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Tag Archives: Italy
Divorce Italian Style / Divorzio all’italiana (1961) Pietro Germi, Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her Read More »
Doctor, Beware / Teresa Venerdì (1941) Vittorio De Sica, Adriana Benetti, Irasema Dilián
A comedy of errors in which the sweetly incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali (de Sica) has been run deep Read More »
Le Diable et les dix commandements (1962) Julien Duvivier, Michel Simon, Lucien Baroux, Claude Nollier
The ageing warden of a convent is berated by the Mother Superior for his bad language. Read More »
The Dictator’s Guns / L’arme à gauche (1965) Claude Sautet, Lino Ventura, Sylva Koscina, Leo Gordon
Jacques Cournot, a freelance skipper, is hired by Mr Hendrix in Santo Domingo Read More »
The Testimony / Il testimone (1946) Pietro Germi, Roldano Lupi, Marina Berti, Ernesto Almirante
A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant will be crucial. Read More »
Jealousy / Gelosia (1953) Pietro Germi, Marisa Belli, Erno Crisa, Alessandro Fersen
A Sicilian nobleman is very jealous of his mistress and when she gets married Read More »
The Green Mare / La jument verte (1959) Claude Autant-Lara, Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Sandra Milo
The story is set during the latter half of the 19th century and follows two feuding peasant families. Read More »
Women Without Names / Donne senza nome (1950) Géza von Radványi, Simone Simon, Vivi Gioi, Françoise Rosay
This is the sad story of several desperate ladies incarcerated somewhere in Italy Read More »
The Angel Wore Red (1960) Nunnally Johnson, Ava Gardner, Dirk Bogarde, Joseph Cotten
The Spanish priest played by Dirk Bogarde is troubled by his church’s lack of concern for the poor Read More »