Self (archive footage)
Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position.
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Simon Bolivar is the true-life story of the leader of the 1817 Venezuelan revolution.
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Anita, a free Emilian girl falls in love with Salvatore, a Neapolitan bersagliere. The two would like to get married, but he drowns while bathing in the river. From that moment the woman is unable to love anyone else because, at the most beautiful, the ghost of her fiancé appears to her who, in the end, will be able to be followed in the other world.
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Anita, a free Emilian girl falls in love with Salvatore, a Neapolitan bersagliere. The two would like to get married, but he drowns while bathing in the river. From that moment the woman is unable to love anyone else because, at the most beautiful, the ghost of her fiancé appears to her who, in the end, will be able to be followed in the other world.
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Sandro, un popular periodista, prepara un reportaje sobre el egoísmo humano. Todas las personas que conoce le sirven para su investigación, incluso su propia esposa, Titta. Pero poco a poco se irá identificando con ellos, y le hará replantearse su vida...
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Sandro, un popular periodista, prepara un reportaje sobre el egoísmo humano. Todas las personas que conoce le sirven para su investigación, incluso su propia esposa, Titta. Pero poco a poco se irá identificando con ellos, y le hará replantearse su vida...
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Sandro, un popular periodista, prepara un reportaje sobre el egoísmo humano. Todas las personas que conoce le sirven para su investigación, incluso su propia esposa, Titta. Pero poco a poco se irá identificando con ellos, y le hará replantearse su vida...
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In late 19th century Sicily, handsome free-spirit Liolà wanders into town, where he encounters an old flame now married to a wealthy landowner.
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In late 19th century Sicily, handsome free-spirit Liolà wanders into town, where he encounters an old flame now married to a wealthy landowner.
Writer
Cuatro historias, basadas en cuatro fábulas de Lafontaine, muestran a una mujer que intenta recuperar a su marido; a un infeliz que quiere suicidarse; a un hombre celoso que llega a asociarse con su rival, y a una pareja que se queda encerrada en un apartamento.
(segment "Le lièvre et le tortue")
Cuatro historias, basadas en cuatro fábulas de Lafontaine, muestran a una mujer que intenta recuperar a su marido; a un infeliz que quiere suicidarse; a un hombre celoso que llega a asociarse con su rival, y a una pareja que se queda encerrada en un apartamento.
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Cuatro historias, basadas en cuatro fábulas de Lafontaine, muestran a una mujer que intenta recuperar a su marido; a un infeliz que quiere suicidarse; a un hombre celoso que llega a asociarse con su rival, y a una pareja que se queda encerrada en un apartamento.
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Indagación sobre los orígenes del fascismo y su desarrollo en Italia y en otros países mediante material de archivo. Esta revisión muestra el marco ideológico del fascismo y el rastro que ha dejado en la mentalidad de la gente.
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Documentary directed by Alessandro Blasetti.
Self (uncredited)
Silvio Magnozzi es un hombre dedicados a sus altos estándares morales que pierde todo aquello que quiere en la vida, incluida su esposa. Él observa mientras otros progresan mediante cualquier medio. Después de la muerte de su esposa, el decide seguir ese camino sin escrúpulos. Ahora reside, en apariencia feliz, en la calle Fácil, con su nueva esposa, pero ¿qué es lo que le molesta?
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A tour of the nightlife in Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Vienna, Brussels and more. Episodes presenting famous artists and people performing.
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Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage destroyed during the war. Reconstruction would take the view of the Paseroni villa, big industrial and political traffic. Bonelli's lawyer, a great speaker, becomes a mayor for the death of his predecessor and is bought by Paseroni, while rejecting the love of Paul and Mary for social differences and why Paul should stay behind Doddy Paseroni. At this point, Paul and Mary flee to kill, just as Bonelli has to hold a talk on the radio for the inauguration of Paseroni's villa ...
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Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage destroyed during the war. Reconstruction would take the view of the Paseroni villa, big industrial and political traffic. Bonelli's lawyer, a great speaker, becomes a mayor for the death of his predecessor and is bought by Paseroni, while rejecting the love of Paul and Mary for social differences and why Paul should stay behind Doddy Paseroni. At this point, Paul and Mary flee to kill, just as Bonelli has to hold a talk on the radio for the inauguration of Paseroni's villa ...
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Antonietta, una joven empleada, aparece sorpresivamente en la portada de una revista. La curiosidad la lleva a buscar al fotógrafo, y entre ambos nace una relación amorosa. Sin embargo, en la muchacha crece el deseo de convertirse en actriz, por lo que busca tenazmente un contacto con alguien que pueda lanzarla al estrellato. En su camino, Antonietta es utilizada y manipulada por quienes le prometen el éxito y la fama, y va dejando de lado al fotógrafo que la amaba sinceramente. (FILMAFFINITY)
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made for Fiat in 1955
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Paolo conduce en su taxi a la encantadora Lina y a sus tres amigos a la playa, pero se da cuenta de que lo que ellos pretenden es robarle su vehículo. Ella le enreda con explicaciones confusas y le lleva a conocer a Sopriano, su padre. Paolo piensa que se trata de una familia honrada, hasta que descubre que la pitillera de oro que ella le ha dado había sido sustraída, que Sopriano se ha apropiado de una maleta en la estación y que padre e hija son carteristas en los autobuses. Paolo los denuncia a la Policía, pero ellos se las arreglan para distorsionar los hechos y parecer que son inocentes. Desesperado, Paolo propone a Lina que abandone la vida de ladrona...
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Comienza con tres pequeñas historias: "El beso", "Los enamorados" y "Disculpe, pero..." Los episodios principales son:
"Mara" con Danièle Delorme e Yves Montand. Una prostituta se enamora y decide cambiar de vida.
"El niño" con Lea Padovani y Marcello Mastroianni. Unos padres desesperados por la pobreza deciden abandonar a su hijo pero no saben dónde.
"Escena en abierto" con Vittorio De Sica y Elisa Cegani. Un actor y una actriz muy mayores se vuelven a ver después de varios años.
"Casa ajena" con Michel Simon y Sylvie. Un párroco intenta convencer a una anciana para que no se suicide.
"Don Corradino". Vittorio De Sica interpreta a un conductor de autobús napolitano que no permitirá que el reglamento de la empresa interfiera en sus conquistas amorosas.
"La cámara de fotos". Totò interpreta a un vividor que trata de seducir a Sophia Loren con la excusa de hacerle una foto.
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Comienza con tres pequeñas historias: "El beso", "Los enamorados" y "Disculpe, pero..." Los episodios principales son:
"Mara" con Danièle Delorme e Yves Montand. Una prostituta se enamora y decide cambiar de vida.
"El niño" con Lea Padovani y Marcello Mastroianni. Unos padres desesperados por la pobreza deciden abandonar a su hijo pero no saben dónde.
"Escena en abierto" con Vittorio De Sica y Elisa Cegani. Un actor y una actriz muy mayores se vuelven a ver después de varios años.
"Casa ajena" con Michel Simon y Sylvie. Un párroco intenta convencer a una anciana para que no se suicide.
"Don Corradino". Vittorio De Sica interpreta a un conductor de autobús napolitano que no permitirá que el reglamento de la empresa interfiera en sus conquistas amorosas.
"La cámara de fotos". Totò interpreta a un vividor que trata de seducir a Sophia Loren con la excusa de hacerle una foto.
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Just before the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, a party is held in the castle of the Stettin's Counts.
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Just before the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, a party is held in the castle of the Stettin's Counts.
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A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
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A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Self
En los estudios de Cinecittà, el director Alessandro Blasetti está haciendo un casting para seleccionar a la niña que actuará en su nueva película. Entre las madres que han llevado a sus hijas está Maddalena Cecconi, una mujer de barrio que sueña con ver a su hija en el Olimpo de las grandes estrellas. Contra la voluntad de su marido, Maddalena no repara en medios para conseguir su objetivo: inscribe a María en un curso de baile y actuación, le paga fotógrafo y peluquera, le encarga vestidos a medida. En su obsesión, confía incautamente en Alberto Annovazzi, un especulador sin escrúpulos que dice tener los contactos necesarios para que María realice la prueba.
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El comendador Carloni ha de recoger el vestido de la primera comunión de su hija. Cuando lo pierde accidentalmente, hará todo lo posible para recuperarlo, viéndose inmerso en un montón de extrañas aventuras relacionadas con todo tipo de personajes (un taxista, un policía, la misma vecina de su casa).
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El comendador Carloni ha de recoger el vestido de la primera comunión de su hija. Cuando lo pierde accidentalmente, hará todo lo posible para recuperarlo, viéndose inmerso en un montón de extrañas aventuras relacionadas con todo tipo de personajes (un taxista, un policía, la misma vecina de su casa).
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Entre Fabiola, hija de un senador romano, y Rhual, un gladiador galo, surge un poderoso romance. Pero cuando el padre de Fabiola es asesinado, los romanos acusan a los cristianos, desatándose una persecución sin piedad. Rhual se confiesa cristiano y es sentenciado a morir luchando en la arena.
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Entre Fabiola, hija de un senador romano, y Rhual, un gladiador galo, surge un poderoso romance. Pero cuando el padre de Fabiola es asesinado, los romanos acusan a los cristianos, desatándose una persecución sin piedad. Rhual se confiesa cristiano y es sentenciado a morir luchando en la arena.
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Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the partisans eventually leave, the Germans take a terrible revenge.
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Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the partisans eventually leave, the Germans take a terrible revenge.
Director
Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the partisans eventually leave, the Germans take a terrible revenge.
Supervising Technical Director
Esta película fluctúa entre el género policíaco y el neorrealismo.
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A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.
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A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.
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A Paul, un vendedor ambulante, lo convence una joven embarazada, que conoce en el autobús, para que se haga pasar por su marido delante de su familia.
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A Paul, un vendedor ambulante, lo convence una joven embarazada, que conoce en el autobús, para que se haga pasar por su marido delante de su familia.
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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.
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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.
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En el imaginario país de Kindaor, el malvado Sedemondo asesina a su hermano, el rey Licinio, para usurparle el trono y satisfacer su avidez. Consumado su plan, Sedemondo encuentra en el bosque a una enigmática anciana que le vaticina atroces desgracias en su nuevo reinado. Preocupado, el tirano abandona en el valle de los leones al pequeño Arminio, hijo de Licinio, pero los feroces animales, en vez de matarlo, lo crían como a uno de ellos. Ya adulto, Arminio conoce a la joven Tundra, hija de un rey traicionado y derrotado por Sedemondo, y se alía con ella para reconquistar su trono. Mientras tanto, el pérfido soberano ha convocado a los mejores caballeros del reino a un torneo... (FILMAFFINITY)
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En el imaginario país de Kindaor, el malvado Sedemondo asesina a su hermano, el rey Licinio, para usurparle el trono y satisfacer su avidez. Consumado su plan, Sedemondo encuentra en el bosque a una enigmática anciana que le vaticina atroces desgracias en su nuevo reinado. Preocupado, el tirano abandona en el valle de los leones al pequeño Arminio, hijo de Licinio, pero los feroces animales, en vez de matarlo, lo crían como a uno de ellos. Ya adulto, Arminio conoce a la joven Tundra, hija de un rey traicionado y derrotado por Sedemondo, y se alía con ella para reconquistar su trono. Mientras tanto, el pérfido soberano ha convocado a los mejores caballeros del reino a un torneo... (FILMAFFINITY)
Editor
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.
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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.
Director
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.
Writer
Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic after his last performance in Milan, attempts to find a way to win over the audience and the critics, while wooing his love interest.
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Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic after his last performance in Milan, attempts to find a way to win over the audience and the critics, while wooing his love interest.
Editor
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.
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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.
Director
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.
Director
Una caza en las montañas italianas en Tecnicolor, que incluye una clásica escena del zorro burlando a los perros.
Director
La Contessa di Parma was the sole directorial contribution by Allesandro Blasetti in 1937. The first of several expensive costume dramas upon which the director established his international reputation, the film stars Elisa Cegani as Marcella, a model in the dress shop owned by enterprising Umberto Melnati. To improve his business, the owner instructs his models to dress up as society ladies and attend all the best parties. And that's how humble little Marcella comes to be mistaken for the popular Duchess of Parma -- and by extension, how our heroine wins the love of football hero Gino Vanni (Antonio Centa). A little wanting in the way of plot or logic, La Constessa di Parma is at least consistently good to look at.
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There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town's socialists.
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There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town's socialists.
Director
There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town's socialists.
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Carla leads a good life with her father's money. She gets a job in the company but in exchange she will have to live on her salary alone like all her colleagues. Among her colleagues there is also Renato, a young man with whom she falls in love. However, having noticed a certain familiarity, the boy believes her to be the owner's lover and shows up at the family villa where all misunderstandings are cleared up.
Editor
The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.
Writer
The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.
Director
The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.
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Based on the 1893 play Der Andere by Paul Lindau.
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With a panoramic view of the city with the countryside in the background, the documentary approaches the urban area by framing the basilica, while the path of a monk with the torch seems to drive the camera up to the crypt of St. Francis. A narrator tells the story of the saint, of St Clare and of the orders by them founded. The images then create a sort of stroll in front of the art of Giotto and Cimabue. A procession of monks with the candles are the only human elements that stand out in the representation of the city and its architecture.
Editor
It seems that Zarre (Guido Celano), the man chosen to be the jockey for the Lupa contrada, and fiance' to Fiora (Leda Gloria), becomes enamored of a cafe' chanteuse. Bachicche, the jockey of a rival neighborhood, wants to get even with Zarre for a past offense and enlists the help of the chanteuse, Liliana (Laura Nucci).
Screenplay
It seems that Zarre (Guido Celano), the man chosen to be the jockey for the Lupa contrada, and fiance' to Fiora (Leda Gloria), becomes enamored of a cafe' chanteuse. Bachicche, the jockey of a rival neighborhood, wants to get even with Zarre for a past offense and enlists the help of the chanteuse, Liliana (Laura Nucci).
Director
It seems that Zarre (Guido Celano), the man chosen to be the jockey for the Lupa contrada, and fiance' to Fiora (Leda Gloria), becomes enamored of a cafe' chanteuse. Bachicche, the jockey of a rival neighborhood, wants to get even with Zarre for a past offense and enlists the help of the chanteuse, Liliana (Laura Nucci).
Director
A bankrupt aristocrat tries to keep up appearances while his situation worsens. To top it off the life savings given to him by a beggar to invest has been mistakenly claimed by the aristocrat's altruist society for their annual Feast of the Poor.
Editor
A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.
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A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.
Director
A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.
Editor
The Duke Marco visits to his country side estate after many years absence. His farmers wants him to stay and run the place while his lover wants him to sell it. All while a farmers daughter also enters his life.
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The Duke Marco visits to his country side estate after many years absence. His farmers wants him to stay and run the place while his lover wants him to sell it. All while a farmers daughter also enters his life.
Director
The Duke Marco visits to his country side estate after many years absence. His farmers wants him to stay and run the place while his lover wants him to sell it. All while a farmers daughter also enters his life.
Director
Depictions of the Emperor Nero and the Great Fire of Rome (64). Anachronisms are used for comedy, such as Nero telephoning the fire brigade.
Editor
Sole is the first film by the great Alessandro Blasetti and bears a complex relationship to the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes, a seminal event in Fascist political history.
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Sole is the first film by the great Alessandro Blasetti and bears a complex relationship to the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes, a seminal event in Fascist political history.
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Sole is the first film by the great Alessandro Blasetti and bears a complex relationship to the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes, a seminal event in Fascist political history.
