Osvaldo Valenti

Osvaldo Valenti

Birth : 1906-02-17, Istanbul, Turkey

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Osvaldo Valenti

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Fatto di cronaca
Andrea
La locandiera
Enrico IV
Il conte Enrico Di Nolli
Harlem
Chris Sherman
This propaganda film was partly inspired by the story of the first Italian heavyweight champion Primo Carnera who, after winning the title with Al Capone’s help in 1933, was beaten the following year by the Jewish Max Bear and then again by the ‘Brown Bomber’ Detroit Joe Lewis in June 1935, on the eve of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. This match provoked numerous racial skirmishes on the streets of Harlem between the Black community and pro-Fascist Italian-Americans. The film overturns historical facts and here, obviously, it is the white boxer who wins in order to demonstrate the superiority of the “Aryan Italians” over the “sinister Jewish entrepreneurs” and the “savage Afro-American fans in Yankee Stadium”. In the film, these were played by South African prisoners-of-war interred in a work camp, which the German and Italian propaganda ministries had set up near Cinecittà “for cinematic purposes”.
La valle del diavolo
Barone Richter
Fedora
Vladimiro Yariskine
This film relates the story of Russian Princess Fedora (Louise Ferida), in Czarist times, whose royal lover is assassinated on the eve of their marriage. She pledges vengeance, only to become the victim of her vow when she falls in love again.
Le due orfanelle
Pietro
The Jester's Supper
Giannetto Malespini
In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and harmless Giannetto. Even though determined to not react to the cruel pranks of the brothers, Giannetto is forced to take a stand when Ginevra, a beautiful girl that works in the Chiaramantesi household, is dragged into the game. To defend his honor and protect the girl, Giannetto works out a fiendish plot that will end in blood and madness.
La bella addormentata
Don Vincenzo Caramandola
Venice Film Festival 1942
Sancta Maria
Nadia, a young Soviet journalist who is passing through Pompeii, discovers the power that comes from the Catholic faith when the painter she loves, Paolo, and who saved her from drowning during the shipwreck of the cruise in which they met, is at the gates of death because of a serious illness whose symptoms are similar to those of leprosy.
Orizzonte di sangue
Directed by Gennaro Righelli.
Il vetturale del San Gottardo
Mortens
La maschera di Cesare Borgia
Cesare Borgia
L'amante segreta
Beatrice Cenci
Giacomo Cenci
Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.
Giuliano de' Medici
Franceschino de' Pazzi
Capitan Fracassa
Il duca
Trappola d'amore
Il conte di Brazeuil
Una lampada alla finestra
Dick
Oltre l'amore
Livio Savelli
Venice Film Festival 1940
An Adventure of Salvator Rosa
Il conte Lamberto D'Arco
Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely struggle against the cruel tyrant that frightens the country.
Frenesia
Sigfrido
Il fornaretto di Venezia
Alvise Duodo
La vedova
pittore Padovan
Mille lire al mese
Gabriele Corodi
Ettore Fieramosca
Guy de la Motte
ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current patriotic fervor and pride in the Italian nation, and it contributed to a revival of Italian nationalism.
La danza delle lancette
Creature della notte
Ragazzo
Malvivente di borgata
The film follows Giovanni, a working-class orphan living in Rome, who realizes that his criminal lifestyle is wrong and becomes a devout fascist.
La signorina dell'autobus
Giacomo
Cinque a zero
Barenghi
Sports comedy film inspired by a 5–0 victory by A.S. Roma against their rivals Juventus in 1931.