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Rigoletto E La Sua Tragedia
''Rigoletto'' or ''Rigoletto and His Tragedy'' (Italian: ''Rigoletto e la sua tragedia'') is a 1956 Italian musical melodrama film written and directed by Flavio Calzavara and starring Luciano Tajoli and Jula De Palma. It is based on the 1851 Giuseppe Verdi opera ''Rigoletto'' and incorporated music from that work. The film's sets were designed by the art director Franco Lolli. Cast * Aldo Silvani as Rigoletto * Janet Vidor as Gilda * Gérard Landry as Duke of Mantua * Loris Gizzi as Count of Ceprano * Cesare Polacco as Sparafucile * Franca Tamantini as Maddalena * Gualtiero Tumiati as Count of Monterone * Nietta Zocchi as Giovanna * Vittorio Vaser as Marullo * Renato Chiantoni Renato Chiantoni (19 April 1906 – 24 December 1979) was an Italian actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1937 and 1978. Born in Brescia, the son of the stage actor Amedeo, Chiantoni debuted on stage entering several drama and revue comp ... as The Poet * Mario Terribile as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flavio Calzavara
Flavio Calzavara (21 February 1900 – 10 March 1981) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 21 films between 1939 and 1956. Filmography * ''Canzone proibita'' (1956) * ''Gli occhi senza luce'' (1956) * ''Napoli piange e ride'' (1954) * ''Rigoletto e la sua tragedia'' (1954) * ''El curioso impertinente'' (1953) * ''Dieci canzoni d'amore da salvare'' (1953) * ''La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi'' (1953) * ''I due derelitti'' (1951) Adaptation of the novel by Pierre Decourcelle * ''Against the Law (1950 film), Contro la legge'' (1950) * ''Red Seal (film), Red Seal'' (1950) * ''Peccatori'' (1945) * ''Resurrection (1944 film), Resurrection'' (1944) * ''Calafuria'' (1943) * ''Dagli Appennini alle Ande (1943 film), Dagli Appennini alle Ande'' (1943) * ''Carmela (film), Carmela'' (1942) * ''The Countess of Castiglione'' (1942) * ''Confessione'' (1941) * ''Don Buonaparte'' (1941) * ''Il signore a doppio petto'' (1941) * ''Il ladro sono io'' (1940) * ''Piccoli naufragh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceprano
Ceprano ( Central-Northern Latian dialect: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Frosinone, in the Latin Valley, part of the Lazio region of central Italy. It is south of Rome and about north of Naples. History Ceprano was part of the Papal States, from roughly the 6th century until 1870. After Italian Unification and the Capture of Rome, the town was part of the Kingdom of Italy, a constitutional monarchy ruled from Rome by the House of Savoy. Since 1946 Ceprano has been part of the Italian Republic. On 27 January 1862 the Rome-Ceprano Railroad was opened for service. On 28 May 1944 Ceprano was taken by Canadian troops as part of the Allies' push against German occupation. Ceprano's origins are connected to the Roman colony founded in 328 BC on the left bank of the Liri River, called ''Fregellae''. Nowadays the ruins of the city can be seen in the territory of the close by municipality of Arce. See also *Homo cepranensis Ceprano Man, Argil, and Ceprano Calvarium, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Based On Works By Victor Hugo
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Based On Operas
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Flavio Calzavara
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s Musical Drama Films
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Italian Musical Drama Films
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1950s Italian-language Films
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establish his h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Films
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Huaorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine. * January 25– 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 11 – British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * February 14– 25 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held in Moscow. * February 16 – The 1956 World Figure Skating Championships open in Garmisch, West Germany. * February 22 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renato Chiantoni
Renato Chiantoni (19 April 1906 – 24 December 1979) was an Italian actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1937 and 1978. Born in Brescia, the son of the stage actor Amedeo, Chiantoni debuted on stage entering several drama and revue companies. He was later active as an actor of radio dramas. Very active in films as a character actor since the 1930s, after World War II Chiantoni also worked as a director of production and as a documentary director. Selected filmography * ''Lowered Sails'' (1931) * (1937) - (The Chancellor) * '' Tonight at Eleven'' (1938) - (Informer at the "Luna Bar") * (1938) - (Brigadier Sarcot) * (1938) - Spilunga * '' Ettore Fieramosca'' (1938) - (The messenger of Graiano) * (1938) * (1938) - (uncredited) * (1939) - (The third brother) * (1939) * (1939) - Andrea Lori * ''Guest for One Night'' (1939) - Truchet * (1939) * ''The Fornaretto of Venice'' (1939) - (The Tailer, witness at the trial) * (1939) - (Tanaka the policeman) * (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorio Vaser
Vittorio Vaser (1904–1963) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in Alessandro Blasetti's 1929 film ''Sun'' about the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes.Verdone p.63 He was the son of the actor Ernesto Vaser. Selected filmography * ''Sun'' (1929) * ''The Haller Case'' (1933) * ''Aldebaran'' (1935) * ''Don Bosco'' (1935) * '' Tonight at Eleven'' (1938) * '' The Pirate's Dream'' (1940) * '' The Champion'' (1943) * '' Other Times'' (1952) * '' A Woman Alone'' (1956) * ''Beatrice Cenci Beatrice Cenci (; 6 February 157711 September 1599) was a Roman noblewoman who murdered her father, Count Francesco Cenci. She was beheaded in 1599 after a lurid murder trial in Rome that gave rise to an enduring legend about her. Life Beatri ...'' (1956) * '' Rigoletto e la sua tragedia'' (1956) * '' Warlord of Crete'' (1960) References Bibliography * Verdone, Luca. ''I Film di Alessandro Blasetti''. Gremese Editore, 1989. External links * 1904 births 1963 deaths Italia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nietta Zocchi
Nietta Zocchi (10 July 1909 – 23 April 1981) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 70 films between 1936 and 1976. Selected filmography * ''The Amnesiac'' (1936) - Zelinda (uncredited) * '' To Live'' (1936) - Una spettatrice al concerto * ''Sette giorni all'altro mondo'' (1936) - Nurse * '' The Dance of Time'' (1936) * ''The Anonymous Roylott'' (1936) * ''But It's Nothing Serious'' (1937) * ''Adam's Tree'' (1938) - Infermiera Ersilia * ''Il suo destino'' (1938) - Una reclusa * ''The Faceless Voice'' (1939) - La cameriera della primattrice * '' Heartbeat'' (1939) - Un' altra ragazza disoccupata * '' The Widow'' (1939) - Un'invitata alla festa * ''Department Store'' (1939) - La commessa racchia (uncredited) * ''Mamma'' (1941) - La cameriera dell'albergo a Venezia * ''Orizzonte dipinto'' (1941) - Blandina * ''Il re del circo'' (1941) - La signora Speranza * ''Villa da vendere'' (1941) - Gabriella * '' A Woman Has Fallen'' (1941) - Una cliente della casa di mode * ''La scuo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
