Before Him All Rome Trembled
Before Him All Rome Trembled (Italian: Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma) is a 1946 Italian musical war melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Anna Magnani, Tito Gobbi and Hans Hinrich. Ada and Marco are a pair of opera singers, who moonlight working for the Italian resistance at the time of the German occupation of Rome during the Second World War. They are sheltering a British soldier with whom they make contact with the advancing Allied forces. Sylistically the film is a hybrid between filmed performances of opera, and a neorealistic resistance melodrama.[1]
| Before Him All Rome Trembled | |
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| Directed by | Carmine Gallone |
| Written by | Gherardo Gherardi Gaspare Cataldo Carmine Gallone |
| Starring | Anna Magnani Tito Gobbi Hans Hinrich Gino Sinimberghi |
| Music by | Renzo Rossellini |
| Cinematography | Anchise Brizzi |
| Edited by | Niccolò Lazzari |
Production company | Excelsa Film |
| Distributed by | Minerva Film |
Release date | 2 October 1946 |
Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
The title refers to Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, which is performed during the film.
Cast
- Anna Magnani as Ada
- Tito Gobbi as Marco
- Hans Hinrich as German Officer
- Gino Sinimberghi as Frank, the British soldier
- Guido Notari as Doctor
- Tino Scotti as Mechanic
- Guglielmo Sinaz as Stagehand
- Joop van Hulzen as Webb
- Giuseppe Varni as Stagehand
- Carlo Duse as Police Officer
- Edda Albertini as Lena
- Heinrich Bode as German Soldier
- Antonio Crast
- Giulio Neri
- Ave Ninchi
References
- Bayman & Rigoletto p.42
Bibliography
- Bayman, Louis & Rigoletto, Sergio. Popular Italian Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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