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The Monastery Of Santa Chiara
''The Monastery of Santa Chiara'' (Italian: ''Monastero di Santa Chiara'') is a 1949 Italian war melodrama film directed by Mario Sequi and starring Edda Albertini, Massimo Serato and Nyta Dover. Klein p.227 The film's sets were designed by the art director Angelo Zagame. Synopsis During the Second World War Ester a Jewish nightclub singer in Naples has to flee the city to escape persecution and deportation from the occupying German forces. She is helped by her SS officer lover who takes her to safety in a monastery. He then commits suicide. While she survives a bombing raid, she is persecuted by Greta the dead man's discarded German lover. Cast * Edda Albertini as Ester di Veroli * Massimo Serato as Rudolf, ufficiale delle SS * Nyta Dover as Greta * Lamberto Picasso as Il tedesco condannato * Nino Manfredi as Enrico * John Kitzmiller as Il negro * Paolo Reale as Ciccillo * Mario Corte as Il prete * Fausto Guerzoni as Un pensionante * Italia Marchesini as Donna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Sequi
Mario Sequi (1913-1992) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.Bayman p.59 A Sardinian by birth, he was married to the actress Lia Franca. He began his career in the 1930s as a production manager in the 1930s before becoming a director after the Second World War. Selected filmography Production manager * '' I Met You Too Late'' (1940) * '' Il vetturale del San Gottardo'' (1941) * '' C'รจ un fantasma nel castello'' (1942) * '' Orizzonte di sangue'' (1942) * '' The White Angel'' (1943) Assistant director * ''O sole mio'' (1946) * '' Peddlin' in Society'' (1946) Director * '' L'isola di Montecristo'' (1948) * '' Altura'' (1949) * ''Tragic Spell'' (1951) * ''Gli uomini dal passo pesante'' (1965) * '' The Cobra'' (1967) * ''The Tigers of Mompracem'' (1970) * ''The Silkworm ''The Silkworm'' is a 2014 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is the second novel in the ''Cormoran Strike'' series of detective novels and was fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany Army
The German Army (, "army") is the land component of the armed forces of Federal Republic of Germany, Germany. The present-day German Army was founded in 1955 as part of the newly formed West German ''Bundeswehr'' together with the German Navy, ''Marine'' (German Navy) and the German Air Force, ''Luftwaffe'' (German Air Force). , the German Army had a strength of 62,766 soldiers. History Overview A German army equipped, organized, and trained following a single doctrine and permanently unified under one command in 1871 during the unification of Germany under the leadership of Prussia. From 1871 to 1919, the title ''German Army (German Empire), Deutsches Heer'' (German Army) was the official name of the German land forces. Following the German defeat in World War I and the end of the German Empire, the main army was dissolved. From 1921 to 1935 the name of the German land forces was the ''Reichswehr, Reichsheer'' (Army of the Empire) and from 1935 to 1945 the name ''German Army (We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
