An Adventure of Salvator Rosa
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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
- 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[]
Categories:
- Italian-language films
- 1939 films
- Italian films
- Italian historical adventure films
- Films directed by Alessandro Blasetti
- 1930s historical adventure films
- Films set in the 1640s
- Films set in Naples
- Italian black-and-white films
- Films shot at Cinecittà Studios
- Adventure film stubs