Adventures of two provincial actors looking for anyway done with something to eat. Read More »
Tag Archives: Eduardo De Filippo
Traviata ’53 (1953) Vittorio Cottafavi, Barbara Laage, Armando Francioli, Eduardo De Filippo
Updated version of the Camille melodrama: An engineer has a romance with the mistress Read More »
The Gold of Naples AKA L’oro di Napoli (1954) Vittorio De Sica, Silvana Mangano, Sophia Loren, Eduardo De Filippo
Tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Neapolitan episodes Read More »
Fortunella (1958) Eduardo De Filippo, Giulietta Masina, Alberto Sordi, Paul Douglas
Nanda Diotallevi, called Fortunella, is a poor girl living in the second-hand dealers district, and is the lover of one of these, Peppino. Read More »
Three Cornered Hat (1935) Mario Camerini, Eduardo De Filippo, Peppino De Filippo, Leda Gloria
In the seventeenth century, the Spanish governor of Naples is set in a beautiful mill and Read More »
Kiss the Other Sheik / Oggi, domani, dopodomani (1965) Eduardo De Filippo, Marco Ferreri, Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Spaak, Virna Lisi, Comedy
Marcello Mastroianni stars in this film which combines much of the 1965 release Paranoia with new footage. Read More »
In campagna è caduta una stella / In the Country Fell a Star (1939) Eduardo De Filippo, Rosina Lawrence, Peppino De Filippo, Comedy
An American starlet inflames two Italian peasants who forget about their respective fiance’s. One of them even thinks of marrying her and begins to plan for the engagement banquet. When the girl decides to live the countryside harmony reigns again.
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La vita ricomincia / Life Begins Anew (1945) Mario Mattoli, Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti, Eduardo De Filippo
When former POW, Paolo, returns from India to his middle-class home in Rome at the end of the war, he is relieved to find his wife, Patrizia, and young son alive, managing to get by thanks to Patrizia’s business in lampshades. They also enjoy the moral support of the jovial, elderly Neapolitan widower, who is their new neighbour, Il professore. However disaster strikes when Patrizia commits a murder – her response to a mysterious man’s attempt to blackmail her to have sex with him. Paolo discovers that during his absence, in the face of their son’s desperate need for a life-saving operation, Patrizia prostituted herself once to the murdered man to raise the funds, a sequence revealed through a flashback sequence…
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