Cardinal Lambertini (1954 film)

Cardinal Lambertini
Directed by	Giorgio Pastina
Written by	Edoardo Anton Oreste Biancoli Giorgio Pastina
Based on	Cardinal Lambertini by Alfredo Testoni
Starring	Gino Cervi Nadia Gray Arnoldo Foà
Cinematography	Rodolfo Lombardi
Edited by
Music by	Carlo Rustichelli
Production company	Italica Vox
Distributed by	Minerva Film
Release date	23 December 1954
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Cardinal Lambertini (Italian: Il cardinale Lambertini) is a 1954 Italian historical comedy film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Gino Cervi, Nadia Gray and Arnoldo Foà. It is an adaptation of Alfredo Testoni's 1905 play Cardinal Lambertini, which had previously been turned into a 1934 film adaptation.^[1]

The film was released by Minerva Film. Interiors were shot at studios in Rome while location shooting took place in Bologna and the small town of Ceri in Lazio. The film's sets were designed by the art director Peppino Piccolo. It earned around 241 million lira at the box office.^[2]

Cast[]

• Gino Cervi as Cardinal Lambertini
• Nadia Gray as Isabella di Pietramelara
• Arnoldo Foà as Duke of Montimar
• Carlo Romano as Goffredo di Pietramelara
• Virna Lisi as Maria di Pietramelara
• Sergio Tofano as Canonico Peggi
• Paolo Carlini as Lawyer Carlo Barozzi
• Gianni Agus as Count Pepoli
• Tino Buazzelli as Count Davia
• as Tata, the maid
• as Anastasio
• Aldo Fiorelli as Abbot Cavalcanti
• Loris Gizzi as Count Orsi
• Piero Pastore as Papal messenger
• Armando Migliari as Physician
• Mario Siletti as Butler
• Emilio Petacci as Costanzo
• as Marquess Gozzadini

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991.
• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links[]

Cardinal Lambertini at IMDb

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