Giuseppe Verdi is a 1938 Italian biographical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Fosco Giachetti, Gaby Morlay and Germana Paolieri. The film portrays the life of the composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). The casting of Giachetti as Verdi was intended to emphasise the composer's patriotism, as he had recently played patriotic roles in films such as The White Squadron.[1] The film was made at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film is also known by the alternative title The Life of Giuseppe Verdi.
Main cast
- Fosco Giachetti as Giuseppe Verdi
- Gaby Morlay as Giuseppina Strepponi
- Germana Paolieri as Margherita Barezzi
- Camillo Pilotto as Antonio Barezzi
- Cesco Baseggio as il padre di Verdi
- Maria Jacobini as Luigia Uttini, madre di Verdi
- Maria Cebotari as Teresa Stolz
- Febo Mari as Merelli, il direttore della Scala di Milano
- Carlo Duse as Temistocle Solera
- Eugenio Duse as L'impresario Massini
- Enrico Glori as Il maestro Mariani
- Clara Padoa as La contessa Maffei
- Achille Majeroni as Il maestro Basili
- Carlo Tamberlani as Demalde
- Augusto Di Giovanni as Antonio Ghislanzoni
- Gustavo Serena as Salvadore Cammarano
- Guido Celano as Francesco Maria Piave
- Henri Rollan as Victor Hugo
- Lamberto Picasso as Gaetano Donizetti
- Gabriel Gabrio as Honoré de Balzac
- Pierre Brasseur as Alexandre Dumas fils
References
- ^ Landy p.141-142
Bibliography
- Landy, Marcia. The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930-1943. SUNY Press, 1998.
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