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The Gates Of Heaven
''The Gates of Heaven'' ( it, La porta del cielo) is a 1945 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The film was made during the German occupation of Rome, with support from the Vatican. This and another film ''The Ten Commandments'' allowed a number of actors, under pressure to go north and work in Venice for the film industry of Mussolini's puppet Italian Social Republic, to remain in Rome.Gundle p.262 The film's sets were designed by Salvo D'Angelo who also worked as co-producer. Vittorio de Sica hired approximately 300 extras, who were Jewish or simply being persecuted by the Nazi regime, because of their physical oddity. To avoid their deportation and later execution, he prolonged the shooting of the film as long as he could, awaiting the arrival of the allied armies. The film won the OCIC Special Award at the 53rd Venice International Film Festival in 1996 for efforts to restore the film. Plot This is the story of a train full of sick and deformed pilgrims on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica ( , ; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: ''Sciuscià'' and ''Bicycle Thieves'' (honorary), while ''Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow'' and '' Il giardino dei Finzi Contini'' won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Indeed, the great critical success of ''Sciuscià'' (the first foreign film to be so recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and ''Bicycle Thieves'' helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Award. These two films are considered part of the canon of classic cinema. ''Bicycle Thieves'' was deemed the greatest film of all time by ''Sight & Sound'' magazine's poll of filmmakers and critics in 1958, and was cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history. De Sica was also nominated for the 1957 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
53rd Venice International Film Festival
The 53rd annual Venice International Film Festival was held between 28 August to 7 September 1996. Jury The following people comprised the 1996 jury: * Roman Polanski (head of jury) * Paul Auster * Souleymane Cissé * Mrinal Sen * Callisto Cosulich * Anjelica Huston * Miriam Mafai * Antonio Skármeta * Hulya Ucansu Official selection In competition Awards * Golden Lion: **''Michael Collins'' by Neil Jordan *Grand Special Jury Prize: **'' Brigands, chapitre VII'' by Otar Iosseliani *Golden Osella: **Best Original Screenplay - '' Profundo carmesí'' by Paz Alicia Garciadiego **Best Original Music - David Mansfield for '' Profundo carmesí'' **Best Set Design - '' Profundo carmesí'' by Paz Alicia Garciadiego *Volpi Cup: **Best Actor - Liam Neeson for ''Michael Collins'' **Best Actress - Victoire Thivisol for ''Ponette'' **Best Supporting Performer - Chris Penn for '' The Funeral'' *Honorable Mention: **Jan Sverák for ''Kolya'' *The President of the Italian Senate's Gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gildo Bocci
Gildo Bocci (1 September 1886 – 22 July 1964) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1913 and 1959. He was born and died in Rome, Italy. Partial filmography * ''Messalina'' (1924) - Apollonio * ''Quo Vadis'' (1924) - Vittelius * ''The Last Days of Pompeii'' (1926) - Diomede * ''Da Icaro a de Pinedo'' (1927) * ''Boccaccesca'' (1928) * ''The Storyteller of Venice'' (1929) * ''Maratona'' (1929) - Giovanne, Il Massaggiatore * ''Everybody's Woman'' (1934) - Il regista * ''L'avvocato difensore'' (1935) - Angelo * ''Ho perduto mio marito'' (1939) * '' Dora Nelson'' (1940) - Pasquale, il tassista * ''Arditi civili'' (1940) - Il vigile del fuoco a riposo Checco Focone * ''Validità giorni dieci'' (1940) - Il cuoco dell'albergo Mondiale * ''The Palace on the River'' (1940) - Un terzo barbone * ''Antonio Meucci'' (1940) * ''La donna perduta'' (1940) - Galileo * '' Captain Fracasse'' (1940) - Il capitano delle guardie * ''L'uomo del romanzo'' (1940) - Il fattore * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorio Cottafavi
Vittorio Cottafavi (30 January 1914 – 14 December 1998) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 70 films between 1943 and 1985. His film '' Il diavolo sulle colline'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography * ' (1943) * ''The Gates of Heaven'' (1945) (actor) * ''The Sun Still Rises'' (1946) * '' The Unknown Man of San Marino'' (1946) * '' Fire Over the Sea'' (1947) * ''La grande strada'' (1948) * '' The Flame That Will Not Die'' (1949) * '' A Woman Has Killed'' (1952) * ''Milady and the Musketeers'' (1952) * '' Traviata '53'' (1953) * '' A Free Woman'' (1954) * '' It Takes Two to Sin in Love'' (1954) * ''Messalina'' (1960) * ''Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis ''Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis'' ( it, Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide, lit=Hercules at the Conquest of Atlantis) is a 1961 film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi and starring Reg Park in his film debut as Ercole/Hercule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Calì
Giulio Calì (26 March 1895 – 20 January 1967) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1927 and 1966. Life and career Born in Rome, Calì started his career on stage, being mainly active in Roman dialect theater and in avanspettacolo. He made his film debut in 1927, in Umberto Paradisi's ''Un balilla del '48'', but his career ultimately started after the Second World War, when he was cast in a good number of films of different genres and quality, even if usually playing very minor roles. Calì is probably best known for his association with director Alberto Lattuada, who gave him his first significant roles, namely Smarazzacucco in ''The Mill on the Po'' (1949) and the sailor in ''The Overcoat'' (1952). Other notable directors with whom Calì worked include Steno, Mario Monicelli, Alessandro Blasetti, Mario Mattoli, Luigi Zampa and Luigi Comencini. Selected filmography * ''Before the Postman'' (1942) * ''The Peddler and the Lady'' (1943) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Alfieri (actor)
Giulio Alfieri (10 July 1924 – 20 March 2002) was an Italian automobile engineer, affiliated with Maserati in Modena, Italy since 1953, where he was central to the development of racing and production cars in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Alfieri was born in Parma. After graduating the Politecnico of Milan, he first worked on steam turbines for the ship industry ''Cantieri Navali of Tirreno'', in Genoa, before joining the automaker Innocenti in 1949. Employed in September 1953 by Adolfo Orsi, Alfieri joined the technical staff of Maserati alongside Gioacchino Colombo, Vittorio Bellentani and two others. He was best known for the Maserati 3500 GT design (1957) and the Maserati Birdcage (1961), both employing the superleggera lightweight body. Alfieri worked on the six- and eight-cylinder engines used in the Maserati A6 (1955), Maserati 250F (1957), as well as V8 racing engines, later to be used as a basis for the V6 of Maserati Merak and Citroën SM (1969). Alfieri al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pina Piovani
Pina Piovani (20 March 1897 – 2 January 1955) was an Italian stage and film actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lite ....Bìspuri p.126 She was married to the actor Giulio Battiferri. Partial filmography * ''Napule... e niente cchiù'' (1928) - Paquita - stella del varietá * ''The Pirate's Dream'' (1940) - Una popolana * ''La fanciulla di Portici'' (1940) - L'ostessa * ''La zia smemorata'' (1940) - La cameriera di Clara * ''Tosca (1941 film), Tosca'' (1941) - Angela (uncredited) * ''Il signore a doppio petto'' (1941) * ''Se non son matti non li vogliamo'' (1941) - La padrona della caffetteria * ''Il leone di Damasco'' (1942) * ''Street of the Five Moons'' (1942) - Anna * ''Sleeping Beauty (1942 film), Sleeping Beauty'' (1942) - Nunziata * ''Una storia d'amore'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annibale Betrone
Annibale Betrone (1883–1950) was an Italian stage and film actor.Goble p.34 Selected filmography * '' Black Shirt'' (1933) * ''Villafranca'' (1934) * ''Teresa Venerdì'' (1941) * '' Piccolo mondo antico'' (1941) * '' Fedora'' (1942) * '' Torrents of Spring'' (1942) * ''The Countess of Castiglione'' (1942) * ''Giarabub'' (1942) * ''The Gorgon'' (1942) * ''The Gates of Heaven'' (1945) * ''Pact with the Devil'' (1950) * ''Torment Torment may refer to: * The feeling of pain or suffering * Causing to suffer, torture Films * ''Torment'' (1924 film), a silent crime-drama * ''Torment'' (1944 film) (''Hets''), a Swedish film * ''Torment'' (1950 British film), a British thr ...'' (1950) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1883 births 1950 deaths Italian male film actors Actors from Turin 20th-century Italian male actors {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Grasso
Giovanni Grasso (11 November 1888 – 30 April 1963) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1910 and 1955. He was born and died in Catania, Sicily, Italy. Born into a family of marionettists, he was cousin and namesake of Giovanni Grasso, a respected stage actor specialized in the Sicilian language repertoire, so he assumed at the beginning of his career the stage name "Giovanni Grasso Junior" to stand out. He was mainly active on stage, often acting together with his wife, Virginia Balestrieri. Selected filmography * ''I naufraghi'' (1914) * ''Il lupo'' (1917) * ''Sole!'' (1918) * ''Il lampionaro del Ponte Vecchio'' (1918) * ''Nennella'' (1919) * ''Skeletros'' (1920) * '' The Telephone Operator'' (1932) - Gedeone * ''Port'' (1934) - Nicola Bellamonte * '' Sentinels of Bronze'' (1937) - Sergente Amato * '' Under the Southern Cross'' (1938) - Marco, il capo della piantagione * ''Piccoli naufraghi'' (1939) - Il 'commandante' * ''No M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Mercader
María de la Asunción Mercader Forcada (; 6 March 1918 – 26 January 2011) was a Spanish film actress who appeared in some forty films between 1923 and 1992. Julian Gorkin wrote that her cousin was born Montserrat in the family of Caridad Mercader, mother of Ramon Mercader who murdered Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in 1940, and during and after the WWII Montserrat who was very similar to Maria used her documents. She moved to Italy in 1939. She was the second wife of film director Vittorio De Sica. Selected filmography * ''The King's Jester'' (1941) * '' The Prisoner of Santa Cruz'' (1941) * '' L'attore scomparso'' (1941) * '' Forbidden Music'' (1942) * '' A Garibaldian in the Convent'' (1942) * ''The Gates of Heaven'' (1945) * '' The Song of Life'' (1945) * ''Heart The heart is a muscular organ in most animals. This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the body, while carr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elli Parvo
Elli Parvo (17 October 1915 – 19 February 2010) was an Italian film actress, born in Milan as Elvira Gobbo. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1934 and 1960. Selected filmography * ''Loyalty of Love'' (1934) as La nobildonna al ballo * '' The Ferocious Saladin'' (1937) as l'attrice truccata all'orientale * '' Abandon All Hope'' (1937) as Gemma * '' I Want to Live with Letizia'' (1938) as Unknown role * '' Departure'' (1938) as La contadina con il neonato * '' The Marquis of Ruvolito'' (1939) as Immacolata * ''The Night of Tricks'' (1939) as Maria * '' The Happy Ghost'' (1941) as Erika * ''The King's Jester'' (1941) as La zingara * ''Beatrice Cenci'' (1941) as Angela * '' Carmen'' (1942) as Pamela * '' Seven Years of Good Luck'' (1942) as Melitta * '' Seven Years of Happiness'' (1943) as Melitta, la cameriera * '' Il fanciullo del West'' (1943) as Lolita de Fuego * ''The Gates of Heaven'' (1945) as La signora provocante * '' Desire'' (1946) as Paola Previtali * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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