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The Priest's Hat
''The Priest's Hat'' (Italian: ''Il cappello da prete'') is a 1944 Italian historical thriller drama film directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli and starring Roldano Lupi, Lída Baarová and Luigi Almirante. It is based on the 1888 novel of the same title by Emilio De Marchi.Bondanella & Pacchioni p.54 It was shot at Cinecittà Studios with sets designed by the art director Gastone Simonetti. It was shot in the summer of 1943, but its release was delayed to ongoing war events and it only premiered in Rome after the city's liberation by the Allies. 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. Cast References Bibliography * Peter Bondanella & Federico Pacchioni. ''A History of Italian Cinema''. Bloomsbury Publishing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Ferdinando Maria Poggioli (15 December 1897 – 2 February 1945) was an Italian screenwriter, film editor and director. He directed fifteen films including the 1940 melodrama '' Goodbye Youth''.Gundle p.56 He had previously worked as assistant director on a number of films during the 1930s. He committed suicide in 1945. Selected filmography Director * '' Bayonet'' (1936) * ''Wealth Without a Future'' (1939) * '' Goodbye Youth'' (1940) * ''Jealousy'' (1942) * ''Yes, Madam'' (1942) * ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1942) * ''The Materassi Sisters'' (1944) * ''The Priest's Hat'' (1944) Editor * '' The Blue Fleet'' (1932) * ''The Joker King'' (1935) * ''King of Diamonds'' (1936) * '' Tomb of the Angels'' (1937) * ''Princess Tarakanova'' (1938) * '' Tonight at Eleven'' (1938) * ''Diamonds Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 were constructed during the Fascist era as part of a plan to revive the Italian film industry. Filmmakers such as Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Mel Gibson have worked at Cinecittà. More than 3,000 movies have been filmed there, of which 90 received an Academy Award nomination and 47 of these won it. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made there led to Rome being dubbed "Hollywood on the Tiber." History The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini, his son Vittorio, and his head of cinema Luigi Freddi under the slogan "''Il cinema è l'arma più forte''" ("Cinema is the most powerful weapon"). The purpose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Capodaglio
Anna Capodaglio (pseudonym of Anna Adele Alberta Gramatica; 19 September 1879 – 29 June 1961) was an Italian actress. She appeared in more than twenty films from 1936 to 1945. Her sisters Emma Gramatica and Irma Gramatica were both actresses. The actress Wanda Capodaglio Wanda Capodaglio (1 January 1889 – 30 August 1980) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 30 films between 1914 and 1970. Her brother Ruggero was married to actress Anna Capodaglio (the stage name of Anna Adele Alberta Gramatica) wh ... was her sister-in-law (the sister of her husband Ruggero Capodaglio). Selected filmography References External links * 1879 births 1961 deaths Italian film actresses {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elio Marcuzzo
Elio is an Italian male given name. Origin A name of dual origin, Elio is primarily a revival of it, Elio, label=none (Helios), the Greek god of the Sun. it, Elio, label=none derives, through the Latin ''Helius'', from the Ancient Greek Ἥλιος (''Hélios''), which is taken from the noun of the same and means "Sun". It shares the same meaning as the Italian feminine name it, Sole, label=none, the Romanian masculine name ro, Sorin, label=none and the Lithuanian feminine name lt, Saulė, label=none. Elio is also believed to originate from the Roman ''cognomen'' ''Aelius'' (feminine ''Aelia''), which was held by the emperor Hadrian and thus dates back to the 2nd century. The origin is uncertain, perhaps Etruscan or perhaps from the Latin ''alius'', " nother". Some sources trace its origin to the Greek Ἥλιος (''Hélios''), a connection categorically rejected by others. The patronymic name Eliano is similarly derived from the Roman ''cognomen''. Elio may also be a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Colli
Mario Delli Colli (7 July 1915 – 29 November 1989) was an Italian actor and voice actor.Pitts p.131 He also worked as a voice actor, dubbing foreign films for release in Italy. Selected filmography * ''Five to Nil'' (1932) * '' The Amnesiac'' (1936) * ''Abandon All Hope ''Inferno'' (; Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem '' Divine Comedy''. It is followed by '' Purgatorio'' and '' Paradiso''. The ''Inferno'' describes Dante's journey through Hell, ...'' (1937) * '' The Priest's Hat'' (1944) * '' I cinque dell'Adamello'' (1954) * '' The Violent Patriot'' (1956) * '' The Mongols'' (1961) * '' I Kill, You Kill'' (1965) * '' Salvo D'Acquisto'' (1974) References Bibliography * Pitts, Michael R. ''Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films''. McFarland, 2012. External links * 1915 births 1989 deaths Male actors from Rome Italian male film actors Italian male television actors Italian male voice ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Checco Rissone
Francesco "Checco" Rissone (7 July 1909 – 26 September 1985) was an Italian film, stage and television actor. Life and career Rissone was born in Turin, the younger brother of the more famous Giuditta. He debuted on stage at a young age and often worked in the same companies as his sister. Graduating in economics, in the post-war years Rissone specialized in character roles, in films, television and particularly on stage, often working at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan under the direction of Giorgio Strehler. At the Piccolo Teatro, he also worked as assistant director and later as teacher at the drama school of the theatre. Partial filmography * '' La segretaria per tutti'' (1933) * ''Full Speed'' (1934) – Un ciclista (uncredited) * ''Il signore desidera?'' (1934) * ''These Children'' (1937) * ''The Cuckoo Clock'' (1938) – Narciso * '' Departure'' (1938) – Il fattore * ''The Lady in White'' (1938) – L'autista del pullman a Cervinia * ''Duetto vagabondo'' (1939) * ''Ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Grasso
Giovanni Grasso (11 November 1888 – 30 April 1963) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1910 and 1955. He was born and died in Catania, Sicily, Italy. Born into a family of marionettists, he was cousin and namesake of Giovanni Grasso, a respected stage actor specialized in the Sicilian language repertoire, so he assumed at the beginning of his career the stage name "Giovanni Grasso Junior" to stand out. He was mainly active on stage, often acting together with his wife, Virginia Balestrieri. Selected filmography * ''I naufraghi'' (1914) * ''Il lupo'' (1917) * ''Sole!'' (1918) * ''Il lampionaro del Ponte Vecchio'' (1918) * ''Nennella'' (1919) * ''Skeletros'' (1920) * '' The Telephone Operator'' (1932) - Gedeone * ''Port'' (1934) - Nicola Bellamonte * ''Sentinels of Bronze'' (1937) - Sergente Amato * '' Under the Southern Cross'' (1938) - Marco, il capo della piantagione * ''Piccoli naufraghi'' (1939) - Il 'commandante' * ''No Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Pavese
Luigi Pavese (25 October 1897 – 13 December 1969) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Asti, Pavese started his career in 1916 working as a silent film actor at 19 years of age. He then began his theatrical debut in 1921 and eventually worked his way up to becoming a film actor by the 1930s. He appeared in more than 170 films between 1916 and 1969. By the time World War II ended, Pavese's popularity as an actor increased. He often portrayed characters with certain professions such as clerks, lawyers, soldiers, officers and notaries in comedy films and made frequent collaborations with other actors such as Totò, Aldo Fabrizi, Walter Chiari, Alberto Sordi, including his younger brother Nino Pavese. As a voice actor, Pavese dubbed the voices of characters into the Italian language. He was the official voice actor of Fernando Sancho, Robert Strauss and many more. He even provided the Italian voices of animated characters belonging to The Walt Disney C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loris Gizzi
Loris Gizzi (16 August 1899 – 6 October 1986) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Life and career Born in Rome, after his university studies Gizzi attended a school of dance and singing. He abandoned the courses when he became an employee of Ferrovie dello Stato, reaching the rank of sub-station master. In the 1930s, he discovered his vocation as an actor, attending several dramatic societies. In 1935, during an outdoor show on the Palatine Hill in honor of royal guests, he was chosen to play Remus in the drama play ''Rumon''; from then he entered the most important stage companies of the time, notably appearing in the 1938 representation of ''Francesca da Rimini'' by Gabriele D'Annunzio, staged by Renato Simoni and with Andreina Pagnani in the title role. Active in films since 1933, he had an intense career as a character actor, mostly cast in humorous roles. He played Gioachino Rossini several times, with whom he shared a physical resemblance. He was also active as a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Lombardi (actor)
Carlo Lombardi (2 January 1900 – 21 March 1984) was an Italian stage and film actor. Later in his career he often worked in television. He appeared in a number of films during the Fascist era, including a leading role in the historical epic ''Scipio Africanus'' (1937).Elley p.196 Selected filmography * ''The Man with the Claw'' (1931) * ''Pergolesi'' (1932) * ''Zaganella and the Cavalier'' (1932) * '' The Gift of the Morning'' (1932) * ''Giallo'' (1933) * ''Everybody's Woman'' (1934) * '' The Anonymous Roylott'' (1936) * ''Scipio Africanus'' (1937) * '' The Last Enemy'' (1938) * ''Star of the Sea'' (1938) * '' A Wife in Danger'' (1939) * '' The Castle Ball'' (1939) * '' A Thousand Lire a Month'' (1939) * ''The Dream of Butterfly'' (1939) * ''The First Woman Who Passes'' (1940) * ''Light in the Darkness'' (1941) * '' L'attore scomparso'' (1941) * ''The Secret Lover'' (1941) * '' Headlights in the Fog'' (1942) * '' Torrents of Spring'' (1942) * ''Lively Teresa'' (1943) * ''The P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 sharp contrast to Telefoni Bianchi-American style comedies and is rather artistic, highly formalistic, expressive in complexity and deals mainly with contemporary literary material, above all the pieces of Italian realism from authors like Corrado Alvaro, Ennio Flaiano, Emilio Cecchi, Francesco Pasinetti, Vitaliano Brancati, Mario Bonfantini and Umberto Barbaro. Main characteristics The dominant feature in this heterogeneous corpus of films is the desire to compete with cinema on a European level by affirming the expressive autonomy of cinema with respect to the other arts and, at the same time, the possibility of comparing it on an equal footing with them through a style that can merge and contaminate the different artistic and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allies (World War II)
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during the Second World War (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers, led by Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy. Its principal members by 1941 were the United Kingdom, United States, Soviet Union, and China. Membership in the Allies varied during the course of the war. When the conflict broke out on 1 September 1939, the Allied coalition consisted of the United Kingdom, France, and Poland, as well as their respective dependencies, such as British India. They were soon joined by the independent dominions of the British Commonwealth: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Consequently, the initial alliance resembled that of the First World War. As Axis forces began invading northern Europe and the Balkans, the Allies added the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Greece, and Yugoslavia. The Soviet Union, which initially had a nonaggression pac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
