Giovanni Grasso
Рождение : 1888-11-11, Catania, Italy
Смерть : 1963-05-03
A humble clerk is forced to take on debts to cure his mother.
Sindaco
Француз инженер-строитель Робер (Робер Ламуре) решает провести отпуск в кемпинге на Сицилии, куда несколько раньше уехала порядком уже надоевшая ему любовница. По дороге, в поезде, он знакомится с девушкой, итальянкой по происхождению, Терезой (Лючия Бозе) и пускает в ход все свое обаяние, чтобы добиться ее любви. Это ему удается, но не сразу.
Commissario (uncredited)
During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina.
Il portiere
A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
avvocato Benini
Luisa Galli moves to Rome in search of a respectable job, but instead just finds a job as a waitress for the lawyer Giorgi
onorevole Mario Rapisarda
A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.
secondo giocatore
In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.
"Spy Heart" - A fisherman is seduced by a young spy who has helped his brother, blind from birth, to get a job as a singer on the radio. But the young man is not satisfied with that relationship and regrets the girlfriend he had. A great emotion returns the sight to the brother and the fisherman, moved and repentant, returns to his ancient love.
Don Salvatore Morelli
A comedy with lots of Neapolitan songs and shots of the Bay of Naples finds Maria Morelli unable to marry her singing sailor/lover, Giacomo because her father, Don Salvatdore Morelli objects. She can't elope because her father has an heart ailment and uses it to hold Maria. Giacomo misunderstands and takes off on a global singing tour.
il presidente del tribunale
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
suocero di Stefano
Back from the war, a man discovers that his daughter has died and his wife has left their house. He searches for the girlfriend of a fellow soldier and falls for her.
venditore di cocomeri
When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend a Sunday at the beach of Fiumicino, a series of troubles begins for everyone, in the form of a comic nightmare.
Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland, hoping that his employer, discouraged by its low returns, will sell his earth to him for next to nothing. His plans are thwarted by a share cropper, Diego Costa, who farms his lot zealously and to good results.
The brigadier
A disguised thief talks himself into a countryside class fight immediately after WWII.
Maresciallo Grandi
Mascoli
Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.
Don Gaspar Guritan
1695 год. Окончив университет, Рюи Блаз едет в Мадрид искать работу. По дороге он знакомится с герцогом Альбой. Неожиданно на путешественников нападает шайка разбойников и захватывает герцога. Встретившись с предводителем разбойников, Альба крайне поражен удивительным сходством атамана Дзафари и студента Рюи Блаза, который умчался на коне герцога за выкупом. Дон Салюстин коварный министр испанской полиции, двоюродный брат Сезара де Базана, главаря банды скрывающегося под именем Дзафари, был также поражен сходством молодых людей и решил этим воспользоваться в своих корыстных целях. Он попал в немилость к королеве. И чтобы остаться у власти он закручивает хитроумную интригу против королевы, а удивительная похожесть Рюи Блаза и Сезара де Базана поможет ему в этом…
Il brigante Lazzarini
The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor.
Oreste Bellotti
The paralyzed salesman
Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto.
Il capo-cuoco
The explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriously disappeared in Africa in the midst of one of his researches.
Carlos Aguilera
The second part (Part One released the same year was Noi vivi) of the adaptation of Ayn Rand’s debut novel We the Living , a story of life in post-revolutionary Russia and Rand's first statement against communism.
Stephan Tishenko
Part One (Part Two was released as Addio Kira!) At 18, the beautiful and smart Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may remember the slight. She falls in love with Leo, the son of an aristocrat, who gets into political trouble and never gets out. Meanwhile, a Party leader, Andrei, also loves her, and she feigns love for him to get political protection for Leo and money to pay for his TB treatment. But can Leo forgive her being Andrei's mistress?
Il dottore
A young farmer, with a magnificent voice, receives an invitation to present himself in a large theater to be hired. In reality, the invitation is a joke made by his cousin.
Il maestro Antonio
Liborio, il capitano siciliano
Il commissario
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.
Tabernero
A marginal group celebrates Christmas Eve singing and dancing in the street while a millionaire celebrates the feast offering a great dinner to his friends. The millionaire receives a telegram from his sister in America who announces her visit after more than twenty years without seeing each other…
Il puparo
Il 'commandante'
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...
Marco, il capo della piantagione
Venice Film Festival 1938
Sergente Amato
Directed by Romolo Marcellini.
Nicola Bellamonte
Directed by Amleto Palermi
Gedeone
Two different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet.
Nunzio the Blind Man
Paolina is the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Vallenza, and lives as a beggar. She meets with Nunzio, a blind man who plays violin, exploited by his stepfather, and the two fall in love. The old Duke, remorsing, tries to find his daughter but he doesn't manage and leaves everything to his latest concubine, Livia, while Nunzio and Paolina will live in misery. The only copy of this film was destroyed in World War Two
Alessandro
A countryside adventure: two siblings, ill at ease in a subordinate social position, challenge the owner Alessandro; Giuseppe doesn’t want to work for him, while Carmela wants to force him to love her. However, class conflict isn’t hidden by emotions and characters.
A man sentenced to life imprisonment who escaped from prison, commits suicide so as not to be an obstacle for his wife and daughter, who had built a new life.