Roldano Lupi

In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film adaptation, inspired by the Brechtian conception of staging the ancient theater. He does not use costume or set design, but is based only on the simple performance of the actors, highlighted by the shooting technique. The absolute sense of tragedy is perceived by the public through emotional engagement and imagination. So, the Trojan war is all the wars and the pain of the Trojan women is the pain of all the victims of any war.

Donaldson intenta perturbar la paz existente entre blancos y siux, vendiendo armas a los indios. Bufalo Bill es enviado a frenar el comercio de armas y así evitar una guerra con los indios. (FILMAFFINITY)

509 a.C. En Roma han expulsado al rey Tarquinio, llamado "el soberbio", y éste jura venganza aliándose con Porsena, rey de los etruscos. Mucio, el guerrero romano más valiente, entra en el campo enemigo para dar muerte a Porsena, y al ser capturado se deja quemar la mano derecha sin pestañear, por lo que ahora se le conocerá como "Escévola, el zurdo". La situación llega a su clímax cuando Tarquinio rapta a Clelia, esposa de Mucio, y traiciona a su aliado Porsena. Mucio Escévola, llamado también "brazo de hierro" por el guante metálico que cubre su cauterizado muñón, luchará por salvar su patria y recuperar a su mujer... (FILMAFFINITY)

The eternal Hercules in this film has gone way beyond his usual time and place in ancient Greece and is now helping Poland free itself of Mongol invaders in the 12th century. Mark Forest is the star of this peplum epic, Hercules Against The Barbarians.

Es 1790 y el comandante naval británico Redway es impulsado por la codicia de dinero y no se detendrá ante nada para obtenerlo. Su segundo al mando, David Robinson, cuestiona su lealtad cuando Redway mata a su padre y toma prisionero a su hermano. Para salvar a su hermano y vengar la muerte de su padre, David debe unir fuerzas con una banda de piratas, liderados por el Capitán Bernard, perseguir y matar a Redway.

Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmund of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmund escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmund must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.

Hace más de 20.000 años, en el misterioso continente de la Atlántida, el rey Yotar de Metrópolis manipula las fuerzas de la naturaleza para gobernar el planeta. Obro, enviado para advertir a Yotar de las catastróficas consecuencias de sus viles experimentos, es apresado por el monarca que lo utiliza para ensayar con él sus investigaciones sobre la inmortalidad. Salvado por la reina Texear, y acompañado por la princesa meceda, Obro, sin embargo, se ve incapaz de detener la fuerza destructiva de la naturaleza.

En el siglo XIII, Ogatai, hijo de Genghis Khan, se propone conquistar Europa sin reparar en medios.

The leaders of Circassians and Kyrgyz face off in a tournament divided into seven challenges: only one will gain the supremacy.

Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty, Marie-Angélique Scorailles. Having had enough of the situation, the rejected mistress decides to visit La Voisin, a woman known as a fortune teller, a doctor, a midwife and who is also said to arrange black masses and sell poisons. Some time later Marie-Angélique, now Duchess of Fontanges, dies mysteriously aged only twenty...

During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful inheritance and his own daughter's happiness.

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.

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.

La condesa de Castiglione fue considerada la mujer más bella del mundo. Una de las más célebres amantes de Napoleón III. Llegó a París con 19 años, pues su primo Cavour, primer ministro del rey Víctor Manuel II de Cerdeña y Piamonte, la induce para conquistar a Luis Napoleón III, con el propósito de conseguir el apoyo del soberano francés a la causa piamontesa.

El noble Rainiero, hijo del duque de Sidonia, vuelve a casa en compañía de su amigo Renzo. Nada más llegar, el caracter de Renzo chocará con las costumbres locales y se verá implicado en un tremendo lío, que no tendrá mas que dos posibles salidas: matrimonio o ingreso en prisión.

The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.

Un historiador llega al ducado de Koenigsmark para efectuar ciertas investigaciones. No obstante, se dedica a seducir a la duquesa, a la que salva de las diabólicas intrigas de su ex marido, el duque Federico.

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.

A secret agent is summoned by the head of a counter espionage organization, to Trieste where he is to unmask a potential enemy operating in Venice.

Bianca, a rich heiress, being an orphan, lives in her palace with her guardian uncle and cousin Olga.

Sicilian Uprising or Sicilian Vespers is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and Roldano Lupi.

A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is withdrawn from the restorer's studio and exposed, the art critic Drago discovers that it is not the original, but a copy.

This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata named after the Beethoven piece. The story concerns marriage, divorce, love, carnal lust and jealousy.

El gobernador de una provincia del Cáucaso oprime al pueblo, pero un grupo de rebeldes, comandados por el misterioso Diablo Blanco, un príncipe que se finge amigo del tirano, le hace frente.

Giovanni Episcopo es un modesto empleado de archivo que vive tranquilo y feliz, dividiendo su vida entre el trabajo y la habitación en una pensión regentada por una modesta familia. Una noche tras salir a dar una vuelta con los compañeros del trabajo, conoce de manera rocambolesca a Giulio Wanzer, un "aventurero" que vive de su ingenio y que lo único que busca es ascender socialmente. Wanzer se hace amigo suyo ya que sabe que Giovanni tiene unos cuantos ahorros, y le convence para mudarse a su pensión, donde Giovanni se enamora de la hija de la dueña. (FILMAFFINITY)

Italian fugitives from German war camps unite to form "Lupo", a partisan brigade which uses their knowledge of the countryside to wage their own personal war on the Germans.

Esta película fluctúa entre el género policíaco y el neorrealismo.

The meritorious assistance of a US institution, towards the inhabitants of a refugee camp, in the Italian post-war period, among the protagonists a doctor who tries to do everything possible to treat the population in critical health conditions. The doctor will fall in love with a girl particularly affected by the dramatic war period, but the return of the girl's boyfriend from captivity and the subsequent marriage will make the American doctor return to daily reality.

Started in the summer of 1943 by Lattuada and , the because of the war that raged in Italy at the time, the shooting was interrupted several times only to stop for good in September of the same year. It only resumed after the war, in the spring of 1945, but with Mario Costa as the director instead of Lattuada. It was eventually released in September 1945 with only Lattuada billed as the director. Similarly, the film was started with Vittorio Gassman in the role of Brunello, but when the shooting resumed in 1945 he was replaced by Leonardo Cortese

Historia sobre la peregrinación en tren a Loreto de un grupo de enfermos y mutilados.

The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house. He tries to steal from the house of a very rich priest and, surprised during the theft, he kills the priest, and then throws the body in an abandoned well. He continues his life of revelries and luxury, until the remorse for the crime trigger a process of self-destruction. The nightmares of the baron, tormented by the only evidence left of the murder, the hat of the priest ,drags him into a daring and hallucinated series of ups and downs to the brink of insanity and jail.

Naples, 1880. Two young sisters from a noble family, after losing their parents, get taken in by a friend of their family.

A film based on the book Il marchese di Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana about a marquis who is in love with his servant Agrippina but is unable to marry her because of her status. The marquis commands his trusted subject to marry her in his stead as long as he vows not to have sex with her.