of the Ottomans in 1529, under the name Hacibey, and remained there until the empire's defeat in the Russo-Turkish War of 1792. In 1794, the modern city of Odesa was founded by a decree of the Russian empress Catherine t ...
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Location Shooting
Location shooting is the shooting of a film or television production in a real-world setting rather than a sound stage or backlot. The location may be interior or exterior. The filming location may be the same in which the story is set (for example, scenes in the film ''The Interpreter'' were set and shot inside the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan), or it may stand in for a different locale (the films ''Amadeus'' and '' The Illusionist'' were primarily set in Vienna, but were filmed in Prague). Most films feature a combination of location and studio shoots; often, interior scenes will be shot on a soundstage while exterior scenes will be shot on location. Second unit photography is not generally considered a location shoot. Before filming, the locations are generally surveyed in pre-production, a process known as location scouting and recce. Pros and cons Location shooting has several advantages over filming on a studio set. First and foremost, the expense can often ...
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Guido Fiorini
Guido Fiorini (1897–1966) was an Italian engineer, architect and art director.Poretti p.128 He was associated with the futurist movement. Selected filmography * ''Loyalty of Love'' (1934) * ''Just Married'' (1934) * ''Red Passport'' (1935) * ''Adam's Tree'' (1936) * '' The Former Mattia Pascal'' (1937) * ''Marcella'' (1937) * '' The Man from Nowhere'' (1937) * '' The Three Wishes'' (1937) * '' Tonight at Eleven'' (1938) * ''Princess Tarakanova'' (1938) * '' The Life of Giuseppe Verdi'' (1938) * ''I Want to Live with Letizia'' (1938) * '' Castles in the Air'' (1939) * ''Department Store'' (1939) * ''The Dream of Butterfly'' (1939) * '' Abandonment'' (1940) * '' Beyond Love'' (1940) * ''Manon Lescaut'' (1940) * ''Eternal Melodies'' (1940) * ''Saint Rogelia'' (1940) * ''The Sin of Rogelia Sanchez'' (1940) * ''Beatrice Cenci'' (1941) * ''Odessa in Flames'' (1942) * ''The Woman of Sin'' (1942) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1942) * ''The Countess of Castiglione'' (1942) * ''Harlem'' (1943) * ...
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