Nino RotaFilmography

Born:: December 31, 1911 in Milan, Italy
Occupation:: Composer (Music Score)
Biography:: Italian composer Nino Rota's first oratorio was performed in 1921, when he was a veteran at age 11. Refining his skills at the Milan Conservatory, the Santa Cecilia Academy of Italy, and the Curtis Institute of the United States, Rota continued turning out symphonies, operas, and ballets...Read More

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Valentino: The Last Emperor

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Valentino Garavani, Giancarlo Giammetti

Synopsis: One of the world's most celebrated fashion designers, Valentino Garavani developed an interest in design as a teenager and entered the world of haute couture in the early '50s, working under Jacques Fath, Balenciaga and Jean Desses. In 1959, Valentino opened his own house of fashion in Read More

4/3/09
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Raymond Waring, Dylan Moran, Keeley Hawes, Gillian Anderson

Synopsis: A group of actors and filmmakers set out to adapt an "unfilmable" classic novel -- but find that their own petty concerns get in the way -- in this satirical comedy. Laurence Sterne's 18th century novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman told the story of its priggish title Read More

1/27/06
Lev S Sedoi Borodoi

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: This Russian animated fable about growing old is suitable for all ages. The story takes place within a traveling circus and chronicles the exploits of an aging ringmaster, and an aging lion. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
A Hundred and One Nights

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet

Synopsis: This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie Read More

1995
The Godfather Part III

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Eli Wallach, Sofia Coppola, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: After a break of more than 15 years, director Francis Ford Coppola and writer Mario Puzo returned to the well for this third and final story of the fictional Corleone crime family. Two decades have passed, and crime kingpin Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), now divorced from his wife Kay (Diane Read More

12/25/90
Blue City

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, David Caruso, Paul Winfield, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: When prodigal son Billy Turner (Judd Nelson) returns to his Florida home town, he's caught in a brawl and thrown in jail. He tells the guards to call his father, the mayor, who will have him released; however, he soon discovers his father has been killed. After Turner finally gets out of jail, he Read More

5/2/86
Big Deal On Madonna Street...20 Years Later

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Tiberlo Murgia, Francesco de Rosa, Giorgio Gobbi

Synopsis: The vast differences 27 years makes between Italian comedy, the city of Rome, the stars in this film, and filmmaking itself are apparent in this 1985 sequel to the 1958 I Soliti Ignoti. Clips from the earlier film highlight the changes. Returning to reprise their roles are Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman Read More

12/25/85
Orchestra Rehearsal

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Balduin Baas

Synopsis: Director Federico Fellini's Orchestra Rehearsal (Prova d'Orchestra) was originally made for Italian TV, then given a limited theatrical release in the US. Using a symphony orchestra as a metaphor for Mankind, Fellini explores the various joys, sorrows, frustrations and triumphs of the musicians. Read More

2/22/79
Ernesto

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Martin Halm, Michele Placido, Virna Lisi

Synopsis: Ernesto (Martin Hahn) is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees--then experiments with heterosexuality, courtesy of an obliging prostitute. Read More

1/12/79
Hurricane

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Mia Farrow, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Dayton Ka'ne

Synopsis: This film showed up on TV as Forbidden Paradise, but you can't fool us. It's really The Hurricane, producer Dino De Laurentiis' ill-advised remake of the 1938 Sam Goldwyn production of the same name. The story of the casual cruelties imposed by the white ruling class on the natives of the isle of Read More

1979
Death on the Nile

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles, David Niven, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: Peter Ustinov began his long association with the Hercule Poirot character of murder mystery novelist Agatha Christie with this lavish but financially disappointing follow-up to the popular Murder on the Orient Express (1974). During a luxurious pleasure cruise down the Nile aboard a lavish vessel Read More

1978
Il Casanova di Fellini

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne, Olimpia Carlisi, Adele Angela Lojodice

Synopsis: Fellini's Casanova is played by Donald Sutherland. The film takes great pains to debunk the myth of the Great Lover by presenting him as an ordinary human being swept up in extraordinary circumstances. This Casanova breezes through his various political and amorous adventures with an air of bored Read More

12/7/76
Caro Michele

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mariangela Melato, Delphine Seyrig, Aurore Clément, Marcella Michelangeli, Lou Castel

Synopsis: Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would Read More

8/10/76
Ragazzo Di Borgata

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Giacomo Piperno, Rita Tushingham

Synopsis: Ettore (Giacomo Piperno) is a charming child at home; on the streets, he is a regular terror. He and his gang of children steal brazenly from the rich, and often engage in rape. After his father is imprisoned for a bungled theft, Ettore quits school and takes a job as a waiter in a bar that Read More

4/22/76
Origins of the Mafia

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Edward Albert, Lee J. Cobb, Joseph Cotten, Renato Salvatori, Claudio Volonte

Synopsis: From 16th century Sicily to the streets of contemporary New York, the Mafia has transcended its humble roots to evolve into one of the most formidable crime organizations ever. Centuries ago, the dreaded Gramignanos family took control over Sicily by launching a vicious campaign of violence and Read More

1976
The Godfather Part II

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Lee Strasberg

Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, parallels the young Vito Corleone's rise with his son Michael's spiritual fall, deepening The Godfather's depiction of the dark side of the American dream. In the early 1900s, the child Vito flees Read More

12/11/74
The Abdication

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Franz Drago, Suzanne Huddart, Liv Ullmann, Peter Finch, Cyril Cusack, Graham Crowden

Synopsis: In this historical drama based on actual events, Sweden's Queen Christina (Liv Ullmann) decides in 1654 to give up her throne in order to embrace Catholicism. However, as she studies the faith, she falls in love with Cardinal Azzolino (Peter Finch), a cleric being considered for the papacy. Greta Garbo Read More

1974
Amarcord

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noël, Ciccio Ingrassia, Nando Orfei

Synopsis: Federico Fellini's warmly nostalgic memory piece examines daily life in the Italian village of Rimini during the reign of Mussolini, and won the 1974 Academy Award as Best Foreign Film. The film's greatest asset is its ability to be sweet without being cloying, due in great part to Danilo Donati's Read More

12/18/73
Love and Anarchy

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mariangela Melato, Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: Originally released in Italy as Film d'Amore e d'Anarchia, Lina Wertmuller's Love and Anarchy is set in the fascist-dominated Italy of the 1930s. Giancarlo Giannini plays an idealistic farmer swept up in an anti-fascist underground movement. His first task as a member is to assassinate Mussolini Read More

2/22/73
Fellini's Roma

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Britta Barnes, Federico Fellini

Synopsis: Fellini's Roma is a virtually plotless autobiographical tribute to Rome, Italy, featuring narration by Fellini himself and a mixture of real-life footage and fictional set pieces. It flows from episode to episode, beginning with the director's early years arriving in Rome in 1931 during the time Read More

3/16/72
The Godfather

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, John Cazale, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

Synopsis: Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema: one of the most widely imitated, quoted, and lampooned movies of all time. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his youngest son, Michael Read More

3/15/72
The Clowns

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Riccardo Billi, Fanfulla

Synopsis: The culmination of filmmaker Federico Fellini's lifelong love affair with circus folk was his 1971 The Clowns (I clowns). Fellini's alter ego this time is a young boy, taking in his first circus (again, we're treated to the "parade" motif so often utilized by the director). As the clowns go Read More

12/27/70
Waterloo

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna

Synopsis:
This lavishly costumed historical epic had an estimated $100 million price tag. Spectacularly photographed battle action contrasts with often plodding individual scenes that bog down the plot. Fearing his growing power, European monarchs force Napoleon Bonaparte (Rod Steiger) to abdicate as Read More

10/29/70
Fellini Satyricon

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone, Mario Romagnoli

Synopsis: Federico Fellini makes his most decadent, undisciplined work in this free adaptation of Petronius' famous farcical chronicle of ancient Roman life. The film opens with Encolpio (Martin Potter) vying with his friend Ascilto (Hiram Keller) for the affections of a young effeminate lad named Gitone Read More

9/3/69
Orgasmo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Carroll Baker, Lou Castel, Colette Descombes, Tino Carraro, Lilla Brignone

Synopsis: One of two thrillers starring Carroll Baker and directed by Umberto Lenzi, this one was released in the United States as Paranoia, the original title of the second one. Katherine West (Baker) is a wealthy alcoholic who travels to her late husband's Italian villa from New York. Soon, a slimy conman Read More

2/7/69
Romeo and Juliet

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Olivia Hussey, Leonard Whiting, Milo O'Shea, Michael York, John McEnery

Synopsis: Director Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was touted at the time of its release (successfully, if the box-office receipts are any indication), as something of a "youth trip" movie. This is because Zeffirelli broke the long-standing tradition of casting over-aged Read More

10/19/68
Spirits of the Dead

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Terence Stamp, Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, James Robertson Justice, Peter Fonda

Synopsis: Released in Europe as Histoires Extraordinaires and Tre Passi Nel Delirio, this is a portmanteau picture, comprised of three supernatural playlets based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. "Metzengerstein," directed by Roger Vadim, stars the director's then-wife Jane Fonda as a medieval woman prone Read More

6/10/68
The Taming of the Shrew

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alfred Lynch, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael York, Vernon Dobtcheff, Michael Hordern, Natasha Pyne, Victor Spinetti

Synopsis: Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a zesty version of the classic comedy, highlighted by performances by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and Nino Rota's score. Instead of simply filming a play, Zeffirelli turned Shakespeare's text into a lively Read More

3/23/67
Shoot Loud, Louder...I Don't Understand

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Raquel Welch, Guido Alberti, Leopoldo Trieste, Tecla Scarano

Synopsis: Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito (Marcello Mastroianni) sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the police, only to involve himself in a complicated situation. Read More

10/26/66
Oggi, Domani e Dopodomani

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Pamela Tiffin, Virna Lisi, Luciano Salce, Raimondo Vianello

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni stars in this film which combines much of the 1965 release Paranoia with new footage. A police inspector is told of the bizarre behavior of a pistol-packing papa who shoots blanks at his wife to keep her intimidated. He inserts a real bullet every so often just to let her know Read More

12/21/65
Juliet of the Spirits

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Giulietta Masina, Mario Pisu, Sandra Milo, Valentina Cortese, Sylva Koscina

Synopsis: Juliet of the Spirits is a fantastical showcase for Federico Fellini's vibrant imagery, starring his wife, Giulietta Masina, as the titular leading character. Juliet is a wealthy housewife who constantly fears her husband, Giorgio (Mario Pisu), is cheating on her. While she yearns for a peaceful Read More

10/23/65
The Leopard

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli, Serge Reggiani

Synopsis: Arguably Luchino Visconti's best film and certainly the most personal of his historical epics, The Leopard chronicles the fortunes of Prince Fabrizio Salina and his family during the unification of Italy in the 1860s. Based on the acclaimed novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, published Read More

3/28/63
8 1/2

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Madeleine Le Beau

Synopsis: Fresh off of the international success of La Dolce Vita, master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with what is widely believed to be his finest and most personal work. Marcello Mastroianni delivers a brilliant performance as Fellini's alter ego Guido Read More

2/14/63
Mafioso

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Ugo Attanasio

Synopsis:
In this crime comedy with heavy neorealist influence, Antonio (Alberto Sordi) is a Sicilian auto plant worker who has almost completely forsaken his southern Italian roots by marrying a fair-haired girl from the north and conceiving two children with her. As the movie opens, Antonio prepares Read More

10/25/62
Boccaccio '70

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sophia Loren, Luigi Giuliani, Anita Ekberg, Peppino De Filippo, Romy Schneider, Romolo Valli, Tomas Milian

Synopsis: Released in the US by 20th Century-Fox, Boccaccio '70 is a compendium of short subjects directed by three of Italy's top filmmakers. Each story is written in the style of the famed Italian essayist Boccaccio, albeit told in contemporary terms. First up is "The Raffle", written by Cesare Zavattini Read More

2/23/62
The Best of Enemies

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: David Niven, Alberto Sordi, Michael Wilding, Sr., Amedeo Nazzari, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: In this military comedy, Maj. Richardson (David Niven) and Lt. Burke (Michael Wilding) are two British soldiers on a recognizance mission over Ethiopia in 1941 when their plane crashes in the desert. Capt. Blasi (Alberto Sordi), an Italian officer, finds the Englishmen and offers to help them Read More

1962
The Reluctant Saint

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Ricardo Montalban, Lea Padovani, Akim Tamiroff, Mark Damon

Synopsis: Directed by Edward Dmytryk, The Reluctant Saint is based on the life of Saint Joseph of Cupertino. When young Giuseppe Diesa (Maximilian Schell) is sent to work at a monastery circa 17th century Italy -- his parents believed he was mentally challenged -- he surprises a local bishop by his Read More

1962
Il Brigante

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Serena Vergano

Synopsis: This uneven but interesting drama by director and writer Renato Castellani tells the tale of a brigand and the people who become involved with him. Michele Rende (Adelmo di Fraia) is both a town legend and a hot-tempered young man who is thrown in prison after being accused of a murder he did not Read More

9/21/61
Fantasmi a Roma

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo, Vittorio Gassman, Eduardo de Filippo, Belinda Lee

Synopsis: An impressive cast graces the 105 minutes of Ghosts of Rome. Don't let the title mislead you: the "ghosts" are not genuine wraiths, but instead a group of disenfranchised tenants in a contemporary Roman rooming house. When the house is condemned, the various residents seek out new lodgings Read More

4/1/61
Rocco and His Brothers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: Luchino Visconti's operatic masterpiece tells the story of the Parondis, a poor family from a village in southern Italy who come to Milan seeking a better life. Following the death of her husband, proud Rosaria (Katina Paxinou) picks up stakes and moves to the city with four of her sons: Simone (Renato Salvatori Read More

10/6/60
Sotto Dieci Bandiere

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Van Heflin, Charles Laughton, Mylène Demongeot, John Ericson, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: Under Ten Flags is a fact-based British maritime epic set during World War II. Allied ships are being victimized by a German surface raider, which sails under friendly flags until moving in for the kill. Since so many nationalities were involved in making this film (both before and behind the Read More

8/14/60
Purple Noon

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Elvire Popesco, Erno Crisa

Synopsis: René Clément's thriller Purple Noon stars Alain Delon as Tom Ripley, an American who travels to Europe on an all-expenses-paid mission to convince his friend, the errant playboy Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet), to travel to San Francisco at the request of the wealthy Greenleaf family. Read More

3/10/60
La Dolce Vita

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Yvonne Furneaux, Anouk Aimée, Anita Ekberg, Alain Cuny, Lex Barker

Synopsis: In one of the most widely seen and acclaimed European movies of the 1960s, Federico Fellini featured Marcello Mastrioanni as gossip columnist Marcello Rubini. Having left his dreary provincial existence behind, Marcello wanders through an ultra-modern, ultra-sophisticated, ultra-decadent Rome. He Read More

2/3/60
La Grande Guerra

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Alberto Sordi, Folco Lulli, Bernard Blier, Silvana Mangano

Synopsis: Vittorio Gassman and Alberto Sordi don ill-fitting military uniforms in this anecdotal Italian service comedy. They play a couple of World War I soldiers, adept at sidestepping duty and responsibility, but courageous to the core when in a pinch. The film strives for the boisterous feel of What Read More

10/28/59
Un Ettaro Di Cielo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

1959
La Loi C'est la Loi

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Fernandel, Totò, Noël Roquevert, Leda Gloria, Nathalie Nerval

Synopsis: Fernandel plays a French customs sergeant who conducts an ongoing war of nerves with Italian smuggler Toto on the Franco-Italian border. The French sergeant discovers that, through a long-ago hospital mix-up, he is actually an Italian citizen. Now Fernandel is legally prevented from arresting Read More

10/27/58
Gli Italiani Sono Matti

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

4/5/58
Fortunella

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

3/14/58
Giovani Mariti

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sylva Koscina, Antonella Lualdi, Gérard Blain, Franco Interlenghi, Antonio Cifariello

Synopsis: The title of this Italian slice-of-life drama translates to Young Husbands. The husbands in question rather casually enter into marriage, never intending true fidelity to their spouses. When they realize that they're committed for life, our immature heroes return to their home town for one last Read More

3/12/58
Città di Notte

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Henri Vilbert, Rina Morelli, Corrado Pani

Synopsis: Cittadi Notte (City at Night) is an existentialist-eye-view of Rome. The story concerns a quartet of "lost souls," played by Patrizia Bini, Henri Vilbert, Antonio De Teffe and Rina Morelli. Practically nothing happens plotwise, though the four protagonists are lovingly photographed (by Mario Bava) Read More

3/6/58
Il Medico E Lo Stregone

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Marisa Merlini, Gabriella Pallotta, Lorella de Luca

Synopsis: This engaging slice of neorealism stars Marcello Mastroianni as "Il Medico" (The Doctor) and Vittorio de Sica as "Lo Stregone" (The Healer). Setting up practice in a backward, provincial village, Mastroianni finds that he can make no headway with the superstitious townsfolk so long as faith-healer Read More

1958
Barrage Contre le Pacifique

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Silvana Mangano, Richard Conte, Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis: An overbearing woman is determined to force her two kids to turn her struggling rice plantation into a success. Unfortunately, it is located on the Indochinese coast and is being threatened by rough seas; all that stands between the paddies and the ocean is a small seawall. More trouble comes in Read More

10/30/57
Italia Piccola

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

10/25/57
Le Notti Bianche

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Jean Marais, Clara Calamai, Alberto Carloni, Elena Fancora, Anna Filippini, Ferdinando Gera, Giorgio Listuzzi, Leonida Montest, Corrado Pani, Marcella Rovena, Dick Sanders, Renato Terra, Maria Zanoli

Synopsis: Shy young Marcelo Mastroianni ambles across a bridge one evening, where he meets a strange but alluring girl (Maria Schell) who is awaiting her lover. This chance acquaintance is the first strand in a complex web entrapping Mastroianni in a dreamlike world of flashbacks, flashforwards and false Read More

9/15/57
Londra chiama Polo Nord

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Curd Jürgens, Dawn Addams, Folco Lulli, Dario Michaelis, Philippe Hersent

Synopsis: This war drama is based on actual events from World War II. The Nazis invade the Netherlands and capture an important British agent who relays daily messages from Amsterdam to London. When the Germans continue to send these messages (unknown to the British), it creates havoc for the British and Read More

6/21/57
Nights of Cabiria

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Giulietta Masina, Amedeo Nazzari, Franca Marzi, François Perier

Synopsis: Nights of Cabiria opens with Cabiria (Giulietta Masina) and her boyfriend playfully embracing by the seaside -- and then he shoves her into the water and steals her purse. Cabiria is revived by some local boys and runs off by herself, shouting. What follows is a series of similarly humiliating Read More

5/26/57
War and Peace

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Anita Ekberg

Synopsis: War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In recreating the the social and personal upheavals attending Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, $6 million was shelled out by coproducers Carlo Ponti, Dino de Laurentiis and Read More

1956
Star of India

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Herbert Lom, Yvonne Sanson, John Slater

Synopsis: The roguish smile of Cornel Wilde and the impressive cleavage of Jean Wallace (Mrs. Cornel Wilde) are the principal attractions of the costume swashbuckler Star of India. Wilde plays a 17th-century French nobleman who embarks upon a search for a valuable emerald which has been stolen from a Dutch Read More

1956
Il Momento Piu Bello

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this drama, a doctor and his nurse begin working on a new technique for childbirth. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1956
Accadde Al Penitenziario

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

10/19/55
Il Bidone

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Franco Fabrizi, Giulietta Masina, Sue Ellen Blake

Synopsis: Swindle and The Swindlers are both English-language titles for 1955's Il Bidone, a lesser-known effort from Federico Fellini. Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, and Franco Fabrizi play a trio of con artists who victimize the Italian bourgeoisie (who are shown to be no better than the crooks). Giueletta Masina Read More

10/7/55
La Bella di Roma

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Silvana Pampanini, Alberto Sordi, Paolo Stoppa, Antonio Cifariello

Synopsis: Nannina (Silvana Pampanini) is planning to marry Mario (Antonio Cifariello), but the nuptials hit a snag when he's put in prison for hitting a policeman. She goes to work as a cashier in a bar owned by Oreste (Paolo Stoppa), an older man who falls in love with her. She wants to open a restaurant Read More

10/5/55
Amici per la Pelle

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Geronimo Meynier, Luigi Tosi, Vera Carmi, Carlo Tamberlani

Synopsis: Amiel per la Pelle (Friends for Life) is largely told from a child's-eye point of view. The heroes of the piece are Mario (Geronimo Meynier) and Franco (Andrea Seire), young classmates and inseparable buddies. After several "Our Gang"-style adventures, the boys' friendship is threatened when Mario Read More

9/16/55
Un Eroe Dei Nostri Tempi

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This routine drama set in post-war Italy is the first feature by novice director Sergio Capogna and is based on a best-selling novel by Vasco Pratolini. The story centers around one main protagonist, a young man (Massimo Tonna) who in addition to growing into adulthood, has to come to grips with Read More

1955
Proibito

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mel Ferrer, Amedeo Nazzari, Lea Massari, Henri Vilbert, Germaine Kerjean

Synopsis: Proibito (Forbidden) is based on Grazia Deledda's Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Mother. Mel Ferrer stars as Don Pablo, a priest who returns to his provincial home in Sardegna. Here he discovers to his dismay that a centuries-old feud between two families is still raging. Don Pablo hopes to bring Read More

12/30/54
L'Amante di Paride

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Beautiful Hedy Lamarr finds herself faced with a difficult decision when she must choose an appropriate costume for an important masquerade ball in this metaphorical fantasy that unfolds in three parts. To help her decide, she asks a trio of male friends. Their disparate suggestions that she go as Read More

12/24/54
La Strada

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, Al Silvani, Marcella Rovena

Synopsis: Acclaimed Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini drew on his own circus background for the 1954 classic La Strada. Set in a seedy travelling carnival, this symbolism-laden drama revolves around brutish strongman Zampano (Anthony Quinn), his simple and servile girlfriend Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina, Fellini Read More

9/22/54
La Vergine Moderna

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

9/22/54
Mambo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Silvana Mangano, Michael Rennie, Vittorio Gassman, Shelley Winters, Katherine Dunham

Synopsis: Unable to find work in Hollywood due to the Blacklist, director Robert Rossen filmed his 1954 production Mambo in Italy. Silvana Mangano stars as Silvia, who hopes someday to become a famous dancer. In the meantime, Silvia is torn between two lovers: Count Enrico (Michael Rennie), who hasn't much Read More

9/18/54
Appassionatamente

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

8/21/54
La Grande Speranza

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Renato Baldini, Lois Maxwell, Folco Lulli

Synopsis: Lois Maxwell, the Canadian actress who achieved worldwide fame as Miss Moneypenny in the "James Bond" films, heads the cast of the made-in-Italy La Grande Speranza (The Great Hope). Ms. Maxwell plays a British nurse named Lily, one of several survivors of a submarine attack during WW2. Lily and Read More

8/16/54
Cento Anni D'Amore

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This romantic Italian anthology film is comprised of six episodes that deal with a century of love. The first vignette, "Garibaldin," set in 1854, follows a rebellious priest who attempts to sway others to his beliefs. "Pendolin" examines a philandering wife's affair with a hotel porter who really Read More

2/25/54
The Stranger's Hand

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Trevor Howard, Alida Valli, Richard Basehart, Eduardo Ciannelli, Richard O'Sullivan

Synopsis: This mystery is adapted from a Graham Greene novel and begins as a British spy arranges a meeting with his son, whom he hasn't seen in four years. They are to meet in Venice, but unfortunately, the spy is unable to make the appointment. The boy then gets a mysterious call from his father breaking Read More

1/20/54
L'Ennemi Public Numero Un

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Fernandel, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nicole Maurey, Alfred Adam

Synopsis: Lantern-jawed French comedian Fernandel plays a dual role in Most Wanted Man. He stars as an ordinary Joe (or ordinary Pierre, perhaps) who is the exact double of a notorious gangster. In the tradition of Edward G. Robinson's The Whole Town's Talking, Fernandel must take the place of the criminal Read More

12/22/53
Musoduro

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

12/9/53
La Domenica Della Buona Gente

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

11/25/53
Scampolo 53

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

11/18/53
Via Padova 46

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

11/18/53
I Vitelloni

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Franco Interlenghi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Leonora Ruffo, Riccardo Fellini

Synopsis: Italian maestro Federico Fellini's first international success is a nakedly autobiographical film that bears many of the formal and thematic concerns that recur throughout his work. Set in the director's hometown of Rimini, I Vitelloni follows the lives of five young vitelloni, or Read More

9/17/53
Le Boulanger de Valorgue

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Fernandel, Georges Chamarat, Jean Gaven, Henri Vilbert

Synopsis: Fernandel plays the Raimu-like title character in Le Boulanger de Valorgue (The Baker of Valorgue). A young girl (Pierette Bruno) deposits a baby at baker Fernandel's doorstep, insisting that the child's father is the baker's own son, who is currently in the army. Despite his pronounced lack of Read More

2/27/53
Fanciulle di Lusso

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Susan Stephen, Anna Maria Ferrero, Jacques Sernas, Steve Barclay, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: The misleadingly titled Italian comedy Luxury Girls is set in an exclusive Swiss finishing school. Rambunctious American lass Lorna Whitmore Susan Stephan is enrolled in the school by her wealthy parents. Before long, Laura has set the institution on its ear with her precocious behavior. Her Read More

1/24/53
I Sette dell'Orsa Maggiore

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Pierre Cressoy, Paul Muller, Tino Carraro

Synopsis: The English-language title of this Italian WW I drama is Seven of the Big Bear. The title refers to a group of Italian navy frogmen, who train arduously for a raid on the allied stronghold of Gilbraltar. Their "inside man" on the island is actually a woman, nightclub singer Eleanora Rossi Drago. Read More

1/16/53
Anni Facili

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nino Taranto, Clelia Matania, Giovanna Ralli

Synopsis: Anni Facili (The Early Years) stars Nino Taranto as Sicilian professor De Francesco. On behalf of a friend who has developed a revolutionary new medicine, the professor seeks out government approval for the formula in Rome. Miles and miles of red tape later, De Francesco is virtually back where he Read More

1953
Noi Due Soli

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

12/4/52
The Queen of Sheba

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Leonora Ruffo, Gino Leurini, Marina Berti, Franco Silva

Synopsis: Leonora Ruffo is the exotically garbed title character in the Italian costume spectacle The Queen of Sheba. In the original Scriptures, Sheba and Israel's King Solomon merely exchanged gifts and parted company. Naturally, the filmmakers "improve" upon the story, with Prince Rehoboam (Gino Read More

11/6/52
Gli Angeli Del Quartiere

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jacques Sernas, Rossana Podestà, Marisa Merlini, Virgilio Riento

Synopsis: Gli Angeli del Quartiere (Angels of the District) concentrates on five lovable Italian war orphans. Living a hand-to-mouth existence, the children are elated to discover a bagful of money in a cellar. Wondering where best to spend their treasure, the kids are "advised" by adult thief Mario (Jacques Sernas Read More

10/16/52
The White Sheik

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Brunella Bovo, Alberto Sordi, Leopoldo Trieste, Giulietta Masina, Lilia Landi

Synopsis: The White Sheik (Lo Sceicco Bianco), Fellini's first solo flight as director, is a gentle lampoon of the idolatry heaped upon movie stars. An impressionable young bride, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) accompanies her husband Ivan (Leopoldo Trieste) on a dull honeymoon, full of meetings with family members Read More

9/20/52
Due Soldi di speranza

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Maria Fiore, Gina Mascetti

Synopsis: Due Soldi di Speranza is better known by its English-language titles Two Pennies of Hope and Two Cents Worth of Hope. The film was the third in director Renato Castellani's "young love" trilogy (the first two being Sotto il sole di Roma and E Primavera). Filmed on location near Naples, the story Read More

4/10/52
Marito E Moglie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Eduardo de Filippo, Tina Pica, Titina de Filippo, Luciana Vedovelli

3/5/52
Never Take No for an Answer

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Vittorio Manunta, Denis O'Dea, Guido Celano, Nerio Bernardi

Synopsis: Paul Gallico adapted his own short story Never Take No For an Answer in collaboration with his wife Pauline. Filmed on location in the Italian communities of Rome and Assissi, the film relates the simple story of 7-year-old war orphan Peppino (Vittorio Mannunta). When his beloved donkey falls ill Read More

1952
Jolanda la Figlia Del Corsaro Nero

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

1952
The Assassin

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Todd, Eva Bartok, John Gregson, George Coulouris, Margot Grahame

Synopsis: British private detective Richard Todd is sent to Venice, there to locate and a reward a wartime partisan. Once he arrives, the detective finds himself the quarry of every Venetian cop in sight. Todd soon learns that he's been fingered as a murderer--and that it's just possible he's been framed by Read More

1952
Valley of Eagles

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Valley of Eagles is set in northern Scandinavia, on the border between Sweden and Lapland. John McCallum stars as Swedish scientist Nils Ahlen, whose research data has been swiped by his assistant Nystrom (Anthony Dawson). Making things worse is the fact that Nystrom was aided in his perfidy by Read More

1952
Something Money Can't Buy

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Patricia Roc, Anthony Steel, Moira Lister, A.E. Matthews, David Hutcheson

Synopsis: The British Something Money Can't Buy offers a few smaller-scale variations on themes previously explored in the 1946 Hollywood Oscar-winner The Best Years of Our Lives. Harry Wilding (Anthony Steel), a high-ranking wartime military officer, has trouble adjusting to his go-nowhere civilian job and Read More

1952
Era Lui!...Si! Si!

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Walter Chiari, Carlo Campanini, Isa Barzizza, Silvana Pampanini, Enrico Viarisio

Synopsis: The English-language title of this wacky comedy is It Was Him...Yes! Yes! "Him" Walter Milani, is played by Walter Chiari, a singular comic actor who was touted by American critics as a "new" star, even though he'd been successfully plugging away in European films since 1947. Chiari plays a Read More

11/23/51
Filumena Marturano

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Titina de Filippo, Eduardo de Filippo, Tamara Lees, Tina Pica

Synopsis: Playwright Eduardo de Fillipo not only adapted his theatrical piece Filumena Marturano to the screen, but also starred in it and directed as well. de Fillipo's sister Titina plays the title character, a Neapolitan mother who is determined to "legitimize" her three out-of-wedlock children. She Read More

10/30/51
Peppino E Violetta

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

9/13/51
Valley of the Eagles

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jack Warner, Nadia Gray, John McCallum, Anthony Dawson, Mary Laura Wood

Synopsis: In this action-adventure film, a Swedish professor searches for his treacherous wife and his assistant after they steal his research and head for the frozen wastes of Lapland. The scientist is accompanied by a police inspector. During their journey, they are attacked by wolves. Fortunately native Read More

1951
Anna

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Vittorio Gassman, Gaby Morlay, Patrizia Mangano

Synopsis: Silvana Mangano portrays a fickle club chanteuse who must choose between the love of two men (Raf Vallone and Vittorio Gassman). She chooses neither, entering a convent for the sake of convenience. This overwrought drama was produced by Dino de Laurentiis, and reworked by five screenwriters Read More

1951
Donne e Briganti

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Amedeo Nazzari, Maria Mauban, Jean Chevrier, Jacqueline Pierreux, Nando Bruno

Synopsis: Donne e Briganti (Women and Bandits) was the second of two Mario Soldati-directed films released in Europe during the last week of June, 1951 (the first was Je Suis de la Revue). Set in the early 19th century, the film recounts the Robin Hood-like adventures of bandit Michele Pezza (Amedeo Read More

11/3/50
E Più Facile Che Un Camello

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jean Gabin, Elena Altieri, Julien Carette, Antonella Lualdi

Synopsis: Two masters of Italian neorealism--screenwriter Cesare Zavattini and director Luigi Zampa--collaborated on It is Easier for a Camel. As indicated by the film's title, a measure of religiosity figures into the proceedings. Recently deceased Carlo Bacchi (Jean Gabin), on the verge of being sent to Read More

10/19/50
Vita Da Cani

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

9/28/50
Napoli Milionaria

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Eduardo de Filippo

Synopsis: Director Eduardo De Fillipo adapted the screenplay for Napoli Milionaria from his own stage play. De Fillipo also plays the leading role of Gennaro Jovine, a well-meaning Neapolitan streetcar conductor who always manages to get mixed up in other people's problems. Jovine and his conniving buddy Read More

9/21/50
Quel Bandito Sono Io

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jean Kent, Robert Beatty, Margaret Rutherford, Rona Anderson

Synopsis: Based on a play by Pepine de Felipe, Her Favorite Husband is a British comedy set in Italy. Housewife Jean Kent is bemused by her husband Robert Beatty, who is not quite himself these days. In truth, he is not himself at all: Jean's husband has been replaced by a lookalike gangster who is plotting Read More

5/11/50
E Primavera

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Elena Varzi

Synopsis: Renato Castellani both directed and co-wrote the romantic comedy E' Primavera. The film was the second of Castellani's trilogy dealing with the less-than-smooth course of young love in postwar Italy (it was filmed just after Sotto il sole di Roma and just before Two Cents Worth of Hope). Leading Read More

1/26/50
Come Scopersi L'America

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

1/3/50
My Widow and I

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Isa Miranda

Synopsis: Filmed in 1945, the Italian My Widow and I made it to the U.S. five years later. Two of Italy's top box-office draws, Vittorio de Sica and Isa Miranda, head the cast. De Sica plays Adriano Lari, who has been missing for so long that he is presumed dead. Returning home, Lari poses as his own Read More

1950
Campane a martello

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Eduardo de Filippo, Yvonne Sanson, Carlo Romano, Carlo Giustini

Synopsis: Gina Lollobridgida was a virtual unknown in the U.S. when Campagne a Martello was released to English-speaking countries in 1950. Critics said then what they'd say later: as an actress, Gina was very pretty. The story concerns an Italian prostitute named Agostina (Lollobridgida) who is left Read More

9/16/49
The Pirates of Capri

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Louis Hayward, Binnie Barnes, Alan Curtis

Synopsis: Disciples of "B"-picture stylist Edgar Ulmer will not be disappointed with Pirates of Capri. Lensed in Italy, the film stars Louis Hayward as swashbuckling Captain Sirocco. Posing as a foppish nobleman by day, Sirocco tirelessly works on behalf of a group of insurgents bent on deposing the wicked Read More

9/14/49
Obsession

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Naunton Wayne, Phil Brown, Michael Balfour

Synopsis: Blacklisted in Hollywood, director Edward Dmytryk managed to find work in England. Dmytryk's Obsession is based on Alec Coppel's suspense play A Man About a Dog. Robert Newton stars as Dr. Clive Riordan, the insanely jealous husband of unfaithful Storm Riordan (Sally Gray). Aware that Storm is Read More

1949
The Glass Mountain

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dulcie Gray, Michael Denison, Valentina Cortese, Tito Gobbi, Sebastian Shaw

Synopsis: A composer discovers that the inspiration for his greatest work may come at the expense of his marriage in this romantic drama with music. Richard Wilder (Michael Dennison) was a pilot with the RAF during World War II and was shot down over the Dolomite Mountains of Italy during a mission. Read More

1949
Totò al giro d'Italia

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

12/30/48
Fuga in Francia

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Folco Lulli, Pietro Germi

Synopsis: Produced in 1945, Fuga in Francia was first released outside of Italy in 1949. Folco Lulli essays the difficult role of a war criminal who escapes prosecution by hiding out in France. Though there is nothing inherently likeable about his character, the Lulli manages to stir up a reasonable amount Read More

11/19/48
Sotto il Sole di Roma

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Francesco Golisano

Synopsis: Filmed in Italy in 1948 as Sotte il Sole de Roma, this Renato Castellani-directed effort reached American screens the following year through the good graces of United Artists. Adhering to the then-fashionable "neorealist" school, the film is gritty and uncompromising for the most part, though it Read More

10/2/48
Anni Difficili

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Umberto Spadaro, Massimo Girotti, Ave Ninchi, Ernesto Almirante

Synopsis: The Difficult Years is another uncompromising neorealist exercise by Italian filmmaker Luigi Zampa. The title refers to the years that Italy spent under the thumb of fascism. It is Zampa's thesis that the majority of Italian citizens preferred to ignore Mussolini's trampling of human rights and Read More

9/29/48
L'Eroe Della Strada

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

9/18/48
Arrivederci, Papa!

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gino Bechi, Silvana Pampanini

Synopsis: The Italian Arrivederci, Papa managed to land good bookings in the U.S. thanks to the patronage of Paramount Pictures. This lighthearted musical is based upon a novel premise. From the vantage point of heaven, children yet unborn are permitted to choose their parents. The next step is to make Read More

9/13/48
Proibito Rubare

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Adolfo Celi, Tina Pica, Mario Russo

Synopsis: After serving his creative apprenticeship in short subjects, Italian filmmaker Luigi Comencini made his feature-film debut with Guaglio. The film was also released as Proibito Rubare, and later was distributed to the U.S. as Hey, Boy! The dramatic crux of the film is the relationship between a Read More

9/10/48
Senza Pietà

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Giulietta Masina, Folco Lulli

Synopsis: Filmed in 1948 as Senza Pieta, this Alberto Lattuada-directed effort came to America the following year as Without Pity. The film's sensitive subject matter caused problems in distribution and approval; Lattuada was never known to shirk from a sociopolitical statement, even when it meant loss of Read More

9/5/48
Amanti Senza Amore

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Roldano Lupi, Clara Calamai, Jean Servais

Synopsis: The Italian Prelude to Madness (Manti Senza Amore) was adapted from Leo Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata. Prosperous doctor Rolando Dupi impulsively marries pianist Clara Calamai. The union is an unhappy one, and at one point Calamai attempts suicide, only to be stopped by her otherwise impassive Read More

1/10/48
Come Persi la Guerra

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: What's a country to do when it is handily and thoroughly defeated in a World War? In the case of Italy, the solution was to build several films around that defeat as a sort of "cleansing exercise". One such film was a comedy, Come Persi la Guerra, which was released outside of Italy under the Read More

12/20/47
Daniele Cortis

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

5/6/47
Vivere in Pace

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Gar Moore, John Kitzmiller

Synopsis: In this interesting Italian WW II comedy-drama, the residents of a remote Italian village find their lives forever changed when two American GIs break out of a German prison camp and hide out in their town. The fugitives are harbored by a local family. This divides the town into those wanting to Read More

3/17/47
La Primula Bianca

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

2/6/47
Roma, Città Libera

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: A cat burglar, a suicidal veteran, and a starving typist-turned-prostitute are brought together by fate and propelled through the streets of Rome in director Marcello Pagliero's lyrical look at life in Italy following liberation by the Allies. As the rain falls in Rome, a prowling cat burglar (Nando Bruno Read More

12/17/46
Mio Figlio Professore

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Mario Soldati, Giorgio de Lullo, Mario Pisu

Synopsis: Aldo Fabrizi is the star of -- and, artistically, the raison d'etre for -- the Italian Professor, My Son. Fabrizi plays Orazio, a humble porter working in a prestigious school. Orazio labors tirelessly day and night so that his son (Giorgio de Lullo) can attend the school. Once the son has Read More

11/29/46
Albergo Luna, Camera 34

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

9/6/46
Vanità

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

1946
Un Americano in Vacanza

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Valentina Cortese, Andrea Checchi

Synopsis: Luigi Zampa's A Week's Leave (Un American in Vacanza) stars Italy's Valentina Cortese and America's Leo Dale. Cortese plays Maria, a provincial schoolteacher who comes to Rome on an errand of mercy for her deprived countrymen. Dale is cast as Dick, a GI who offers Maria a ride when her ancient car Read More

1946
Le Miserie Del Signor Travet

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Carlo Campanini, Vera Carmi, Gino Cervi

Synopsis: His Young Wife is a genteel Italian comedy about the pitfalls of romance. Middle-aged clerk Travet (Carlo Campanini) is the husband of young and very pretty Rosa (Vera Carmi). When Rosa begins a harmless flirtation with Travet's boss (Gino Cervi), rumors begin flying. The upshot of this tempest in Read More

12/15/45
La Freccia Nel Fianco

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Nicoletta Dossena (Mariella Lotti) is married to an engineer, Luigi Barbano (Roldano Lupi), but when she attends a concert, she encounters her former lover Bruno Traldi (Leonardo Cortese). He is now a successful pianist and their romance is rekindled after a decade apart from each other. Barbano Read More

9/8/45
La Donna Della Montagna

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

10/27/44
Zaza

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

3/9/44
Giorno Di Nozze

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

9/28/42
Le Due Orfanelle

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alida Valli

Synopsis: The popular 19th-century French theatrical piece The Two Orphans has been filmed several times, most memorably by D. W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm (1921). Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone's adaptation of Two Orphans dispenses with the French Revolution trappings added by Griffith, returning Read More

8/16/42
Treno Popolare

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

1933

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