
Elsa De Giorgi
1914 - 1997Io sono Anna Magnani
Chris Vermorcken
Anna Magnani, Claude Autant-Lara
Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documentary portrait also gives the floor to his friends and relatives, from Roberto Rossellini to Marcello Mastroianni, through Federico Fellini.
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Teresa Confalonieri
Guido Brignone
Marta Abba, Nerio Bernardi
Hot on the heels of Dinero ed Amore, Loyalty of Love was the second of two Guido Brignone-directed films released within same week. Like the earlier picture, Loyalty is a historical drama. During the period in which Italy was under Austrian rule, Count Federico (Nerio Bernardi) fights tirelessly to free his people from oppression. The Count's wife Teresa (Marta Alba) remains loyally by his side, even when he is unfaithful to her, which is often. Federico doesn't realize how important Teresa is to him, nor how much he loves her, until it's almost too late. At time of the release of Loyalty of Love, star Marta Alba had transferred her base of operations to New York, where she starred in Broadway production of Tovarich.
Loyalty of Love
Ma non è una cosa seria
Mario Camerini
Vittorio De Sica, Elisa Cegani
Based on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. He weds Elisa Cegani, a servant girl, who turns out to be a more appealing wife than any of the others could have been. Assis Noris decorates the screen well as one of the chasers and pursuers. In 1937, De Sica and Noris made a film, "II Signor Max," which, other than the setting and character role names, basically has the same plot as this film.
But It's Nothing Serious
Assolto per aver commesso il fatto
Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi, Angela Finocchiaro
A former inspector of the SIAE, focusing everything on his cunning and stubbornness, tries to grab (even in fraudulent ways) all the televisions or private radios that come to hand; all to please a mysterious woman named Gilda.
Assolto per aver commesso il fatto
Fra' Diavolo
Luigi Zampa
Enzo Fiermonte, Elsa De Giorgi
The leader of a band of mountain bandits defending Naples against the French plays a dual role as a police official. Our romantic hero pivots as well between two women, the sister of a royalist and a lady spy.
Fra' Diavolo
Due milioni per un sorriso
Carlo Borghesio, Mario Soldati
Enrico Viarisio, Giuseppe Porelli
An Italian industrialist who has made a fortune in America returns to Italy planning to make a film about a beautiful woman who smiled at him before he left his home country years before.
Two Millions For a Smile