Leopoldo Trieste’s stage play Cronaca was the basis for the Italian drama Febbre di Vivere (Eager to Live). Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
The Desert of the Tartars / Il Deserto dei Tartari (1976) Valerio Zurlini, Jacques Perrin, Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma
As his first assignment, lieutenant Drogo is sent to an isolated fortress on the borders Read More »
Battle of the Worlds / Il pianeta degli uomini spenti (1961) Antonio Margheriti, Claude Rains, Bill Carter, Umberto Orsini
A stray planet on a collision course with Earth instead takes orbit around our blue marble. Read More »
Hercules Against Rome / Ercole contro Roma (1964) Piero Pierotti, Sergio Ciani, Wandisa Guida, Livio Lorenzon
Hercules comes from Greece to Ravenna, Italy, because a friend from childhood days Read More »
Paris is Always Paris / Parigi è sempre Parigi (1951) Luciano Emmer, Aldo Fabrizi, Henri Guisol, Ave Ninchi
Parigi e Sempre Parigi (Paris is Always Paris) was the second feature-length effort Read More »
Two Pistols and a Coward / Il pistolero segnato da Dio (1968) Giorgio Ferroni, Anthony Steffen, Richard Wyler, Luisa Baratto
Anthony Steffen, a young gunman who works as a circus performer, witnesses the killing of some outlaws Read More »
Toto in Hell / Totò all’inferno (1955) Camillo Mastrocinque, Totò, Maria Frau, Fulvia Franco
After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi Read More »
Bell’ Antonio / Il bell’Antonio (1960) Mauro Bolognini, Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Pierre Brasseur
Women love handsome Antonio because they think of him as the perfect lover. Read More »
First Action Hero / Il burattinaio (1994) Ninì Grassia, Fabio Testi, Marina Giulia Cavalli, Gabriele Ferzetti
A maverick cop takes on the seedy criminal underbelly of Miami singlehanded. Read More »
Christine (1958) Pierre Gaspard-Huit, Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, Jean-Claude Brialy
Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner (Alain Delon) Read More »