Music Consultant
As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
Music Consultant
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.
Production Design
Un grupo de sicilianos que se han quedado sin trabajo y viven en la miseria parten hacia el norte con intención de llegar a Francia. El hombre al que han pagado para que los introduzca clandestinamente en el país no es más que un estafador que los abandona a su suerte al pie de los Alpes. A pesar de su desesperada situación, los emigrantes no se rinden, pero su viaje se convertirá en una dramática odisea.
Conductor
An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.
Conductor
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Estando Roma ocupada por los nazis, la temible Gestapo trata de arrestar a Manfredi, el líder del Comité Nacional de Liberación. Annie Marie ofrece refugio en su casa a Manfredi y a algunos de sus camaradas, pero los alemanes descubren su escondrijo y rodean la vivienda; algunos partisanos consiguen escapar por los tejados, pero Manfredi es apresado.
Conductor
The well off daughter of a tenor breaks up a romance with a helpful youth from a misunderstanding. But she continues to cover him with his gambling debts despite her delicate health.
Scenario Writer
Production Design
Musical
Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot thickens when Rosa's backstage life begins to mirror the travails of the character she is portraying. The climax comes when Harry Peters (Fosco Giachetti), the American father of Rosa's illegitimate child, returns after four years with his new wife in tow, leading inexorably to a doleful ending both on- and offstage. Critics complained about the substandard photography in Il Sogno di Butterfly, but this might have been due to poor laboratory work.
