''No Man's Land'' (Italian: ''Terra di nessuno'') is a 1939 Italian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
Mario Baffico and starring
Mario Ferrari
Mario Ferrari (September 3, 1894 – June 28, 1974) was an Italian film actor. After making his debut in 1920, Ferrari became a mainstay of Italian cinema during the Fascist era appearing in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He pla ...
,
Nelly Corradi and
Laura Solari
Laura Solari ( Camaur; 5 January 1913 – 13 September 1984) was an Italian film actress.
Early and personal life
Laura Camaur was born on 5 January 1913, in Trieste, then part of Austria-Hungary. She was the daughter of sculptor and arti ...
.
[Nichols XXIV] It is based on two novels by
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello (; ; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italians, Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his bold and ...
.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...
Alberto Tavazzi
Alberto Tavazzi (1912–2006) was an Italian painter, art director and occasional actor.
From 1939 Tavazzi began working on the design and construction of film sets. He was a friend of the director Roberto Rossellini, who cast him in the title ...
. It was shot at the
Cinecittà
Cinecittà Studios (; Italian for Cinema City) 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 constru ...
Studios in
Rome
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.
Location filming
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When filmmaking professionals refer to shooting "on location", they are ...
took place at
Todi
Todi (; ''Tuder'' in antiquity) is a town and ''comune'' (municipality) of the province of Perugia (region of Umbria) in central Italy. It is perched on a tall two-crested hill overlooking the east bank of the river Tiber, commanding distant view ...
near
Perugia
Perugia ( , ; ; ) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part of the valleys around the area. It has 162,467 ...
.
Cast
References
Bibliography
* Nina DaVinci Nichols. ''Pirandello and Film''. University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
External links
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1939 films
Italian drama films
Italian black-and-white films
1939 drama films
1930s Italian-language films
Films directed by Mario Baffico
Films shot at Cinecittà Studios
1939 comedy films
Films based on works by Luigi Pirandello
1930s Italian films
Films scored by Franco Casavola
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