''Repentance'' (Italian: ''Pentimento'') is a 1952 Italian
melodrama film
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directed by
Mario Costa and starring
Paul Muller,
Eva Nova and
Nyta Dover.
[Morreale p.115] The film's sets were designed by the
art director Franco Fontana.
Cast
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Paul Muller as Berardo Morelli
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Eva Nova as Margherita D'Angelo
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Nyta Dover as Ninì Dorè
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Cesare Danova
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as Sandro
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Bruno Corelli
Bruno Corelli (20 August 1918 – 17 February 1983) was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Bologna, after being part of a dramatic society of his hometown Corelli moved to Rome to attend the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. He ma ...
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Doris Duranti
Doris Duranti (25 April 1917 – 10 March 1995) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 43 films between 1935 and 1975. She had a years-long affair with Alessandro Pavolini, a Fascist politician who in 1945 was executed by Italian parti ...
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Enrico Glori
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Gino Latilla
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Antonella Lualdi
Antonella Lualdi ( gr, Αντονέλλα Λουάλντι, born Antonietta de Pascale; 6 July 1931) is an Italian actress and singer. She appeared in many Italian and French films in the 1950s and 1960s, notably in Claude Autant-Lara's film '' ...
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Dante Maggio
Dante Maggio (2 March 1909 – 3 March 1992) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 115 films between 1940 and 1975.
Born in Naples into a family of actors, Maggio had a turbulent adolescence that led his father to send him in an institu ...
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Pamela Palma
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Nilla Pizzi
Nilla Pizzi, stage name of Adionilla Pizzi (; 16 April 1919 – 12 March 2011), was an Italian singer and actress.
Born in Sant'Agata Bolognese, she was particularly famous in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s. She won the first edition of the ...
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Leopoldo Valentini Leopoldo is a given name, the Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese form of the English, German, Dutch, Polish, and Slovene name, Leopold.
Notable people with the name include:
*Leopoldo de' Medici (1617–1675), Italian cardinal and Governor of Sien ...
References
Bibliography
* Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. ''Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959''. Gremese Editore, 1991.
* Morreale, Emiliano. ''Così piangevano: Il cinema melò nell'Italia degli anni cinquanta''. Donzelli Editore, 2011.
External links
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1952 films
Italian drama films
1952 drama films
1950s Italian-language films
Films directed by Mario Costa
1950s Italian films
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