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Anna Maria Ferrero
Anna Maria Ferrero (18 February 1935 – 21 May 2018) was an Italian actress. Early life and career Born Anna Maria Guerra, she changed her last name to Ferrero in honor of the composer Willy Ferrero. Her film debut came at the age of 15 in ''Il cielo è rosso'' (1950), and she was soon cast in such films as ''Il duca di Sant'Elmo'' (1950) and ''Il Cristo proibito'' (1951), the only movie directed by the noted writer Curzio Malaparte. Later career Ferrero's career progressed quickly as she worked with prominent directors, such as Michelangelo Antonioni on '' I vinti'', and actors, like Marcello Mastroianni in Carlo Lizzani's award-winning ''Chronicle of Poor Lovers'' (1953). She appeared with the popular comedian Totò in ''Totò e Carolina'' (1953) and with star Alberto Sordi in ''Una parigina a Roma'' (1954). She appeared with Vittorio Gassman in six films: ''Lorenzaccio'', King Vidor's ''War and Peace'', ''Kean'', which Gassman co-directed, ''Giovanni dalle bande nere'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siamo Tutti Inquilini
''Siamo tutti inquilini'' (literally: We are all tenants) is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Aldo Fabrizi. Production The film is a 98 minute black and white that was produced for Documento. Plot Anna has been since childhood the housemaid of an old lady, and has inherited from her a beautiful apartment. She now works in a cafe`, but struggles to keep up with the expenses of the luxurious housing complex. She is alone in the world and apart from her loving fiance Carlo, only the wise caretaker of the building Augusto shows her some fatherly affection. The greedy and tyrannical administrator of the building, the dentist Talloni, would like to exploit the financial difficulties of Anna to buy her out, offering through a figurehead to acquire the apartment much below its real value. Augusto and the lawyer Sassi figure out the scheme, and decide to defend Anna's interests. They first manage to delay for few days the official decision to force ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Vidor
King Wallis Vidor (; February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982) was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose 67-year film-making career successfully spanned the silent and sound eras. His works are distinguished by a vivid, humane, and sympathetic depiction of contemporary social issues. Considered an auteur director, Vidor approached multiple genres and allowed the subject matter to determine the style, often pressing the limits of film-making conventions. His most acclaimed and successful film in the silent era is '' The Big Parade'' (1925). Vidor's sound films of the 1940s and early 1950s arguably represent his richest output. Among his finest works are ''Northwest Passage'' (1940), '' Comrade X'' (1940), '' An American Romance'' (1944), and '' Duel in the Sun'' (1946). His dramatic depictions of the American western landscape endow nature with a sinister force where his characters struggle for survival and redemption. Vidor's earlier films tend to ident ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finishing School (1953 Film)
''Finishing School'' ( it, Fanciulle di lusso) is a 1953 French-Italian comedy film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring Susan Stephen, Anna Maria Ferrero and Jacques Sernas.Feldner, Gorrara & Passmore p.231 It was made at Cinecittà with sets designed by the art director Franco Lolli. It is also known by the alternative title of ''Luxury Girls''. Plot After finishing her studies, an American, Susan Miller, spends a vacation period in Rome with her parents. His father, a wealthy man who led a dissipated life, sent him to complete his worldly education at the famous college of Mont-Fleuri, Switzerland. Cast * Susan Stephen as Lorna Whitmore * Anna Maria Ferrero as Valerie De Beranger * Jacques Sernas as Jean-Jacques * Steve Barclay as George Whitmore * Marina Vlady as Eljay * Brunella Bovo as Jeannie Gordon * Rossana Podestà as Pereira * Elisa Cegani as Madame Charpentier * Claudio Gora as Professor Charpentier * Estelle Brody as Mrs. Whitmore * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Temptress (1952 Film)
''The Temptress'' (Italian: ''Le Due verità'') is a 1951 melodrama film directed by Antonio Leonviola and starring Anna Maria Ferrero, Michel Auclair and Michel Simon.Bayman p.190 The film's sets were designed by Luigi Scaccianoce. Cast * Anna Maria Ferrero as Maria-Luce Carlinet * Michel Auclair as Lut Loris * Michel Simon as Cidoni * Valentine Tessier as Madame Muk * Ruggero Ruggeri as Presidente tribunale * Giulio Stival Giulio Stival (4 March 1902 – 1 April 1953) was an Italian stage and film actor. Life and career Born in Soave, at young age Stival started founded an amateur dramatics in which he served both as director and as actor. He made his professiona ... as Procuratore generale * Mario Pisu * Lucia Bosé * Flora Torrigiani * Enzo Furlai * Gino Rossi * Lilly Drago * Clara Ferrero * Carla Arrigoni * Vittorio Manfrino References Sources * Bayman, Louis. ''The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama''. Edinburgh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzaccio (film)
''Lorenzaccio'' is a 1951 Italian historical drama film directed by Raffaello Pacini and starring Giorgio Albertazzi, Folco Lulli and Anna Maria Ferrero.Farassino p.221 It is an adaptation of the 1834 play ''Lorenzaccio'' by Alfred de Musset about the life of Lorenzino de' Medici. Cast * Giorgio Albertazzi as Lorenzo de' Medici, nicknamed Lorenzaccio * Folco Lulli as Scoronconcalo * Anna Maria Ferrero as Luisa Strozzi * Franca Marzi as Clarice * Lia Di Leo as Courtesan * Arnoldo Foà as Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence * Marcello Giorda * Carlo D'Angelo * Natale Cirino * Silvio Bagolini * Franco Balducci * Fedele Gentile * Alessandro Fersen * Dolores Palumbo * Mario Billi * Piero Pastore * Mercedes Brignone * Vera Palumbo * Giorgio Specchi Giorgio may refer to: * Castel Giorgio, ''comune'' in Umbria, Italy * Giorgio (name), an Italian given name and surname * Giorgio Moroder, or Giorgio, Italian record producer ** Giorgio (album), ''Giorgio'' (album) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Forbidden Christ
''The Forbidden Christ'' ( it, Il Cristo proibito) is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Curzio Malaparte. Plot Bruno is a veteran of the Russian campaign who returned on foot to his Montepulciano. Unlike the other veterans, his happiness at returning home is clouded by the death of his brother, a partisan shot by the Germans because of the betrayal of a fellow villager. Determined to avenge his brother, he tries to get the name of the informer told, but the villagers, tired of the violence and the blood of the war, refuse to reveal it. Mastro Antonio, a modest carpenter friend of Bruno, for fear that he might be guilty of the crime of an innocent person, makes him believe that the man he is looking for is him. At that confession Bruno takes a file and throws it at his heart. Before passing away, the carpenter admits that he lied and sacrificed himself in place of the culprit. Having found the real culprit, he offers himself to Bruno's machine gun shots, but the latter, mind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951 Italian Film)
''Tomorrow Is Another Day'' (Italian: ''Domani è un altro giorno'') is a 1951 Italian melodrama film directed by Léonide Moguy and starring Pier Angeli, Aldo Silvani and Anna Maria Ferrero. It was produced as a follow-up to the hit film ''Tomorrow Is Too Late'' also directed by Moguy and starring Angeli in her screen debut. Afterwards Angeli moved to Hollywood as a contract star of MGM. Plot While she was contemplating committing suicide by drowning, a young woman is stopped by a doctor whose job, all night long, is to save people who try to commit suicide. Insistently, the doctor convinces the girl to follow him around her. Once they arrive at the hospital, the two listen to the story of a girl who, left alone, had been exploited by a man who initially showed himself good but who later turned out to be unscrupulous. The girl had tried to kill herself but was saved while her exploiter was arrested; repentant of her previous gesture, the girl repeats «I want to live, I want to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sky Is Red
''The Sky Is Red'' ( it, Il cielo è rosso) is a 1950 Italian drama film. It is the directorial debut of Claudio Gora and it is based on the novel with the same name by Giuseppe Berto, depicting the struggle for survival of a group of boys and girls in a bombed-out town in Italy during World War II. It was shown as part of a retrospective "Questi fantasmi: Cinema italiano ritrovato" at the 65th Venice International Film Festival. Cast *Jacques Sernas: Tullio *Marina Berti: Carla *Mischa Auer: Daniele * Anna Maria Ferrero: Giulia *Lauro Gazzolo: calzolaio * Liliana Tellini: Nora *Amedeo Trilli Amedeo Trilli (9 July 1906 – 30 November 1971) was an Italian film and television actor. Life and career Born in Ronciglione, Viterbo, at very young age Trilli worked as a circus artist, then in 1922 he studied performance at the Accadem ... References External links * 1950 films Italian drama films Films directed by Claudio Gora Films with screenplays by Cesare Zavatti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Four Days Of Naples (film)
''The Four Days of Naples'' ( it, Le quattro giornate di Napoli) is a 1962 Italian film, directed by Nanni Loy and set during the uprising which gives its name. It stars Regina Bianchi, Aldo Giuffrè, Lea Massari, Jean Sorel, Franco Sportelli, Charles Belmont, Gian Maria Volonté and Frank Wolff. The film won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Director, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Writing Original Screenplay, and a BAFTA Award for Best Film. At the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival in 1963, the film was awarded with the FIPRESCI Prize. Plot Following the truce between Italy and the Allies in World War II, German forces occupy Naples and begin to shoot resisters, demolish port facilities and round up young men to be transported to Germany as forced labour. The city's population, aware that Allied forces are close and determined to disrupt the deportations, revolt against the Germans, despite their limited arms and organization. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Of Rome
''L'oro di Roma'' (internationally released as ''Gold of Rome'') is a 1961 Italian war - drama film directed by Carlo Lizzani. The film is based on actual events surrounding the Nazi's raid of Rome's Jewish ghetto in October 1943. Cast *Gérard Blain: Davide * Anna Maria Ferrero: Giulia *Jean Sorel: Massimo * Andrea Checchi: Ortona * Paola Borboni: Rosa * Umberto Raho: Beniamino *Filippo Scelzo Filippo Scelzo (19 April 1900 – 9 October 1980) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than forty films including '' Red Passport'' in which he played the male lead.Landy, Marcia. ''The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian ...: Ludovico References External links * 1961 films 1960s war drama films Italian war drama films 1960s Italian-language films World War II films based on actual events Films set in Rome Films directed by Carlo Lizzani Holocaust films Films scored by Giovanni Fusco 1961 drama films Italian World War II films 1960s Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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