Luigi Almirante
1886 - 1963
Il cappello da prete
Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Roldano Lupi, Lída Baarová
The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house. He tries to steal from the house of a very rich priest and, surprised during the theft, he kills the priest, and then throws the body in an abandoned well. He continues his life of revelries and luxury, until the remorse for the crime trigger a process of self-destruction. The nightmares of the baron, tormented by the only evidence left of the murder, the hat of the priest ,drags him into a daring and hallucinated series of ups and downs to the brink of insanity and jail.
Il cappello da prete
I nostri sogni
Vittorio Cottafavi
Vittorio De Sica, María Mercader
Leo (Vittorio De Sica) is young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of a big firm to accompany for one night the daughter of the firm's accountant, Titi (María Mercader). Leo pretends then to be the son of a tycoon, and takes her in a luxurious restaurant.
Our Dreams
San Giovanni decollato
Amleto Palermi, Giorgio Bianchi
Totò, Titina De Filippo
Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boy friend and he does not want him to marry her.
San Giovanni decollato
Cavalleria rusticana
Amleto Palermi
Isa Pola, Doris Duranti
This film was not based on the famous one-act opera of Pietro Mascagni but rather on the original story by the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga. It's the story of Santuzza, her love Turiddu, and his passion for the married Lola that leads to his death in a duel when Lola's husband Alfio exacts satisfaction.
Cavalleria rusticana
Il sogno di Butterfly
Carmine Gallone
Maria Cebotari, Fosco Giachetti
Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot thickens when Rosa's backstage life begins to mirror the travails of the character she is portraying. The climax comes when Harry Peters (Fosco Giachetti), the American father of Rosa's illegitimate child, returns after four years with his new wife in tow, leading inexorably to a doleful ending both on- and offstage. Critics complained about the substandard photography in Il Sogno di Butterfly, but this might have been due to poor laboratory work.
The Dream of Butterfly
I due orfanelli
Mario Mattoli
Totò, Carlo Campanini
In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.
I due orfanelli
Follie per l'opera
Mario Costa
Gino Bechi, Maria Caniglia
Это история произошла в годы второй мировой войны. Группа итальянцев живущих в Лондоне собирает средства на восстановление разбомбленного нацистами католического собора. Для этого они организуют музыкальный концерт, доходы от которого поступят на строительство. Возглавляет этот проект журналист Карло Скала. Ему предстоит столкнуться и преодолеть многие трудности по организации мероприятия, но он с честью справится с ними и выступление ведущих итальянских певцов состоится. А в этом ему поможет несравненная Дора Скала.
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