Maggiordomo di casa Fumaroli
As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
Monti
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Bachmeier
Pallante
A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.
Hairdresser (uncredited)
Cuando regresa a Roma, después de tres años en el campo de batalla, el general Marco Vinicio se enamora de Lygia. Pero ella es cristiana y sus creencias le impiden enamorarse de un guerrero. Aunque fue adoptada por un general retirado, jurídicamente es una esclava de Roma. Pero Marco consigue que el emperador Nerón se la ceda en pago por sus servicios.
A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child.
Il pellegrino caritatevole
Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.
Boehmer
Orson Welles interpreta al siniestro mago José Bálmano, más conocido por el sobrenombre de Cagliostro, quien se verá envuelto en una trama de intrigas palaciegas a través de la cual de piensa reemplazar a la Reina María Antonieta con una doble, para así poder tener acceso al poder. Adaptación de la novela de Alejandro Dumas.
Vecchio conte di Luna
Azucena, daughter of a Gypsy burnt at the stake, to take her revenge kidnaps one of the children of Count de Luna and raises him in secret as her own.
An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.
Count of Ceprano
This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to the curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter had been seduced by the Duke with Rigoletto's encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda likewise falls in love with the Duke and eventually sacrifices her life to save him from the assassins hired by her father.
Cavalier Rublo
Emma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works with her husband.
Oicard, il cameriere
Drama sobre dos chicas jóvenes que llegan a París en busca de una vida mejor.
Lo scrivone
The occupation of Bessarabia by the Russians in 1940 separates an opera singer from her family, leaving her under Bolshevik rule until Romanian troops enter Odessa.
Amilcare Bondani, il bidello
Una joven que estudia en una academia de secretarias hace prácticas redactando cartas que dirige a un destinatario imaginario que supuestamente vive en Roma. Un día, por puro entretenimiento, se pone a escribir una carta de amor y, por pura casualidad, esa carta es enviada por correo y llega a manos de alguien que, movido por la curiosidad, decide conocer a la remitente.
Detrattore
The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Il commissario
Venice Film Festival 1940
