''Green Magic'' () is a 1953 Italian

documentary film A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

directed by

Gian Gaspare Napolitano Gian Gaspare Napolitano (30 April 1907 – 5 January 1966) was an Italian journalist, screenwriter and film director. During the 1920s, he wrote for the literary review "900", Cahiers d'Italie et d'Europe. He made ten films between 1935 an ...

Cast

Carlos Montalbán Carlos Montalbán y Merino (June 5, 1904March 28, 1991) was a Mexican character actor. Early life Montalbán was born in Torreón in Coahuila, Mexico, the son of Ricarda Merino Jiménez and Genaro Balbino Montalbán Busano, a store manager. His ...

as narrator, US version (voice) *

Bret Morrison Bret Morrison (5 May 1912 – 25 September 1978)DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). ''Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 197. was an American actor best known as the ...

as narrator, US version (voice) *

Leonardo Bonzi Leonardo Bonzi (22 December 1902 – 30 December 1977) was an Italian bobsledder. He competed in the four-man event at the 1924 Winter Olympics. Biography Leonardo Bonzi was born in Milan to Count Iro (1865–1939), a lawyer and vice pr ...

as himself (Expedition Member) *

Mario Craveri Mario Craveri (2 May 1902 – 28 February 1990) was an Italian cinematographer, director and screenwriter. Born in Turin, Craveri debuted in 1919 as assistant operator but had his first official credit just in 1923, as "second camera operator" ...

as himself (Expedition Member) * Giovanni Raffaldi as himself (Expedition Member) * Jose Docarmo as himself (Pilot)

Awards

;Won *

3rd Berlin International Film Festival The 3rd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 18 to 28 June 1953. The Golden Bear was awarded to ''The Wages of Fear'' by the audience vote. Since 1952, the FIAPF had prohibit the festival from awarding any prizes by an offic ...

Silver Bear The Berlin International Film Festival (), usually called the Berlinale (), is an annual film festival held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europ ...

;Nominated *

1953 Cannes Film Festival The 6th Cannes Film Festival took place from 15 to 29 April 1953. French writer and filmmaker Jean Cocteau served as jury president for the main competition. The Grand Prize of the Festival was awarded, as the highest prize, to '' The Wages of F ...

Palme d'Or The (; ) is the highest prize awarded to the director of the Best Feature Film of the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the festival's organizing committee. Previously, from 1939 to 1954, the festiv ...

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* 1953 films 1953 documentary films 1950s Italian-language films Italian documentary films Films directed by Gian Gaspare Napolitano 20th Century Fox films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-documentary-film-stub