Enzo Biliotti
1887 - 1976
Anni difficili
Luigi Zampa
Massimo Girotti, Umberto Spadaro
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.
Difficult Years
I promessi sposi
Mario Bonnard
Emilia Vidali, Domenico Serra
Based on the famous historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, and set between 1628 and 1630 in Lombardy "northern Italy" during the Spanish domination, tells of the contrasted marriage between the two young textile workers Renzo and Lucia. The 1922 version is the most ambitious and spectacular film in all Italian silent cinema, with remarkable mass scenes and some images that triggered the censorship.
The Betrothed
Il pirata sono io!
Mario Mattoli
Erminio Macario, Juan de Landa
In Santa Cruz, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Governor of the island, to ingratiate himself with the Viceroy, contrives to make assaulting the island from a mock pirate ship and, with a mock battle, defeat the aggressors and throw them back into the sea.
Il pirata sono io!
Giuseppe Verdi
Raffaello Matarazzo
Pierre Cressoy, Anna Maria Ferrero
The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of his successful and turbulent life, with more than 20 excerpts from his acclaimed operas.
Giuseppe Verdi
I promessi sposi
Mario Camerini
Gino Cervi, Dina Sassoli
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.
The Betrothed
Un'avventura di Salvator Rosa
Alessandro Blasetti
Gino Cervi, Luisa Ferida
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.
An Adventure of Salvator Rosa
La freccia nel fianco
Mario Costa, Alberto Lattuada
Mariella Lotti, Leonardo Cortese
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
La freccia nel fianco
Non me lo dire!
Mario Mattoli
Erminio Macario, Vanda Osiris
Italy, early 1940s. A rich and noble man, returning from America, has the unpleasant surprise of being dirt poor. Its magnificent castle is impounded and he agrees to become the guide allowed visitors to admire.
Non me lo dire!
