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directed by

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and starring

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and Giuseppe Rinaldi.Bayman p.138 An elderly composer recalls his youthful romance with a woman while a student in

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. It was made at the Fert Studios in

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Cast

as Paolo Marini, detto Paolo Folchi *

as Claretta Melzi * Giuseppe Rinaldi as Giulio Folchi * Loredana as Elena Landi *

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as Il maestro Bignami * Carlo Romano as Otello *

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as Arnaldo Rovere *

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as Il marchese Melzi * Letizia Quaranta as La marchesa Beatrice Melzi * Giorgio Costantini as Mario Melzi *

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as Il conte Landi, padre di Elena * Ilena Jurick * Valfrido Picardi as L'impresario Salvetti *

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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