Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Nacimiento : 1894-07-08, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
Muerte : 1998-01-04
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Director de cine italiano, nacido en Frosinone. Perteneció a una familia de talante artístico, su hermano Anton Giulio fue director de teatro, además de uno de los teóricos y escasos representantes de las corrientes futuristas en el cine de vanguardia europeo de los comienzos del cine mudo. Tras un breve paso por el mundo del teatro, Carlo Ludovico se dedicó en exclusiva al cine, donde trabajó como fotógrafo, montador y guionista, antes de dar el salto definitivo a la dirección en pleno período fascista. Su amplia filmografía, más de sesenta películas en treinta años de profesión, cubre todos los géneros, pero es fundamentalmente en la comedia y en el cine de aventuras donde obtiene sus mayores logros. Sus primeras películas de éxito fueron, Bonitas y feas se casan todas (1938) y Loca de alegría (1939). Ese mismo año dirige por primera vez al cómico Totó, con quién volverá a encontrarse posteriormente en lo que es una de las etapas más fructíferas y exitosas de la carrera de Bragaglia. Totó le Mokò, Fígaro quá, Fígaro lá y El fantasma es un vivo son algunas de las colaboraciones más conocidas. En la última etapa de su carrera se dedicó casi en exclusiva al cine histórico de aventuras, lo que en Italia se conoce como peplum, y fue uno de los artífices del espectacular renacimiento que tuvo el género a finales de los años cincuenta y principios de los sesenta. Entre sus películas más logradas de esta época destacan Los amores de Hércules (1960), con la exuberante Jayne Mansfield encabezando el reparto, y Aníbal, que dirigió junto con el americano especialista en films de bajo presupuesto Edgar G. Ulmer, para la que contó con Victor Mature. Abandonó el cine en 1963 y murió en 1998 en la isla de Capri, después de una operación en la cadera.
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Cuatro delincuentes sustituyen a los tres mosqueteros para robar el collar de la reina, pero se arrepienten al verla llorar y se lo devuelven.
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Four petty criminals pretend to be friars escaped from communist Hungary and go and live in a Sicilian convent
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Ursus, hijo del rey, es arrojado a los leones por un usurpador del trono. Pero los animales no dañan al niño, sino que lo crían como propio. Más tarde Ursus, convertido en un hombre muy fuerte y musculoso, regresa para vengarse del usurpador.
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La acción tiene lugar cuando Roma aún no domina Italia. Derrotados sus ejércitos por los pueblos vecinos, los romanos deben entregar a sus jóvenes vírgenes como rehenes.
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La voluptuosa Jayne Mansfield y su marido de entonces -y Mr. Universo- Mickey Hargitay, protagonizaron esta aventura mitológica en la que el forzudo Hércules tendrá que enfrentarse a enemigos y monstruos para vengar la muerte de su esposa a manos de un rey.
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Segunda guerra Púnica (218-201 a.C.) El plan romano de doble ataque contra los cartagineses (en Hispania y África) fracasa ante la sorprendente ofensiva de Aníbal (Victor Mature) que cruza los Pirineos y los Alpes con 50.000 hombres (entre ellos numerosos iberos), 9.000 caballos y 37 elefantes. En su avance hacia Italia conoce a Silvia (Rita Gam), que ha escapado de prisión para unirse a las tropas romanas al mando de Fabio Massimo. Aníbal, el gran guerrero y estadista, tras muchas batallas, finalmente comprende cuál es su verdadero destino.
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Gabriella, a maid, wears a jewel at a dancing party which belongs to her mistress, and when it is stolen she is accused of the theft and sent to jail. Some other maids organize a search party for the real thief who seems to be a moustached youth who continually sings a popular song.
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Film rodado en "Tierra Santa". El centurión Cayo Marcellus es enviado a controlar al gobernador Poncio Pilatos, enfrentado a los rebeldes sublevados en Judea. Viajes, batallas, un encuentro con María Magdalena y la crucifixión de Cristo.
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A landowner pretends he's in love with a provocative bar owner to make his fianceè jealous. She has fallen for a marshal.
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A young woman brings a baby to some military barracks. There is a note on the child - it says that the baby is hers and a soldier called Felice.
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In 1950s Naples, a couple struggles to be together against the will of the mother-in-law. In the end, not only will they be together, but the mother-in-law-to-be, a widow, finds love as well.
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In 1950s Naples, a couple struggles to be together against the will of the mother-in-law. In the end, not only will they be together, but the mother-in-law-to-be, a widow, finds love as well.
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Adaptación libérrima del poema épico de Torquato Tasso que reconstruye un supuesto episodio de las Cruzadas.
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Luciano, who studies at the university, falls in love with Sandra, a high school student, who returns his love. If her family is very rich, his family is of modest extraction; however, the difference in condition does not seem to be a problem, and Luciano's degree increases the hope of a happy future. However, following a sudden financial collapse, Sandra's family business failed: so, to help her parents, the girl accepted the kindness of a very rich childhood friend, deciding to marry him.
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El 24 de diciembre, el Orient Express queda detenido por un alud de nieve en un pequeño pueblo. La interacción entre aldeanos y pasajeros dará lugar a diversos romances...
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Amak (Ricardo Montalban) es un joven perseguido por el Rey de Asiria (Roldano Lupi). Se encuentra con Semiramis (Rhonda Fleming) y se enamora. Pero la felicidad no dura mucho, ya que su belleza le crea varias complicaciones.
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Amak (Ricardo Montalban) es un joven perseguido por el Rey de Asiria (Roldano Lupi). Se encuentra con Semiramis (Rhonda Fleming) y se enamora. Pero la felicidad no dura mucho, ya que su belleza le crea varias complicaciones.
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Carlo Tettazze gana en el juego una buena cantidad de dinero y decide irse a Roma a divertirse. Durante el viaje le roban el dinero y comienza su odisea para lograr un préstamo.
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El avaro barón Antonio Peletti se niega a darle a su pueblo la herencia que les ha dejado su padre a sus conciudadanos, una caja llena de piedras preciosas, que el barón esconde. El alcalde y el resto de habitantes organizan entonces una triquiñuela: hacerle creer que está muerto, y en un falso "más allá", tratar de convencerle para que les diga dónde esconde el dinero para poder salvar así su alma.
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Tras huir de su boda por amenazas, y tomado por un célebre detective americano, Totò debe detener a un peligroso criminal que secuestra a seis mujeres, tras haber matado a sus maridos en la noche de bodas.
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In the 18th century, Figaro the Sevillian barber is likely to be arrested because he operates his shop on Sundays, which is forbidden.
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Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.
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Mobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò), a street musician.
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Two strangers meet when they both miss their trains, and end up spending a penniless day and night together. An English version of 'It Happened One Night'.
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A young music teacher, after her house is burned down by a raid, has to go to a refugee camp with her old and sick mother. She is forced to sell everything she owns, while she is looking for a job as a singer. One night, tired and frustrated, she meets a man who invites her out for a drink. She accepts the invitation, stunned by the bunch of banknotes in his wallet. The man takes her to his room at the hotel Luna and seduces her. Before leaving, she robs him of his money and then walks hastily home, but in the meantime her mother has died. She meets a young maestro, who wants her to sing his songs. She seems to begin a happy, though hard, life together with the young maestro who wishes to marry her. The wicked man suddenly reappears and menaces to reveal their old encounter and that she is a thief, but he is later killed. The unfortunate lady is suspected of the crime, but at the end she is cleared of it and she can happily marry her maestro
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An Italian comedy from 1943.
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An Italian comedy from 1943.
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A country braggart bets that he can spend a night with a local beauty. When he is surprised by her husband, he is not only forced to pay his friends money but also challenged to come up with a new identity other than Casanova or Don Juan.
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A country braggart bets that he can spend a night with a local beauty. When he is surprised by her husband, he is not only forced to pay his friends money but also challenged to come up with a new identity other than Casanova or Don Juan.
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The owner of a lottery store refuses to pay a large sum won by one of his workers that he hates, because that man received the winning numbers in a dream.
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The owner of a lottery store refuses to pay a large sum won by one of his workers that he hates, because that man received the winning numbers in a dream.
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The owner of a lottery store refuses to pay a large sum won by one of his workers that he hates, because that man received the winning numbers in a dream.
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The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.
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The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.
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Alberto, who has a beautiful voice but is afraid to sing in public, and the shy Anna, daughter of a very rich shoe manufacturer, take "lessons of courage" in a school for the shy and end up falling in love. Their shyness doesn't seem to heal but due to a misunderstanding Alberto becomes terribly jealous, deciding to face the girl first and then the public who will give him an enthusiastic success.
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An Italian comedy released in 1941.
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An Italian comedy released in 1941.
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The noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claims that in his youth he had a relationship with a circus rider that produced twin sons.
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The noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claims that in his youth he had a relationship with a circus rider that produced twin sons.
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A sea captain forbids his daughter to marry the man whose father he had killed many years before.
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After several unsuccessful suicide attempts, Totò finds himself in an animal asylum.
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After several unsuccessful suicide attempts, Totò finds himself in an animal asylum.
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Venice Film Festival 1935
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Venice Film Festival 1935
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A 1934 film by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia.
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First film by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia.
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A wealthy young woman falls in love with a radio singer without ever having seen him. She forces her strange family (forgetful father, mother with ideas of grandeur, three sisters with a passion for singing and another who takes care of abandoned children) to go to the EIAR headquarters to be able to meet him.
