''La tempesta'' (internationally released as ''Tempest'') is a 1958 Italian

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directed by

Alberto Lattuada Alberto Lattuada (; 13 November 1914 – 3 July 2005) was an Italian film director. Career Lattuada was born in Vaprio d'Adda, the son of composer Felice Lattuada. He was initially interested in literature, becoming, while still a student, a mem ...

. It is based on ''A History of Pugachev'' (1834) and the 1836 novel ''

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'', both by

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. For this film Lattuada was awarded a

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for

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Cast

* Silvana Mangano as Masha *

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as Emelyan Pugachov *

Viveca Lindfors Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors (December 29, 1920 – October 25, 1995) was a Swedish stage, film, and television actress. She won an Emmy Award and a Silver Bear for Best Actress. Biography Lindfors was born in Uppsala, Sweden, the da ...

as Caterine II *

Geoffrey Horne Geoffrey Horne (born August 22, 1933) is an American actor, director, and acting coach at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. His screen credits include ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'', '' Bonjour Tristesse'', ''The Strange One'', '' ...

as Piotr Grinov *

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as Prosecutor * Agnes Moorehead as Vassilissa Mironova * Robert Keith as Capt. Miranov *

Oskar Homolka Oskar Homolka (August 12, 1898 – January 27, 1978) was an Austrian film and theatre actor, who went on to work in Germany, Britain and America. Both his voice and his appearance fitted him for roles as communist spies or Soviet officials, for w ...

as Savelic *

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as Count Grinov * Laurence Naismith as Maj. Zurin * Helmut Dantine as Svabrin *

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as Palaska * Aldo Silvani as Pope Gerasim *

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as Minister of Caterine II * Guido Celano as the farmer *

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as the young girl

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