Fernando Previtali
Рождение : 1907-02-16, Adria, Veneto, Italy
Смерть : 1985-08-01
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Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples across the ages are loosely tied together by the comedic wanderings and exploits of the Esposito family.
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A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.
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In the movie La valigia dei sogni (The Suitcase of Dreams, Italy, 1953) directed by Luigi Comencini, some sequences from Cenere are inserted. The protagonist is a former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction, and uses them to set up recreational performances at schools. After an accidental fire and the risk of prison, he meets a rich producer who helps him to build a film museum.
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A Sicilian nobleman is very jealous of his mistress and when she gets married flies off his handle and commits a murder of which an innocent man is accused. He is however tormented by his conscience.
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Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir.
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The story of a woman who marries the brother of a guardian who was killed by her brother.
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Антонио Скапарро одержим из-за женщин. Он изобретает свой собственный способ укрыться от них, на чердаке собственного дома, где он может делать то, что жена запрещает ему: шаркать по полу, читать ночью детективы, бросать окурки и стряхивать пепел на пол. Там он рассказывает зрителю историю своих взаимоотношений с женщинами — женой, дочерью и другими.
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In 1941 an Italian regiment known as the Savoy Cavalry is sent by Mussolini to Russia to assist the German invasion. After crossing an extensive area of Soviet territory the men arrive at a village that seems deserted. A patrol sent on reconnaissance comes under machine-gun fire from the top of a bell-tower.
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Based on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, "The Overcoat" is the story of a poor city hall clerk whose only desire is to buy a new overcoat.
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Семейная пара обычных итальянцев отправляется в Рим. Муж хочет представить жену своим родственникам. В это время в окрестностях Рима снимают сериальный фотокомикс для популярного журнала, посвященный похождениям отважного Белого Шейха. Белого Шейха изображает актер, в которого заочно влюблена жена из этой семейной пары.
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Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.
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The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.
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Маленький сицилийский городок. Несколько дней продолжается забастовка горняков. Рабочие протестуют против объявленного владельцем закрытия рудника. У выхода из шахты стоят в напряжении и молчании семьи бастующих. Шахтеры, не получив ничего, покидают забой. Единственный их шанс — нелегальный переход границы с Францией, чтобы устроиться там на работу. Те, кто приняли это решение, продают остатки имущества, чтобы оплатить услуги проводника, который должен провести через их собственную, но все-таки неизвестную им страну. Группа из нескольких десятков человек, возглавляемая контрабандистом Чиччо, отправляется в путь.
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Ряд сатирических сцен на фоне военного времени. Фильм рассказывает об обычных людях, живущих в одном неапольском переулке, с 1940 до 1950 под господством фашистов, нацистов и затем и союзников.
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Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother and youngest sister, Rosaria, go to Orsola begging her to provide Pietro with the alibi that will clear him. But Rocco, Orsola's brother, dreading a family scandal, constrains Orsola to silence. Condemned despite his innocence, Pietro escapes from prison, but the police track him down and kill him, and his mother, before the eyes of Rosaria. Years pass, and one day Rocco stumbles upon a half-frozen young woman lying in the snow. He takes her home and confides her to the care of Orsola. Later, yielding to the pleas of Orsola, Rocco and Rocco's son, Salvatore, the girl stays on in the house, and Salvatore falls in love with the beautiful stranger, who is careful to keep the family members from learning she is Rosaria, the grown up sister of Pietro seeking revenge for the deaths of her brother and mother.
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On his way to his own wedding, a young man saves a woman who attempted suicide by jumping into a river and falls for her.
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Франческа и Вальтер - преступники из Северной Италии. Чтобы избежать ареста, Франческа присоединяется к группе крестьян, собирающих рис. Вальтер следует за ней в рисовые районы и вскоре вовлекает крестьян в сложный заговор, включающий грабёж, любовь и даже убийство.
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Главный герой — безработный глава семьи, который от отчаяния, с таким же коллегой по несчастью, угоняет машину, дабы перепродать ее в другом районе. Однако затеи мешает жена Паоло — Линда, которая вынуждает взять ее и их сына в путешествие, подлинные цели которого вскроются лишь к финалу картины. Главный герой устраивает уик-энд семье, за счет денег и машины местного нуворишa. Oн временно оказываeтся в другой социальной срeдe и понимаeт всю подлость и ничтожество бедности и стремления к материальному благополучию, в которое толкает его (бывшего до войны владельца автомастерской) и народ Италии сложившeeся положение вещей…
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Felice Manetti is a poor tramp in Turin who, due to his ingenuity, often finds himself in trouble.
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У миссионера дона Пьетро, направляющегося в Африку, крадут чемодан на вокзале в Неаполе. Пытаясь вернуть чемодан, он вдруг обнаруживает, в какой нищете живет весь город и в особенности - дети. Он решает остаться в Неаполе и основать в полуразрушенном здании «Город детей» - приют для малолетних воришек, эксплуатируемых взрослыми...
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The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attempt by suspicious innkeeper Thenardier, and a climax on the barricades of Paris.
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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.
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Jean Valjean, pursued through the years for a minor infraction by the implacable policeman Javert, attempts to create a life for himself and for his adopted daughter Cosette amid the revolutionary struggles of France.
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Leo Bianchetti has just finished his military service but then is again called to arms; after 10 years on various fronts, he finds himself again in Italy to guard a bridge destroyes by the Germans that he doesn't want to leave.
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Послевоенная Италия, Эмилия-Романья. Сельские жители, сильно пострадавшие от недавней войны, понемногу пытаются восстанавливать свои хозяйства. Их надежда — деньги, которые должны прибыть на грузовике. Но шайка бандитов совершает налёт на автомобиль и похищает все средства. Жители вынуждены на время отложить личные разногласия и мелкие проблемы, чтобы найти бандитов и вернуть себе деньги.
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A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.
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Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when he met Giulio, a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the over-confident man. Giovanni did what he should never have done: he associated himself with the crook. Giulio soon laid hands on Giovanni's money, ruined his career and manhandled him into marrying his own mistress, the beautiful Ginevra. It was of course an unhappy marriage but Giovanni found a little solace when his son Ciro was born. Seven years later though, Wanzer resurfaced...
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In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave house together for a night full of misadventures. In a streets of Rome they meet the struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts to street life; a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”. Thieves, gamblers, hookers, policemen, soldiers and endless chain of cigarette-smoking and alcohol/espresso-drinking.
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During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles.
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A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.
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The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr. Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chief.
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Это история любви, адюльтера и убийства в итальянской провинции. Джино, бродягу и кочевника по натуре, рассматривающего любую привязанность как обузу, жизнь сталкивает с Джованной и ее мужем, отвратительным до гротеска стариком. Историю этой парочки можно рассказать с первого взгляда — молодая, красивая, страстная женщина вышла замуж ради денег. Вскоре у Джованны при взгляде на чужака уже сыплются искры — в воздухе пахнет кровью…
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The famous composer's life and his career. His love story with Isabella Colbran, the soprano who was to become his wife and the singer in all his operas up to the unfortunate day she lost her voice.
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Renzo and Lucia's love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When she refuses his attentions he has her kidnapped and brought to a convent whose prioress is a nun as wicked as he is. The two youths will have to go through a lot of misfortunes before being reunited and being able to marry.
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В Ломбардии, под властью Австрии, в конце XIX века молодой Франко Майрони, внук тиранической маркизы, женился, вопреки её желанию, на дочери скромного государственного служащего Луизе. Затем старая маркиза преследует пару и пытается лишить Франко наследства. Благодаря поддержке почтенного дядюшки супруги приживутся и родят девочку Омбретту. Но Франко участвует в антиавстрийском революционном движении и должен бежать.
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Италия,1800 год. Художник Марио Каварадосси укрывает от преследователей своего друга, совершившего побег из тюрьмы замка Святого Ангела, и тем самым подвергает себя и свою возлюбленную Флорию Тоску смертельной опасности. В Тоску страстно влюблен и шеф полиции Скарпиа, установивший слежку за Марио…
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Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken Umberto becomes a riding instructor but during a competition his horse dies and he decides to give up equitation and become an aviator.