Francesco De Robertis
1902 - 1959
La vita semplice
Francesco De Robertis
Luciano De Ambrosis, Giulio Stival
Marco and his son Toto work in a Venetian gondola yard and maintain the old traditions of gondoliers. When a newly-arrived businessman decides he wants to buy the yard and demolish it, Marco and company want to fight to preserve their way of life. The businessman, however, knows Marco is badly in debt and uses this to try to leverage Marco out of business. Can tradition win out in the face of naked commercialism?
The Simple Life
Uomini sul fondo
Francesco De Robertis
Felga Lauri, Diego Pozzetto
Submarine disaster drama made under the auspices of Mussolini's department of defense. During maneuvers a submarine collides with a surface vessel and drops to the ocean floor. The crew have thirty hours' worth of air to get it back to the surface.
Men in the Deep
Carica eroica
Francesco De Robertis
Dario Michaelis, Tania Weber
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.
Heroic Charge
La donna che venne dal mare
Francesco De Robertis
Sandra Milo, Vittorio De Sica
Danae, a woman who came from the sea is a beautiful blonde girl at the center of a spy story during the second world war. In Gibraltar, Italian and British divers perform mutual sabotage actions. The secret agents, on the other hand, face off on the mainland and the Italian spies have the best thanks to the girl's intervention.
La donna che venne dal mare
Il Mulatto
Francesco De Robertis
Renato Baldini, Angelo Maggio
An Italian man is released from prison after World War II, excited to meet the son his late wife had while he was away, only to be shocked when he discovers that the son is half-black, the result of an encounter between his wife and an American GI. Released in America as "Angelo"
Angelo
Fantasmi del mare
Francesco De Robertis
Raf Pindi, Nicola Morabito
Evocation of a dramatic episode of the Second World War told by an old guard. Boarded as a non-commissioned officer on the battleship sailed from Pola and headed south. In time of danger, the man is forced to sacrifice the lives of seven sailors and the son of the Captain, his good friend, in order to save the rest of the crew.
Fantasmi del mare
