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Saro Urzì
Rosario "Saro" Urzì (24 February 1913 – 1 November 1979) was an Italian actor. He is best known for his roles in the films '' In the Name of the Law'' (1949), ''The Railroad Man'' (1956), '' Seduced and Abandoned'' (1964), which earned him a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and ''The Godfather'' (1972). Biography Born in Sicily, he moved to Rome to seek his fortune. He met Pietro Germi in 1949 and appears in Germi's '' In nome della legge'', a film for which he won Nastro d'Argento as Best Supporting Actor. He became Germi's favourite actor, working together with him in ''Path of Hope'' (1950), ''The Railroad Man'' (1956), '' The Facts of Murder'' (1959), '' Alfredo, Alfredo'' (1972) and most notably '' Seduced and Abandoned'' in 1964. That film earned him Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Nastro d'Argento the following year. He acted in '' Don Camillo'' sequels, John Huston's '' Beat the Devil'', Luigi Comencini's ''Bread, Love and Jealous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seduced And Abandoned (1964 Film)
''Seduced and Abandoned'' () is a 1964 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Pietro Germi. It was screened at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. Plot The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent quarry owner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily (specifically Sciacca), as did Germi's previous film, ''Divorce, Italian Style''. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiancé, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father. Vincenzo immediately demands that the man, Peppino Califano, marry his daughter, and antics ensue. The film is a dark satire of Sicilian social customs and honor laws, in the same fashion of ''Divorce, Italian Style''. Cast * Stefania Sandrelli - Agnese Ascalone * Saro Urzì - Don Vincenzo Ascalone * Aldo Puglisi - Peppino Califano * Lando Buzzanca - Antonio Ascalone * Lola Braccini - Amalia Califano * Leopoldo Trieste - Baron Rizieri Zappalà * Umbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo, Alfredo
''Alfredo, Alfredo'' is a 1972 Italian award-winning comedy film co-written and directed by Pietro Germi. Plot The film, told mostly in flashback, tells the story of a timid bank clerk living in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, who finds himself swept into dating and marrying a possessive woman, the stress he endures as her behavior in their marriage becomes increasingly domineering, and the obstacles he faces in leaving her for a more amenable woman, in a time when divorce was still illegal in Italy. Cast *Dustin Hoffman: Alfredo Sbisà * Stefania Sandrelli: Maria Rosa Cavarani *Carla Gravina: Carolina Bettini * Duilio Del Prete: Oreste * Saro Urzì: Father of Mariarosa *:the shaman *: Mother of Maria Rosa * Clara Colosimo: Mother of Carolina *: Father of Alfredo * Vittorio Duse: judge *: assistant of the judge *Renzo Marignano: doctor Production The film was completely shot in Ascoli Piceno, Italy. Awards * Golden Globe nominee: Best Foreign Language Film * David di Donatello: Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Correspondents (1943 Film)
''Special Correspondents'' () is a 1943 Italian romantic thriller film directed by Romolo Marcellini and starring Dorothea Wieck, Otello Toso and Maurizio D'Ancora.Trubiano p.16 It was produced as a propaganda film in support of the Italian war effort during the Second World War, released a few months before the overthrow of Benito Mussolini's regime. It was shot at the Farnesina Studios of Titanus in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alberto Boccianti and Camillo Del Signore. Synopsis During the Spanish Civil War an Italian journalist meets a woman he takes to be a colleague, but is in fact a Communist agent. They encounter each other years later during the North African Campaign, where she has a change of heart and heroically sacrifices herself. Cast * Dorothea Wieck as Lidia Warren * Otello Toso as Renato Marini * Maurizio D'Ancora as L'operatore Galletti * Nerio Bernardi as Il maggiore Alessandri * Mino Doro as Il giornalista Prosperi * Frances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odessa In Fiamme
''Odessa in Flames'' (, ) is a 1942 Italian-Romanian propaganda war film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Maria Cebotari, Carlo Ninchi and Filippo Scelzo. The film is about the Battle of Odessa in 1941, where the city was taken in an operation that was primarily conducted by Romanian forces and elements of the German Army's 11th Army. It is an anti-communist propaganda work focusing on a family trapped in Soviet-occupied Bessarabia and its eventual liberation by Axis forces during Operation Barbarossa. It was screened at the 1942 Venice Film Festival.Reich & Garofalo p.298 It was made at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The sets were designed by the art director Guido Fiorini. Location shooting took place in Axis-occupied Odessa and Moldova as well as Romania. Plot Maria Cebotari played the role of Maria Teodorescu, an opera singer from Bessarabia, who is in Chișinău with her 8-year-old son at the time of the invasion. The boy is taken somewhere in Odessa. The moth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Pistol Shot (1942 Film)
''A Pistol Shot'' () is a 1942 Italian historical drama film directed by Renato Castellani and starring Assia Noris, Fosco Giachetti, and Antonio Centa.Gundle p.170 The film was shot at the Palatino Studios in Rome with sets designed by the art director Gino Brosio. It belongs to the movies of the calligrafismo style. The film is an adaptation of Alexandr Pushkin's short story ''The Shot (Pushkin)'', published in 1831. Synopsis In Nineteenth century Russia, two men fight a duel over a woman. Partial cast * Assia Noris as Mascia *Fosco Giachetti as Andrea *Antonio Centa as Sergio * Rubi Dalma as zia di Mascia * Anna Capodaglio as la governante *Renato Cialente as Gerardo De Valmont * Mimì Dugini as Antonietta * Romolo Costa as Il Generale *Saro Urzì Rosario "Saro" Urzì (24 February 1913 – 1 November 1979) was an Italian actor. He is best known for his roles in the films '' In the Name of the Law'' (1949), ''The Railroad Man'' (1956), '' Seduced and Abandoned'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dream Of Butterfly
''The Dream of Butterfly'' (Italian: '' Il sogno di Butterfly'', German: ''Premiere der Butterfly'') is a 1939 musical drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Maria Cebotari, Fosco Giachetti and Germana Paolieri. It is an variation of the plot of the opera ''Madame Butterfly''. A co-production between Italy and Germany, two separate versions were produced in the respective languages. It is also alternatively titled ''Madame Butterfly''. It was one of several opera-related films directed by Gallone, following on from '' Casta Diva'' (1935) and ''Giuseppe Verdi'' (1938).Barron p.142-34 It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ivo Battelli and Guido Fiorini. It was shown at the 1939 Venice Film Festival. Synopsis In nineteenth-century Italy, promising singer Rosi Belloni meets American music student Harry Peters and the two become engaged and she falls pregnant by him. Before she can tell him this news, he in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simonetta Stefanelli
Simonetta Stefanelli (; born 30 November 1954) is an Italian former actress. Internationally, she is best known for her performance as Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone in the 1972 film ''The Godfather'', directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Her other roles include appearances in '' Moses the Lawgiver'', '' Scandal in the Family'' and '' Three Brothers''. In 1992, Stefanelli made her last film appearance in the drama '' Le amiche del cuore (Close Friends)'' directed by her then-husband Michele Placido. Personal life Stefanelli was married to the actor/director Michele Placido, with whom she appeared in several films, including the 1975 erotic drama '' Peccati in famiglia''. They had three children together, including actress Violante Placido, and divorced in 1994. Following their separation, Stefanelli and her children briefly lived in London. A hoax stating that Stefanelli had died appeared on the Internet in 2006, and then again in 2008. Career Before appearing in ''The Godfath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola ( ; born April 7, 1939) is an American filmmaker. He is considered one of the leading figures of the New Hollywood and one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. List of awards and nominations received by Francis Ford Coppola, Coppola is the recipient of five Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Palme d'Or, Palmes d'Or, in addition to nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award. Coppola was honored with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2010, the Kennedy Center Honors, Kennedy Center Honors in 2024, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2025. Coppola started his career directing ''The Rain People'' (1969) and co-writing ''Patton (film), Patton'' (1970), the latter of which earned him and Edmund H. North the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Coppola's reputation as a filmmaker was cemented with the release of ''The Godfather'' (1972) and ''The Godfather Part II'' (1974) which bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woman Of Straw
''Woman of Straw'' is a 1964 British crime thriller directed by Basil Dearden and starring Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery. It was written by Robert Muller (screenwriter), Robert Muller and Stanley Mann, adapted from the 1954 novel ''La Femme de paille'' by Catherine Arley. Plot Playboy lifestyle, Playboy Anthony Richmond schemes to acquire the £50 million fortune of his uncle Charles Richmond, a tyrannical, arrogant wheelchaired tycoon, by persuading Maria Marcello, the new Italians, Italian nurse he has hired to marry the old man in exchange for one million pounds. A sincere Maria endures the verbal and emotional abuse of Charles both at his estate and on a yacht trip in Mallorca, Spain, where they wed, and a humbled Charles changes his will to leave all his fortune to Maria, leaving only 40,000 pounds to his nephew. After his uncle's death at the yacht one morning, both Anthony and Maria concoct a scheme to pretend he is still living as they return to the estate. Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bread, Love And Jealousy
''Bread, Love and Jealousy'' (), known as ''Frisky'' in the US, is a 1954 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. It is the second part of the Italian trilogy, preceded by '' Bread, Love and Dreams'' and followed by '' Scandal in Sorrento''. Plot Antonio ( Vittorio De Sica) is in love with the midwife Annarella ( Marisa Merlini), knowing that she has a son. Both of them are in love with each other, until the father of the kid, who also serves in the military, appears and, with the help of the priest Don Emidio ( Virgilio Riento), is reunited with his son. Having to spend the next twenty months far from the village, Pietro ( Roberto Risso) asks the marshal to take care of Maria ( Gina Lollobrigida). Despite not being happy to spend time with the captain, because of her poverty and her need to collect the dowry, she goes to serve at the marshal’s house, since his maid, Caramella ( Tina Pica), is ill. The villagers start spreading gossips about the marshal an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Comencini
Luigi Comencini (; 8 June 1916 – 6 April 2007) was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the "commedia all'italiana" genre. His daughters Cristina Comencini, Cristina and Francesca Comencini, Francesca are both film directors. Biography His first successful film was ''The Emperor of Capri, L'imperatore di Capri'', featuring Totò. Comencini's 1953 ''Bread, Love and Dreams, Pane, amore e fantasia'', with Vittorio De Sica and Gina Lollobrigida, is considered a primary example of ''neorealismo rosa'' (pink neorealism). It was followed by ''Bread, Love and Jealousy, Pane, amore e gelosia''. After first directing Alberto Sordi in ''La bella di Roma'' (1955), Comencini again worked with Sordi in what is considered his masterwork, ''Everybody Go Home, Tutti a casa'', a bitter comedy about Italy after the Armistice of Cassibile, armistice of 1943. The film won the Special Golden Prize at the 2nd Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beat The Devil (1953 Film)
''Beat the Devil'' is a 1953 adventure comedy film directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones and Gina Lollobrigida in her American debut. Huston and Truman Capote wrote the screenplay, loosely based upon the 1951 novel of the same name by British journalist Claud Cockburn writing under the pseudonym James Helvick. Huston intended the film as a sort of loose parody of his 1941 film '' The Maltese Falcon'', which also starred Bogart. Capote said, "John ustonand I decided to kid the story, to treat it as a parody. Instead of another ''Maltese Falcon'', we turned it into a... poofon this type of film." The script, written on a day-to-day basis as the film was shot, concerns the adventures of a group of swindlers and their associates who try to claim land rich in uranium deposits in Kenya as they wait in a small Italian port to travel aboard a tramp steamer to Mombasa. Plot Billy Dannreuther is a formerly wealthy American who has fallen on hard ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
