An Adventure of Salvator Rosa

An Adventure of Salvator Rosa
Directed by	Alessandro Blasetti
Written by	Alessandro Blasetti Renato Castellani Corrado Pavolini Ugo Scotti Berni Giuseppe Zucca
Produced by	Augusto Turati
Starring	Gino Cervi Luisa Ferida Rina Morelli Osvaldo Valenti
Cinematography	Vaclav Vich
Edited by	Mario Serandrei Alessandro Blasetti
Music by	Alessandro Cicognini
Production company	Stella Film
Distributed by	ENIC
Release date	16 December 1939
Running time	97 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

An Adventure of Salvator Rosa (Italian: Un'avventura di Salvator Rosa) is a 1939 Italian historical adventure film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Gino Cervi, Luisa Ferida and Rina Morelli.^[1] It is set in seventeenth century Naples, then occupied by Spain, where a famous artist celebrated for his paintings of the rich leads a double life as a secret defender of the poor and oppressed.^[2]

It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Virgilio Marchi.

At the time of its release the film was greeted with unanimous critical approval. Giuseppe Isani, on Cinema, referred to it as "the best Italian film produced from 1930 onwards."^[3]

Cast[]

• Gino Cervi as Salvator Rosa / Il Formica
• Luisa Ferida as Lucrezia
• Rina Morelli as Isabella di Torniano
• Osvaldo Valenti as conte Lamberto D'Arco
• Ugo Ceseri as Giuseppe
• Umberto Sacripante as contadino
• Pietro Pastore as contadino
•  [fr; it] as contadino
• Paolo Stoppa as contadino
• Carlo Duse as ufficiale di palazzo a Napoli
• Enzo Biliotti as Viceroy of Naples
• Jone Salinas as Amalia
• Umberto Sclanizza as Il primo contadino
• Gino Massi as Cicillo
• Leone Papa as Il carceriere

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Pierre Sorlin. Italian National Cinema. Routledge, 2006.

External links[]

• An Adventure of Salvator Rosa at IMDb 

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