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Piero Pastore
Pietro Mario Pastore, also known as Piero Pastore (3 April 1908, in Padua – 8 January 1968, in Rome) was an Italian professional footballer who played as a striker; he later became an actor. Football career Pastore was the youngest ever player to play for Juventus F.C. at the age of 15 years, 222 days. He played for 6 seasons (108 games, 46 goals) in the Serie A for S.S. Lazio, A.C. Milan and A.S. Roma. Pastore represented Italy at the 1928 Summer Olympics and won bronze medal, but he did not play in any games. Acting career After retirement, he became an actor, among other roles, he played small parts in Roman Holiday, Barabbas and War and Peace. Honours Club ;Juventus *Italian Football Championship: 1925–26 International ;Italy * Olympic Bronze Medal: 1928 Selected filmography * '' Girls Do Not Joke'' (1929) * ''La Leggenda di Wally'' (1930) - Hagenbach * ''Ninna nanna delle dodici mamme'' (1930) * ''Steel'' (1933) - Mario Velini * ''Trois balles dans la peau'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 214,000 (). The city is sometimes included, with Venice (Italian ''Venezia'') and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE) which has a population of around 2,600,000. Padua stands on the Bacchiglione, Bacchiglione River, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza. The Brenta River, which once ran through the city, still touches the northern districts. Its agricultural setting is the Venetian Plain (''Pianura Veneta''). To the city's south west lies the Colli Euganei, Euganaean Hills, praised by Lucan and Martial, Petrarch, Ugo Foscolo, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shelley. Padua appears twice in the UNESCO World Heritage List: for its Botanical Garden of Padua, Botanical Garden, the most anc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girls Do Not Joke
''Girls Do Not Joke'' (Italian: ''Ragazze non scherzate'') is a 1929 Italian silent comedy film directed by Alfred Lind and starring Leda Gloria, Maurizio D'Ancora and Giuseppe Pierozzi.Redi p.201 Cast * Isa Bluette * Maurizio D'Ancora * Leda Gloria * Piero Pastore * Giuseppe Pierozzi Giuseppe Pierozzi (8 March 1883 – 22 April 1956) was an Italian stage and film actor.Goble p.349 Selected filmography * ''Maddalena Ferat'' (1920) * '' Through the Shadows'' (1923) * ''Samson'' (1923) * '' The Faces of Love'' (1924) * '' The F ... References Bibliography * Riccardo Redi. Cinema muto italiano: 1896-1930'. Fondazione Scuola nazionale di cinema, 1999. External links * 1929 films 1929 comedy films Italian comedy films Italian silent feature films 1920s Italian-language films Films directed by Alfred Lind Italian black-and-white films Silent comedy films 1920s Italian films {{Italy-silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giarabub (film)
''Giarabub'' is a 1942 Italian war film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Carlo Ninchi, Mario Ferrari and Doris Duranti.Gundle p.237 The film was a propaganda work which portrayed the Siege of Giarabub (1940–41) during the Second World War, in which Italian troops defended Jaghbub, Libya for nine months against British forces. Partial Cast * Carlo Ninchi as Il maggiore Castagna * Mario Ferrari as Il capitano Del Grande * Doris Duranti as Dolores * Carlo Romano as Il maresciallo Romano * Annibale Betrone as Il dottor Alberti * Elio Steiner as Il tenente Negri * Erminio Spalla as Il meccanico "Mago Bakù" Brambilla * Corrado De Cenzo as Il capitano De Cenzo * Guido Notari as Il maggiore Squillace * Mario Liberati as Il telegrafista Liberati * Nico Pepe as Il tenente Corsi * Emilio Cigoli Emilio Cardi Cigoli (18 November 1909 – 7 November 1980) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Cigoli was born in Livorno to actress Giovanna Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Iron Crown
''The Iron Crown'' () is a 1941 Italian adventure written and directed by Alessandro Blasetti, starring Massimo Girotti and Gino Cervi. The narrative revolves a sacred iron crown and a king who is prophesied to lose his kingdom to his nephew. It blends motifs from several European myths, legends and modern works of popular fiction. The film won a Coppa Mussolini award, which is the ancestor to the Golden Lion. Plot Sedemondo (Gino Cervi) succeeds his brother Licinio (Massimo Girotti) upon his death as king of Kindaor, and a messenger bearing a crown made from a nail from the true cross requests permission to cross the kingdom. The crown by legend will stay wherever injustice and corruption prevail. Sedemondo takes it to a gorge where it is swallowed by the earth. A wise woman prophesies to the king that his wife will bear a daughter and Licinio's widow (Elisa Cegani) a son, that the two will fall in love, and the son take the kingdom from Sedemondo. When he gets home, he is to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caravaggio, Il Pittore Maledetto
''Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto'' is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai and Lamberto Picasso. Nazzari portrays the painter Caravaggio as a wayward genius. It was one of his favourite screen roles. Main cast * Amedeo Nazzari as Michelangelo Merisi, il "Caravaggio" * Clara Calamai as Madonna Giaconella * Lamberto Picasso as Il cavalier d'Arpino * Nino Crisman as Alef di Wignacourt * Lauro Gazzolo as Zio Nello * Beatrice Mancini as Lena * Olinto Cristina as Il cardinale Dal Monte * Maria Dominiani as Alessandra * Achille Majeroni as Il cardinale Scipione Borghese * Renato Malavasi as Mauro Production Screenwriter Riccardo Freda met Francesco Curato and parter of his Carbone, who were trying to produce a film on the Italian painter Caravaggio. The budget of the film became higher and higher. It was shot in 1940 and was released the following year, making it the first film from Elica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Siege Of The Alcazar
''The Siege of the Alcazar'' or ''L'Assedio dell'Alcazar'' is a 1940 Italian war film directed by Augusto Genina about the famous siege of the Alcázar during the Spanish Civil War, set in Toledo, Spain. The film won the ''Mussolini Cup'' in Venice Film Festival for being the Best Italian Film. The film runs more in the Spanish dubbed version, it was restored by Filmoteca Española and released in DVD in Spain by Divisa Home Video. The film was shot in Cinecittà with Italian, French and Spanish actors. In the Italian version all three non-Italian actors (Mireille Balin, Rafael Calvo and Carlos Muñoz) spoke their lines in Italian. They were dubbed by Italian actors afterwards. Plot The Alcázar of Toledo is a historical fortification where the Spanish Infantry Academy was based and was held by Nationalists supporting the 18 July 1936 coup attempt against the Spanish Republic. The Republicans invested the Alcazar and besiege it for months against determined Nationalist resis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Adventure Of Salvator Rosa
''An Adventure of Salvator Rosa'' (Italian: ''Un'avventura di Salvator Rosa'') is a 1939 Italian historical adventure film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Gino Cervi, Luisa Ferida and Rina Morelli. It is set in seventeenth century Naples, then occupied by Spain, where a famous artist celebrated for his paintings of the rich leads a double life as a secret defender of the poor and oppressed. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Virgilio Marchi. At the time of its release, the film was greeted with unanimous critical approval. Giuseppe Isani, on ''Cinema'', referred to it as "the best Italian film produced from 1930 onwards."Gianfranco Gori, ''Alessandro Blasetti'', La nuova Italia, 1984. . Plot Kingdom of Naples, 17th century. Spanish oppression becomes increasingly bloody after the popular uprising led by Masaniello. The famous painter Salvator Rosa is also a masked hero who fights against the arro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I, His Father
''I, His Father'' (Italian: ''Io, suo padre'') is a 1939 Italian sports drama film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Erminio Spalla, Mariella Lotti and Clara Calamai. It was shot at the Scalera Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti. Cast * Erminio Spalla as Romolo Tonelli * Augusto Lanza as Augusto Tonelli * Evi Maltagliati as Eva * Mariella Lotti as Anna * Clara Calamai as Renata * Margherita Bagni as Amalia Tonelli * Carlo Romano as Giorgio * Piero Pastore as Sandro * Guido Notari as Roberto * Vittorio Venturi as Radesio * Virgilio Riento as Il cavaliere * Lauro Gazzolo as Sardella * Alfredo Varelli as Un amico di Radesio * Gemma Bolognesi Gemma Bolognesi (4 November 1894 – 26 March 1983) was an Italian actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1916 to 1954. Biography Bolognesi began acting at an early age and made her debut with the ensemble of the Teatro Manzoni in ... as La signora Giulia Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under The Southern Cross (1938 Film)
''Under the Southern Cross'' (Italian: ''Sotto la croce del sud'') is a 1938 Italian drama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Antonio Centa, Doris Duranti and Enrico Glori. The film is set in Italian-occupied Abyssinia following the recent Italian victory there. It was one of a sequence of eight films set in Italy's African Empire during the Fascist era that were released between 1936 and 1939.Palumbo p.294 The film is a propaganda piece designed to support Fascist policy on empire and concerns about inter-racial romances. It was shot at the Tirrenia Studios in Tuscany and on location in the Galla Territory of Italian Ethiopia. Synopsis Marco the owner of a coffee plantation in Abyssinia, is trying to play his part in building the new Italian Empire. He becomes concerned however that his Italian staff, in the absence of their wives and families, are becoming overly attracted to native woman. His junior partner Paolo has to resist the allures of Mailù, an attr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonight At Eleven
''Tonight at Eleven'' (Italian: ''Stasera alle undici'') is a 1938 Italian " white-telephones" mystery film directed by Oreste Biancoli and starring John Lodge, Francesca Braggiotti and Ivana Claar.Chiti & Poppi p.430. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Guido Fiorini. Cast * John Lodge as Jack Morris *Francesca Braggiotti as Lady Elena Norton * Ivana Claar as Ivana * Bianca Stagno Bellincioni as La marchesa di Fondi *Enrico Glori as Gabry, il gangster *Piero Pastore as Willy *Memo Benassi as L'ambasciatore Leopoldo Norton *Sergio Tofano as Il colonnello Muffon * Clara Padoa as Dorothy *Cesare Zoppetti as Severino *Vittorio Vaser as Walter *Renato Chiantoni as Il delatore del "Luna Bar" *Arturo Bragaglia as Il pianista del "Luna Bar" *Emilio Petacci as Il maggiordomo del ministero del Commercio *Cesare Polacco as Il benzinaio *Ugo Sasso as Leone * Paolo Varna as Max * Liolà Bonfili *Nino Marchetti as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Territorial Militia
''Territorial Militia'' (Italian: ''Milizia territoriale'') is a 1935 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Antonio Gandusio, Rosina Anselmi and Leda Gloria.Chiti & Poppi p.224 The film's sets were designed by the art director Virgilio Marchi. Synopsis A mild-mannered man, overpowered at home and the shoe factory where he is employed, is called up to military service during the First World War with the rank of Major. He enjoys the daring and comradeship of fighting, but at the end of the war returns home to resume his former downtrodden life. However, one day he snaps and begins to assert himself once more. Cast * Antonio Gandusio as Cav. Francesco Orlandi * Rosina Anselmi as Erminia - sua sorella * Leda Gloria as Martina * Maurizio D'Ancora as Guido Reani * Luigi Almirante as Salvatore Reani * Enrico Viarisio as Gasparri * Guido De Rege as Trimella * Gemma Bolognesi as Antonietta * Piero Pastore as Il soldato Grotta * Enzo Gainotti * Loris Gizzi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldebaran (film)
''Aldebaran'' is a 1935 Italian drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Gino Cervi, Evi Maltagliati and Gianfranco Giachetti. The film was a naval melodrama, an attempt by Blasetti to make a more commercial film following the difficulties encountered with the propagandist '' The Old Guard'' (1934). Plot After a couple of projects had either been postponed or fallen through for Blasetti, it was suggested that he should make a film about the navy in peacetime. The result is this strange film, which at the outset plays like a propaganda piece for the might of the Italian navy, only to veer off into high melodrama, as it zeroes in on Commander Corrado Valeri (Gino Cervi), and his conflict between duty and the jealousy of his wife. There are comedic asides, a visit to a North African club, affording Blasetti to contribute the first scenes of nudity in Italian film, and there are moments of heroism, including a mission to rescue the doomed crew of a wrecked submarine. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
