Franco Cristaldi
Nascimento : 1924-10-03, Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Morte : 1992-07-01
História
Franco Cristaldi (Turin, 3 October 1924 – Montecarlo, 1 July 1992) was an Italian film producer, credited with producing (or co-producing) feature films from the 1950s to the 1990s.
In 1946 Cristaldi founded Vides Cinematografica in Turin. This production company initially produced short and documentary films, and would later be renamed to Cristaldifilm in the 1980s.
In the 1950s, Cristaldi changed his attention to feature films and moved to Rome. During his long career, he worked with directors and screenwriters such as Francesco Rosi, Pietro Germi, Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, and Giuseppe Tornatore. A noted film producer from some years in his native Italy, some of Cristaldi's most successful films internationally included The Name of the Rose and Nuovo cinema Paradiso. (The former winning a César and two BAFTAs, and the latter winning several BAFTAs, the Grand Prix at Cannes, and Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards).
In 1977 Cristaldi was elected president of the International Federation of Film Producers Associations, and was a member of the jury at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
Cristaldi was born in Turin, Italy in 1924, and studied at university for a time before focusing his interests on cinema.
He was first married to Carla Simonetti with whom he had a son, Massimo. He applied to the Vatican to have this marriage annulled, and from 1966 lived with actress Claudia Cardinale. Cristaldi claimed to have married Cardinale, but she refuted this, saying he threw a marriage party, without ever officially marrying her. He mentored Cardinale through her own film career, producing many of her films, until their separation in 1975. In 1983, he married Eritrean actress Zeudi Araya, who starred in several Cristaldi-produced films.
Franco Cristaldi died in Montecarlo in 1992, survived by his wife Zeudi, son Massimo, and adopted son Patrick, the son of Claudia Cardinale.
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The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family's sins.
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Um diretor de cinema lembra como, em sua infância, ele se apaixonou pelo cinema de sua cidade e iniciou uma profunda amizade com o projetista.
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In 1956, with the independence of Morocco, the Fedala conference in Tangier is set in a city of turmoil.
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An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long they can survive without interaction with the outside, things work out fine.
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Em 1327, William de Baskerville, um monge franciscano, e Adso von Melk, um noviço que o acompanha, chegam a um remoto mosteiro no norte da Itália. William de Baskerville pretende participar de um conclave para decidir se a Igreja deve doar parte de suas riquezas, mas a atenção é desviada por vários assassinatos que acontecem no mosteiro. William de Baskerville começa a investigar o caso, que se mostra bastante intrincando, além dos mais religiosos acreditarem que é obra do Demônio. William de Baskerville não partilha desta opinião, mas antes que ele conclua as investigações Bernardo Gui (F. Murray Abraham), o Grão-Inquisidor, chega no local e está pronto para torturar qualquer suspeito de heresia que tenha cometido assassinatos em nome do Diabo. Considerando que ele não gosta de Baskerville, ele é inclinado a colocá-lo no topo da lista dos que são diabolicamente influenciados.
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Em 1914, um navio de cruzeiro sai navegando de Nápoles com o objetivo de espalhar as cinzas da amada cantora de ópera Edmea Tetua perto da ilha de Erimo, local de nascimento da cantora. Durante a viagem, a variedade eclética de passageiros descobre um grupo de refugiados sérvios a bordo do navio. A paz e a camaradagem reina até que o navio é abordado por uma nau capitânia austríaca. Os sérvios são obrigados a abandoná-lo, mas, naturalmente, eles resistem, iniciando uma escaramuça que acaba em destruição. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Várias versões:
132 min - Itália
128 min - Argentina
118 min - Suécia
128 min - EUA
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Bradamante, a woman wearing an invincible suit of armor, is travelling the countryside at the time of the Crusades. After ending up in the middle of a web of romantic and cultural tangles, she finds herself in love with a Moor prince, while one of the Christian knights has fallen in love with a Moor princess. Others, however, are against the cross-cultural romance, and Bradamante's love is soon forced into a duel to the death. Will she ever be with her true love? Written by Jean-Marc Rocher
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Aliens send a hypnotic signal through a TV channel, and the signal makes people dance and makes them forget their fears.
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Piero arrives in Paris from Luino after having won a pool tournament with friends. In the train he meets the famous place Ramazzini and has so many incidents that culminated with his arrest and the confiscation by the commissioner Juvet. Released, find randomly hospitality at the madame Lenormand and know the great painter Valentine. Both women are tied up, as a wife and lover, Maurice, in prison for robbery. A day Piero wears a mistake and the coat of astrakhan, Maurice, and then...
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An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.
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Playwright irreparable failure is betrayed by a concubine with the lawyer that finances the charade. But one day arrives at his house Honey, Eastern African domestic workers to first service, to boot, is a billionaire and of royal blood.
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Espanha, 1973. O ditador Francisco Franco governa o país desde 1939 com um punho de ferro; mas agora é um homem muito velho e doente. O futuro do regime enfraquecido está em perigo. O almirante Carrero Blanco é seu sucessor natural. A quadrilha terrorista basca ETA decide que ele deve morrer para impedir que a ditadura continue.
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Inspirado no romance autobiográfico de Carlo Levi, o filme narra a vida de um médico e escritor antifascista colocado sob prisão domiciliar em 1935 em uma remota vila italiana. Proibido de exercer qualquer atividade, incluindo a prática da medicina, ele descobre o mundo camponês, longe dos círculos intelectuais, até ser libertado dois anos depois já tendo ganhado a estima dos agricultores pobres da região.
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Annalisa is married to Marco, a journalist too busy with her career, who neglects her even though she loves him deeply. He therefore decides to find another husband, the university professor Antonio, who marries without the first being able to notice it. Until she gets pregnant. David di Donatello 1979 for Monica Vitti.
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Desde que seu marido a acusou de frígida na noite de núpcias, Antonia DeAngelis tem sido uma inválida. Quando ele desaparece, ela acredita que ele está morto. Então ela sai de sua cama, assume os negócios e começa a viajar para ver os clientes. Ela descobre as paixões de seu marido, seus escritos políticos, suas amantes, e sua indiferença para com os camponeses das terras de sua família. Ela melhora a sua sorte, começa um caso com um jovem médico estrangeiro, e publica os textos de seu marido. Todo esse tempo, por causa de uma acusação de assassinato ele está se escondendo em uma casa do outro lado da praça. Espantado, ele a vê se tornar sexual e socialmente em alguém igual a ele. Depois que a polícia deixe cair a acusação de assassinato, ele vai desaparecer, acabar com sua vida, ou se juntar a ela em novos termos?
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A shipwreck strands a modern Italian businessman on a desert island. Like Robinson Crusoe he must find a way to return to civilization; unlike him--he's a 20th-century man, a totally different case.
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A young aspiring director steals a silent movie camera to make his movie.
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Two racy women decide to chuck their mundane lives and go on a wild adventure.
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Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his boss wife. A guard is too much proactive and this will cause many troubles.
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Numa pequena cidade italiana na década de 30, sob domínio do fascismo, várias histórias se cruzam com as de uma família cujos membros assistem às manifestações em honra do Duce (o líder fascista Benito Mussolini), à passagens do transatlântico “Rex”, à chegada de um misterioso emir e suas odaliscas, aos filmes de Gary Cooper no cinema local è a passagem dos grandes pilotos da tradicional "Mile Miglia". Mágico e arrebatador, com personagens inesquecíveis criados a partir das lembranças da infância de Fellini (1920-1993). Tudo ao som de belos e nostálgicos temas musicais de Nino Rota.
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Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.
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Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
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The real-life courage and audacity of aeronautic acrobats whose ground life is often as exciting as flight maneuvers.
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Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope.
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Cinebiografia do industrial italiano Enrico Mattei. Dono de um império no setor de energia, o empresário morreu em circunstâncias misteriosas num acidente de avião em 1962. Para se manter livre da interferência do governo, Mattei gastava grandes quantias em dinheiro com suborno de autoridades. Quando pretendeu transformar a Itália numa potência petrolífera mundial, passou a enfrentar dificuldades.
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In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.
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Hoping to shake up the complacent Italian Communist Party, a group of leftist radicals sends an incendiary letter to a major evening newspaper declaring their intention to volunteer to fight American troops in Vietnam as a political statement against the war.
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Dilacerado por culpa pessoal o general italiano Umberto Nobile relembra sua fracassada expedição ao Ártico, em 1928, a bordo do avião Itália, do acidente e dos esforços de resgate subsequentes. Os 'fantasmas' de pessoas envolvidas nos eventos aparecem em suas memórias para ajudá-lo a determinar sua culpa no caso. As reminiscências são misturadas com a ação real: o voo do 'Itália', a operação de resgate aéreo do aeródromo de Kings Bay e a expedição do quebra-gelo 'Krassin'. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
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Giordano is a young man from Milan who accepts a ride from a married American couple sightseeing in Italy. The husband is an older and worldly professor of archaeology while his wife is interested in exploring living things. The young hitchhiker is seduced by the beautiful wife, while her husband continues to gaze at ancient ruins.
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Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.
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Italy, 1972. Political elections are taking place and Christian Democrat victory is expected; but the electronic computer of the Ministry of the Interior reveals that the party with the highest number is the Italian Communist Party.
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Three friends meet for the first time in years.
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A detective gets involved with the beautiful daughter of an old friend. The daughter turns out to be a jewel thief, who in turn gets the detective involved in a caper in Austria.
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A pair of working class lovers - a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry.
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Giovanna and Franco are lovers pretending to be brother and sister in order to con unsuspecting marks while staying in the most luxurious locales throughout Europe. In their travels, they come across the beautiful Christina, a girl who is being threatened by her brother, Sergio, in order to get the family fortune. But as Giovanna and Franco delve into their story, the double-crossing begins, and no one is sure who is getting tricked.
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There was once upon a time the Grand Duchy of Forilalì where Aladdin lived. After taking part in many robberies, he decided to turn honest for the love of the beautiful Princess Esmeralda. But his intention lasted only a few days. Afterward he found himself in jail with his old companions. They were freed by the magician Magrebì and in a night of lunar eclipse, Aladdin found a magic lamp. He succeeded in cleaning his sister Adalgisa's house with the help of the genie and then, with no help at all, to marry Esmeralda. But evil powers were in action.
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Sandra volta para Volterra, na Toscana, a pequena cidade onde passou a infância. Ela está com o marido americano, Andrew. Ela deseja homenagear seu pai que morreu em Auschwitz, quando ela ainda era criança pequena. Em Volterra, Andrew encontra pela primeira vez Gianni, o irmão de Sandra. Logo percebe que Sandra e Gianni têm um segredo desde sua infância. (e 18 - Estimado 18 Anos) 2 versões de duração: - 105 min Itália - 100 min Argentina
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A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
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Um homem siciliano desesperado, cuja filha de 15 anos foi seduzida e engravidada pelo noivo da filha mais velha, tenta encontrar uma maneira de salvar a honra da família. O filme apresenta a história de Agnese Ascalone, filha do proeminente mineiro Vincenzo Ascalone, e se passa em uma pequena cidade da Sicília. Agnese é seduzida pelo noivo de sua irmã Matilde, e tem um encontro com ele pelo qual ela confessa e tenta se arrepender, apenas para ser descoberta por sua mãe e pai. O filme é uma sátira sombria dos costumes sociais sicilianos e das leis de honra, e é muito semelhante ao filme Divórcio à Italiana (1961). (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
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At the end of World War II, shallow, self-centered Mara is the prettiest girl in her small Italian village; Bebo is a Communist partisan who is finding it difficult to adjust to the dull banalities of life in peacetime. When Mara’s father, a passionate Communist, declares that his daughter will marry the returning hero, her reactions range from joy to bitter resentment.
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O professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) é o personagem-título deste drama italiano sombrio e cômico sobre trabalhadores de fábrica maltratados na cidade de Turim. Trabalhando em condições pavorosas em uma fábrica de têxteis, esses funcionários não têm ninguém para defendê-los até Sinigaglia colocar sua carreira acadêmica em risco, ajudando-os a iniciar uma greve. Embora o professor seja investigado por autoridades antipáticas, ele mantém sua dedicação à causa dos trabalhadores. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
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A pretty woman approaching middle age rents out rooms in a small Italian town. An aging sailor and a handsome younger man are amongst the lodgers.
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An alien takes over the body of a factory worker in order to learn about Earth so his race can take it over.
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An evil king makes a bargain with a devil in order to get away with murdering his wife.
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Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano's bullet-riddled corpse is found facedown in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun and rifle by his side. Local and international press descend upon the scene, hoping to crack open the true story behind the death of this young man, who, at the age of twenty-seven, had already become Italy’s most wanted criminal and celebrated hero.
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Um barão siciliano casado se apaixona por sua prima e promete casar com ela, mas como o divórcio é ilegal ele deve inventar um crime de adultério para acabar com sua esposa. Ferdinando Cefalù está desesperado por se casar com sua prima, Angela, mas ele já é casado com Rosalia e o divórcio é ilegal na Itália. Para contornar a lei, ele tenta persuadir sua esposa para ter um caso para que ele possa atraí-la e matá-la, pois ele sabe que receberá uma sentença leve por matar uma mulher adúltera. Ele convence um pintor a conquistar sua esposa para um caso amoroso, mas Rosalia prova ser mais fiel do que ele esperava. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
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September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two meets Gino and all together will try to pass trough the Gothic Line.
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An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.
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Alfredo Martelli é preso pela polícia no seu apartamento sem qualquer justificação. Depois ele lentamente descobre qual é a investigação, à medida que descobrimos detalhes sobre a sua vida.
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An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant group of mostly rich youngsters in a small Adriatic coast city.
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Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.
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The usual gang of robbers in engaged by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will menace the success of the operation.
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Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth, but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.
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During WW2 a platoon of marines fights the Japanese on a little island in the Pacific Ocean. On the island there is a hut where old Taikiki lives with his two daughters. The two opposing armies soon forget about war and concentrate on winning the girls' hearts.
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Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and therefore he can't be a French customs agent.
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Vito Polara is ambitious and wants to get as more power and money as possible. He decides to leave the cigarette smuggling and try to get the total control of the regional fruit and vegetable distribution considered more profitable. He looks for the help of a rural crime Boss.
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During a fair, a charlatan is able to sell to a group of retired persons a piece of sky that would give them a quiet place to live well after death. The old men buy the story and decide to commit suicide to get to the corner of heaven that belongs to them.
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Peppe, um ex-boxeador, organiza o arrombamento de uma casa de penhores. Tiberio, um fotógrafo desempregado, Mario, um receptor, o siciliano Michele e Capannelle, um ex-jockey, são os outros membros da quadrilha. Embora eles sejam aconselhados por Dante, um ladrão aposentado, a tarefa não é tão fácil...
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Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Their young son Giulio develops a cough. The doctor recommends the seaside. Luisa leaves with Giulio for several weeks. Andrea stays to work at the metal shop.
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A lonely city transplant and a sheltered girl, haunted by a lover’s promise, meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that quickly entangles them in a web of longing and self-delusion.
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England, first half of the 19th century. Edmund Kean is a celebrated theatre actor, notorious for his tumultuous private life. He is in love with the beautiful countess Koefeld, wife of the Danish ambassador, to the consternation of his friend, the Prince of Wales. He is also hounded by Anna Damby, who wants to become an actress to escape a marriage to Lord Mewill.
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Nero está de férias à beira-mar. Poppea, Seneca e muitos outros convidados estão com ele. Nero está preparando um grande show, onde ele será a estrela. Quando Agripina, sua mãe, chega com os membros da Guarda Pretoriana alemã e decide que Nero deve conquistar a Grã-Bretanha, ela possivelmente arranjará problemas. Várias tentativas de assassinato e envenenamento acontecerão na véspera do grande espetáculo de Nero.
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Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awaiting her birthday to declare his love. His greater traits are to be fearful of everything and to be selfish. This nature will get him into trouble..
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Alberto is forced to face his wife and his two lovers at the same time.
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Camilla, a middle-aged Venetian widow, arrives in Rome to take up service as a maid for the Rossetti family, who are not prosperous. With her discreet presence, she is an element of cohesion for them thru tensions and misfortunes.
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The adventures of Lieutenant Airoldi of Piedmont who is trying to gather intelligence for the Republic about the advancing Austrian armies near the river Ticino ahead of the battle of Novara.
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The adventures of Lieutenant Airoldi of Piedmont who is trying to gather intelligence for the Republic about the advancing Austrian armies near the river Ticino ahead of the battle of Novara.
