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Oreste Fares
Oreste Fares (1885–1950) was an Italian stage and film actor.Landy p.155 Selected filmography * '' Before the Jury'' (1931) * ''Venus'' (1932) * '' Villafranca'' (1934) * '' Red Passport'' (1935) * '' Cavalry'' (1936) * '' To Live'' (1937) * '' The Last Enemy'' (1938) * ''Antonio Meucci'' (1940) * '' Kean'' (1940) * ''Manon Lescaut'' (1940) * '' Big Shoes'' (1940) * '' Beyond Love'' (1940) * ''The King's Jester'' (1941) * ''First Love'' (1941) * ''The Queen of Navarre'' (1942) * '' Girl of the Golden West'' (1942) * ''Luisa Sanfelice'' (1942) * '' Rossini'' (1942) * '' The Last Wagon'' (1943) * ''Resurrection'' (1944) * ''The Priest's Hat'' (1944) * '' A Yank in Rome'' (1946) * '' The Courier of the King'' (1947) * ''Hawk of the Nile'' (1950) * ''Pact with the Devil A deal with the Devil (also called a Faustian bargain or Mephistophelian bargain) is a cultural motif exemplified by the legend of Faust and the figure of Mephistopheles, as well as being elemental to many Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
, established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption = The territory of the ''comune'' (''Roma Capitale'', in red) inside the Metropolitan City of Rome (''Città Metropolitana di Roma'', in yellow). The white spot in the centre is Vatican City. , pushpin_map = Italy#Europe , pushpin_map_caption = Location within Italy##Location within Europe , pushpin_relief = yes , coordinates = , coor_pinpoint = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Italy , subdivision_type2 = Region , subdivision_name2 = Lazio , subdivision_type3 = Metropolitan city , subdivision_name3 = Rome Capital , government_footnotes= , government_type = Strong Mayor–Council , leader_title2 = Legislature , leader_name2 = Capitoline Assemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The King's Jester
''The King's Jester'' ( it, Il re si diverte) is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Michel Simon, María Mercader and Rossano Brazzi. The film is an adaptation of the play ''Le roi s'amuse'' by Victor Hugo and uses music from Verdi's later opera ''Rigoletto''.Fawkes p. 111 It is set at the court of Francis I of France in the Sixteenth century. Cast * Michel Simon as Rigoletto * María Mercader as Gilda * Rossano Brazzi as Il re Francesco Iº * Doris Duranti as Margot * Paola Barbara as La duchessa di Cosse * Elli Parvo as La zingara * Carlo Ninchi as Il conte di Saint Vallier * Juan de Landa as Sparafucile * Loredana as Diana Di Saint Vallier * Franco Coop as Il duca di Cosse * Corrado Racca as Signor De Brion * Giulio Battiferri as Uno dei rapitori di Gilda * Oreste Bilancia as Un cortegiano * Gildo Bocci as Il Gran Visir * Ruggero Capodaglio as Un cortegiano * Stanis Cappello as Un cortegiano * Renato Chiantoni as Il terzo zingaro * Gemm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 Births
Events January–March * January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam. * January 4 – The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant, on Mary Gartside. * January 17 – Mahdist War in Sudan – Battle of Abu Klea: British troops defeat Mahdist forces. * January 20 – American inventor LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents a roller coaster. * January 24 – Irish rebels damage Westminster Hall and the Tower of London with dynamite. * January 26 – Mahdist War in Sudan: Troops loyal to Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad conquer Khartoum; British commander Charles George Gordon is killed. * February 5 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State, as a personal possession. * February 9 – The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii. * February 16 – Charles Dow publishes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pact With The Devil (film)
''Pact with the Devil '' (Italian: ''Patto col diavolo'') is a 1950 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Chiarini and starring Isa Miranda, Jacques François and Eduardo Ciannelli.Moliterno p.80 Much of the film was shot on location in Calabria in Southern Italy. Cast * Isa Miranda as Marta Larocca * Jacques François as Andrea Mola * Eduardo Ciannelli as Giacomo Mola * Annibale Betrone as Old Laroccha - Marta's father * Guido Celano as Il sottuficiale dei carabinieri * Fiore Davanzati as Sarina * Umberto Spadaro as Scoppola - the killer * Luigi Tosi as Rocco * Lamberto Picasso as The priest * Anne Vernon as Andrea's sister * Ave Ninchi as Signora Mola - Giacomo's wife * Angelo Dessy * Oreste Fares * Nico Pepe * Camillo Pilotto * Checco Rissone * Alfredo Robert * Jacques Sernas * Saro Urzì Rosario "Saro" Urzì (24 February 1913 – 1 November 1979) was an Italian actor. He is best known for his roles in the films '' In the Name of the Law'' (1949), ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawk Of The Nile
''Hawk of the Nile'' ( it, Lo sparviero del Nilo) is a 1950 Italian adventure film directed by Giacomo Gentilomo and starring Enzo Fiermonte and Silvana Pampanini. Plot In the first half of the nineteenth century the young Leila left Paris, where she was educated, to go to Cairo to collect the inheritance of her late grandfather, a rich Egyptian pasha. Cousin Ibrahim, who administers the land properties in a dishonest manner with the complicity of his trusted Yusuf, gives the banker Micropulos the research rights in sapphire deposits located in the territory of the Beni Amer Bedouins, making them and Leila believe that they are drilling artesian wells, thus obtaining the approval of Rachid, the young sheikh of the Beni Amer. He, who went to Cairo to renew the pact that allows his people to live on the lands granted them, meets Leila and falls in love with her. Releases land administration to Ibrahim and Yusuf; these, after having commanded the delivery of the weapons, provoke the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Courier Of The King
''The Courier of the King'' (Italian: ''Il corriere del re'') is a 1947 Italian historical film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Rossano Brazzi, Irasema Dilián and Valentina Cortese.Moliterno p.208 It is an adaptation of the 1830 novel ''The Red and the Black'' by Stendhal. It was the final film of the veteran director Righelli, who had previously directed a The Secret Courier, silent version of the story in 1928. Cast * Rossano Brazzi as Julien Sorel * Irasema Dilián as Mathilde de la Mole * Valentina Cortese as Louise de Renal * Carlo Ninchi as Il marchese de la Mole * Aldo Silvani as Il signor de Renal * Laura Carli as La signora Valmod * Fiore Davanzati as Emilia * Massimo Serato as Maurice Croisenois * Camillo Pilotto as Valmod * Oreste Fares as L'abate Chenal * Armando Francioli as Norbert de la Mole * Vittorio Sanipoli as Luz * Nerio Bernardi * Ida Bracci Dorati * Magda Forlenza References Bibliography * Moliterno, Gino. ''The A to Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Yank In Rome
''A Yank in Rome'' ( it, Un americano in vacanza) is a 1946 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Valentina Cortese. Cast * Valentina Cortese as Maria, La maestrina * Andrea Checchi as Roberto * Leo Dale as Dick * Adolfo Celi as Tom * Paolo Stoppa as Sor Augusto * Elli Parvo as Elena * Giovanni Dolfini as Don Giuseppe * Felice Minotti as Il padre di Roberto * Gino Baghetti as Monsignor Caligaris * Anna Maria Padoan as La signorina Paolina * Arturo Bragaglia as Il sacrestano * Oreste Fares as Il portiere di casa Caligaris * Luciano Salce as L'ufficiale americano * Elettra Druscovich as La contessina Arcieri * Achille Ponzi Achille is a French and Italian masculine given name, derived from the Greek mythological hero Achilles. It may refer to: People Artists * Achille Beltrame (1871–1945), Italian painter * Achille Calici (c. 1565–?), Italian painter * Ach ... as Pietro, il cameriere References External links * 1946 films 1946 comedy fi ... [...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] |
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] |
The Last Wagon (1943 Film)
''The Last Wagon'' ( it, L'ultima carrozzella) is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, and Anita Durante.Brunetta 89 A number of the personnel were involved in the subsequent development of neorealism. The hero is the driver of a horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Piero Filippone and Mario Rappini. It was shot at the Palatino Studios in Rome and on location around the city. Cast * Aldo Fabrizi as Antonio Urbani, detto "Toto" * Anna Magnani as Mary Dunchetti, la canzonettista * Anita Durante as Adele Urbani * Elide Spada as Nannarella Urbani * Enzo Fiermonte as Roberto Pinelli, l'autista * Aristide Garbini as Pasquale, suo padre * Lauro Gazzolo as Andrea, il portiere * Tino Scotti as Valentino Doriani, il comico * Nando Bruno as Augusto Pallotta, il vetturino * Leopoldo Valentini as Ottone Roncucci detto "Paradiso" * Oreste Fares as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rossini (film)
''Rossini'' is a 1942 Italian musical drama film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Nino Besozzi, Paola Barbara, Camillo Pilotto, Armando Falconi and Greta Gonda. It depicts adult life events of Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. It was shot at the Pisorno Studios in Tirrenia. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone. Plot Cast *Nino Besozzi as Gioachino Rossini *Paola Barbara as Isabella Colbran *Camillo Pilotto as Domenico Barbaja * Armando Falconi as Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies *Greta Gonda as Teresa Coralli *Memo Benassi as Ludwig van Beethoven *Cesare Fantoni as Niccolò Paganini *Edoardo Toniolo as Rossini's and Paganini's Friend *Paolo Stoppa as Andrea Leone Tottola *Gildo Bocci as Duke Sforza-Cesarini *Lamberto Picasso as Col. Negri * Giacomo Moschini as Duke Carafa * Gilda Marchiò as Anna Guidarini, Rossini's Mother * Massimo Pianforini as Professor Carpassi * Romolo Costa as Austrian Prince * Vera Ruberti as Viennese Noblewoma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa Sanfelice (1942 Film)
''Luisa Sanfelice'' is a 1942 Italian historical drama film directed by Leo Menardi and starring Laura Solari, Massimo Serato and Osvaldo Valenti.Marrone & Puppa p.461 The film is an adaptation of a novel by Alexandre Dumas based on the story of Luisa Sanfelice (1764-1800) an Italian aristocrat executed in Naples by Ferdinand I for supporting a Republican attempt to overthrow him during the French Revolutionary Wars. Horatio Nelson and Lady Hamilton both feature prominently. It was made at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. One of the film's screenwriters was Vittorio Mussolini, the son of dictator Benito Mussolini, who was heavily involved in the Italian film industry. The film's sets were designed by Virgilio Marchi. Main cast * Laura Solari as Luisa Sanfelice * Massimo Serato as Ferdinando Ferri * Osvaldo Valenti as Nelson * Carlo Ninchi as Il banchiere Gerardo Bacher * Hilde Sessak as Lady Hamilton * Stelio Carnabuci as Andrea Sanfelice - marito de Luisa * Ada Dondini a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
