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Renzo Rossellini (composer)
Renzo Rossellini (2 February 1908 – 13 May 1982) was an Italian composer, best known for his film scores. Born in Rome, he was brother of director Roberto Rossellini and father of producer Franco Rossellini. He died in Monte Carlo. He composed the scores of his brother's films, and others such as ''The Children Are Watching Us'' and ''Il segno di Venere''. He also wrote several ballets, oratorios, cantatas, four operas—''La Guerra'' (1956), ''Il vortice'' (1958), ''Uno sguardo dal ponte'' (1961), ''L'Annonce faite à Marie'' (1970)—, symphonies, chamber music, and songs. Selected filmography * ''The Ancestor'' (1936) * '' Under the Southern Cross'' (1938) * ''Princess Tarakanova'' (1938) * '' The White Ship'' (1941) * ''A Pilot Returns'' (1942) * ''Luisa Sanfelice'' (1942) * '' Giarabub'' (1942) * '' Noi Vivi'' (1942) * '' Addio Kira'' (1942) * '' Knights of the Desert'' (1942) * ''A Garibaldian in the Convent'' (1942) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1942) * ''The Man with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renzo Rossellini 1908-1982
Renzo, the diminutive of Lorenzo, is an Italian masculine given name and a surname. Given name Notable people named Renzo include the following: *Renzo Alverà (1933–2005), Italian bobsledder *Renzo Arbore (born 1937), Italian TV host, showman, singer, musician, film actor, and film director *Renzo Barbieri (1940–2007), Italian author and editor of Italian comics *Renzo Caldara (born 1943), Italian bobsledder *Renzo Cesana (1907–1970), Italian-American actor, writer, composer, and songwriter *Renzo Cramerotti (born 1947), Italian male javelin thrower *Renzo Dalmazzo (1886–?), Italian lieutenant general *Renzo De Felice (1929–1996), Italian historian *Renzo De Vecchi (1894–1967), Italian football player and coach * Renzo Fenci (1914–1999), Italian-American sculptor based in Southern California. *Renzo Furlan (born 1970), Italian tennis player * Renzo Fujiwara (born 1973), A minor character in the movie The End of Cygnus *Renzo Gobbo (born 1961), Italian associat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addio Kira
''We the Living'' is a two-part 1942 Italian romantic war drama film, based on Ayn Rand's 1936 novel of the same name. It was originally released as two films, ''Noi vivi'' (literally "We Live") and ''Addio Kira'' ("Goodbye Kira"). It was directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and produced by Scalera Film, and stars Alida Valli as Kira Argounova, Rossano Brazzi as Leo Kovalensky, and Fosco Giachetti as Andrei Taganov. The nominally anti-communist, but ''de facto'' anti-authoritarian film was made and released in Italy during World War II, then subsequently banned by the Fascist government and pulled from theaters. The film was lost and forgotten for decades, then found and restored with Rand's involvement. It was released for the first time in the United States in 1986. Cast Production Background The film version of Ayn Rand's novel ''We the Living'' was made in Italy by Scalera Films in 1942. Rand's novel was considered a political hot potato by Fascist authorities in Rome, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love And Blood
''Love and Blood'' ( it, Amore e sangue) is a 1951 Italian-German action melodrama film directed by Marino Girolami and starring Maria Montez in one of her last roles. at Maria Montez Fan Fage It was also known as ''City of Violence''. The film's was by and . A separate German-language version '' |
L'Amore (film)
''L'Amore'' (''Love'') is a 1948 Italian anthology film directed by Roberto Rossellini that stars Anna Magnani and Federico Fellini. After an opening dedication to Magnani for her acting ability, it consists of two parts, one titled ''La voce umana'' (''The Human Voice'') and the other ''Il miracolo'' (''The Miracle''). The second part was banned in the United States, until it was cleared in 1952 by a Supreme Court decision upholding the right to free speech. ''The Human Voice'' Adapted by Rossellini from a 1930 play ''The Human Voice'' (French title ''La Voix humaine'') by Jean Cocteau, this features an unnamed woman (Magnani), alone in her apartment, who over the telephone is desperately trying to salvage her relationship with the man who has left her. ''The Miracle'' Co-written by Fellini, Pinelli and Rossellini, this is about Nanni (Magnani), a simple-minded and obsessively religious woman who tends goats on a mountainside near Amalfi. When a handsome bearded wanderer (Fel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatal Symphony
''Fatal Symphony'' (Italian: ''Sinfonia fatale'') is a 1947 Italian war-melodrama film directed by Victor Stoloff and starring Douglass Montgomery, Marina Berti and Sarah Churchill. It was screened and awarded a prize at the Lugano Festival.Lovell p.495 It was shot at the Scalera Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ottavio Scotti and Vittorio Valentini. Synopsis Before the Second World War an American composer, separated from his wife, comes to live in Italy and falls in love with a country girl. Cast * Douglass Montgomery as John Savage * Marina Berti as Mirella * Sarah Churchill as Mrs. Savage * Tullio Carminati as Pedro Diaz * Victor Rietti as Beppo * Carlo Romano as Giorgio * John Blythe as pittore Pierre Robert * Cesare Fantoni as sacerdote * Pina Gallini as Nunziata, moglie di Beppo * Claudio Gora as Rodolfo Marini * Sergio Capogna as Rocco * Renzo Merusi as tenore d'Errico * Giuseppe Pierozzi as impiegato galleria d'arte * Pina Piova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europe '51
''Europe '51'' ( it, Europa '51), also known as ''The Greatest Love'', is a 1952 Italian neorealist film directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Ingrid Bergman and Alexander Knox. The film follows an industrialist's wife who, after the death of her young son, turns towards a rigorous humanitarianism. Plot Due to a labour strike, Irene Girard, wife of American industrialist George Girard, returns late to their apartment in post-war Rome, where she is giving a dinner party for their relatives. Her young son Michel laments that she has hardly time for him, to which she replies that it's time for him to grow up and stop being over-sensitive. During dinner, the guests get involved in a debate about politics. While Irene's cousin André, a Communist who writes for a political newspaper, predicts peace for the world, a conservative friend of Irene is convinced that the world is heading straight for war. The party abruptly comes to an end when Michel falls down the building's stairs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brothers Karamazov (1947 Film)
''The Brothers Karamazov'' ( it, I fratelli Karamazoff) is a 1947 Italian historical drama film directed by Giacomo Gentilomo and starring Fosco Giachetti, Lamberto Picasso and Mariella Lotti.Barattoni p.104 It is based on the 1880 novel of the same title by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It won two Nastro d'Argento Awards, for best screenplay and for best score. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alberto Boccianti. Cast * Fosco Giachetti as Dimitri Karamazov * Mariella Lotti as Caterina Ivanovna * Elli Parvo as Gruscenka * Andrea Checchi as Ivan Karamazov * Giulio Donnini as Smerdyakov * Lamberto Picasso as Fjodor Karamazoff * Carlo Conso as Aljoscia * Milly Vitale as Lisa * Paola Veneroni as Fénja * Franco Scandurra as Pjotr Ilic Perchòtin * Laura Carli as Kòclakoff * Liana Del Balzo Liana Del Balzo (4 March 1899 – 26 March 1982) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 90 films between 1935 and 1979. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Before Him All Rome Trembled
''Before Him All Rome Trembled'' (Italian: ''Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma'') is a 1946 Italian musical war melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Anna Magnani, Tito Gobbi and Hans Hinrich. Ada and Marco are a pair of opera singers, who moonlight working for the Italian resistance at the time of the German occupation of Rome during the Second World War. They are sheltering a British soldier with whom they make contact with the advancing Allied forces. Sylistically the film is a hybrid between filmed performances of opera, and a neorealistic resistance melodrama.Bayman & Rigoletto p.42 The title refers to Giacomo Puccini's ''Tosca'', which is performed during the film. Cast * Anna Magnani as Ada * Tito Gobbi as Marco * Hans Hinrich as German Officer * Gino Sinimberghi as Frank, the British soldier * Guido Notari as Doctor * Tino Scotti as Mechanic * Guglielmo Sinaz as Stagehand * Joop van Hulzen as Webb * Giuseppe Varni as Stagehand * Carlo Duse as Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desire (1946 Italian Film)
''Desire'' (Italian: ''Desiderio'') is a 1946 Italian drama film directed by Marcello Pagliero and Roberto Rossellini and starring Massimo Girotti, Elli Parvo and Carlo Ninchi. Plot Paola, daughter of a railwayman, leaves her home in Abruzzo to go to Rome, where she finds work with a dressmaker. It does not last, and she drifts into high-end prostitution. Shocked one morning by seeing the corpse of a girl who had thrown herself from a building, she is comforted by Giovanni, a kindly older man whose business is breeding flowers. Contrasting the mess of her own life with the simple purity of his, she resolves to return to the family home and see her sister Anna, whose wedding she failed to attend. Giovanni will follow later and ask her father for her hand. While Anna is glad to see her and her mother accepts her back, her father refuses to acknowledge her existence and Nando, her sister's husband, regards her as fair game. She is also pestered by Riccardo, now married, who had seduc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tyrant Of Padua
''The Tyrant of Padua'' (Italian: ''Il tiranno di Padova'') is a 1946 Italian historical film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Clara Calamai, Carlo Lombardi and Elsa De Giorgi.Brunetta, p. 150. It is an adaptation of the 1835 play '' Angelo, Tyrant of Padua'' by Victor Hugo. It is set in Padua in the 1540s. Made by Scalera Films, it was shot at the Cinevillaggio Studios complex in Venice during the wartime Italian Social Republic. The film's sets were designed by the art director Luigi Scaccianoce and Ottavio Scotti. Cast * Carlo Lombardi as Angelo Malipieri * Clara Calamai as Tisbe * Elsa De Giorgi as Caterina Bragadin in Malipieri * Alfredo Varelli as Rodolfo degli Ezzelini * Nino Pavese as Una spia * Giorgio Piamonti as Omodei * Erminio Spalla as Un evaso * Carlo Micheluzzi as Il padre di Caterina * Olga Vittoria Gentilli as La madre di Tisbe * Memo Benassi as Cesare, il pittore * Andreina Carli as Reginella * Cristina Veronesi Cristina is a femal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Malibran (film)
''Maria Malibran'' is a 1943 Italian historical drama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Maria Cebotari, Rossano Brazzi, and Renato Cialente. It is based on the life of the Spanish singer Maria Malibran. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Virgilio Marchi and Gino Brosio Gino may refer to: * Gino (given name) * Gino (surname) * ''Gino'' (film), a 1993 Australian film * ''Gino the Chicken'', Italian TV series See also * *Geno (other) *Gino's (other) Gino's may refer to: * Gino's East, a Chicag .... Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1943 films 1940s historical musical films Italian historical musical films 1940s Italian-language films Films directed by Guido Brignone Films shot at Cinecittà Studios Films set in the 19th century Films set in Paris Films set in London Films scored by Renzo Rossellini 1940s Italian films {{1940s-Italy-film-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man With A Cross
''The Man with a Cross'' ( it, L'uomo dalla croce) is a 1943 Italian war film directed by Roberto Rossellini and starring Alberto Tavazzi, Roswita Schmidt and Attilio Dottesio. It was the final part of Rossellini's "Fascist trilogy" following '' The White Ship'' (1941) and ''A Pilot Returns'' (1942). It is loosely inspired by Reginaldo Giuliani, an Italian military chaplain who had been killed on active service. The film was made at Cinecittà with location shooting in the countryside around Ladispoli standing in for the Eastern Front. Although the film incorporates elements of neorealism such as the use of amateur actors in some parts, stylistically it is closer to a more conventional war film. Rossellini cast his friend, the art director Alberto Tavazzi in the title role, while his girlfriend Roswita Schmidt played the female lead.Bondanella. ''The Films of Roberto Rossellini''. p.37 Synopsis The film is set in the summer of 1942 in Ukraine where Italian troops are fighting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
