Bit part (uncredited)
In Romagna, an Italian district, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the owners of an estate are the professor Edoardo, always lost in reveries, and his wife Maria. They have a son, Robertino, who has a friend: Zvanin. Zvanin is the son of Mingòn and Marianna, two peasants. Dolly is an american cousin and every summer she comes in Romagna. The movie narrates their stories over the years until the post I World War period.
il Bigio
Tercera entrega de las andanzas del alcalde comunista Peppone y el párroco del pueblo don Camilo. Todo transcurre en Brescello, a orillas del Po, donde Peppone aspira a llegar a senador, para lo que hará una importante campaña. Pero a pesar de su lucha heroica contra los fascistas durante la guerra, no tiene ni un mísero título académico. Don Camilo podría ayudarle en este tema...
En el umbral de la Revolución, dos hermanas adoptivas, Henrietta y Louise Girard, se enfrentan a las dificultades de la vida. La primera es secuestrada por un noble malvado y celoso de su sobrino, la segunda, ciega, está siendo explotada y obligada a mendigar por una prostituta.
Agente di controspionaggio
La amistad entre dos mujeres se tambalea cuando una de ellas descubre que su marido tiene una aventura con la hija de la otra.
Foster
An Italian government agent is assigned to break up a drug smuggling ring on the island of Ischia but his daughter is kidnapped by the gang.
Arrigo Boito
Giacomo Puccini, el hijo de un organista de la Toscana, logra el reconocimiento mundial como compositor de óperas y muere de cáncer de garganta en medio de una crisis artística, a la edad de sólo sesenta y seis.
Bonnet
The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.
Il Bigio
El cómico francés Fernandel encarna a Don Camilo, y Gino Cervi a Peppone, personajes creados por el escritor italiano Giovanni Guareschi. En Brescello, una pueblo del valle del Po, los conflictos y enfrentamientos entre Don Camilo, el párroco local, y Peppone, el alcalde comunista, son constantes. (FILMAFFINITY)
(uncredited)
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.
Un beduino
Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion.
First Assistant Director
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.
Screenplay
A woman takes her ill husband's place in a smuggling ring and steals the heart of his partner.
Assistant Director
Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.
police officer
An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.
Screenplay
L'ufficiale di Stato Maggiore in Africa
An Italian film from 1943.
Il giudice del tribunale militare
The Italian troops at Giarabub defend themselves against the British.
Un dipendente di Butler
Hauptmann Marchi / Il capitano Marchi
The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.
Mastro Zaccaria
Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.
Conte Arco
The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Argiropulos
Venice Film Festival 1940
Magg. Ratto
Dos jóvenes alumnos de la Academia Militar de Toledo, de permiso en Madrid, reciben la noticia de la sublevación militar del general Franco. Temerosos de la situación en la capital, deciden presentarse ante su superior en la Academia y ponerse a sus órdenes, lo que hace que se trasladen a Toledo y decidan apoyar desde allí a los facciosos, estableciendo su cuartel general en el Alcázar.
Il capitano della guardia
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.
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.
Screenplay
"Black Crossing" - In an Oriental port a group of people embarks a trader designated for Europe. One of them, a shady individual, entrusts the captain with a box of valuables to be kept until the end of the journey.
"Black Crossing" - In an Oriental port a group of people embarks a trader designated for Europe. One of them, a shady individual, entrusts the captain with a box of valuables to be kept until the end of the journey.
Blanchard
Foreign spies steal the formula of a new explosive
Il controbbandiere
During the Ethiopian war, thirteen boys embark clandestinely on a merchant ship bound for Africa. Following the shipwreck, they are castaway on a desert island...
Pietro
Venice Film Festival 1939
Temistocle Solera
Giuseppe Verdi, adolescente soñador e inconformista, decide abandonar su ciudad natal para estudiar música en Milán. Enfrentado al rechazo inicial del selecto círculo de la ópera italiana, Verdi vive en el fracaso hasta que conoce a la popular soprano Giuseppina Strepponi, con la que contrae matrimonio y comienza así una intensa trayectoria tan llena de éxitos como de fracasos.
Donati
Venice Film Festival 1938
Messo di Magone
Película histórica que se centra en la figura del procónsul romano Escipión y en sus esfuerzos para terminar con el poder del general cartaginés Aníbal.
Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they try to chase her away. She will only be welcomed by the penniless young painter who has always been in love with her.
Mario
Count Agostino di Montecorvo's nephew and niece pretend they get married for his hundredth birthday since the old man has had this wish for a long time. But when the count wants them to beget a child as well they are forced to present him with a fake one. But then the child's mother wants it back...
Bargello
En el siglo XV, Romola, hija de un sabio florentino ciego, se casa con Tito Melema, hombre de escasos escrúpulos. Utilizando todos los recursos turbios a su disposición, Tito alcanza el puesto de Jefe de la Magistratura, aprovechando cualquier oportunidad para el abuso de poder, lo que le hace muy impopular. Uno de sus actos más despreciables es su matrimonio fingido con la campesina Tessa.
Acrone
A early film adaptation of "The Rape of the Sabines" which is an episode in the legendary history of Rome, traditionally said to have taken place in 750 BC, in which the first generation of Roman men acquired wives for themselves from the neighboring Sabine families. The English word "rape" is a conventional translation of Latin raptio, which in this context means "abduction" rather than its prevalent modern meaning in English language of sexual violation.