Carmine Gallone

La ville des mille joies

Carmine Gallone

Gaston Modot, Paul Richter

The Divine Spark

Carmine Gallone

Mártha Eggerth, Phillips Holmes

British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.

Stimme des Blutes

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Attila Hörbiger, Anneliese Uhlig

Two brothers (Albert Matterstock and Attila Hoerbiger), who are trapeze artists, are getting along just fine until Hoerbiger runs off with his brother's wife. Matterstock isn't very pleased when his wife is killed.

Das Land ohne Frauen

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Conrad Veidt, Elga Brink

A group of 413 women answer an ad looking for British women to sail to and marry miners in Australia. One does not survive the voyage, and conflict arises over who will have to remain unmarried.

Le chant du marin

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Albert Préjean, Jim Gérald

Georget is a happy-go-luck seafarer who'd rather sing than work -- or be faithful to his wife. Together with his sailor pal Marius, they decide to cheat on their spouses by frequenting the dives and joints in every town where their ship drops anchor. The boys are certain, however, that their wives would never behave in a similar fashion. Upon returning home, of course, they discover that their better halves are just as sexually irresponsible as their hubbies.

Das Abenteuer geht weiter

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Johannes Heesters, Theo Lingen

A popular stage tenor can't stay away from his female admirers until his wife threatens to divorce him.

Rigoletto

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Tito Gobbi, Marcella Govoni

This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to the curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter had been seduced by the Duke with Rigoletto's encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda likewise falls in love with the Duke and eventually sacrifices her life to save him from the assassins hired by her father.

Mein Herz ruft nach Dir

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Jan Kiepura, Mártha Eggerth

An opera company tries to get an engagement.

Fatal Desire

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Ettore Manni, Kerima

In Pietro Mascagni's tragic opera, a soldier returns home from war to reclaim his former fiancée, only to find that she's married someone else in his absence, leading to jealousy, betrayal, and murder.

Primo amore

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Leonardo Cortese, Valentina Cortese

An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.

Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone

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Fernandel, Gino Cervi

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.

La leggenda di Faust

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Italo Tajo, Nelly Corradi

Goethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust to disaster along the paths of pleasure. Marguerite falls in love with Faust, and suffers as a consequence.

Don Camillo: Monsignor

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Fernandel, Gino Cervi

Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.

La forza del destino

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Tito Gobbi, Nelly Corradi

Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.

Madama Butterfly

Carmine Gallone

Kaoru Yachigusa, Nicola Filacuridi

Japanese-Italian adaptation of Puccini's opera.

Giuseppe Verdi

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Fosco Giachetti, Gaby Morlay

The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.