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Nino Crisman
Nino Crisman (1911–1983) was an Italian actor and film producer. Crisman was born in the port city of Trieste when it was still a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Crisman made his film debut in 1939 during the Fascist era. He appeared as an actor in over thirty films, such as ''El Greco'' (1966).Klossner p.123 From 1959 onwards he also began to produce films. He was married to the actress Rossana Martini. Selected filmography Actor * '' Dora Nelson'' (1939) * ''Backstage'' (1939) * ''Department Store'' (1939) * ''The Siege of the Alcazar'' (1940) * ''Caravaggio'' (1941) * '' Malombra'' (1942) * ''I Live as I Please'' (1942) * '' Two Hearts'' (1943) * ''Macario Against Zagomar'' (1944) * '' Turri il bandito'' (1950) * ''I'm the Capataz'' (1951) * '' Angela'' (1955) * ''Burning Fuse'' (1957) * '' The Black Devil'' (1957) * ''La vita agra'' (1964) * ''The Dirty Game'' (1965) * ''El Greco'' (1966) Producer * ''Liolà'' (1963) * ''La vita agra'' (1964) * ''Roma Bene ''Roma Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Hearts (film)
''Two Hearts'' () is a 1943 Italian romance film directed by Carlo Borghesio and starring Erzsi Simor, Károly Kovács and Osvaldo Genazzani.Poppi p.430 It was shot at the Fert Studios in Turin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Guglielmo Borzone. Cast * Erzsi Simor as Anna Serrati * Károly Kovács as Andrea Dalmonte * Osvaldo Genazzani as Gianni Serrati * Nino Crisman as Ruggero Berti, il fidanzato di Anna * Guglielmo Sinaz as De Marchis * Olga Vittoria Gentilli as Zia Gertrude * Ela Franceschetti as La cameriera * Ernesto Conte as L'avvocato * Domenico Grossetto * Tania Lante * Diana Mauri * Tina Santi * Felice Minotti References Bibliography * Poppi, Roberto. ''I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri''. Gremese Editore, 2002. External links * ''Two Hearts''at Variety Distribution Variety Distribution is an Italian-based film distribution company. It distributes Italian films worldwide, produced from the 1930s onward. Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Live As I Please
''I Live as I Please'' () is a 1942 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Ferruccio Tagliavini, Silvana Jachino and Luigi Almirante.Chiti & Poppi p.415 It was shot at the Titanus Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Piero Filippone and Mario Rappini. Cast * Ferruccio Tagliavini as Stefano * Silvana Jachino as Maria * Luigi Almirante as L'impresario * Carlo Campanini as Oreste * Nino Crisman as Leone * Carlo Micheluzzi as Il commesso viaggiatore * Giovanni Grasso as Il dottore * Armando Migliari as Il padre di Stefano * Dora Bini as Claretta * Loris Gizzi as Il tenore * Piero Carnabuci Piero Carnabuci (6 September 1893 – 13 February 1958) was an Italian stage and film actor. Life and career Born in Santa Teresa di Riva, Messina, after the World War I Carnabuci decided to abandon his engineering studies at the University of ... as Il direttore d'orchestra References Bibliography * Roberto C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Film Producers
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1983 Deaths
1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 6 – Pope John Paul II appoints a bishop over the Czechoslovak exile community, which the ''Rudé právo'' newspaper calls a "provocation." This begins a year-long disagreement between the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Vatican City, Vatican, leading to the eventual restoration of diplomatic relations between the two states. * January 14 – The head of Bangladesh's military dictatorship, Hussain Muhammad Ershad, announces his intentions to "turn Bangladesh into an Islamic state." * January 18 – United States Secretary of the Interior, U.S. Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt makes controversial remarks blaming poor living conditions on Indian reservation, Native American re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1911 Births
Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * January 3 ** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 Moment magnitude scale, moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people. ** Siege of Sidney Street in London: Two Latvian people, Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. Home Secretary Winston Churchill arrives to oversee events. * January 4 – Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott expeditions, Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Robert Falcon Scott's British Terra Nova Expedition, ''Terra Nova'' Expedition to the South Pole arrives in the Antarctic and establishes a base camp at Cape Evans on Ross Island. * January 5 – Egypt's Zamalek SC is founded as a general sports and Association football club by Belgian lawyer George Merzbach as Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roma Bene
''Roma Bene'' is a 1971 Italian comedy-drama film starring Virna Lisi, Nino Manfredi, Irene Papas and Senta Berger. Plot The classic scene of the upper middle-class in Rome: a duchess, the industrial husband and the many apparently respectable characters. It is actually a parade of dingy types: the Baron is a jewel thief, among the others there are social climbers, unscrupulous nobles who staged fake kidnappings and extortion attempts, and even a wife who comes to commission the murder of the ship-owner husband. The fate of these people will be the same: death at sea, but their misdeeds instead will remain unaddressed and an overzealous police commissioner will be promoted and transferred. Cast * Nino Manfredi: Commissario Quintilio Tartamella *Philippe Leroy: Giorgio Santi *Virna Lisi: Duchessa Silvia Santi * Mario Feliciani: Teo Teopulos *Irene Papas: Elena Teopulos *Evi Maltagliati: La madre di Elena *Umberto Orsini: Principe Rubio Marescalli *Senta Berger: Principess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liolà (film)
''Liolà'' () is a 1963 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It is based on ''Liolà'', a comedy play by Luigi Pirandello. The film was released as ''A Very Handy Man'' in the U.S. in 1966. Plot summary In late-nineteenth-century Sicily, the wealthy Zia Croce has a large, successful farm, which she runs with her cousin, Zio Simone. He is married to Mita, and is downcast because they do not have a son to inherit the farm. Zia Croce also has a daughter, who wants a son of her own for the same reason. Their situations are apparently solved, but actually complicated, by the appearance of Liola, whose seductive powers are put by both women to practical use. Cast *Ugo Tognazzi: Liolà *Giovanna Ralli: Tuzza Azzara *Anouk Aimée: Mita *Pierre Brasseur: Zio Simone Palumbo *Elisa Cegani: Cesa *Dolores Palumbo: Zia Croce *Umberto Spadaro *Graziella Granata Graziella Granata (born 16 March 1941) is an Italian retired film and stage actress. Career After graduating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dirty Game
''The Dirty Game'' (, , ) is a 1965 anthology spy film starring Henry Fonda, Vittorio Gassman, Bourvil and Robert Ryan. Robert Ryan as American General Bruce is the link between three different spy stories, helmed by different directors; original ''James Bond'' director Terence Young and co-director Werner Klingler for the sequences in Berlin, Christian-Jaque for the French sequences, and Carlo Lizzani for the Italian sequences. Plot A man tells of three different spy missions he took part in. Cast * Henry Fonda as Dimitri Koulov * Robert Ryan as General Bruce * Vittorio Gassman as Perego / Ferrari (French) * Annie Girardot as Suzette / Monique (French) * Bourvil as Lalande * Robert Hossein as Dupont * Peter van Eyck as Petchatkin * Maria Grazia Buccella as Natalia * Mario Adorf as Callaghan * Jacques Sernas as Sernas * Georges Marchal as Serge * Wolfgang Lukschy as Russian general * Louis Arbessier as Ivanov * Jackie Blanchot as Joe * Gabriel Gobin as O'Hara * Helmut W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Vita Agra (film)
''La vita agra'' is a 1964 Italian film by director Carlo Lizzani, based on Luciano Bianciardi's novel of the same name. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." Plot Luciano Bianchi lives with his wife and son in Guastalla, a small town in northern italy. Left-wing intellectual, he works as the head of cultural initiatives at a mining facility owned by CIS, a large company specializing, among other things, in the production of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and plastics. Shortly after he was notified of his dismissal by the company, the mine explodes due to an accident caused by the company's poor enforcement of workplace safety measures (repeatedly reported by the miners themselves), resulting in the death of 43 workers. Luciano then decides to take revenge. With the help of his friend Libero, a miner who surviv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Devil (film)
''The Black Devil'' () is a 1957 Italian adventure film written and directed by Sergio Grieco.Anonimo. "Il diavolo nero". ''Segnalazioni Cinematografiche''. Vol. XLI, 1957. Plot In 1525, the nobleman Lorenzo di Roccabruna tries to establish a union between Italians and Spaniards through the marriage of his niece Isabella of Spain with King Ferdinand of Aragon. Nevertheless, the people of Roquebrune disagree and attack the Spaniards under the command of a mysterious masked man known as "The Black Devil". Cast *Gérard Landry: Osvaldo de' Marzi *Milly Vitale: Isabella *Nadia Gray: Duchess Lucrezia *Maurizio Arena: Ruggero *Leonora Ruffo: Stella *Andrea Aureli Andrea Aureli (5 March 1923 – 5 November 2007) was an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Terni, Aureli graduated from the Liceo classico in his hometown, then he enrolled the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, graduating i ...: Lorenzo di Roccabruna * Nino Crisman: Don Pedro References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burning Fuse
''Burning Fuse'' (French: ''Le feu aux poudres'') is a 1957 French-Italian thriller film directed by Henri Decoin and starring Raymond Pellegrin, Charles Vanel and Peter van Eyck. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The films sets were designed by the art director René Renoux. Synopsis Lola, the wife of a notorious arms dealer Pédro Wassevitch is attracted to a young painter Ludovic. Unknown to her he has been sent to infiltrate Wassevitch's operation which both a rival and the police are interested in. Cast * Raymond Pellegrin as Ludovic 'Ludo' Ferrier * Charles Vanel as Albatrasse * Peter van Eyck as Pédro Wassevitch * Françoise Fabian as Lola Wassevitch * Lino Ventura as Legentil * Darío Moreno David Arugete (; 3 April 1921 – 1 December 1968), commonly known under his stage name Darío Moreno, was a Turkish-Jewish polyglot singer, an accomplished composer, lyricist, and guitarist. He attained fame and made a remarkable career centr ... as Jeff * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela (1955 Film)
''Angela'' is a 1955 American- Italian film noir, written and directed by Dennis O'Keefe, who stars in the film as well. The drama also features Mara Lane, Rossano Brazzi, Arnoldo Foà and others. The film has a voice-over narration that tells the story in flashback, and the film noir type of ''Angela'' has been described as femme fatale with elements of betrayal and obsession. Plot O’Keefe (Steve Catlett) stars as an American G.I. who remained in Italy after the war to manage a car dealership. He falls in love with a secretary (Mara Lane), and after only one date with her, she asks him to dispose of her boss’ body, who has died of a heart attack in her apartment. O'Keefe places the body in the trunk of the wrong car and watches helplessly as Lane drives away with it. O’Keefe then goes about trying to fix the situation, but a police inspector (Arnoldo Foà) and Lane’s sadistic husband (Rossano Brazzi) have ulterior motives in store for him. Cast * Dennis O'Keef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
