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Torment (1950 Italian Film)
''Torment'' (Italian: ''Tormento'') is a 1950 Italian melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson and Annibale Betrone.Bayman p.10 The film's sets were designed by Ottavio Scotti. It was part of a group of popular melodramas featuring Nazzari and Sanson that were released in the post-war years. Cast * Amedeo Nazzari as Carlo Guarnieri * Yvonne Sanson as Anna Ferrari * Annibale Betrone as Gaetano Ferrari * Mario Ferrari as L'avvocato Bianchi * Teresa Franchini as Rosina * Tina Lattanzi as Matilde Ferrari * Aldo Nicodemi as Ruffini * Giuditta Rissone as Madre Celeste * Vittorio Sanipoli as Rossi, un socio di Carlo * Roberto Murolo as Enzo Sandri * Rosalia Randazzo as Pinuccia * Rita Livesi Rita Livesi (born 1915) is an Italian stage and film actress. She is known for Amore amaro (1974), Il berretto a sonagli (1985) and La ragazza del vagone letto (1979). Selected filmography * '' Cavalry'' (1936) * '' Adam's T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaello Matarazzo
Raffaello Matarazzo (17 August 1909 – 17 May 1966) was an Italian filmmaker. Life Matarazzo started writing film reviews for the Roman newspaper ''Il Tevere'' before re-editing scripts for the Italian film company Cines. His first films were comedies until he shifted to making melodramas. With '' Catene'', produced by Titanus in 1949, he became the most successful director in Italy. Audience loved his melodramas. Critics, however, have tended to disparage his work, saying that Matarazzo films were ''Neorealismo d'appendice'' (neorealism wannabe). Since the 1970s, some film critics have tried to restore Matarazzo's reputation. French magazine '' Positif'' loved his erotic-historical peplum '' Ship of Lost Women''. Filmography * '' The Telephone Operator'' (1932) * ''Littoria'' (1933) * '' Fanny'' (1933) * ''Tourist Train'' (1933) * ''Unripe Fruit'' (1934) * '' Kiki'' (1934) * '' The Serpent's Fang'' (''Il serpente a sonagli'') (1935) * ''Joe the Red'' (1936) * '' The Amb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Ferrari
Mario Ferrari (September 3, 1894 – June 28, 1974) was an Italian film actor. After making his debut in 1920, Ferrari became a mainstay of Italian cinema during the Fascist era appearing in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He played the villainous Graiano d'Asti in the historical film '' Ettore Fieramosca'' (1938).Landy p.131-32 Ferrari continued to work regularly in the post-Second World War years. Selected filmography * ''Il milione'' (1920) * ''Il rosso e il nero'' (1920) * ''Castello dalle cinquantasette lampade'' (1920) * ''L'isola scomparsa'' (1921) * ''Palio'' (1932) - Bachicche * ''The Table of the Poor'' (1932) - Attorney Volterra * '' Your Money or Your Life'' (1932) * '' 1860'' (1933) - Colonel Carini * ''Villafranca'' (1934) * ''L'impiegata di papà'' (1934) - Capoufficio * ''La maestrina'' (1934) - Giacomo Macchia * ''Everybody's Woman'' (1934) - Il produttore cinamatografico * ''La città dell'amore'' (1934) * ''Red Passport'' (1935) - Don Pablo Ram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Set In Naples
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 sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Raffaello Matarazzo
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 sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
1952 Drama 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 head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Drama Films
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1952 Films
The year 1952 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films United States The top ten 1952 released films by box office gross in the United States are as follows: International Events *January 10 – Cecil B. DeMille's circus epic, '' The Greatest Show on Earth'', is premièred at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. *March 27 – The MGM musical '' Singin' in the Rain'' premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. *May 26 – Decision reached in Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson determining that certain provisions of the New York Education Law allowing a censor to forbid the commercial showing of any non-licensed motion picture film, or revoke or deny the license of a film deemed to be "sacrilegious," was a "restraint on freedom of speech" and thereby a violation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. *September 19 – While Charlie Chaplin is at sea on his way to the United Kingdom, the United States Attorney-General, James P. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Livesi
Rita Livesi (born 1915) is an Italian stage and film actress. She is known for Amore amaro (1974), Il berretto a sonagli (1985) and La ragazza del vagone letto (1979). Selected filmography * '' Cavalry'' (1936) * '' Adam's Tree'' (1936) * '' The Former Mattia Pascal'' (1937) * '' The Man from Nowhere'' (1937) * '' The Lady in White'' (1938) * ''Special Correspondents'' (1943) * ''The Children Are Watching Us'' (1944) * '' Torment'' (1950) * '' Nobody's Children'' (1951) * '' Who is Without Sin'' (1952) * ''Lieutenant Giorgio'' (1952) * '' La voce del sangue'' (1952) * ''Torna!'' (1953) * ''High School'' (1954) * ''Desperate Farewell ''Desperate Farewell'' ( it, Disperato addio) is a 1955 Italian melodrama film directed by Lionello De Felice and starring Massimo Girotti, Lise Bourdin and Andrea Checchi.Goble p.302 It is a medical drama based on a novel by Andrea Majocchi. ...'' (1955) References External links * Italian film actresses Italian stage actresses 20t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalia Randazzo
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Roberto Murolo
Roberto Murolo (19 January 1912 – 13 March 2003) was an Italian musician. Career Born in Naples, Italy as the son of poet Ernesto Murolo and Lia Cavalli, Murolo showed a began singing and playing the guitar as a child. Murolo won the Italian high diving championship in 1937, and attributed his remarkable lung capacity to the long practice of water sports. At the age of 24 he founded with three friends the "Midas Quartet" (Quartetto Mida), a jazz quartet, with which he performed away from Italy from 1939 through 1946. His solo career, focused almost exclusively on Neapolitan song, traditional and popular songs, began with his return to Italy in 1946. In addition to establishing himself as a concert artist and a popular figure on radio, with a romantic, sentimental sound, he also did some acting in movies, appearing in the 1953 crime drama The Counterfeiters, made in Italy by director Franco Rossi. Murolo's collection of twelve LPs of Neapolitan song, called ''Napoletana. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorio Sanipoli
Vittorio Sanipoli (1915–1992) was an Italian stage, film and television actor. He appeared in around a hundred films and television series between 1942 and 1980. Life and career Born Luciano Sanipoli in Genoa, he made his acting debut in 1939 in the Roman Calò's stage company Society of Mystery Shows. Quite soon he was cast in leading roles in dramas, achieving popularity and critical appreciation after World War II for his performances in ''Detective Story'' and ''Anne of the Thousand Days'' (both represented in 1951) and winning a San Genesio Award in 1957, for his performance in Virginio Puecher's ''Il Revisore''. Sanipoli made his film debut in 1942, starring in two adventure films based on Emilio Salgari's novels, ''Il figlio del Corsaro Rosso'' and ''Gli ultimi filibustieri'', under the stage name Vittorio Sanni. After war, he continued his film career with dozens of roles, even if mainly consisting of supporting or character roles. While most of his performances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
