Mario Costa
1910 - 1995
Per salvarti ho peccato
Mario Costa
Pierre Cressoy, Milly Vitale
Little Luigi, the son of Guido and Elena, has a strange illness. To save him, they must inject his blood into a healthy person with his same blood type in order to create antibodies the fight off the infection.
Per salvarti ho peccato
Pagliacci
Mario Costa
Tito Gobbi, Gina Lollobrigida
Pagliacci, is a 1948 Italian film based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci, directed by Mario Costa. The film stars Tito Gobbi and Gina Lollobrigida. It recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown (or pagliaccio in Italian) in a commedia dell'arte troupe, his wife Nedda, and her lover, Silvio. When Nedda spurns the advances of Tonio, another player in the troupe, he tells Canio about Nedda's betrayal. In a jealous rage Canio murders both Nedda and Silvio. The only actor in the cast who also sang his role was the celebrated Italian baritone, Tito Gobbi, but the film is largely very faithful to its source material, presenting the opera nearly complete.
Pagliacci
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
Ti ho sempre amato!
Mario Costa
Amedeo Nazzari, Myriam Bru
A landowner loves a good girl, but is ensnared by another richer woman who is actually aiming for her fortune. This she will be able to temporarily make the two young men go away but the man makes his girlfriend understand that her is true love; he realizes that he has been the victim of a scam and will bring the woman he has always loved to the altar.
I Always Loved You
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.
Mad About Opera
Città canora
Mario Costa
Maria Fiore, Nadia Gray
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.
Melody of Love
Il figlio dello sceicco
Mario Costa
Gordon Scott, Cristina Gaïoni
In the Middle East, circa 1860s, the evil Omar seeks to become Khadive by killing off his adversaries and by marrying the reluctant Fawzia, favorite niece of the current Khadive. Omar's brutal policies result in the death of a young woman named Laila. Laila's brother, Kerim, then becomes Omar's sworn enemy.
Kerim, Son of the Sheik
I Reali de Francia
Mario Costa
Rik Battaglia is sent by the king of France to the border with Spain, where the heirs to the throne are staying in a castle-fortress. The Spaniards and Arabs struggle to control the border, and a mysterious gypsy discovers she is not what she thought she was.
Attack of the Moors
La Venere dei pirati
Mario Costa
Gianna Maria Canale, Scilla Gabel
In 16th century Italy, on the Adriatic coast, the duchy of Doruzza is governed by a tyrannical duke, Zulian, and his haughty daughter, Isabella. When they commit a great injustice, a ship's captain and his daughter turn pirate to fight back for the people.
The Queen of the Pirates
