''To Live in Peace'' (Italian: ''Vivere in pace'') is a 1947 Italian
neorealist comedy-drama war film directed by
Luigi Zampa
Luigi Zampa (2 January 1905 – 16 August 1991) was an Italian film director.
Biography
Son of a worker, Zampa studied filmmaking from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome.
He directed several ...
and starring
Aldo Fabrizi
Aldo Fabrizi (; born Aldo Fabbrizi; 1 November 1905 – 2 April 1990) was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and comedian, best known for the role of the heroic priest in Roberto Rossellini's ''Rome, Open City'' and as partner of Totò in ...
,
John Kitzmiller
John Kitzmiller (December 4, 1913 – February 23, 1965) was an American actor who worked in his native land, as well as Italy and the United Kingdom. Kitzmiller achieved his greatest fame as a popular and versatile actor in Europe, making an est ...
and
Ave Ninchi
Ave Maria Ninchi (14 December 1914 – 10 November 1997) was an Italian supporting actress who played character roles on stage, television, and in over 98 feature films that included ''Tomorrow Is Too Late'' (1949) and Louis Malle's ''Murmur ...
.
[Gundle p.138]
It was shot at the
Cinecittà Studios
Cinecittà Studios (; Italian for Cinema City Studios), is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios wer ...
in
Rome
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and
on location around
Orvieto
Orvieto () is a city and ''comune'' in the Province of Terni, southwestern Umbria, Italy, situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The city rises dramatically above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are compl ...
in
Umbria
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. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Ivo Battelli
Ivo Battelli (12 March 1904 – 3 November 1994) was an Italian architect and set decorator. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Selected filmography
* ''The Dream of Butterfly' ...
.
Cast
*
Aldo Fabrizi
Aldo Fabrizi (; born Aldo Fabbrizi; 1 November 1905 – 2 April 1990) was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and comedian, best known for the role of the heroic priest in Roberto Rossellini's ''Rome, Open City'' and as partner of Totò in ...
as Tigna
*
Gar Moore
Joseph Garland Moore Jr. (September 4, 1920 - November 3, 1985), known as Gar Moore was an actor in Italian and American films. He was also in several theatrical productions.
He was born in Chelsea, Oklahoma. He had a short marriage to Nancy Walke ...
as Ronald
*Mirella Monti as Silvia
*
John Kitzmiller
John Kitzmiller (December 4, 1913 – February 23, 1965) was an American actor who worked in his native land, as well as Italy and the United Kingdom. Kitzmiller achieved his greatest fame as a popular and versatile actor in Europe, making an est ...
as Joe
*Heinrich Bode as Hans
*
Ave Ninchi
Ave Maria Ninchi (14 December 1914 – 10 November 1997) was an Italian supporting actress who played character roles on stage, television, and in over 98 feature films that included ''Tomorrow Is Too Late'' (1949) and Louis Malle's ''Murmur ...
as Corinna
*
Ernesto Almirante
Ernesto Almirante (24 September 1877 – 13 December 1964) was an Italian film and stage actor.
Life and career
Born in Mistretta into a family of actors, Almirante worked several years on stage along his father Nunzio. He was also active as ag ...
as Il Nonno
*
Nando Bruno
Nando Bruno (6 October 1895 – 10 April 1963) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 84 films between 1938 and 1961. He was born in Rome, Italy and he died there.
Selected filmography
* ''A Lady Did It'' (1938) - Un collego di Pasquale ...
as Il Segretario Politico
*
Aldo Silvani
Aldo Silvani (21 January 1891 – 12 November 1964) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1934 and 1964. He was born in Turin, Italy and died in Milan, Italy.
Selected filmography
* ''Cardinal Lambertini'' ...
as Il Medico
*
Gino Cavalieri
Gino Cavalieri (25 July 1895 – 15 October 1992) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 20 films between 1937 and 1983.
Filmography
External links
*
1895 births
1992 deaths
Italian male film actors
20th-century Italian m ...
as Il Parroco
*
Piero Palermini
Piero Palermini (1925–1996) was an Italian film actor. He was cast by Riccardo Freda in the 1949 swashbuckler, possibly due to a physical resemblance to the Hollywood actor Gene Kelly. Freda would come to regret this casting although Palermini w ...
as Franco
* Franco Serpilli as Citto
Awards and nominations
*
OCIC-Prize at
The World Film and Fine Arts Festival in Brussels, 1947: OCIC jury verdict : This film is amongst the films presented most able to contribute to the spiritual and moral revival of humanity. This first jury of the International Catholic Office of Cinema (OCIC) consisted out of the Jesuit Fr
Charles Reinert (Switzerland), the Dominican Fr
Léo Lunders O.P. (Belgium),
Diego Fabbri
Diego Fabbri (July 2, 1911 – August 14, 1980) was an Italian playwright whose plays centered on religious (Catholic) themes.
Early career
Fabbri graduated from the University of Bologna in 1936 with a degree in economics and business. But his ...
(Italy),
Luis de Zulueta (Spain),
André Ruszkowski (France) and
Roger Stengel (Belgium)
References
Bibliography
* Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. ''Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema''. Indiana University Press, 2015.
* Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. ''Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959''. Gremese Editore, 1991.
* Gundle, Stephen. ''Fame Amid the Ruins: Italian Film Stardom in the Age of Neorealism''. Berghahn Books, 2019.
External links
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1947 films
1947 comedy-drama films
Italian black-and-white films
Films scored by Nino Rota
1940s Italian-language films
Italian World War II films
Films set in Italy
Social realism in film
Films directed by Luigi Zampa
Italian comedy-drama films
Films with screenplays by Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Films shot at Cinecittà Studios
Lux Film films
1940s Italian films
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