Luisa Ferida
1914 - 1945Gelosia
Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Roldano Lupi, Luisa Ferida
A film based on the book Il marchese di Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana about a marquis who is in love with his servant Agrippina but is unable to marry her because of her status. The marquis commands his trusted subject to marry her in his stead as long as he vows not to have sex with her.
Jealousy
La cena delle beffe
Alessandro Blasetti
Amedeo Nazzari, Osvaldo Valenti
In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and harmless Giannetto. Even though determined to not react to the cruel pranks of the brothers, Giannetto is forced to take a stand when Ginevra, a beautiful girl that works in the Chiaramantesi household, is dragged into the game. To defend his honor and protect the girl, Giannetto works out a fiendish plot that will end in blood and madness.
The Jester's Supper
La corona di ferro
Alessandro Blasetti
Gino Cervi, Massimo Girotti
In the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of kingdom. He abandons the prince Arminio to beasts in the woods, but lions don't kill him and breed him as one of them.
The Iron Crown
Un'avventura di Salvator Rosa
Alessandro Blasetti
Gino Cervi, Luisa Ferida
Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely struggle against the cruel tyrant that frightens the country.
An Adventure of Salvator Rosa
Cinecittà Babilonia
Marco Spagnoli
Vinicio Marchioni, Martina Querini
The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
La fanciulla di Portici
Mario Bonnard
Carlo Ninchi, Luisa Ferida
During the Spanish occupation of Naples, the people led by Tommaso Aniello - known as "Masaniello" - plot against the Viceroy. The Viceroy's son, under another name, has a son from Masaniello's sister, but his father has already planned a marriage for him with a Spanish patrician against his wishes.
La fanciulla di Portici
Fedora
Camillo Mastrocinque
Luisa Ferida, Amedeo Nazzari
This film relates the story of Russian Princess Fedora (Louise Ferida), in Czarist times, whose royal lover is assassinated on the eve of their marriage. She pledges vengeance, only to become the victim of her vow when she falls in love again.
Fedora
