Cavalry (1936 Italian film)
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Directed by | Goffredo Alessandrini |
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Cinematography | Václav Vích |
Edited by | Giorgio Simonelli |
Music by | Enzo Masetti |
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Distributed by | Lux Film |
Release date | 23 October 1936 |
Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Cavalry (Italian: Cavalleria) is a 1936 Italian drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Elisa Cegani and . The film marked Nazzari's first role as a lead actor, after making his film debut the previous year. It was a box office success and established some of his personal traits that would be brought out even more clearly in his breakthrough role Luciano Serra, Pilot (1938).[1]
Synopsis[]
Umberto Solaro, a young cavalry officer, falls in love with a Piedmont Count's daughter. They develop a romantic attachment, but she marries an Austrian baron under family pressure. After his horse dies in an accident during a completion, Solaro transfers into the newly formed Italian Air Force. He falls heroically in combat during the First World War.
Cast[]
- Amedeo Nazzari as Umberto Solaro
- Elisa Cegani as Speranza di Frassineto
- as Speranza's father
- Mario Ferrari as Alberto Ponza
- Enrico Viarisio as Sottotenente Rolla
- as Countess Clotilde, Speranza's mother
- Silvana Jachino as Carlotta di Frasseneto
- as Vittorio di Frasseneto
- as Baron of Austria
- Anna Magnani as Fanny
- as Countess Sandi
- Silvio Bagolini as Attendant Bagolini
- Fausto Guerzoni as Other Attendant
- Oreste Fares as The Doctor
- as Member of the Union Circle
- as Superior Official
- as Lady of Torino's Aristocracy
- Michele Malaspina as Cavalry Officer
- as Carlotta's Husband
- as Countess Adrari
References[]
- ^ Gundle p.187
Bibliography[]
- Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.
External links[]
- Italian-language films
- 1936 films
- 1936 drama films
- Italian drama films
- Italian films
- 1930s Italian-language films
- Films directed by Goffredo Alessandrini
- Italian black-and-white films
- Films set in Italy
- Films set in the 1900s
- Films set in the 1910s
- World War I aviation films
- Films about horses
- Lux Film films
- Films scored by Enzo Masetti
- 1930s Italian film stubs
- World War I films set on the Italian Front