''The Innkeeper'' (Italian: ''La locandiera'' also known as ''Mirandolina'') is a 1944 Italian

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directed by

Luigi Chiarini Luigi Chiarini (20 June 1900 – 12 November 1975) was an Italian film theorist, essayist, screenwriter and film director. Life and career Born in Rome, Chiarini wrote extensively about film theory and in 1935 he founded the drama school Centr ...

and starring Luisa Ferida,

Armando Falconi Armando Falconi (1871–1954) was an Italian stage and film actor who appeared in more than forty films during his career. He played the lead in the 1931 comedy '' The Charmer''.Landy p.63-65 Life and career Born in Rome, Falconi was the son ...

and

Osvaldo Valenti Osvaldo Valenti (17 February 1906 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1928 and 1945. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey to a Sicilian carpet trader and a wealthy Lebanese woman of Greek descen ...

.Reich & Garafalo p.28 The film is an adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's 1753 play ''

The Mistress of the Inn ''The Mistress of the Inn'' ( it, La locandiera ), also translated as ''The Innkeeper Woman'' or ''Mirandolina'' (after the play's main character), is a 1753 three-act comedy by the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni about a coquette. The play h ...

'', one of a number of times the work has been turned into films. It belongs to the movies of the

calligrafismo Calligrafismo (, "caligraphism") is an Italian style of filmmaking relating to some films made in Italy in the first half of the 1940s and endowed with an expressive complexity that isolates them from the general context. Calligrafismo is in a sh ...

style.

Production

The film was originally shot in

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. During the last stages of completion, Mussolini was overthrown. The final editing was done in

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, the film capital of the

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, but without the presence of Chiarini. Two of its stars Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti were later executed by

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for collaboration with the Fascist leadership.

Cast

* Luisa Ferida as Mirandolina *

as Il marchese di Forlimpopoli *

as Il cavaliere di Ripafratta *

Camillo Pilotto Camillo Pilotto (6 February 1888 Birth name: Camillo Raul Vittorio Pilotto. – 27 May 1963) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 101 films between 1916 and 1963. He was born and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * '' The Song ...

as Il conte di Albafiorita *

Elsa De Giorgi Elsa De Giorgi (26 January 1914 – 12 September 1997) was an Italian film actress and writer. She appeared in twenty seven films, including '' Captain Fracasse'' (1940). Her 1955 book ''I coetanei'' (The Peers), a diary of Italy during the ci ...

as Ortensia, l'attrice *

Paola Borboni Paola Borboni (1 January 1900 – 9 April 1995) was an Italian stage and film actress whose career spanned nine decades of cinema. Early life Borboni was born on 1 January 1900 in Parma, Italy. Career Borboni made her stage debut in 19 ...

as Dejanira, l'attrice *

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as La contessa di Albafiorita *

Mario Pisu Mario Pisu (21 May 1910 – 17 July 1976) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Montecchio Emilia, Pisu was considered to be one of the most elegant performers of the Italian cinema. He began his career on stage and screen in ...

as Fabrizio *

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as Orazio, il capocomico * Emilio Baldanello as Brighella * Ernesto Zanon as Arlecchino *

Mario Siletti Mario Giovanni Siletti (22 July 1903 – 19 April 1964) was an Italian actor. He was born in Turin. He performed in more than 160 films from 1932 to 1964. He began appearing in American films no later than 1946. From 1962 to 1964, he also portra ...

as Pandolfo, il servo di Ripafratta * Pina Piovani as Lucrezia, la cameriera della locanda * Andrea Volo as Florindo * Clara Vaschetti as La domestica delle attrici *

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as Il poeta * Igilda Bertina * Giulia Toscani * Liliana Ruffo *

Saro Urzì Rosario "Saro" Urzì (24 February 1913 – 1 November 1979) was an Italian actor. He is best known for his roles in the films '' In the Name of the Law'' (1949), '' The Railroad Man'' (1956), '' Seduced and Abandoned'' (1964), which earned him ...

References

Bibliography

* Brunetta, Gian Piero. ''The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century''. Princeton University Press, 2009. * Moliterno, Gino. ''The A to Z of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. * Reich, Jacqueline & Garofalo, Piero. ''Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943''. Indiana University Press, 2002.

External links

* 1944 films 1940s Italian-language films Films directed by Luigi Chiarini Italian films based on plays Films set in the 18th century Adaptations of works by Carlo Goldoni Italian black-and-white films Italian historical comedy films 1940s historical comedy films 1944 comedy films 1940s Italian films {{1940s-Italy-comedy-film-stub