''Drama on the Tiber'' (Italian: ''Dramma sul Tevere'') is a 1952 Italian

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Tanio Boccia Camillo Tanio Boccia (15 June 1911 – 12 March 1982), was an Italian film director and screenwriter active between the 1950s and the early 1970s. From 1960 onwards, he was regularly credited as Amerigo Anton. Career Born in Potenza, Basilic ...

and starring

Renato Baldini Renato Baldini (18 December 1921 – 5 July 1995) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 87 films between 1950 and 1983. He was born in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''It's Forever Springtime'' (1950) - Un carabiniere al processo ...

Aldo Fiorelli Aldo Fiorelli (1915–1983) was an Italian actor who appeared in around thirty films between 1938 and 1960. One of his final roles was Argos, the Shipbuilder in the 1958 film ''Hercules''Hughes p.2 and its 1959 sequel ''Hercules Unchained ''He ...

and

Bianca Doria Bianca Doria (22 September 1915 – 2 February 1985) was an Italian actress. She appeared in more than forty films during her career. She appeared in the 1963 peplum ''Hercules Against the Mongols''.Hughes, Howard. ''Cinema Italiano: The Com ...

. The plot centres around a widow named Sora Rosa with two sons, Aldo and Bruno. While Aldo lives an upright life, Bruno is part of the entourage of a dangerous gangster named Barone Toto.

Plot

Rome, A poor widow Sora Rosa raised Aldo and Bruno alone. The two brothers grew up in different ways, the first Aldo lives a respectable life and the second Bruno has become a criminal in the pay of the Roman underworld boss Totò known as Er Barone.

Cast

as Bruno Rossi *

as Aldo Rossi *

as La sora Rosa, loro madre *

Zina Rachevsky Zina Rachevsky, also Zenaïde Rachewski or Zina Rachewsky (russian: Зинаида Владимировна Рашевская; 1 September 1930 – 20 August 1973) was a Russian-born French-American socialite, film actress, and Gelug Tibetan Budd ...

as La soubrette Mughetto * Silvana Muzi as Nunziatina *

Cesare Fantoni Cesare Fantoni (1 January 1905 – 15 January 1963) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Bologna, Fantoni began his acting career in Luchino Visconti’s stage proses until making his first on-screen appearance in 1937. ...

as Toto, detto 'barone' *

Alberto Sorrentino Alberto Sorrentino (16 February 1916 – 31 January 1994), was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 89 films between 1943 and 1988. He was born in La Spezia, Italy. Selected filmography * '' The Last Wagon'' (1943) - Un passante * '' I c ...

as Il saputello

References

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* 1952 films 1950s Italian-language films Films directed by Tanio Boccia Italian drama films 1952 drama films Italian black-and-white films 1950s Italian films Films set in Rome {{1950s-Italy-film-stub