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directed by Carlo Campogalliani and starring

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and

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. It was made at the Fert Studios in Turin.

Cast

as Paolo Marini, detto Paolo Folchi *

as Claretta Melzi *

as Giulio Folchi * Loredana (actress), Loredana as Elena Landi * Mario Casaleggio as Il maestro Bignami * Carlo Romano as Otello * Enzo Morisi as Arnaldo Rovere * Carlo Duse as Il marchese Melzi * Letizia Quaranta as La marchesa Beatrice Melzi * Giorgio Costantini as Mario Melzi * Mario Siletti as Il conte Landi, padre di Elena * Ilena Jurick * Valfrido Picardi as L'impresario Salvetti * Lori Randi * Giuseppe Zago

References

Bibliography

* Bayman, Louis. ''The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama''. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

External links

* 1942 films 1940s Italian-language films Films directed by Carlo Campogalliani Films set in Florence Italian historical drama films 1940s historical drama films Films set in the 1900s Italian black-and-white films 1942 drama films 1940s Italian films {{1940s-Italy-film-stub